tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-219226766355479792024-02-19T05:41:36.272-05:00Kitchener Waterloo Traditional CatholicThis blog is to guide those seeking the Church's traditional liturgy, devotions, teachings, and cultural identity in the Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph areas and beyond. It does not bear any bishop's imprimatur, nor is associated with the Diocese of Hamilton, any parish, order, or lay association. Actually being Catholic isn't easy, but it's simple if you know how.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1520125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-76017603580841750042016-08-20T07:38:00.000-04:002016-08-20T07:38:35.393-04:00Good Riddance Mark SheaWord on the street is the <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/" target="_blank">National Catholic Register</a> has finally kicked the <a href="https://www.catholicvote.org/mark-shea-offers-a-public-apology/" target="_blank">abrasive, divisive </a>blogger/professional Catholic Mark Shea to the curb.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">An official statement from the Register: Official Statement: The Register is no longer publishing blogs or commentaries submitted by Mark Shea. Mark’s writings at the </span><a class="" dir="ltr" href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FNCRegister.com%2F&h=cAQEoyPNp" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">NCRegister.com</a><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;"> or published in our print edition were within our editorial guidelines. However, his writings and engagement on other forums were irreconcilable with our editorial vision or standards of charitable discussion.</span><br />
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Shea gets his notoriety mainly from attacking the orthodox/traditionalists from a neo-cath/leftwing point of view. The Register hasn't explained what exactly got him fired but perhaps it's been his political anti-Trump obsession of late. If not then there is plenty of other causes in Shea' body of work. </div>
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Mark Shea would lie to attack pro-lifers, but not to save Anne Frank or babies</h1>
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August 17, 2016 <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">(LifeSiteNews)</a> — Last week in The Stream, a colleague of mine wrote <a href="https://stream.org/seamless-garment-poison-pill-kill-off-pro-life/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">an article</a> outlining how Democrat operative Robert Christian is trying to steal the language and even part of the name of my pro-life apostolate, I Am Whole Life, and use it as camouflage for his “Seamless Garment” views. In service of these views, Christian wrote a <a href="https://stream.org/catholic-left-makes-sneaky-case-voting-hillary/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005879; outline-offset: -2px; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px;">sneaky endorsement of Hillary Clinton</a> disguised as an<a href="https://cruxnow.com/church/2016/05/14/say-goodbye-to-the-most-catholic-presidential-election-ever/?platform=hootsuite" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">objective analysis</a>, which appeared at the Catholic news site Crux.</div>
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In that article, John Zmirak also mentioned <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">National Catholic Register </em>columnist Mark Shea — who is aiding and abetting Christian's act of intellectual theft. Mark Shea continually attacks the leaders and stalwarts of the existing pro-life movement and claims that he wishes to <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2016/06/the-difference-between-a-whole-life-and-prolife-approach.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">replace it</a> with a “Whole Life” movement redefined by leftist Democrats like Mr. Christian. <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/mark-shea-would-lie-to-attack-pro-lifers-but-not-to-save-anne-frank-or-babi" target="_blank">[continued...]</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">1st- With no formal education in theology or canon law, Mr. Shea presents himself as a qualified expert on the faith. The Catholic Church employs enough bishops, priests, deacons, and theology professors to articulate the faith without relying on untrained amateurs to publically represent our faith in the world. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">2nd- Mr. Shea represents his own personal political opinions as official Church doctrine, only vaguely relating his own opinions to Church teaching. All to often, those political opinions include personal attacks on pro-lifers and outspoken conservative priests, expressed support for Islamic terrorists and gay priests, bashing our troops, and slander against anyone who expresses preference for a Latin Mass.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">3. Mr. Shea publically slanders anyone with whom he disagrees(including priests in good standing) as anti-Semites, racists, rednecks, heretics, homophobes, and other slurs.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #363135; font-family: "Change Calibre", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Here is a sample of the writings and responses which many find abusive and contrary to our Catholic faith: </span></div>
