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ICKSP tries to save historic church in Lancaster, UK Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 5:52 pm (GMT -5) Italian bid to save city church Link to original By Jenny Simpson and James Reader An iconic Preston church could be saved by a mystery donor and an Italian religious group. The Institute of Christ the King wants to take over the running and restoration of St Walburge's which has been earmarked for closure under reform plans by the cash-strapped Diocese of Lancaster. Fr William Hudson, the Florence-based order's UK representative, will meet Bishop of Lancaster Patrick O'Donoghue on Monday to discuss the proposals. A private donor has offered to give £100,000 to St Walburge's if the Institute of Christ the King gets the go-ahead from the bishop. Fr Hudson said he had been impressed by the levels of support for keeping the Pedder Street church open when he gave Latin masses there last month. He said it had been estimated £2.5m would be needed in the longer term to run the Roman Catholic church, a large proportion of which could be obtained from public bodies like English Heritage and other trusts set up for the purpose of keeping historic churches open. Fr Hudson, the head of Brussels International Catholic School in Belgium, declined to give details on the donor but said parishioners would be consulted on the ideas. Parishioner Jim Aherne said: "St Walburge's is part of the city's history and we must preserve it for future generations." Preston Council is backing the fight to keep St Walburge's open after it passed a motion calling on the Diocese to retain it as a place of worship for "the foreseeable future". Coun Bill Shannon said: "The Diocese must move heaven and Earth. We cannot do much about heaven, but we can do plenty about Earth." Council chief executive Jim Carr will now write to Bishop O'Donoghue calling on him to keep the church open. But the Bishop said talk of transferring ownership of the church was premature. _________________ Dominus Meus et Deus Meus!

Foreign priests in U.K. to be 'reprogrammed' Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:47 pm (GMT -5) Foreign priests in U.K. undergo training in ‘Britishness’ Ecumenical News International Nov 1, 2007 link to original Canterbury, England A three-week course designed to introduce foreign priests to the British way of doing things in the Roman Catholic church has opened at Ushaw College outside Durham in Northumberland, England. The first group of seven priests is from India, Nigeria and Poland. “Some foreign priests working in Britain tend to be too dogmatic about the church’s moral rightness on just about everything,” said Rev. Terry Drainey the president of Ushaw College. “That’s not how we do things here. This course shows how we deal with a whole range of issues affecting Catholics, including the role of women, divorce, the lay ministry and homosexuality.” It is the first course of its kind and is the brainchild of Bishop Crispian Hollis of Portsmouth. The number of foreign priests in Britain is rising as the number of home-grown priests declines. The priests undergoing training in “Britishness” come from English and Welsh parishes. The three-week program costs £1,500 ($3,000). Mr. Drainey said most foreign priests have a sound knowledge of English. “But we have a teacher who comes in from Newcastle University to help with colloquialisms and pronunciation.” He noted, “I worked in Africa for six years and when I arrived in Kenya, I was put on a three-month course to learn something about local languages and culture and found that an enormous help.”

Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:33 pm (GMT -5) bait and switch Posted by: Diogenes - Today 9:54 AM ET USA link to original Yes, it's that time of year again. Thanksgiving is coming, and on the Sunday before the feast, Catholic Americans will be asked once more to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the bishops' project to change the world through citizen activism. Well, that isn't exactly how the bishops would describe it. Nor is it the description you'll hear before the collection baskets are passed. It's more convention to refer to CCHD as an "anti-poverty program." But let's make the pertinent distinction here. There are anti-poverty programs that ease the suffering of needy people throught the altogether laudable exercise of Christian charity. Then there are other programs, more political in nature, designed to change society so as to abolish poverty. As I have explained earlier, the CCHD falls into the latter category; the program's literature announces that it is "working to overcome poverty," not alleviate it. That's a harder sell, in terms of fundraising. You might reach deep into your pockets to help feed a hungry family down the street; you're less likely to pony up for their campaign to elect officials who, they argue, will raise the economic standards of society at large. So the bishops have to work hard to keep the funds flowing into the CCHD coffers. This week, out in Portland, Oregon, Archbishop John Vlazny is doing his best. Along the way, the good archbishop acknowledges that there are cynics out there questioning the value of the CCHD approach: Some of our fellow Catholics, sad to say, debunk the work of CCHD. They are quick to fault CCHD if one of the grantees unexpectedly and inexplicably strays from one of the sacred principles of Catholic social teaching. These things can happen when you offer someone help. They may misuse the gift.. Good point. We shouldn't criticize CCHD if a recipient "unexpectedly and inexplicably strays" from Church teaching. But what of their straying is completely predictable? What if a recipient of CCHD funding has, say, endorsed abortion and same-sex marriage in the past, and allied itself with other organizations wholly dedicated to legal abortion and same-sex marriage? It's one thing to give $5 to a panhandler, hoping that he'll buy himself lunch, and learn with disappointment that he promptly spent the money on booze. It's quite another thing to hand him the money as he stands at the doorway of the tavern. The list of CCHD recipients is pockmarked with leftist groups whose aspirations clash with the basic principles of Catholic morality. The conflicts are inevitable. But that's not the only problem. Because it was designed to promote social change-- "a relic of early-1970s social activism," as I put it recently, CCHD's activities raise political questions even when there are no clear moral principles at risk. When he cites "success stories" to illustrate the value of the CCHD program, Archbishop Vlazny mentioned minimum-wage increases and adjustments to the Earned-Income Credit-- in other words, successful lobbying campaigns. Citing an old adage, the archbishop summarizes the wisdom of the CCHD approach: “Better to teach a young man how to fish than give him a fish.” Good advice, that. But it's not really an accurate description of the program. The CCHD is founded on the understanding that if you teach a young man to lobby the government, he won't need to go fishing.

