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University to students: 'All whites are racist' Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:27 pm (GMT -5) Tuesday, October 30, 2007 BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS University to students: 'All whites are racist' Mandatory program 'treats' politically incorrect attitudes By Bob Unruh © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com link to original University of Delaware President Patrick Harker A mandatory University of Delaware program requires residence hall students to acknowledge that "all whites are racist" and offers them "treatment" for any incorrect attitudes regarding class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality they might hold upon entering the school, according to a civil rights group. "Somehow, the University of Delaware seems terrifyingly unaware that a state-sponsored institution of higher education in the United States does not have the legal right to engage in a program of systematic thought reform. The First Amendment protects the right to freedom of conscience – the right to keep our innermost thoughts free from governmental intrusion. It also protects the right to be free from compelled speech," said a letter from Samantha Harris, director of legal and public advocacy for The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education to university President Patrick Harker. The organization cited excerpts from the university's Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the statement: "A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….'" The education program also notes that "reverse racism" is "a term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege." And "a non-racist" is called "a non-term," because, the program explains, "The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift the responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called 'blaming the victim')." The "education" regarding racism is just one of the subjects that students are required to adopt as part of their University of Delaware experience, too, FIRE noted. The "shocking program of ideological reeducation," which the school itself defines as a "treatment" for students' incorrect attitudes and beliefs, is nothing less than "Orwellian," FIRE said. The school requires its approximately 7,000 residence hall students "to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy and environmentalism." "FIRE is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students' rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech," the organization said. On a foundation blog, a student noted that one residence assistant told students, "Not to scare anyone or anything, but these are MANDATORY!!" And the training program for those who indoctrinate students includes the order: "A researcher must document that the treatment/intervention was faithfully applied (ex: specific lesson plans were delivered to every student, etc.)." Further, the school requires "a systemic change" as a result of the program, FIRE noted. As one RA told students: "Like it or not, you all are the future Leaders, and the world is Diverse, so learning to Embrace and Appreciate that diversity is ESSENTIAL." "The University of Delaware's residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students' private beliefs," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional." According to university materials, RAs are instructed to ask students during one-on-one sessions questions such as: "When did you discover your sexual identity?" "When were you first made aware of your race?" and "Who taught you a lesson in regard to some sort of diversity awarness? What was the lesson?" "Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA's 'worst' one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having 'diversity shoved down her throat,'" FIRE said. This particular student responded to the question, "When did you discover your sexual identity?" with the terse: "That is none of your damn business," FIRE said. Requirements for students include: "Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society," "Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression," and "Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality," FIRE said. The foundation said students even are "pressured or even required" to make social statements that meet with the school's approval. "The fact that the university views its students as patients in need of treatment for some sort of moral sickness betrays a total lack of respect not only for students' basic rights, but for students themselves," Lukianoff said. "The University of Delaware has both a legal and a moral obligation to immediately dismantle this program, and FIRE will not rest until it has." A spokesman for the school, contacted by WND, said he was not ready to make a statement about the situation right away. But the foundation's letter to Harker noted, "we have never encountered a more systematic assault upon the individual liberty, dignity, privacy, and autonomy of university students than this program," which "requires students to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues." "Such utter contempt for the autonomy and free agency of others is the hallmark of totalitarianism and has no place in any free society, let alone at a public university in the state of Delaware," the letter said. Especially alarming, Harris told WND, is that the school defines learning specifically as "attitudinal or behavioral changes," not acquiring any sort of knowledge and ability. Such thinking "represents a distorted idea of 'education' that one would more easily associate with a Soviet prison camp than with an American institution of higher education," FIRE said. "As another example, after an investigation showed that males demonstrated 'a higher degree of resistance to educational efforts,' the Rodney complex chose to hire 'strong male RAs.' Each such RA 'combats male residents' concepts of traditional male identity,' in order to 'ensure the delivery of the curriculum at the same level as in the female floors.' This language is disturbingly reminiscent of a pivotal scene from George Orwell's '1984,' in which the protagonist's captors tell him that 'The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.'" No small danger, FIRE noted, is being presented to the university through such apparent constitutional violations. "Simply put, the residence life education program is a legal minefield," the group said. One student reacted to the indoctrination with rebellion. On the FIRE blog, he wrote: "Take the issue of homosexuality, and the rights that should or should not be associated with it. As a Christian, I believe that the Bible says homosexuality is wrong, and is a sin against God. As such, I cannot accept it as a legitimate lifestyle. While I accept homosexuals as people, I do not accept their choice as right, and subsequently I do not think that homosexual couples should be given marital rights. I accept that others do not hold the same views as me. But it is wrong that under the Residence Life curriculum and school mandated curriculum that I should made to feel guilty for my views. … It is not the school's right to try to convince me to embrace the values that Residence Life has chosen. Essentially, if I do not change my views, I will be labeled by my RA as not embracing diversity, and not accepting of certain groups, and thus my RA will try all the harder to change me. This is not the school's job, or right."

Cardinal, Quebec is ripe for a new profound evangilization Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:13 pm (GMT -5) Cardinal Marc Ouellet Lapsed Catholics at root of diversity debate: cardinal Kevin Dougherty, The Gazette Published: 1 hour ago QUEBEC - Quebecers' malaise over the reasonable accommodation of religious minorities is rooted in their abandoning the Catholic faith, Cardinal Marc Ouellet told public hearings on the issue yesterday. Ouellet, who heads the Roman Catholic church for all of Canada, blamed "secular fundamentalists" for leading Quebecers astray. Until the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, the vast majority of French Quebecers were devout Catholics. Now, while most identify with their Catholic heritage, few practise actively. "I think the major problem is the malaise of the Catholic majority which needs to find a religious reference point, which needs to renew with its spiritual values," Ouellet told reporters. "The distress of youth, the sharp drop in marriages, the weak birth rate and the frightening number of abortions and suicides, to name some of the consequences, add to the precarious conditions of seniors and of public health. "Quebec is ripe for a new profound evangilization," he added. In his brief, Ouellet said this crisis of values has "serious repercussions on public health," arguing it explains the runaway cost spiral in Quebec's health system. "What affects our soul also affects our body," he said. "I believe Quebecers really need to rediscover their religious identity." The cardinal said if Quebecers went back to their Catholic symbols and observance, they would be more open to foreigners. "Because Catholicism, the Bible and the gospel insist a lot on loving your neighbour, welcoming strangers, the good Samaritian," he said. "If we practised that we would not have problems with the handful of Muslims who are on our streets, or with the Jews who live in our neighbourhood," Ouellet said. "On the contrary we would establish harmonious relations, welcoming relations, sharing, not only tolerance but respect toward all cultural communities." In English he added, "We have lost contact with the regular preaching of the gospel on Sunday, you know, the gathering around the eucharist which was key to the identity of the Quebec people. "The day you take distance from this source of grace and blessing, you will find down the road social consequences." Commission co-chair Charles Taylor said Ouellet's presentation was "very interesting," but questioned him on his opposition to new religion courses in Quebec's public schools, drawing on the teachings of seven major faiths. Ouellet said he is opposed to the approach, because it is imposed and said the option of Sunday school for Catholics is not in Quebec's traditions. Max Gros-Louis, grand chief of the Huron-Wendat nation, which has a reserve within the limits of Quebec City, told the commission "the Jesuits did a good job with us. Most Hurons are Catholics." But Gros-Louis deplored that the first nations have been forgotten in the current debate, and suggested his people may have been too welcoming when Europeans arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. "We believed that the land is for everybody," he said. "But we didn't know that we were going to be pushed and pushed and pushed into a little Indian reserve where we don't have any rights and where we don't have any autonomy. "Can you see all the Quebecers on a reserve?" he asked. "No, I can't see that." kdougherty@thegazette.canwest.com © The Gazette (Montreal) 2007 Video in french _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

