Daily Archives: July 4, 2012

Sitting on the fence over Bishop Müller’s appointment 7/2/12 the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.be/2012/07/sitting-on-fence-over-bishop-mullers.html The big news today is that Bishop Gerhard Müller has been appointed as the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to succeed Cardinal Levada. This appointment has occasioned a certain amount of weeping and gnashing of teeth, from both traditionalists and liberals. Some time ago, Rorate Caeli summarised Read more [...]

Müller: various German reactions Posted by New Catholic at 7/03/2012 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/07/muller-various-german-reactions.html From the Berliner Morgenpost, which rounded up opinions expressed by several sources: Church critic and Tübingen theologian Hans Küng spoke of [the appointment as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith] as a “disastrous miscast.” … Müller – a native of Mainz – was, since 2002, the shepherd of the diocese of Regensburg. Read more [...]

Panzerkardinal; or the Enigma of Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller by sancrucensis 7/3/2012 sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/panzerkardinal-or-the-enigma-of-bishop-gerhard-ludwig-muller/ Reading the Frankfurter Allgemeine on the Holy Father’s appointment of Gerhard Ludwig Müller as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is a bit like going back in time; it is so similar to the sort of thing that they wrote about the Holy Father himself when he was prefect of Read more [...]

No ‘Creator’ in Obama’s Declaration? By Phil Lawler | July 04, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=344 Phyllis Schlafly notices that when he quotes a famous line from the Declaration of Independence, President Obama regularly drops a few words from the text. It doesn’t seem to be a careless error, she remarks: “Obama has done this so often that it can’t be a slip of the tongue or a glitch of the teleprompter.” Here’s the way President Obama renders Read more [...]

The ‘God particle’ By Phil Lawler | July 04, 2012 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=343 Although I don’t pretend to understand the implications, physicists’ discovery of the Higgs boson (or something very much like it: www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/science/cern-physicists-may-have-discovered-higgs-boson-particle.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp) makes for a fascinating story. Not least because Fabiola Gianotti, speaking for the term that discovered the subatomic Read more [...]

The Holy Shroud: One Big Bang and the body was gone The results of a recent study – completed by Italian scientist, Giuseppe Baldacchini – on the theory of annihilation, are said to prove the authenticity of the Shroud according to the current laws of physics CWN summary (www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14816): After studying the Shroud of Turin, the Italian scientist Giuseppe Baldacchini has reached the same conclusion as many others: the theory that it is a Read more [...]

Archbishop Chaput rallies US Catholics as Fortnight for Freedom concludes CWN – July 04, 2012 Real freedom isn’t something Caesar can give or take away. He can interfere with it; but when he does, he steals from his own legitimacy. At a July 4 Mass at the basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, DC, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia preached on the meaning of religious freedom, as the US bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom concluded. Reflecting on the day’s Gospel, Archbishop Read more [...]

Martyrology-July 6th Roman Martyrology-July 6th- on this date in various years- The Octave of the holy apostles Peter and Paul. In Jerusalem, the holy prophet Isaias. During the reign of King Manasses he was put to death by being sawn in two and was buried beneath the oak of Rogel, near a running stream. At Fiesole in Tuscany, St. Romulus, bishop and martyr, disciple of the blessed apostle Peter, who commissioned him to preach the Gospel. After announcing Christ in many parts of Italy, Read more [...]

Pope sends a message: Cardinal Bertone will stay CWN – July 04, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI has strongly signaled his support for Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in a highly unusual gesture clearly designed to end speculation that the Secretary of State might be replaced. In a letter to Cardinal Bertone, dated July 2 and made public by the Vatican on July 4, the Pontiff expresses his “profound appreciation for your discreet presence and wise counsel,” and laments “the unjust criticisms that Read more [...]

‘The Catholic bishops are in nobody’s political pocket’ CWN – July 04, 2012 In one of the first efforts of Catholics Voices USA—a “media-friendly and studio-ready” lay initiative that seeks to “put the Church’s case in the public square”– Melissa Moschella argues in the New York Daily News that the Catholic Church is willing to go to the mat to defend religious freedom — in these cases, the freedom to serve the needy regardless of their religion or immigration Read more [...]

Vatican warns of excommunications if Chinese priest is ordained a bishop CWN – July 04, 2012 Noting that “the appointment of bishops is not a political but religious matter,” the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples is warning that Father Joseph Yue Fusheng will incur automatic excommunication if he is ordained Bishop of Harbin, a city of 10.6 million in northeastern China. The Congregation also stated that it will not recognize Yue’s episcopal ministry and that any bishop Read more [...]