Bishop removes priest for liturgical abuse! Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:02 pm (GMT -5) How about this for a concept! The new Archbishop of Baltimore acutally takes action. Let the word get out! Mass as your own private property is not going to continue in Baltimore. Thanks be to God. May other bishops follow suit. Ave Maria! ----------------- http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=54685 Baltimore priest removed for liturgical abuse Baltimore, Nov. 9, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Baltimore's Archbishop Edwin O'Brien has removed a pastor who invited a female Episcopalian priest to join him in celebrating a funeral Mass, the Baltimore Sun reports. Father Martin was removed from his parish assignment at a meeting with archdiocesan officials on November 8. The priest, whose unorthodox liturgical practices had prompted several prior complaints, said that the Episcopalian priest had not participated in the Consecration during the October funeral liturgy, although he had invited her to read the Gospel. There were conflicting reports on whether or not the Episcopalian cleric had received Communion; Father Martin said that he could not recall administering the Eucharist to her. On the orders of the archbishop, Father Martin resigned his parish assignment and issued an apology for "bringing scandal to the Church," the Sun reports. A spokesman for the Baltimore archdiocese explained that the pastor's removal was called for because "he has repeatedly violated Church teaching." Father Martin was serving as pastor of three different parishes in south Baltimore, where he had worked for 5 years. His removal comes just 6 weeks after Archbishop O'Brien was installed as head of the Baltimore archdiocese.

Fun and games at Holy Names Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:10 am (GMT -5) Fun and games at Holy Names Fresno bishop chooses infamous Oakland school to educate his lay ministers California Catholic Daily November 9, 2007 http://www.calcatholic.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?id=2d52d6b0-d2c7-4a65-98b6-cf835ad90a30 The Diocese of Fresno is collaborating with Holy Names University in Oakland to introduce a Masters of Arts degree in Pastoral Ministries for lay ministers in the diocese. The degree offering is part of the "Diocesan Vision for the Future," the fruit of a January 2007 clergy convocation that called for the establishment of a Lay Ministry Institute. In March, Fresno Bishop John Steinbock announced that, because of a priest shortage, he was instituting a program for the training of "Parish Life Coordinators," who will be deacons, religious, or laity. The Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministries at Holy Names "is an exciting program of intercultural formation for lay leadership and ministry in the Catholic Church… developed in collaboration with the Diocese of Oakland," says a program brochure. "Every aspect of the program emphasizes pastorally based theological reflection, integrating intercultural and ecumenical perspectives, and the values of Catholic social teaching." The university's web site says this about the school: "Rooted in the Catholic tradition, HNU demonstrates a respect for others' values and customs. This is evident in holiday displays that incorporate symbols for Kwanzaa, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian celebrations." Another example of the university's respect for non-Catholic "values and customs" is its Sophia Center, which, according to the Center's web site, "focuses on culture and cosmos as the context for spirituality." The Center seeks "to re-vision the basic story of our lives;" its curriculum "is created out of the fourfold wisdom's of new science, indigenous peoples, women, and classical world religions." The Sophia Center promotes the "new cosmology," which rejects any notion of human superiority over beasts, plants, and inanimate creatures. It features among its faculty Rosemary Radford Ruether and others who call the universe the body of God. A Sophia Institute faculty member, Holy Names Sister Delores Rashford, is among the faculty of Holy Names' Pastoral Ministries Masters program. Rashford works in the fields of eco-feminism, liberation theology, and ethics. Rashford teaches a Sophia Institute course, "Spiritual Practice," which, says the course description, gives "an opportunity to explore a variety of holistic modes of spiritual practice such as chanting, drawing, body movement, breathing, ritualizing, imagining, walking, journaling, bio-focusing and dreaming that can open our awareness and enable us to ground our ongoing transformation and compassionate activity." Pastoral Ministries program's director Robert Lassalle-Klein has written widely on Liberation Theology. "Bishop Steinbock expressed the hope that many will consider taking advantage of the wonderful opportunity to enhance their spiritual formation," said the September Central California Catholic Life, the Fresno diocesan newspaper.