Got sin? Some novel ways to get rid of them. Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:59 pm (GMT -5) http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=66428 Found post on Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam blogspot http://slatts.blogspot.com/ Got sin? YouTube, shredders your modern confessional. New ways to confess your sins point to a revival of the ancient religious rite By Alexandra Alter | The Wall Street Journal Published: 10/30/2007 12:45 It never goes out of style, but confession is undergoing a revival. This February at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI instructed priests to make confession a top priority. U.S. bishops have begun promoting it in diocesan newspapers, mass mailings and even billboard ads. And in a dramatic turnaround, some Protestant churches are following suit. This summer, the second-largest North American branch of the Lutheran Church passed a resolution supporting the rite, which it had all but ignored for more than 100 years. To make confession less intimidating, Protestant churches have urged believers to shred their sins in paper shredders or write them on rocks and cast them into a "desert" symbolized by a giant sand pile in the sanctuary. Three Capuchin friars now hear confessions six days a week at a mall in Colorado Springs., Colo. Worshippers are answering the call. When priests from five Chicago parishes joined forces last year to welcome penitents from 9 a.m. on a Friday to 9 a.m. the next morning, about 2,500 people showed up. Several factors are feeding the resurgence. Aggressive marketing by churches has helped reinvent confession as a form of self-improvement rather than a punitive rite. Technology is also creating new avenues for redemption. Some Protestants now air their sins on videos that are shared on YouTube and iTunes or are played to entire congregations. And the appetite for introspection has been buoyed by the broad acceptance of psychotherapy and the emphasis on self-analysis typified by daytime talk television. "Every day on Jerry Springer we see people confessing their sins in public, and certainly the confessional is a lot healthier than Jerry Springer," says Orlando Bishop Thomas Wenski, who last March sent out 190,000 pamphlets calling on Catholics to confess. Scholars also say the return to confession is part of a larger theological shift in which some Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelicals are returning to a traditional view of churches as moral enforcers. Catholic leaders have sought to make the tradition less onerous to keep it from dying, while Protestants are embracing it as a way to offer discipline to their flocks. Several Protestant pastors said they felt their churches had become too soft on sinners, citing the rise of suburban megachurches that seek converts with feel-good sermons, Starbucks coffee and rock-concert-like services, but rarely issue calls to repent. "I never want to be accused of the namby-pamby, milquetoast, 'Jesus is my boyfriend' kind of worship," says John Voelz, a pastor at Westwinds Community Church in Jackson, Mich. "People want to come face to face with what's going on inside them." An evolving rite Confession is no longer strictly a private matter between a sinner, a priest and God. More than 7,700 people have posted their sins on ivescrewedup.com, a confession Web site launched by an evangelical congregation in Cooper City, Fla. Last year, several members of Life Church in Edmond, Okla., appeared in a video sermon titled "My Secret," in which they spoke openly about having an abortion or taking methamphetamine. The video was shown to about 21,000 people. The XXX Church, a Christian antipornography ministry, has videotaped people confessing their addictions to X-rated material and posted the video on YouTube. Confession has been in steep decline for decades. In 2005, just 26 percent of American Catholics said they went to confession at least once a year, down from 74 percent in the early 1980s, according to researchers at two Catholic universities. After the Vatican softened some of its doctrine on sin in the 1960s, the rite "went into a tailspin," says William D'Antonio, a sociologist at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. There is only so far the Vatican will go to revive confession -- the church has taken a hard stance against technology, declaring in 2002 that "there are no sacraments on the Internet." Some conservative Protestants have also criticized public forms of atonement, arguing they owe more to exhibitionism than contrition. Confession hasn't always been a forgiving ritual. In Christianity's early centuries, worshippers confessed publicly before the priest and the entire congregation. Penalties were severe. Sinners had to prostrate themselves, fast and wear sackcloths and ashes. Adulterers were sentenced to a lifetime of celibacy and thieves were ordered to give their belongings to the poor. Repeat offenders were banished, says Notre Dame theology professor Randall Zachman. Private confession, which arose in monasteries in the seventh century, became mandatory for Christians in 1215. Centuries later during the Reformation, theologian Martin Luther took issue with the "acts of satisfaction" that priests required of sinners, arguing that faith alone absolved them. Following the split, most Protestant churches instructed followers to confess to God directly or to each other. In their attempt to revive the rite, Catholic leaders have portrayed it as a healing sacrament. Kathleen Taylor, 43, a substitute teacher in Daytona Beach, Fla., hadn't been to confession in some time when she received a mailer from her bishop this March urging Catholics to atone for their sins. She packed her husband and two sons, then 9 and 16, into the car and drove to a nearby church where a priest was waiting in the confessional booth. Taylor confessed to impatience and anger with her sons. She talked about her marriage. She expressed feelings of guilt over fighting with her first husband, who died two years ago. "It was hard at first. It was scary, the room gets kind of hot. But once you open up it's better." Reaching out People are confessing in unlikely places. On a recent Saturday morning in Colorado Springs, seven people lined up outside an office next to a Burlington Coat Factory at the Citadel mall. At the appointed hour, Father Matthew Gross, 72, strode up wearing his brown friar's habit. "Three minutes each, that's all you get," he joked to two women waiting in line. Since 2001, the Rev. Gross and two other Capuchin friars have come to the mall to hear confessions 11 hours a day, six days a week in a small office with a box of Kleenex and a laminated copy of the Ten Commandments. They now hear about 8,000 confessions a year. Protestant theologians are also rethinking the rite. This past summer, the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod, a 2.5 million-member branch whose members are spread across North America, voted to revive private confession with a priest. Some theologians have pointed to the writings of Martin Luther and argued that the Protestant reformer, while criticizing the way the rite was administered, never advocated abolishing it. "Some of us were saying, 'Why in the world did we let that die out?' " says the Rev. Bruce Keseman, a Lutheran pastor in Freeburg, Ill. The Rev. Keseman has sought to revive confession in his congregation by bringing it into pastoral counseling, giving demonstrations to youth groups and preaching about its benefits. Leslie Sramek, 48, a lifelong Lutheran and financial manager who lives near St. Louis, says she never heard about private confession and absolution in church when she was growing up. But two years ago, when the Rev. Keseman announced he would be taking confession privately, she decided to give it a try. At these sessions, the pastor wears vestments and stands near the altar while she kneels and recounts her sins. "I won't say that looking at my sins is pleasant, but they have to be dealt with," says Sramek. Restoring confession to its heyday won't be easy. Most Catholic parishes set aside one hour or less on Saturdays for the rite. And while the U.S. Catholic population has grown by 20 million in the last 40 years, the number of priests has fallen to 41,000, a 29 percent decline over the same period. Group absolution, while allowed in some circumstances, is discouraged, and bishops have banned Internet and text-message confessions, which had been popular in the Philippines. Says Monsignor Kevin Irwin, dean of the school of theology at Catholic University, "We don't do drive-by confessions."