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Click on the petition's title to see examples of Shea attacking faithful Catholic clergy and laity. </div>
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This past December Shea quit the pathetic Patheos blog-hub claiming a large personal project needed his time, but he continued making posts for the Register. He returned to Patheticeos this summer.<div>
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Hopefully we've seen the last of Shea but I suspect some other heterodox outlet will pick him up (i.e. National catholic Reporter, America magazine, Tablet, etc). Maybe Hillary Clinton will hire him? </div>
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"catholic" because their version of Christianity is not what the one and only Church founded by Jesus Christ had in mind. They are Protestants in Catholic name only - wolves in sheep clothing. Twice they have been asked by their bishop to stop using the word "Catholic" due to their heterodoxy, but being Protestants, they disobey and protest. </div>
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If your pastor is a reader of this dissenting outlet then for the sake of your eternal soul it is best to find another parish. If this anti-Catholic rag is something he's fond of then it's safe to assume he's not 100% Catholic either. Since salvation is an 'all or nothing' proposition, dissention from Church teaching isn't prudent. </div>
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The lies, hypocrisy, and irony in this rant are too massive to be addressed here. Selfishly, I've just got better things to spend my time on - like working on my salvation with fear and trembling. However, I'll say this - Phyliss Zagano is an advocate of female deacons. That's really all you need to know - credibilty = zero. She also attacks blogger Vox Cantoris whom to my knowledge has never uttered a dissenting viewpoint like female deacons. Connect the dots, do the math, figure this confrontation out for yourself. </div>
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It's amusing to witness the old and dying media darlings attacking the new media champions. Sorry Phyliss, your book sales will plummet due to the Internet with its access to to blogs like Vox Cantoris, Fr Z, One Peter Five, Canon Law Blog, along with websites like Church Militant, etc. </div>
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<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/just-catholic/next-schism-already-here" target="_blank">The next schism isn't down the road somewhere</a>. It is already here. The proponents are lined up in a serious face-off, their team shirts emblazoned "Pre-Vatican II" and "Post-Vatican II."<br /><br />The "Pre" folks are the all Latin, all the time minority, solemnly preferring Bach during liturgy. The "Post" people comprise the rest of us, dutifully singing St. Louis Jesuits' songs and even (gasp!) exchanging handshakes at the kiss of peace.<br /><br />The fissure is getting worse, as more and more younger people come along yearning for the good old days (before they were born) when everything was orderly, everything had its place, and the rules were followed.<br /><br />Meanwhile, older church professionals who adjusted to vernacular liturgies and who incorporate mercy into their understandings of justice are retiring daily. They are being replaced, where they are replaced, by people whose theological education is complemented by self-appointed Internet theo-bloggers whose opinions grow from the conviction that anything that happened since 1965 is anathema.<br /><br />That is probably why Fr. Thomas Rosica, a Canadian priest and CEO of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation took on the so-called Catholic blogosphere several weeks ago, as he delivered the keynote address at the Brooklyn, N.Y., diocesan World Communications Day events. Rosica reported that many people say to him that "we 'Catholics' have turned the internet into a cesspool of hatred, venom and vitriol, all in the name of defending the faith!"<br /><br />It is true. The internet, as Rosica said in Brooklyn, "can be an international weapon of mass destruction, crossing time zones, borders, and space."<br /><br />Rosica, <a href="http://saltandlighttv.org/blog/fr-thomas-rosica/a-message-from-fr-thomas-rosica-csb">whose attorneys sent a "cease and desist" letter</a> to a Canadian blogger who attacked him with a combination of character assassination and misinformation, <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/node/125066">charitably reported that</a> "Often times the obsessed, scrupulous, self-appointed, nostalgia-hankering virtual guardians of the faith or of liturgical practices are very disturbed, broken and angry individuals, who never found a platform or pulpit in real life and so resort to the internet and become trolling pontiffs and holy executioners!"