Daily Archives: July 2, 2012

Law prof backs courageous bishop: Legally, it’s ‘fine’ him to tell Catholics to ‘vote yes’ for life Ben Johnson www.lifesitenews.com/news/law-prof-legally-its-fine-for-bishop-to-tell-catholics-to-vote-yes-for-life ORLANDO, FLORIDA, July 2, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop John Noonan of Orlando turned some heads when he concluded a video message to the faithful last week by telling them to “vote yes” on two proposed state constitutional amendments this fall – but Read more [...]

Pope appoints doctrinal watchdog with links to ‘Marxist’ Catholics John Hooper in Rome The Guardian, Tuesday 3 July 2012 Link to Original Pope Benedict on Monday appointed as the Roman Catholic church’s doctrinal watchdog a fellow German with links to liberation theology, the interpretation of Christianity that conservatives have deplored as Marxism with a cross in place of a hammer and sickle. Gerhard Ludwig Müller, 64, the bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria, is to take over the Congregation Read more [...]

Evangelical population increase by 16 million in Brazil in one decade Andrea Madambashi Christian Post Tuesday, 3 July 2012, 9:10 (EST) Link to Original The 2010 census results reveal that over three decades the percentage of evangelicals jumped from 6.6 percent to 22.2 percent of the overall Brazilian population, making it the fastest growing religious segment in the Latin American country. While the evangelical population ballooned, the Catholic population has decreased over the same Read more [...]

[Boston's Cardinal O'Malley] Batting for Obama(care) Catholic News Roundup 07-02-2012 www.churchmilitant.tv/scripts/news-2012-07-02.pdf The Archbishop of Boston is praising the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Obamacare Insurance Mandate. In his blog … Archbishop Sean Cardinal O’Malley is saluting the decision … claiming U.S. bishops have promoted access to health care as a basic human right for decades … arguing the need for the protection of Obama’s new Read more [...]

Cardinal Levada Set to Retire With Longtime Intimate and San Francisco Colleague [Archbishop Niederauer] Tancred Monday, July 2, 2012 eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/07/cardinal-levada-set-to-retire-with.html Edit: many elderly retirees think of spending their golden years with a loved one. Now that Cardinal Levada, a controversial figure in San Francisco, is about to retire. Perhaps it can be said that this appointment, at least, is a zero sum game? On the other hand, it’s interesting, Read more [...]

Fr Joachim Andrade, of Indian origin, is provincial of the Society of the Divine Word in southern Brazil. The above video is taken from 2009, but Fr Andrade performed again (pictures) at the opening Mass of the Seminar for Consecrated Religious Life, organized by the Conference of Brazilian Religious, on February 26, 2012. Of his dance, Fr Andrade said Hindu art shows that it is possible to take this ancient Eastern culture and insert it into our search for God, since mysticism and spirituality Read more [...]

Pope Names German to orthodoxy post The Wall Street Journal July 2 2012, 4.51pm ET Link to Original ROME—Pope Benedict XVI on Monday tapped German bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller to head the Vatican’s office in charge of doctrinal affairs, placing a respected theologian at the helm of one of Roman Catholicism’s most powerful posts. The appointment comes at a delicate time for the Vatican. Bishop Mueller, 64, succeeds retiring U.S. Cardinal William Joseph Levada as the prefect of the Congregation Read more [...]

Theology Prof: Bishops in “Moral Schism.” blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/07/02/theology-prof-bishops-in-moral-schism/ Daniel Maguire, the theology professor at Marquette University, seems to like getting media attention. He certainly gets it… often! And his friends in the media are more-than-willing accomplices. Last month, Maguire wrote in an email to The Daily Beast. “The bishops will stand with Dolan and the U.S. Catholic Conference, but on this issue, they are in Read more [...]

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Martyrology-July 4th Roman Martyrology-July 4th- on this date in various years- At Estremos in Portugal, the birthday of St. Elizabeth the Widow, queen of Portugal, whom Pope Urban VIII, mindful of her virtues and miracles, placed among the number of the saints. Pope Innocent XII ordered her feast to be kept on the 8th of July. The holy prophets Osee and Aggaeus. In the diocese of Bourges, St. Laurian, bishop of Seville and martyr, whose head was taken to Seville in Spain. In Africa, Read more [...]

Rethinking the question of God, or dogmatic stagnation?’ We Are Church press release 2 July 2012 Link to Original The appointment of Bishop Professor Dr G. L. Mueller as Prefect of the Congregation of the Faith With the appointment by Pope Benedict XVI of the Bishop of Regensburg, Professor Dr Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, as Prefect of the Congregation of the Faith, he is taking up this office in an extremely difficult phase of Church history, in which the reception and implementation of Read more [...]

Müller and deacons: “Only a man can represent this relation of Christ with the Church” January 17, 2002 // ZENIT Link to Original MUNICH, Germany, JAN. 17, 2002 (Zenit.org) — At its annual assembly last month, the International Theological Commission of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith addressed the topic of the diaconate. In an interview with the German Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost, professor Gerhard Ludwig Müller of the School of Theology of Munich University, Read more [...]

Pope fires Slovak bishop in rare show of papal power ASSOCIATED PRESS – 7/2/12 VATICAN CITY — The pope has fired a 52-year-old Slovak bishop for apparently mismanaging his diocese in a rare show of papal power. Usually when bishops run into trouble — either for alleged moral lapses or management problems — they are persuaded by the Vatican to resign, but Pope Benedict XVI has become increasingly willing to forcibly remove bishops who refuse to step down. Benedict sacked Bishop Read more [...]

Gerhard Ludwig Müller (born 31 December 1947) is a Catholic bishop, and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since his appointment by Benedict XVI on 2 July 2012. Here are some photographs of him taken in recent years. Bp Müller in his evening wear From the article: “For civilian clothes, [Müller] wore a jogging suit and sandals. He likes to dress like this in the evening when he does not expect any more visitors. It is interesting that the body language changes. Read more [...]

Hillary Clinton and UNICEF Join Forces at Georgetown blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/07/02/hillary-clinton-and-unicef-join-forces-at-georgetown/ Trick of treat, UNICEF; I’m the Wicked Witch of Foggy Bottom (the State Dept.) In a sad irony, staunchly pro-abortion rights Secretary of State Hillary Clinton teamed with pro-abortion rights UNICEF to kick off the Child Survival Call to Action conference at Georgetown University. Presumably, they only mean children outside the Read more [...]

Cardinal Schönborn: “I see the risk of a schism” 01 July 2012 // Kreuz.net trans. by Ep. Flower (with minor alterations by GordonG) Link to Original (kreuz.net, Vienna) — Today the Viennese daily “Kurier” published excerpts from the protocols of the meeting of Vienna’s priest council on May 10th. The founder of the ‘Ungehorsams-Initiative” [Call to Disobedience], Father Helmut Schuller, is a member. The Viennese Cardinal Christoph von Schönborn announced at the meeting that he will Read more [...]

[The unvarnished version from the liberal Catholic press] German friend of liberation theologian named Vatican doctrinal czar by John L Allen Jr on Jul. 02, 2012 ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/german-friend-liberation-theologian-named-vatican-doctrinal-czar In a widely expected yet still critically important move, Pope Benedict XVI has tapped Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of Regensburg, Germany, to succeed American Cardinal William Levada as Prefect of the powerful Congregation Read more [...]