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Archbishop Cancels Homosexual Activist from Catholic Confere Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:40 pm (GMT -5) Archbishop Cancels Homosexual Activist from Catholic Conference After Complaints Archbishop has since been under intense media pressure By John-Henry Westen LifeSiteNews Monday October 29, 2007 http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07102903.html WINNIPEG, October 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Catholic conference on social justice which took place last weekend was missing one of its featured speakers thanks to the work of Catholic pro-life activists and LifeSiteNews.com readers. The Social Justice Conference of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg took place over the weekend minus a man who gained fame by being taken hostage in Iraq and has used that fame to promote homosexuality, while professing to be Catholic. Maria Slykerman, the President of Campaign Life Coalition Manitoba, had contacted Winnipeg Archbishop James Weisgerber over scheduled speakers James Loney, the homosexual activist and NDP MP Bill Blaikie an abortion advocate. Many readers responded to a LifeSiteNews.com article which noted the controversy by contacting the Archdiocese with their concerns. (see coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/oct/07101609.html ) Late last week Loney told the press that Archbishop Weisgerber called him to tell him not to attend the conference. The Archdiocese released a statement on the matter saying: "Since the invitation to speak was issued, the Archdiocese has become aware of Mr. Loney's public opposition to the Church's teaching on sexual morality. Once the Archdiocese became aware of the public dissent, the Archbishop had no choice but to ask him not to speak at the conference. Mr. Loney has not been excluded from speaking because of his personal life, which is a private matter." In comments to the CBC the Archbishop acknowledged receiving multiple complaints about Mr. Loney. "He's being excluded because he takes public opposition to an important teaching of the Church," said the Archbishop. "I keep hearing more and more objections, and I began to do some research and I realized that he has taken very public and very clear opposition to the Church's teachings in this area." Mr. Blaikie however did not have his invitation to speak at the Catholic conference rescinded. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has a policy, approved by the Vatican, which bans giving supporters of abortion and same-sex 'marriage' pedestals at Catholic events. "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles," it says. Adding, "They should not be given awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions." (see coverage: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/jun/04062102.html ) Since his decision to cancel Mr. Loney, the Archbishop has been under intense media pressure. Mrs. Slykerman told LifeSiteNews.com she is contacting the Archbishop to thank him for avoiding scandal by cancelling Mr. Loney and to encourage him to take similar actions in the future for all speakers who would cause scandal. To contact the Archbishop of Winnipeg, Most Rev. V. James Weisgerber Email - archbishop@archwinnipeg.ca

Open Letter to Archbishop Niederauer Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:15 pm (GMT -5) Most Reverend George H. Niederauer October 29, 2007 Archbishop of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109-6602 Your Excellency: During your first visit to Most Holy Redeemer parish on Sunday October 7th, 2007, you gave Our Lord in Holy Communion to members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) a homosexual activist group widely known for its attacks upon and mockery of the Catholic Faith. Your subsequent October 11th apology notes that you did not recognize these "strangely dressed persons" as members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and that these individuals should not have received Holy Communion, nor should the minister of the Church administer the Sacrament to them. First: For the sake of their souls and the souls of those Catholics worldwide who have been scandalized, your office requires you to state this formally, according to the teachings of the Church. You must immediately and publicly state that, per canon 915: • Membership in the so-called "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" is incompatible with the Catholic Faith (and any other group of similar nature must also be named) • Under no circumstances are members of this group to be admitted to Holy Communion • Those who obstinately remain in this group, incur automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church • Members who decide to leave the group must repent publicly. A public act of scandal requires a public act of repentance. (see attached document) The Discipline Regarding the Denial of Holy Communion to Those Obstinately Persevering in Manifest Grave Sin) http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/holycom/denial.htm These sanctions should be implemented now so that those under this discipline will have the opportunity to repent publicly by the First Sunday of Advent, December 2, 2007. Second: In 1986, the Magisterium issued the instruction, the Letter to Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons.* The then Cardinal Ratzinger wrote, "All support should be withdrawn from any organizations which seek to undermine the teaching of the Church, which are ambiguous about it, or which neglect it entirely. Such support, or even the semblance of such support, can be gravely misinterpreted. Special attention should be given to the practice of scheduling religious services and to the use of Church buildings by these groups, including the facilities of Catholic schools and colleges. To some, such permission to use Church property may seem only just and charitable; but in reality it is contradictory to the purpose for which these institutions were founded, it is misleading and often scandalous." Fr. Stephen Meriwether, as pastor of Most Holy Redeemer parish, has continually allowed groups that "seek to undermine the teaching of the Church…or neglect it entirely," to use its facilities. Golden Gate Guards, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Desperate Divas Grand Drag Pageant are just a few of the groups who have rented the parish hall for their blatantly sinful displays. Because of the public scandal this has generated, you must: • Replace the current pastor with a priest who is faithful to Church teachings, especially on this pivotal issue. • Give specific instructions to all ministers of the Eucharist that giving Holy Communion to men dressed in drag is not an option and can only bring further scandal. • In addition, we, the Faithful have the right to demand that you do your Episcopal duty and publicly reiterate the position of the Church that homosexual advocacy groups cannot meet in or use any facility of the Archdiocese. Third: It is essential that you publicly urge those ensnared in the homosexual lifestyle to seek repentance and healing through the Sacrament of Penance. Your canonical responsibility for the salvation of souls is not optional, and is a greater imperative than a misguided "tolerance" which fails to admonish the sinner. Finally: Considering the outrageous events that have been documented by photo or video within the walls of Most Holy Redeemer parish, and especially for the probability of sacrileges that have NOT been documented, we suggest a thorough blessing of the entire building and re-consecration of Most Holy Redeemer Church. If you are unwilling or unable to take these necessary steps, then in humility you have the responsibility to offer your resignation to Pope Benedict XVI. We are praying that you will take the appropriate steps and do your duty as a successor of the apostles to repair the damage done by this scandal. Sincerely in Christ, Anthony Gonzales, President St. Joseph's Men Society 15732 Los Gatos Blvd. #303 Los Gatos, CA. 95032 * Letter to Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html