<br /><br />I agree. Because they never did or at least no longer do find space in legitimate media, the self-appointed pontiffs build internet and other social media followings for their unfiltered personal attacks on anyone who strays beyond the boundaries of the church of their imaginings. In unedited postings, they freely criticize anyone -- from the pope on -- who carries and/or lives the Gospel in the "wrong" way.<br /><br />I hope my own experience with these type persons is atypical. While Rosica's attorneys demanded his attacker stop assassinating the priest's character, my own university actually banned a nasty blogger from campus and any online activities some years ago, when he tried to disrupt one of my online seminars. The idea was to keep him away from me. Aside from denigrating my scholarship and defending his personal version of the faith, my attacker also brags about carrying a gun.<br /><br />That is where the schism is now. It is no longer butchers and bakers having street fights over Real Presence, or any other theological issue. It is shoot-from-the-hip typists whose access to bandwidth lets them threaten your livelihood and, implicitly at least, your life. What they say is true because they say it, no matter their lack of credentials or, possibly, sanity.<br /><br />The slow and steady recovery of church life during the papacy of Francis is marred by these true schismatics, who denigrate the pope and everything he says and does, and who long for the good old days. These bleating word processors have influenced, are influencing, and will influence otherwise kind people, who think verbal brickbats and worse will bring the church "around." Around to what?<br /><br /><br />[Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. She will speak Sept. 24, 2016, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and in October 2016 at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn. Her books include <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Women_Deacons.html?id=vifbVIOkmMkC">Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deacons-Essays-Answers-Phyllis-Zagano/dp/0814683126">Women Deacons? Essays with Answers</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Image-Christ-Essays-Catholic-Female/dp/0879465484">In the Image of Christ: Essays on Being Catholic and Female</a>.]</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-15842450802179837582016-07-14T17:58:00.001-04:002016-07-14T17:58:47.333-04:00In Case Anyone Still Thinks Leftwing Media Isn't Anti-Catholic and That Pope Francis Appeals To Them...<div>
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Dear Pope Francis, End the Religious Ritual that Devalues Human Life</h1>
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<span class="author-card__details-container" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="author-card__details__link" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"author"}}" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/christine-627" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="author-card__details__name" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #2e7061; font-size: 0.8125rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; padding-right: 2px;">Christine Horner</span> </a><span class="author-card__social-container" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; top: -3px;"><a class="author-card__social author-card__social--facebook" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"author_facebook"}}" href="http://facebook.com/hornerchristine" style="background-color: #3b5999; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: inherit; color: white; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; font-size: 1.0625rem; height: 22px; line-height: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" target="_blank"></a> <a class="author-card__social author-card__social--twitter" data-beacon="{"p":{"lnid":"author_twitter"}}" href="http://twitter.com/authorhornerc" style="background-color: #55acef; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: inherit; color: white; display: inline-block; flex-shrink: 0; font-size: 1.0625rem; height: 22px; line-height: 19px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 3px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: middle; width: 22px;" target="_blank"></a></span></span><span class="author-card__microbio" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; max-width: 400px;">Author of Awakening Leadership, Co-Founder What Would Love Do Foundation</span></div>
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<img height="266" src="http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/5787c6bc1a00001f006fa6bf.jpg" width="400" /><br /><br />Dear Pope Francis,<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dear-pope-francis-end-the-religious-ritual-that-devalues_us_5787c4e4e4b0e7c8734f96f9" target="_blank">Every single day before communion</a>, millions of Christians verbally declare one of the most destructive phrases in human history. On Sunday, it’s tens of millions if not a half billion of the over one billion Catholic Christians worldwide—and not without repercussions. <br /><br />In the Bible, a Centurion soldier relates, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof...” (Matthew 8:8) before recounting the inner workings of the blindness of patriarchal hierarchies and slavery that exists to this day.