Daily Archives: July 10, 2012

Chicago archdiocese challenges Obama, once an ally in community organizing there CWN – July 10, 2012 William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal sees the irony as Catholic Charities of Chicago joins in a lawsuit against the Obama administration. After all it was the Chicago archdiocese that helped launch Barack Obama on his early career as a community organizer. McGurn concedes that since Catholic Charities receives most of its funding from government, there are legitimate questions about Read more [...]

Irish bishops failed to use canonical authority in sex-abuse scandal CWN – July 10, 2012 Michael Kelly writes from Dublin for Catholic World Report to point out that in the Irish sex-abuse scandal the problem was not that canon law failed to provide remedies, but that bishops failed to use them. He notes that the “Murphy Report,” exposing the failures of the hierarchy, makes the same point: The Murphy Report makes it clear that canon law was not the problem that many have assumed it Read more [...]

Priest who ‘ad libbed’ liturgies is suspended from ministry CWN – July 10, 2012 An Illinois priest who resigned as pastor because he refused to use the new English-language translation of the Mass has been suspended from ministry. Father William Rowe, who acknowledged that he had been “improvising” the words of the Mass for years, has been notified by Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville that his priestly faculties have been removed. (An account of Father Rowe’s suspension in Read more [...]

Priest in lesbian-Communion dispute no longer in Washington ministry CWN – July 10, 2012 Father Marcel Guarnizo, who became the focus of a nationwide controversy when he refused to administer the Eucharist to an avowed lesbian, is no longer engaged in priestly ministry in the Washington archdiocese. Barbara Johnson lodged a highly public protest after Father Guarnizo refused to give her Communion at her mother’s funeral. Before the funeral, Johnson had introduced to the priest as a lesbian, Read more [...]

The Voice of Catholic Radio Radio Broadcast Sunday, July 8, 2012 On WALK 1370 AM Radio 7:00AM – 7:30AM Religious Liberty, John the Baptist – Conformity to the Teachings of the Catholic Church by Traditional Catholic Priest The Voice of Catholic Tradition broadcasts an enlightening sermon given by a Traditional Catholic priest on the subject of religious liberty. We do not have the right to follow our conscience unless it is in conformity with the teachings of the Catholic Church. Error Read more [...]

Is the U.S. Ripe for Tyranny? blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/07/10/is-the-u-s-ripe-for-tyranny/ In a stirring piece for Crisis Magazine, Fr. James V. Schall, professor of political science at Georgetown University, writes that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between America’s governance today and King George’s rule over the colonies. Fr. Schall points to a recurring thesis of Plato and Aristotle, which is that a tyrant arises out of a democracy Read more [...]

G’Town Prof: Obama Downgrading Religious Liberty blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/07/10/gtown-prof-obama-downgrading-religious-liberty/ Thomas Farr, Professor of Religion and World Affairs at Georgetown University, delivered a dire warning to the U.S. bishops last month in an address, telling them that religious liberty for Christians is now a “global crisis.” And things just got worse. Farr writes at The Weekly Standard that the U.S. State Department recently announced Read more [...]

Catholic Culture’s Jeff Mirus on “Faulty Traditionalist Condemnation(s)” of Recent Vatican Apppointments 1. Joseph Augustine Di Noia: A Faulty Traditionalist Condemnation (Monday July 9, 2012) Readers have called my attention to the Traditionalist denunciations of Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, since he has been appointed Vice President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission, and of Archbishop Gerhard Müller, now that he has been named Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of… More Read more [...]

Catholic Hospitals [Circumventing the Bishops' Ethical Directives] Make Abortion The Only Thing They Won’t Allow by Robin Marty, Senior Political Reporter, RH Reality Check July 9, 2012 www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/07/08/catholic-hospitals-make-abortion-only-thing-they-wont-allow Residents have been in an uproar since Pennsylvania’s Abington Health announced it was merging with Holy Redeemer Health Systems. The new hospital, they said, would “fully comply with ethical and religious Read more [...]

Obama [sticking by his guns]: ‘Not fair’ to deny contraception coverage at Catholic institutions wwltv.com Posted on July 9, 2012 Karen Swensen / Eyewitness News www.wwltv.com/news/local/Obama-Not-fair-to-deny-contraception-coverage-at-Catholic-institutions-161876405.html WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama was … talking to our Karen Swensen … Channel 4 was one of eight stations invited to the White House to talk about issues that matter to our viewers. It was a five-minute Read more [...]

A blow to the Patriotic Association: the bishop of Shanghai a prophet and hero Bishop Ma Daqin, by refusing the imposition of hands from an excommunicated bishop and quitting the Patriotic Association, is upholding the very religious freedom that the Chinese constitution guarantees, but that is betrayed by religious regulations. His rejection of the Patriotic Association has theological reasons (the PA is “incompatible with Catholic doctrine”), but also pastoral and social. For months, pastors Read more [...]

The Vatican declares Chinese Bishop of Harbin is excommunicated The Holy See has declared that Father Yue Fusheng who was ordained bishop of Harbin July 6 without the Pope’s approval, is excommunicated. He is the third Chinese bishop to be excommunicated since June 2011 gerard o’connell rome 7/10/12 vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/world-news/detail/articolo/harbin-china-16670/ The Holy See has declared that Father Joseph Yue Fusheng, who was ordained bishop without the Read more [...]

How it works: the SSPX’s General Chapter   7-9-2012 The General Chapter is the supreme and extraordinary authority of the Society of St. Pius X. The ordinary authority is the Superior General assisted by his council. The General Chapter is the only entity able to amend the Statutes. The “ordinary” General Chapter meets every 12 years. Additionally, the Superior General is allowed to convene an “extraordinary” Chapter for exceptional reasons. After his re-election at the Read more [...]