Daily Archives: July 9, 2012

Scotland: gay activists protest Church campaign to protect marriage CWN – July 09, 2012 Gay activists in Scotland are raising pre-emptive protests about reports that the Catholic Church will mount an organized campaign to oppose legal recognition of same-sex marriage. The Scottish hierarchy is planning a “Support Marriage Sunday,” a day on which parishioners will be encouraged to defend the existing definition of marriage. Cardinal Keith O’Brien said: “We will use this opportunity Read more [...]

[I see stereotypical feminism in OR's editoral board] L’Osservatore editor sees ‘misogyny’ in Church leadership CWN – July 09, 2012 The leading female contributor to the Vatican newspaper has suggested that if women had a greater role in Church leadership, the sex-abuse scandal would not have occurred. “If there had been women in positions of power they would not have allowed those things to happen,” Lucretta Scaraffia said in an AFP. Scaraffia edits a special section of L’Osservatore Read more [...]

La Croix on the SSPX General Chapter CWN summary www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14862 As the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) opened a chapter general at Écone, Switzerland, on July 9, the French daily La Croix reported that the traditionalist group is deeply split on a proposed reconciliation with the Holy See. Roughly one-third of the SSPX supports Bishop Bernard Fellay in his drive to restore ties with Rome, La Croix reports; another one-third would accept Read more [...]

Irish government planning a move to legalize abortion CWN – July 09, 2012 Ireland’s largest political party is planning to introduce legislation that would legalize abortion. Fine Gael, the leading party in Ireland’s ruling government coalition, had pledged in 2011 that it would not introduce legislation to end the country’s ban on abortion. But health minister James Reilly has now written to Fine Gael colleagues, saying that the government will propose “effective and accessible Read more [...]

The Sad Story of Thomism in America Florian Michel, La pensée catholique en Amérique du Nord: Réseaux intellectuels et échanges culturels entre l’Europe, le Canada et les Etats-Unis (Desclée de Brouwer Paris, 2010). Reviewed by Joseph Filipowicz April 2012 issue of Culture Wars www.culturewars.com/2012/Michel.htm See what an evil it is to commit ourselves rashly to our enemies, and to conspirators against us. On this account Christ used to say, “Give not holy things to the Read more [...]

Katie Holmes [the 3rd (soon to be ex-)Mrs. Tom Cruise] Returns To Catholic Church Posted: 07/09/2012 www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/katie-holmes-catholic-church_n_1659466.html Five years after revealing that she had started to study Scientology, Katie Holmes has officially returned to the Catholic faith, registering as a parishioner at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York City. “Everyone is thrilled to have Katie join us,” a member of the church’s choir told me. Read more [...]

Catholic College Joins with Hospital Recently Stripped of Catholic Status for Scandalous Abortion blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/07/09/catholic-college-joins-with-hospital-recently-stripped-of-catholic-status-for-scandalous-abortion/ Creighton University, a Catholic Jesuit institution in Omaha, Nebraska, has announced a partnership with the Phoenix hospital that was stripped of its status as a “Catholic” hospital by Bishop Thomas Olmsted after a scandalous abortion was made Read more [...]

From: cathcon.blogspot.com/2012/07/cdf-head-hits-back-at-sspx-and-claims.html Saturday, July 07, 2012 Head of CDF calls SSPX stupid and claims God is the greatest liberal. Quoting roughly St Thomas Aquinas (see below). This is a long interview with the Mittelbayerische Zeitung- now complete Relaxed and at ease, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller returns a week after his appointment as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the Diocese of Regensburg. A Read more [...]

Israeli Holocaust memorial denies Vatican pressure in modifying Pius XII’s caption CWN – July 09, 2012 Following critical remarks by Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni of Rome, Israel’s Holocaust memorial has defended its decision to moderate its tone in its description of Pope Pius XII. Reports that Yad Vashem made the changes because of “pressure or agreement with the Vatican” are “totally unfounded” and “disinformation,” Yad Vashem said in a statement. Instead, the changes Read more [...]

Catholic-Jewish dialogue explores Jewish New Testament commentary; YouCat revision discussed CWN – July 09, 2012 Representatives of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and National Council of Synagogues met recently to discuss Amy Jill Levine and Mark Zvi Brettler’s Jewish Annotated New Testament. “The publication of Levine’s and Brettler’s comprehensive work on the New Testament represents an important milestone in Catholic-Jewish relations,” said Auxiliary Bishop Read more [...]