<br /><br />Applying religious context, what’s important for Christians to note is that the soldier uttered the phrase pre-salvation. An unsaved (ignorant) man sharing his feelings and a religion demanding a billion saved Christians repeat the phrase daily post-salvation are entirely two different matters.<br /><br />Dialogue and constructs that perpetuate “I am not worthy” are the root of all evil. It is divisiveness personified. By believing we are not worthy, we open the door for the mistreatment of ourselves and the mistreatment of others as we seek to assuage the psychological pain the false belief imparts.<br /><br />The guilt of unworthiness calls for us to judge ourselves and to judge others just as harshly. We cower within power-over structures or worse; we attempt to control others in our imagined superiority. The insanity continues as inferiority complexes pursue power and wealth as outward substitutes for what Jesus, Buddha, and many other saints and sages have said can only come from within.<br /><br />Tacking on “but only say the word and my soul shall be healed” is not enough. Jesus did say the Word. Yet, Christianity along with many other religions, continue to shove a dagger of inequality into the hearts of those the religious community is supposed to be serving. Where is the healing?<br /><br />Daily we see the emotional pain of inner self-hatred projected into the world through acts of violence. This behavior originates from feeling disconnected, powerless, and undervalued. A false belief in unworthiness contributes to drug and alcohol abuse and deviant behavior. Many continue to leave religion as they seek more positive and supportive environments elsewhere.<br /><br />It’s really a sustainability issue. Negative reinforcement is not the answer to dwindling faith. The renewal of hope and joyful living are found by reconnecting with the goodness within one another, our bountiful Earth and all of Creation, which is God. The sooner we speak of our goodness; the sooner we can truly unify as a people. Then faith isn’t even required—we become the living Word.<br /><br />It’s time for a mass healing. I implore you to call for an end to the religious ritual of the declaration of unworthiness. As children of God, we are equally worthy—even the “ignorant.” I think deep down in your heart; you know this to be true. Lead the way and others will follow.<br /><br />Healed, we can finally turn in service to one another instead of exploitation as so many already have. Then maybe, just maybe, we can all work together cooperatively to create a peaceful and harmonious world.<br /><br />That’s what love would do.<br /><br />Eternally,<br /><br />Christine Horner<br /><br />. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <br /><br />Christine Horner is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-God-Rolling-Back-Veil/dp/0988833336?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0988833336&linkCode=as2&redirect=true&ref_=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl&tag=inthegardenpu-20">What Is God? Rolling Back the Veil</a>, nominated for the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A healed ex-Catholic, her religion is Love. Horner’s next non-fiction book is The Power of Unity Consciousness.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-26918366766510125132016-07-10T08:58:00.000-04:002016-07-10T08:58:11.180-04:00There is No Place in the Priesthood Today for “Wimpish-ness.”<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">It takes bravery to follow Christ as priests</span></b></div>
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Jesus is often called, “Good Shepherd Sunday.” The word the Scriptures use is really not adequately translated in English as simply, “good.” The word really means, “honorable, worthy, noble,” or, “so excellent in every way that its goodness is itself beautiful.”<br /><br />The Gospel John (Jn 10:11-18) points out that the shepherd is willing to lay down his life for his sheep; he is honorable, worthy, and noble in his bravery — even laying down his own life for the sheep. And toward the end of that Gospel passage, Jesus says, “No one takes my life from me, I lay down my life, and I take it up again.”<br /><br />The shepherd is indeed a brave shepherd. And so, in some ways, as the years go by, I hope that we start to call this, “Brave Shepherd Sunday,” for the bravery of the shepherd is one of the key virtues focused upon that help us to call him, “good.”<div>
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<br />The priest must do what is necessary to build unity in the flock and to call the flock to holiness, so that he himself might receive a “good account before the fearsome judgment seat of Christ,” when the time comes. It is only in doing his best for everybody else’s holiness that the priest can do the best for himself. And to do that today it takes bravery.<br /><br />When we look for candidates to the priesthood and as we pray for vocations, we are looking for men who are brave in their willingness to seek holiness, to speak the truth, to lay down their lives. There is no place in the priesthood today for “wimpish-ness.” There is no place for an attitude that just wants to please people, no matter what they think and no matter what they want. Today the priest has to stand up and be brave, preaching the Truth with love. He has to be willing to be unpopular. And if it comes to it, he has to be open to martyrdom.