"At a time of day that is convenient for the people" Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:48 am (GMT -5) Click Logo To Link Original Published: November 9, 2007 "At a time of day that is convenient for the people" Plans for Traditional Latin Mass move forward in Monterey diocese, extraordinary rite also being celebrated in other dioceses Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia has begun to fulfill his promise of assuring celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in his diocese. In July, the Diocese of Monterey announced that it would have two Tridentine Masses in place by September -- one at the northern end, the other at the southern end of the diocese. Initially, the Tridentine Mass was to be celebrated twice a month at both northern and southern non-parish locations. In a September pastoral letter entitled "In Him We Live," Bishop Garcia reiterated his promise – but noted that the number of intended locations for celebrating the Tridentine Mass had risen to three. The third location for the Mass, said the bishop, will serve the central region of the diocese. "Many of you have asked about our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI's recent 'Moto proprio Summorum Pontificum' regarding the availability of the 1962 mass according to the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope John XXIII," wrote Garcia. The bishop explained that "both forms [of the Mass] celebrate our participation in sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection of Jesus Christ: in the 'ordinary' form or post-Vatican II, we do so by means of our English (vernacular) language and communal prayer, while in the extraordinary or pre-Vatican II form, participation also includes listening to the prayers in Latin and joining our hearts to the words and actions." The bishop, however, hinted that he might not meet the September deadline. In celebrating the Tridentine Mass, said Garcia, "the Church has to be liturgically appropriate." He said he was seeking "the assistance of Priests who can celebrate the Mass as our Holy Father has required, with the ability and heartfelt desire to celebrate the 1962 Latin Mass." Garcia noted that he wanted the Mass celebrated "at a time of day that is convenient for the people and Priests but without infringing on the already busy Sunday schedule of Masses in many of our Parishes." According to a Sept. 6 SanLuisObispo.com report, diocesan spokesman Kevin Drabinski said definitely that celebrations of the Tridentine Mass would not begin in September. He noted, however, that the locations for the Mass would be Pismo Beach, San Ardo, and at Mission San Juan Bautista. The November Observer, the Monterey diocesan newspaper, reported that the first of the promised Masses has begun. Fr. Michael Bell celebrates the Mass using the 1962 Roman Missal promulgated by Pope John XXIII at St. Paul the Apostle's church, a Franciscan Conventual parish, in Pismo Beach – but not twice a month, as indicated in July, but every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. St. Paul's also has weekly Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, on Thursdays from 1-8 p.m. Dioceses where celebrations of the Tridentine Mass have begun this year besides Monterey include San Diego, San Jose, Orange, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. Though the Diocese of Santa Rosa has two locations for the Tridentine Mass celebrations (under the indult), Bishop Daniel Walsh in August said, "It will be some time before we see what concretely this permission for the use of the old missal will mean for our Diocese." _________________ IN CORDIBUS JESU ET MARIÆ SECRETMAN