Pope urges pharmacists to reject abortion pill Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:29 am (GMT -5) Pope urges pharmacists to reject abortion pill 31 minutes ago VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pharmacists must be allowed to refuse to supply drugs that cause abortion or euthanasia, Pope Benedict said on Monday, calling on health professionals to be "conscientious objectors" against such practices. The Pope told a convention of Roman Catholic pharmacists that part of their job was to help protect human life from conception until natural death -- the Church teaching that rules out any deliberate termination of pregnancy or euthanasia. "It is not possible to anaesthetize the conscience, for example, when it comes to molecules whose aim is to stop an embryo implanting or to cut short someone's life," the Pope said. The so-called abortion pill, which is available in many European Union countries and has had regulatory approval in the United States since 2000, has not been authorized in Italy. The Vatican has criticized moves by some Italian politicians who favor the pill, which blocks the action of the hormone progesterone that is needed to sustain a pregnancy. The Pope told the international gathering that individual pharmacists could always choose not to prescribe such a drug. "I invite your federation to consider conscientious objection which is a right that must be recognized for your profession so you can avoid collaborating, directly or indirectly, in the supply of products which have clearly immoral aims, for example abortion or euthanasia," he said. _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

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Naples, FL: implementing Summorum Pontificum Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:14 pm (GMT -5) Naples, FL: implementing Summorum Pontificum Fr. John Zuhlsdorf What Does The Prayer Raelly Say? 28 October 2007 http://wdtprs.com/blog/2007/10/naples-fl-implementing-summorum-pontificum/ In the wake of Summorum Pontificum, we need patience and foresight in exercising our rights. Lot's of patience. In that light, check out this nice story is in the Naples [Florida] Daily News (http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/oct/27/new_old_mass/?). My [i.e., Fr. Z's] emphases and [comments]. A new old Mass It's not for every Catholic, but for some, the Latin Mass offers a kind of intimacy, a solemn focus Quote: VICTORIA MACCHI, Special to the Daily News Saturday, October 27, 2007 There is no music, no chatter [!] as people settle in for an early Sunday Mass. No one is late, [!] and the shuffling of feet is audible as the congregation rises and the priest enters. As he reaches the altar, he turns away from the crowd so everyone faces the same direction. [Exactly right.] An altar server struggles to move a rail into place, closing off the altar from the congregation. Without a microphone, the priest's recitation of the Mass in Latin is just loud enough for people to follow, [after all… how loud does it have to be?] in English, in the missalettes, but soft enough that as the parishioners kneel, sit and stand, the creaking of wood and knees echoes around the chapel. At the Catholic Tridentine Mass, also known as the Latin Mass, [but not by the better informed] an average of 100 people attend every Sunday at St. Agnes Chapel in Naples since it began on Aug. 26 "People go to the old Mass to pray to God," says the Rev. James Fryar, after the recently added Latin Mass at St. Agnes Chapel in Naples. "People go to the new Mass with more of an orientation on a 'myself' sort of thing. 'What I understand, what I get out of Mass, how I can participate more.' [Is that slightly unfair? Probably, but he has a point. That probably does characterize the majority of people in a regular parish with the Novus Ordo.] There is a certain amount of participation [I would say quite a lot, actually.] in the old Mass as well. … But it's more oriented towards God." Treacy Gibbens switched from attending Sunday Mass at St. Williams Parish in Naples to the Latin liturgy this summer. "There are fewer distractions," he says. "You can really pray. I love it." Born in 1923, Gibbens grew up with this Mass. As the director of the local chapter of Una Voce, an organization devoted to the promulgation of the Latin Mass, he is pleased with its addition to the schedule at St. Agnes. "I can remember before Vatican II, as you'd be walking out of the church after the Mass, your mind was still on the Mass. There wasn't all the talking after that Mass that there is nowadays," he said of the new Mass, or the Novus Ordo. [This begs the question: If people behaved more reverently in church before and after Mass, would that do it for him? At St. Agnes in St. Paul, people are very quiet and respectful in Church, and the Novus Ordo is used. This isn't an old Mass v. newer Mass phenomenon. A lot has to do with the way the priest has formed the flock.] From 1962 to 1965, the Second Vatican Council promoted [mandated] a series of reforms to the Catholic Church, including changes to the liturgy, in an attempt to bring the Mass closer to the people. This included allowing for the use of the vernacular during Masses and the use of local customs as permitted by the bishop. Since then, the use of local languages has flourished in Masses around the world, leaving a small but vocal group of Catholic laypeople and clergy, who support the use of the Roman liturgy or Latin Mass. In a statement issued by Pope Benedict XVI on July 7, he asserted that the Latin Mass [the OLDER form of Mass in Latin] was to be more generally allowed and that congregations wishing to celebrate it had only to ask their parish priest, rather than request it of their bishop. The issue, however, was that since the reforms not all priests studied the Roman liturgy in the seminary, therefore not all parishes could fulfill the need. [Give it time.] This is why Fryar comes from Sarasota, where he arrived three months ago, to Naples every weekend to officiate the Latin Mass [Don't phrases like this get you the sense that the author isn't Catholic?] at 8 a.m. before heading back up to his parish of St. Martha's for a 1:30 p.m. Mass on Sundays. Three years ago, Fryar was ordained into [again] the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, a community of Roman Catholic priests who only celebrate the Latin Mass. In order to serve the needs of Catholics asking for the old Mass, he was brought down from Pennsylvania three months ago. "I figured, look, if I want to be a priest, I want to go all the way and do the Mass as holy as I can," says the 33-year-old priest. "You can tell it's serious — this Mass, there's no messing around." At the low Mass, which is the liturgy in its simplest form, the only sound that intentionally breaks the silences is when the servers ring small bells during the consecration. To receive communion, congregents must kneel at the altar rail, [Unless they have a broken leg or choose to stand…] and can only receive the host on their tongue, rather than in their hands as they do the new Mass. [Wrong… they sadly still have the right to receive in the hand, though we are very glad they don't.] Several women at St. Agnes also carry on the tradition of using the chapel veil, or mantilla, a triangle or semi-circle of lace of lace often in white or black placed loosely over their hair. Starting a Latin Mass in Naples was motivated by a demand from local Catholics, and by geography, says Bishop Frank Dewane of the Diocese of Venice, of which Naples is a part. "We have a Latin Mass scheduled in Sarasota and parishioners often traveled up from the Southern deanery to attend, so we responded to the requests that we had," says the bishop. "The diocese wanted to make the Latin Mass convenient [HURRAY! Generosity rather than stinginess!] to parishioners and the chapel at St. Agnes Church was chosen. - – - While some of the older parishioners rise early Sundays for a dose of religious nostalgia [GRRRRRR…. this is condescending.] — and others for the convenience of the early Mass — younger families make up at least half of the Latin Mass congregation at St. Agnes chapel. Fryar says more than 90 percent of the participants at Masses performed by his order are young families. "We like to bring our kids because it teaches them better. The outward signs (of the Novus Ordo Mass) don't really represent what's going on," says Jared Kuebler, 27. [Interesting observations.] He and his wife Maria, 26, moved to the area in August from California so Jared could begin graduate school at Ave Maria University. They have attended the Latin Mass at St. Agnes since then. The couple believes that their children, a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son, pick up on the sobriety of the Mass. "It's not somewhere where they can play around," says Jared Kuebler. "There's things here that remind you this is something special, outside of your daily life," he adds. "They notice the difference. They sit quietly and they play quietly." [Yes… I think this is about right.] Music at other Masses, says his wife, had them wriggling around. Gregorian chant, which is sometimes performed at the Latin Mass, might not be conducive to playtime. [Truer words were never spoken!] Joseph Pearce, 46, a professor of literature at Ave Maria University attends the Latin Mass. He says his young son "is a handful whatever Mass we go to" but the family comes to St. Agnes Chapel for the smaller community and the more solemn nature of the service. "I like the reverence of it. We're not exclusively Latin Mass people," Pearce says, adding that while he and his family have attended the new Mass as well, they feel particularly at home with the Latin Mass congregation because of its size. "But I think that what we mustn't lose sight of is the focus of the Mass is Christ, particularly Christ's sacrifice … And if the community aspect of the Mass eclipses that dimension — and at it's worst, there's a danger of that — then we've lost focus." - – - But the issue of the Latin Mass is a sensitive one in the Church amongst the clergy and laypeople. [Only among some laypeople and clergy.] As the New Mass gained ground over the Roman liturgy following Vatican II, tensions emerged. "People experienced the loss of the Latin Mass as the loss of something you love, and I think some of that is still there," explains Fr. Robert Murphy, a priest at St. William Parish in Naples. "When the Mass went from Latin to the language of the people, there were a significant amount of people who never went to Mass again. It was a tough adjustment on everybody." [Folks… the sloppy term "the Latin Mass" has me chewing my own tongue off, but we have to be patient.] For many priests, however, the Novus Ordo was what they learned in seminary, and there is little inclination to change their ways. "I have no inclination to. I never had it, and I still have a vocation, and I love the Church. I don't see myself taking the time to learn (it). I'm perfectly content in English." [I wonder if that does not smack slightly of laziness.] Murphy, for example, says he has no inclination to learn to preach the Latin Mass. "I never had it, and I still have a vocation, and I love the Church," says Murphy, who has been a priest in the Diocese of Venice nearly 14 years. "I don't see myself taking the time to learn (it). I'm perfectly content in English." The demand for the Latin Mass at his old parish of St. Andrew's in Cape Coral only came from one or two people, he says. He believes it is "perfectly OK" to worship in the vernacular, adding the local need for Spanish, Creole and Polish-speaking clerics. "We try to serve all people," Murphy emphasizes. [Except those who want the older Mass?] Fryar doesn't disagree. "People who are comfortable praying in English to God — by all means, pray to God the best way you can." [Everyone do your own thing!] After announcing the addition of Fryar's Latin Mass to the congregation, Fr. Robert Kantor said people were curious about the larger picture concerning faith and church. The decision to bring it to St. Agnes was based on hospitality, [!] says Kantor, the administrator of St. Agnes. "I did want the people here to understand it was a result of need. "These are people that are trying to be accommodated to celebrate a Mass that's part of the Church," he say "I don't think this means anything other than the Bishop trying to serve people who like this Mass." [Excellent.] Fryar says he believes it is unfair to compare the Latin Mass to more contemporary interpretations. "The Latin Mass has been around for 2,000 years, and it took maybe three centuries to get it perfected to one stage. … What you have in the 20th century is that the Mass has been perfected for 20 centuries. The new rite Mass is valid; it's good; it's holy … but it's only been around for what, 40 years?" [A good point.] There are no immediate plans to expand the venues for Latin Mass in the Naples/Ft. Myers area, however, Bishop Dewane, however, "There are no immediate plans to expand the venues for Latin Mass" in the Naples/Ft. Myers area. [Is there an echo?] "It's hard to say about the future. It depends whether the new generation that was not brought up in it wants to go back to it," said Murphy. "The future is that it will always happen as long as there are priests who want to say it." [That's for sure!]. In the balance a very nice article, insofar as its content is concerned

Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:29 pm (GMT -5) Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer Yahoo! News VATICAN CITY - The Vatican staged its largest mass beatification ceremony ever Sunday, putting 498 victims of religious persecution before and during Spain's civil war on the path to possible sainthood. The ceremony has drawn criticism from some in Spain who see it as implicit criticism of the current Socialist government as it takes a critical look at the country's civil war past and the fascist dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, which was supported by the Roman Catholic Church. Seventy-one bishops from Spain, a host of Spanish politicians and Spanish pilgrims massed in St. Peter's Square for the ceremony, waving Spanish flags and breaking into applause after Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declared the 498 beatified. Spain's 1936-69 civil war pitted an elected, leftist government against right wing forces that rose up under Franco, who went on to win and presided over a nearly 40-year dictatorship staunchly supported by the Catholic Church. Violence against clergy had been simmering since 1931, with leftist forces targeting the institution they saw as a symbol of wealth, repression and inequality. Their attacks against the clergy gave Franco a pretext for launching his rebellion. The church estimates that nearly 7,000 clergy were killed in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The 498 people beatified on Sunday — who were killed in 1934, 1936 and 1937 — are comprised of two bishops, 24 priests and 462 members of religious orders, as well as a deacon, a subdeacon, a seminary student and seven lay Catholics. By declaring the 498 martyrs, the Vatican could proceed with beatification without having to confirm a miracle attributed to the intercession of each of the victims. A miracle is necessary for any of them to be declared a saint. Pope Benedict XVI appeared from his studio window after the Mass to greet the pilgrims, saying the beatification of so many ordinary Catholics showed that martyrdom wasn't reserved to a few but "is a realistic possibility for the entire Christian people." "This martyrdom in ordinary life is an important witness in today's secularized society," he said. Some in Spain have questioned the timing of the ceremony, coming three days before Parliament is to pass a Socialist-sponsored law seeking to make symbolic amends to victims of the war and of the Franco dictatorship. The bill mentions people persecuted for their religious beliefs, but for the most part it is an unprecedented, formal condemnation of the Franco regime. Critics say the Vatican, which since the late 1980s has beatified nearly 500 other clergy killed in the war, is acting with political motivation and is hitting back at the government by choosing now to beatify nearly another 500 all at once. The church says the ceremony is being held now because Benedict finished signing the decrees only two months ago. Ties between the Holy See and Spain have been strained since the Socialists took office in 2004. The government has angered the Vatican by introducing legislation facilitating divorce on demand and gay marriages, as well by scrapping plans by a previous conservative government to make religion an obligatory subject in schools. Spain also permits abortion. Saraiva Martins took aim at all those initiatives in his homily Sunday, saying Catholics must defend church teaching on protecting life from conception until natural death — Vatican language for opposing abortion. Drawing sustained applause from the crowd, he cited the need to protect the family "founded on the sole and indissoluble marriage between a man and woman, on the primary right for parents to educate their children, and on other question that spring up in daily life in the society in which we live." _________________ Blessed Pius IX, pray for us!