<br /><br />That’s what happened to St. Peter. In the first reading from this past Sunday, St. Peter is seen professing, “there is no other name given to men by which they will be saved. Jesus Christ is the only savior of the world (Acts 4:12)!” If someone says that today, they get in trouble. And so it’s more politically expedient not to say things like that. But the Truth is the Truth — Jesus Christ is the only savior of the world; and apart from Jesus Christ, there can be no salvation for anyone. It’s what Peter said, as witnessed in the Acts of the Apostles, and it’s no wonder that he got crucified for it in the end — for to say this is unpopular. But Peter was brave (even to the point of trying to make his crucifixion worse than the Lord’s by choosing to be crucified upside-down).<br /><br />In John’s Gospel, “what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is (1 Jn 3:2).” We will see Him as He is — the only Savior of the world. That’s why it says in the Book of Revelation that in the end, “every eye will see Him — even of those who pierced Him.” This too is part of the bravery of the priest.<br /><br />The person of the priest is in the person of Jesus and so imbedded in Him, that with Christ and like Christ he lives a life of celibacy. Our world has no use for celibacy and is at the point where it thinks that nobody can live without free access to sex. To take on a life that is a statement to the contrary is bravery.<br /><br />Our world is in such a state that even the government wants to make sure that everybody — perhaps even little girls — have access, free of charge, to artificial contraception and they call it “preventive services.” Preventive medicine is medicine that protects someone from an illness (like a vaccination against the flu). What disease does artificial contraception protect a woman from? Pregnancy? Our government would have us think that pregnancy is a disease, and that instead of finding fulfillment in her motherhood, a woman must have the absolute freedom to turn against her motherhood — as if the fruits of being a mother were a disease.</div>
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<b>Bravery Means Standing Up for Moral Truth</b></div>
<br />It’s time for all of us to be brave in admitting what the moral truth is about artificial contraception. It’s not a time to by shy, retiring, and politically correct. Sometimes people come up to me and say, “in my parish it’s not permitted to talk about that.” How sad. Where is the sign of the brave shepherd?<br /><br />It is precisely the gift from God of celibacy that holds the priest so tightly to Christ. The priest is bravely laying down his life, and living completely for the next world, in which there is “no marrying or giving in marriage (Mt 22:30),” no matter what consequences might befall him in this world. The priest is called to stand up in the truth, like a brave shepherd.<br /><br />I taught college for 11 years, and I still enjoy very much working with young people. And young people want to be challenged to be brave. If they are not challenged to be brave, they say, “well I can think about other things to do with my life. I’m not going to give up my whole life, and even give up marriage in order to be mediocre. I’ll go for excellence someplace else.” They want to reach out for that bravery, and one of the ways we promote vocations is by telling them that we expect bravery in our priests. It takes much bravery to live out joyfully the life of priestly celibacy, the best way to prove to the world that God exists.<br /><br />Vocations are increasing in number every year, thank God, and thanks to your good prayers, and now is the time for you to demand bravery in the priesthood. Because nothing less than that will bring Christ’s Church through the hard times to come.<br /><br />Thank you for reading this. Christ is risen! Indeed He is risen!<br /><br />(This column is the bishop’s communication with the faithful of the Diocese of Madison. Any wider circulation reaches beyond the intention of the bishop. Slight editing.)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-15451791391122398062016-07-10T08:09:00.002-04:002016-07-10T08:09:22.430-04:00Do You Suffer From One of the 5 Stages of Sin?<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.courageouspriest.com/suffer-5-stages-sin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+courageouspriest%2FqTKF+%28Courageous+Priest%29" target="_blank">How does it happen that so many people</a> insist on living obstinately in sin until they are ultimately lost? As with all progressive diseases, sin is a sickness that moves through stages, further debilitating and hardening the sinner in his ways.<br /><br />St. Alphonsus Liguori laid out five stages through which sin (if not resisted and repented of in its initial attacks) takes an increasing toll on the human person, making repentance less likely and more difficult.<br /><br />While the names of the stages are mine, I am summarizing the insights of St. Alphonsus, who details these stages in his lengthy essay, “Considerations on the Eternal Maxims” (also called “Preparation for Death”) in Chapter 22, “On Evil Habits.” I have added some of my own additional insights as well.<div>