Media Begin to Take Ron Paul's Candidacy More Seriously Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:40 am (GMT -5) Media Begin to Take Ron Paul's Republican Presidential Candidacy More Seriously "Pro-Life" Ron Paul's record on human life and family issues far from consistent LifeSiteNews.com By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman Thursday November 8, 2007 Link to original Ron Paul, a ten-term Congressman from Texas, has been considered a long shot ever since he entered the U.S. presidential race early in 2007. His rigidly principled stands in favor of limited government and against the war in Iraq seemed to make him a sure loser among pro-war Republicans, and Paul's libertarian ideology places him well outside the mainstream of his own political party. But Paul defied all expectations on November 5th when he had the biggest fundraising day in Republican Party history, taking in over $4.3 million in the space of twenty-four hours. Suddenly, a dismissive media began to take Paul's candidacy more seriously, speculating on the possibility of an eventual third party run that could divide conservative voters and ensure a victory for the Democratic Party in the 2008 elections. The viability of Paul's candidacy will be in part determined by his stance on human life and family issues. An obstetrician, who says he has delivered more than 4,000 babies during his career, Paul regards himself as pro-life. "In 40 years of medical practice, I never once considered performing an abortion, nor did I ever find abortion necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman," he writes on his website. Paul cites his authorship and sponsorship of several bills to illustrate his record. "In Congress, I have authored legislation that seeks to define life as beginning at conception, HR 1094," he writes. "I am also the prime sponsor of HR 300, which would negate the effect of Roe v Wade by removing the ability of federal courts to interfere with state legislation to protect life. This is a practical, direct approach to ending federal court tyranny which threatens our constitutional republic and has caused the deaths of 45 million of the unborn." Paul also observes that he "authored HR 1095, which prevents federal funds to be used for so-called "population control." However, Paul's record on human life and family issues is not as consistent as it might appear in his position statements. Although he seems to genuinely oppose abortion, his rigidly literalist reading of the U.S. Constitution seems always to take precedence over the interest of the unborn. It also tends to tie his hands in the face of threats to public morality and other issues of interest to pro-family voters. Paul's votes, presumably based on the notion that the federal government's power is restricted only to those explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, have resulted in "no" votes on important pro-life legislation. He has consistently opposed the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would prohibit the clandestine transport of minors across state lines to procure abortions. He has also voted consistently against the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act", which would add criminal penalties to offenses committed against a pregnant woman that harmed her unborn child. He gave his reasoning for his position in a speech in 2000, titled "A Republic If You Can Keep it". After condemning abortion as murder, he decries attempts to federalize criminal law enforcement in abortion cases. "Last year the House made a serious error by trying to federalize the crime of killing a fetus occurring in an act of violence," Paul said. "The stated goal was to emphasize that the fetus deserved legal protection under the law. And indeed it should and does-at the state level. Federalizing any act of violence is unconstitutional; essentially all violent acts should be dealt with by the states." Paul summarizes his view on the legislation of sexual morality using standard liberal rhetoric. "The government should be out of our bedrooms. I don't think they should be regulating any personal behavior if it's non-violent," he said in a Houston Public Radio interview this year. "That means we have to tolerate people who do things that sometimes are dumb and sometimes are irritating, but in a free society you tolerate that." According to the National Abortion Rights Action League, Paul's "constitutionalist" position has led to a "pro-choice" score that fluctuated between zero and 35 percent between 1997 and 2003. It then shot up to a consistent 65-75% during the years up to 2006, mostly due to his consistent opposition to bills restricting the interstate transportation of minors to obtain abortions. NARAL, however, sums up his history by saying that "Rep. Paul has an anti-choice record." Paul also opposed the bill to establish the national Amber Alert system that helps to locate missing children, and has voted against banning physician-assisted suicide. He has voted against forbidding human cloning for medical research. He is opposed to federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, but thinks that the federal government should not prohibit it, and that instead "the market should deal with it, and the states should deal with it" as he stated in the Reagan Library primary debate in May of this year. However, Paul's rigid anti-federal consistency with regard to human life and family issues doesn't seem to apply to other forms of law. Paul has stated clearly that he would maintain the Social Security system as President, despite the fact that Social Security is unmentioned in the Constitution, because of the dependency of the elderly on the system. Paul has also voted to maintain a travel ban to Cuba, and he supports maintaining benefits for veterans, neither of which involve powers mentioned explicitly in the U.S. Constitution. Even his pro-life votes don't always seem to be consistent with his political philosophy. While he has refused to prohibit the clandestine transportation of minors across state lines because it would federalize criminal law enforcement, he voted to ban partial birth abortions at the federal level in October of 2003. With over seven million dollars raised since the beginning October of this year, Paul seems poised to get his message out to a larger audience of voters in the early primary states. It remains to be seen if he will be able to clarify or explain the seeming contradictions in his positions on life issues for pro-life voters, whose participation was pivotal in the 2004 presidential elections. Related Links: Ron Paul for President official campaign website http://www.ronpaul2008.com/ Summary of Paul's Votes on Abortion http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Ron_Paul_Abortion.htm NARAL's Summary of Paul's Voting Record http://www.naral.org/elections/statements/paul.html _________________ O Crux, Ave, Spes Unica!

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