Health care for the unborn? Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:42 am (GMT -5) Revised SCHIP Bill Does Not Codify Rule Helping Women Avoid Abortions by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor October 25, 2007 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life groups largely did not weigh in on Thursday on a bill to reauthorize the SCHIP program, but the measure could possibly have picked up extra votes had it contained a provision they support. The bill did not codify a program into law that helps pregnant women avoid abortions. In 2002, President Bush authorized a change in the SCHIP program that allowed states to cover poor pregnant women and their unborn babies under the medical insurance program. In total, 12 states including California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Texas, Wisconsin and Michigan have done so. Pro-life groups were thankful for the "unborn child rule" Bush put in place because it provides help to vulnerable pregnant women who might have an abortion because of financial pressures. When Congress considered a bill to massively expand the SCHIP program, pro-abortion leaders removed the unborn child rule. Eventually, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa added an amendment that made sure the rule stayed in place for now. However, lawmakers rejected an amendment by Sen. Wayne Allard of Colorado to make the unborn child rule a permanent part of the SCHIP program. President Bush ultimately vetoed the bill and Democratic leaders put forward a revised version of their SCHIP expansion bill on Thursday that failed to get enough votes to override a second expected presidential veto. Douglas Johnson, the legislative director of National Right to Life, told LifeNews.com that "the Democratic leadership in the House [again] refused to allow a vote on an amendment to codify the rule," with language similar to the Allard amendment. While the revised SCHIP bill contains the Grassley "neutrality" language, abortion advocates missed out an opportunity to gain more support for the bill by prohibiting lawmakers from making the unborn child rule permanent. States are still free to use the rule to help poor pregnant women avoid abortions but Congressional leaders could still work to topple it, especially if an abortion advocate is elected in next year's elections. _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

A New Weapon in Fight for the Unborn Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:38 am (GMT -5) New York Pregnancy Center's Mobile RV Continues to Help Women Avoid Abortion by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor October 25, 2007 New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A New York chain of crisis pregnancy centers continues to provide positive alternatives to women considering abortions in the Big Apple. The center has employed a unique idea by using a converted motorhome with a portable ultrasound unit to assist women with unplanned pregnancies. LifeNews.com reported in February about Expectant Mother Care's mobile unit and its plans to park the motorhome at major abortion facilities six days a week to give women other options apart from abortion. EMC founder and president Chris Slattery told LifeNews.com at the time that the idea marked "a dramatic new chapter in the pro-life movement's efforts to reach out in compassion to women" and he says the mobile unit continues to help women. Slattery gave an update on the outreach to CBN News. "We go out to the toughest neighborhoods in the South Bronx and the most international area of Queens where there's a huge pocket of abortion clinics along a strip we call it 'Abortion Row,'" he said. On four days out of the week, Slattery and his ultrasound technician and bilingual counselor head to an abortion center in the Bronx. They offer free ultrasounds and helpful counseling for women in a variety of situations. "We're probably intervening with a dozen women a week who we get to take an ultrasound, talk with the counselor in either English or Spanish," he told CBN. Slattery said the mobile pregnancy center is seeing a high percentage of success. "We are successful probably eight out of 10 times. We're successful in turning the mother around if we can get her in to talk with us," he explained. Julie Beyel works with the RV and tries to get women headed to the abortion business to talk with her staff instead, she told CBN News. "What I do is I basically look…to see if women may be getting dropped off in a cab and I approach that woman to let them know we offer free help for pregnant women," she explained. Slattery indicated that the abortion center can't do much about their presence. "There's nothing they can do except the cursing they throw at us and occasional harassment of us. We're pretty much free to do what we want on this public sidewalk," he said. He said pregnancy centers across the country have visited with him about the mobile center with the idea of duplicating the concept in their communities. He said pro-life advocates as far away as New Zealand have contacted him. A New Weapon in Fight for the Unborn By Charlene Israel CBN News October 26, 2007 CBNNews.com - The battle over abortion has been going on for more than 35 years. Now there's a new weapon in the pro-life movement to save the lives of the unborn. Taking It to the Streets A 32-foot-long, brightly colored mobile home dodged in and out of traffic and made its way down the narrow streets of New York. It's a sight you don't see every day. But this isn't just any old RV. This one has a portable ultrasound unit onboard - and its mission is to save unborn babies. It's called 'Operation Frontline' and it's a pro-life mobile ultrasound clinic - the first of its kind in New York. Veteran pro-life activist Chris Slattery heads the operation. CBN News recently went for a ride in the life-saving vehicle. "We go out to the toughest neighborhoods in the South Bronx and the most international area of Queens where there's a huge pocket of abortion clinics along a strip we call it 'Abortion Row.'" Four days a week Slattery, along with his full time ultrasound technician and bi-lingual crisis pregnancy counselor, pull up to an abortion clinic in Bronx, New York. They offer free ultrasounds and friendly compassionate crisis counseling to all pregnant women who are on their way to have an abortion. "We're probably intervening with a dozen women a week who we get to take an ultrasound, talk with the counselor in either English or Spanish. We are successful probably eight out of 10 times. We're successful in turning the mother around if we can get her in to talk with us," he said. 'Operation Frontline' also reaches out to pregnant women who plan to keep their babies Julie Beyel works with Slattery as a sidewalk counselor. "What I do is I basically look…to see if women may be getting dropped off in a cab and I approach that woman to let them know we offer free help for pregnant women." She says she explains to the woman that an abortion clinic does not really help women. She explains that instead "it leaves women with negative feelings - maybe feelings of guilt." Time for a Baby Shower Ultrasound technician Wadiya Penzellna says the results are amazing and rewarding. She says that some of the women who decide to keep their babies will return with pictures of their infants. "I have pictures. We speak a lot, go to baby showers. It's been nice," she said. So what's the response from the abortion clinic? Slattery says, "There's nothing they can do except the cursing they throw at us and occasional harassment of us. We're pretty much free to do what we want on this public sidewalk." He says the idea for a mobile pro-life center is catching on. We're finding people are coming here to visit us to see how we're doing this from around the country," he said. "We've even had inquiries from New Zealand about opening up a mobile clinic like this." But despite the positive results, Slattery says he has one regret. He said, "I just wish we had thought of this many years ago. We're going go full whole hog with this now and save as many lives with this tactic as we can." _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

