Daily Archives: June 30, 2012

Number CCLIX (259) 30 June 2012 TWO ERRORS Whether or not the Society of St Pius X survives its present severe trial, liberals will keep coming back with false arguments to persuade it to commit suicide. Let us look at two more of them. The first has come up constantly in recent debates over whether the SSPX should accept some practical (non-doctrinal) agreement with Conciliar Rome. It is simple: a Catholic leader (or leaders) has graces of state from God, therefore he should not be Read more [...]

Church Loyalty Oaths Revisted Posted at: Friday, June 29, 2012 11:14:41 PM Author: John Coleman, S.J. www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=5221 I am doing something of a spin-off on Michael O’Loughlin’s blog about tough questions in Oakland. My concern is less the debate between Bishop Cordilione and the Board of the Catholic Association for Gay and Lesbian Ministry but rather the disturbing and growing recourse to ecclesiastical loyalty oaths. I am not, Read more [...]

AQ EXCLUSIVE TRANSLATION SSPX apparently undecided on agreement Jörg Bremer, Rome // Frankfurter Allgemeine 27.06.2012 www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/wiederaufnahme-in-die-kirche-piusbrueder-offenbar-weiter-unschluessig-11801199.html …At the beginning of July, a meeting the General Chapter of the SSPX will reflect on this document and the entire process. It is expected that there will be a heated argument about how to proceed. The District Superior of the SSPX in Germany, Read more [...]

“1789 within the SSPX?” 96.30.12 // RORATE CAELI rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/06/op-ed-1789-within-sspx.html From the July-August issue of Apostol, the newsletter of the priories of Frabrègues and Perpignan (Languedoc-Roussillon, France) of the Society of Saint Pius X (FSSPX/SSPX). — Dear Faithful, You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men. Read more [...]

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Excommunicated Chinese bishop accused of committing “sacrilege” by ordaining new priests An excommunicated bishop ordained four new priests on June 29, but one deacon courageously refused to be ordained by him gerard o’connell rome 6/30/12 vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/world-news/detail/articolo/china-sacrilege-excommunicated-16434/ The excommunicated Chinese bishop, Paul Lei Shi-yin, has committed “a sacrilege” by ordaining four new priests on June 29 in Leshan diocese, Read more [...]

What Does a Saint Look Like? Posted By Gary Potter On June 29, 2012 When Catholics think of someone in modern time who might be a saint, they seem to think first of all of a person wearing a religious habit or the collar, a sister, priest or pope, Mother Teresa, Msgr. Escriva, John Paul II. It’s even the case with martyrs. Thanks to For Greater Glory, the movie, more U.S. Catholics may be aware of the cristeros today than when those heroes of the Faith were actually fighting and dying, Read more [...]

Victory for Palestinian Authority: Church of the Nativity becomes UNESCO World Heritage site First time for a Palestinian site to be included on UN list. Palestinians celebrate and seek recognition for 20 other sites in East Jerusalem, Gaza and West Bank. Criticism from Israel and the United States who see a “politicization” of Unesco, contrary to the peace process. For Custody of the Holy Land the decision is “great news”. The Churches have received assurances from Abu Mazen on their freedom Read more [...]

What is happening at Medjugorje? June 29, 2012 by Howard Kainz krestaintheafternoon.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/what-is-happening-at-medjugorje.html Last week I received a mailing from Caritas of Birmingham, in Sterret, Alabama. It was an invitation to come to the four-storey Tabernacle of our Lady’s Messages at Caritas, where a visionary, Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, is slated to receive five messages and apparitions during the 2012 gathering from July 1 to July 5. Caritas is a group Read more [...]

France to pass gay marriage, adoption law PARIS | Fri Jun 29, 2012 8:05pm BST www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/29/us-france-homosexual-idUSBRE85S1DC20120629 (Reuters) – France’s new Socialist government is to legalise marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Friday, reflecting a shift in public attitudes in the majority Catholic nation. President Francois Hollande, who took office last month, had pledged to legalise gay marriage and adoption Read more [...]