"Bringing gay and lesbian issues into the living rooms of Am Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:22 am (GMT -5) "Bringing gay and lesbian issues into the living rooms of America" Catholic university's law school honors "one of the most recognized lesbian leaders in the country" California Catholic Daily October 28, 2007 http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=955ce71f-c1be-4e47-8129-17e11c29b63f The School of Law at Santa Clara University, a self-described "Jesuit, Catholic university," honored Elizabeth Birch, "one of the most recognized lesbian leaders in the country" at its fourth annual Celebration of Diversity Gala held on Oct. 25. An alumna of the law school, Birch was from 1994 to 2004 the president and executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, "the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) advocacy organization," said a law school news release. During her time with the Campaign, its membership grew from 100,000 to 1.1 million supporters, and its budged rose from $6.5 million to almost $30 million. Birch's biography on the web site of the Diversity Education Center at Central Washington University says she "has been credited with bringing gay and lesbian issues into the living rooms of America in a new, fresh and creative way… Birch talks to America. She has allowed million more Americans to understand gay lives in a fresh way." In 2005, Birch launched a television talk show, "Birch and Co.," addressing "gay" and lesbian issues on the homosexual cable network, here!TV. Rosie O'Donnell and Pat Buchanan were among her guests. The Diversity Education Center biography notes that "George Magazine dubbed Birch and her partner, Hilary Rosen… one of Washington's ten most powerful couples." A June 22, 1999 article in the homosexual magazine The Advocate said Birch and Rosen adopted twins, a boy and a girl, in 1999. "Hilary and I have always had gay rights issues in the forefront of our lives, but we have never had anything cut as close to our souls as becoming parents," Birch told The Advocate. In 2007, The Advocate announced the separation of Birch and Rosen after 15 years as a couple. Birch spoke in behalf of the Human Rights Campaign against the 1996 federal "Defense of Marriage Act." In her testimony she said homosexuals are denied "the freedom to choose to marry – the right to enter into a civil legal union – the right to assume the duties and responsibilities regarding the person with whom we share a life long commitment. We are denied the right to put into practice the values embodied in any civil marriage – the values of caring, commitment, mutual interdependency and love." Homosexuals, said Birch "are continuously accused of lacking stability and the deepest kind of commitment in our relationships – let me assure you, our relationships are nothing short of miracles when one considers all that tears at them."

Vatican honours Spanish war dead Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:01 am (GMT -5) The victims are regarded by the Church as martyrs Vatican honours Spanish war dead Last Updated: Sunday, 28 October 2007, 10:33 GMT The Vatican has beatified 498 Roman Catholics executed during the Spanish Civil War, in the largest ceremony of its kind ever held. Most of the victims - nearly all of whom were clergy - were killed at the outset of the war in 1936, by militias fighting for the Republican government. The move has been criticised by some because it recognises victims from only one side of the brutal conflict. But the Vatican said it was not about "resentment but... reconciliation". The Roman Catholic Church was closely linked with the right-wing forces of General Francisco Franco, who won the war in 1939 and went on to impose nearly four decades of dictatorship. Many people think that by honouring the victims from only one side of the Civil War, the Roman Catholic Church is dividing Spaniards, says the BBC's Danny Wood in Madrid. However, the Spanish government has supported the beatification and is sending Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos to the ceremony. Killers forgiven The Mass in St Peter's Square was attended by nearly all of Spain's bishops and tens of thousands of pilgrims, who congregated on Sunday morning to honour those lauded by the Church as martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. It was being conducted by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, while Pope Benedict XVI was to address a message to the pilgrims. The 498 victims included two bishops, 24 priests, 462 monks and nuns, three church staff and seven lay people. They were among an estimated 7,000 clergy killed by left-wing Republican forces between 1931 and 1939. One was Bishop Cruz Laplana y Laguna, who was taken prisoner by leftist militiamen two days after the war broke out in July 1936. He was shot by a firing squad two weeks later, reportedly telling his killers before they opened fire: "May God forgive you, as I forgive and bless you." This coming week, the Spanish parliament is expected to pass a landmark law acknowledging the victims of the war and its aftermath. The Law for the Historical Memory also obliges the Catholic Church to change any pro-Franco monuments inside its churches. This legislation has caused as much controversy as the Vatican's beatification, since Spaniards still find it very hard to reconcile their differences about this period of their history, says the BBC's correspondent. The war is thought to have claimed the lives of at least 250,000 people. While atrocities were carried out on both sides, it is thought the right-wing Nationalists killed more people. _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash

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Roman Catholic bishop consecrated in Russia Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:20 pm (GMT -5) http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=11761 Roman Catholic bishop consecrated in Russia For the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, a Roman Catholic bishop has been consecrated on Russian soil. An Italian, Paolo Pezzi, takes over from Belorussian Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz. Saturday, October 27, 2007 By Robert Moynihan Today in Moscow, for the first time since the Communist Revolution in 1917, a Catholic bishop was consecrated on Russian soil. The ceremony, held in a packed Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in central Moscow, marked the end of one era and the beginning of another for the Catholic Church in Russia, as the new bishop, Paolo Pezzi, a 47-year-old Italian theologian, took over the leadership of the Catholic Church in Russia's capital from the Belorussian Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, 57, who will move to a difficult assignment in Minsk, the capital of Belorussia. Kondrusieiwicz, who has led the Catholic Church in Moscow since 1991, when the Soviet Union fell, through the period of its slow re-emergence from the catacombs of the communist period, was the principal consecrator of Pezzi, who has served for many years as the rector of the Catholic seminary in St. Petersburg. Dozens of Italians came from Moscow, and from Italy, including Pezzi's mother and a number of relatives, to witness Pezzi's consecration to the episcopacy. The other two consecrators were the Italian Archbishop Antonio Mennini, the Holy See's nuncio in Russia, and Bishop Joseph Werth, a Russian of German ancestry, the bishop of Novosibirsk in Siberia. The ceremony, which last from 4 pm until 7 pm, was marked by the use of three languages: Russian, Italian, and Latin. The Epistle, Gospel and the questions asked of the new bishop were spoken in Russian. The homily, given by Kondrusiewicz, was in Russian and then in Italian. The consecration was in Latin. The Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow sent two representatives, Father Igor Vyzhanov and Father Vsevolod Chaplin, who were given seats of honor in the front of the church. I was present eight years ago, on December 12, 1999, when Archbishop Kondrusiewicz consecrated the altar of the basilica in a moving ceremony together with the Vatican Secretary of State, Angelo Sodano, and so I had mixed emotions as I watched Kondrusiewicz on the eve of his departure from Moscow -- sad to see Kondrusiewicz, whose ceaseless labors allowed the Catholic Church in Russia to get back onto her feet again, depart; and happy to see Pezzi, a personable and profoundly spiritual man, take the torch from his predecessor, and the opportunity now to extend his hand beyond his own flock, in respect and friendship, toward the Russian Orthodox Church, here in its homeland. What opens up now with Pezzi's succession here is a chance for a next stage in the relationship between Rome and Moscow, and so between the Roman Catholic Church and Russian Orthodoxy. Pezzi, a member of the Communion and Liberation movement founded by the late Italian priest Luigi Giussani (which Pope Benedict XVI has highly praised), will likely focus his efforts on the cultural, spiritual and theological riches of the western and eastern traditions which can mutually enrich one another. Robert Moynihan PhD writes for Inside the Vatican Magazine.

Tridentine Mass in The Virgin Islands Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:03 pm (GMT -5) SOURCE: The Catholic Islander, Oct. 2007 TRIDENTINE LATIN MASS Responding to the July 2007 publication of Pope Benedict XVI's Motu Propio on the Tridentine Mass, Fr. Patrick Lynch, CSsR, Pastor of Holy Cross Church on St. Croix, will celebrate a Latin Mass at his parish on Sunday, October 28, at 11:00 a.m. The choir has begun rehearsing the Gregorian Missa de Angelis. The Motu Propio eased the way for more widespread use of the Roman Missal published by Blessed John XXIII in 1962. This will be the first Latin Mass in the diocese in at least 10 years, and the first Tridentine Mass in decades. _________________ IN CORDIBUS JESU ET MARIÆ SECRETMAN

Interpretations are subjective, but should lean toward God Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:45 am (GMT -5) Click Logo To LInk Original Columns Print Edition: 10/26/2007 Interpretations are subjective, but should lean toward God By Bishop Robert Vasa BEND — It has been my lifelong experience that each of us is very insistent on having things go "our way." It is also very clear that we tend to give an interpretation to documents and events which most closely aligns with what we would like those documents or events to mean. In other words, we all tend, more or less, to subjectivity. At the same time, in our self evaluation we are inclined to imagine that our thoughts or positions are really much more objective than those of our neighbor. I have experienced this over the past several months in regard to our conditional use permit application with Crook County. It seems perfectly clear to me that the zoning laws permit the building of the structures we hope to build for our new Catholic Center. That, however, which is crystal clear to me is not nearly so clear to others. Though we read the same statutes, the breadth of proposed interpretations are as varied as the minds of those reading the words of the statutes. We understand and agree that the statutes permit the building of "churches" but then the pertinent question, as a recent headline asked, becomes "What constitutes a church?" In the narrow, civil, legal sense one could argue that "church" is that specific building in which the faithful gather for worship. In a broader, ecclesial and canonical sense one could argue that "church" is the entire complex of buildings, duties and responsibilities entrusted to a bishop of a particular diocese. It may come as no surprise that I lean toward the latter definition and that the planning commission, while not rejecting the broader definition, must likewise deal with the narrower definition. The matter comes before the commission once more on Tuesday evening and hopefully we will arrive at a bit more clarity on that occasion. Once again I urge prayer for the deliberative process and while I am faith-filled enough to ask that the prayer be for the fulfillment of God's will, I am also inclined to ask for prayers that the necessary permits be granted. It would be very easy for me to accept God's will if that will is that the conditional use permit be granted, but if the permit is denied I would be less inclined to identify such a decision with God's will. This is where trusting in God's seemingly crooked lines really challenges the objectivity of faith. It is very consoling to have things work the way we would like them, to work and then to sit back with a kind of smug complacence thinking that we really are doing God's will after all. On the other hand, since things rarely proceed flawlessly according to our plans, our faith is routinely challenged. In this, the subjectivity of our faith is revealed. For myself, I do recognize that my willingness to accept God's will is very much conditioned on whether my particular hopes and aspirations are included in what God wills. In the case at hand, if our permit would be denied then I would have to admit that it was God's will that it be denied. Then I would need to discern if it is God's will that we engage in further petitions and applications and appeals or if it is His will to simply abandon the entire concept. From a purely subjective point of view it is almost impossible for me to envision that God's will is that we not work very assertively for the promotion of His kingdom here in Eastern and Central Oregon. The precise method of evangelization is not spelled out, but it is clearly God's will that the message of the Gospel be spread. It is also clear in the history of the Church that evangelization efforts often encounter significant resistance. Again, notice the subjectivity of this line of reasoning. Swift approval would be very consoling but denial, precisely because it forces greater reliance on God, may be more beneficial. I pray for the grace to live out a prayer I found decades ago: Lord, I give this day entirely to You — I retain none of it for myself. It is Yours. If on this, Your day, You send me joy — I thank you. If on this, Your day, You send me loneliness — I will draw closer to You. If on this, Your day, You send me sorrow — I accept it. If on this, Your day, You send me peace — I will share it with the anxious. If on this, Your day, You send me pain — I will suffer it with You. If I accept good things from You, should I not also accept unpleasant? Since this is Your day, which You graciously have given to me, and which I now in intention return to You, help me to live it well; not to waste what You have given on idleness but to use it as You have designed. Help me to remember how well the day goes when it is given to You. I trust that You will give to me this day all that I need and that all that is given or withheld is for my good. With all this in mind, help me to live this day with You in joy. Amen. I see a similar subjective interpretive tendency in relation to the Motu Proprio regarding the celebration of the Mass of Pope Pius V. There are a variety of interpretations about what it says or does not say, what it permits and does not permit, what it mandates and what it forbids. In general, the variety of proposed interpretations are as varied as the minds of those reading the words of the Motu Proprio. In regard to this very significant document it is clear that each of us tends to give an interpretation which most closely aligns with what we would like it to mean. It is important for each to recognize the level to which our personal feelings impact on our interpretation. If this is done then a fruitful discussion between those who insist on different interpretations is possible. Once someone concludes that their interpretation is objective and not at all subjective (which is, of course, already a subjective conclusion) then the ground for fruitful discussion is significantly diminished. I do wish that the Crook County Planning Commission would see the county zoning statutes as clearly as I do. I am sure that some who are very interested in seeing a fuller restoration of the Mass of Pius V wish that I could see the objectively proper meaning of the Motu Proprio as clearly as they do. Let us pray for a fuller acceptance of God's will and not only His will as refracted by our own very subjective interests. _________________ IN CORDIBUS JESU ET MARIÆ SECRETMAN

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