<br /><b>The 5 Stages of Sin</b><br /><br /><b>Stage 1 – Impairment</b> – The first effect of habitual sin is that it blinds the understanding. Scripture says, Their own malice blinded them (Wisdom 2:21). Yes, every sin produces blindness, and the more that sins are multiplied, the greater the blindness they produce.<br /><br />A further effect of this blindness is a foolish and dangerous walking about. Scripture provides several references for this:<br /><br />The wicked walk round about (Ps. 12:8).<br /><br />They stagger as with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment (Is 28:7).<br /><br />Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the pit that he has made(Ps 7:14-15).<br /><br />And thus habitual sin leads to impaired vision and an impaired walk. Not seeing, the wicked stumble about and fall into a pit that they themselves made.<br /><br /><b>Stage 2 – Indifference</b> – After an evil habit is contracted, the sins that previously excited sorrow are now viewed with increasing indifference. Scripture says the following:<br /><br />Fools destroy themselves because of their indifference (Prov 1:32).<br /><br />But he who is careless of conduct will die (Prov 19:16).<br /><br />And to the increasingly indifferent and careless, the Lord gives this solemn and salutary warning: In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come (Is 32:10).<br /><br />And thus, as unrepented sin grows, not only does the sinner stagger about and fall into pits, he cares less and less about the foolishness of his ways. The sins that once caused shame, or the thought of which caused sorrow and aversion, are either unnoticed or seem normal—even attractive.<br /><br /><b>Stage 3 – Improbability</b> – As sin deepens its hold, the willingness and even the capacity to repent decreases. Why is this? St. Augustine answers well when he says, dum servitur libidini, facta est consuetudo, et dum consuetudini non resistitur, facta est necessitas(when lust was served it became habit, and when habit was not resisted it became necessity) (Confessions, 8.5.10). Sin deepens its hold on the sinner in this way.<br /><br /><b>Stage 4 – Incorrigibility</b> – As Scripture says, The wicked man, when he is come into the depths of sins, has contempt(Proverbs 18:3). St. John Chrysostom commented on this verse, saying that habitual sinners, being sunk in the abyss of darkness, despise corrections, sermons, censures, Hell, and God; they despise everything.<br /><br />A bad habit hardens the heart and the habitual sinner remains increasingly unmoved and mired in contempt for any correction or remedy. Scripture says of them, At your rebuke O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered (Psalm 76:7). An evil habit gradually takes away all remorse and supplants it with angry indignation at any attempted correction.<br /><br />And then it happens that, instead of regretting his sins, the sinner rejoices in them, even laughing and boasting of them. Scripture says, They are glad when they have done evil and rejoice in the perverseness of evil (Proverbs 2:14). A fool works mischief as if it were for sport (Proverbs 10:23).<br /><br />Thus they are incorrigible. They laugh at attempted correction and celebrate their sins with pride.<br /><br /><b>Stage 5 – Indisposition</b> – When the understanding is deprived of light and the heart is hardened, the sinner ordinarily dies obstinate in his sin. Scripture says, A hard heart shall fare ill at the end (Ecclesiastes 3:27).<br /><br />Some may say that they will amend their ways before they die, but it’s very difficult for a habitual sinner, even in old age, to change his life. St. Bernard said, “The man on whom the weight of a bad habit presses, rises with difficulty.”<br /><br />Indeed, how can a sinner, weakened and wounded by habitual sin, have the strength to rise? Even if he sees the way out, he often considers the remedies too severe, too difficult. Though conversion is not impossible, he is indisposed because it all seems like too much work. In addition, his love has likely grown cold for the good things that God offers.<br /><br />And thus, even on their deathbeds, many sinners remain unmoved and unwilling to change; the darkness is deep, the heart is hardened, and sloth has solidified.<br /><br />In these ways sin is like a progressive illness, a deepening disease; it moves through stages much as does cancer. Repentance at any stage is possible, but it becomes increasingly unlikely, especially by stage four, when the sinner becomes proud of his sin and joyful in his iniquity.<br /><br />Beware the progressive illness of sin!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-37251879968549904782016-07-05T19:51:00.000-04:002016-07-05T19:51:37.004-04:00Dear Bishops, It's time to start worshipping like Catholics again. <h1 class="single-title" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; clear: both; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: arimo-1, arimo-2, sans-serif; font-size: 39.7px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Cardinal Sarah’s Top 5 Quotes from Sacra Liturgia 2016</h1>
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“And so, dear Fathers, I ask you to implement this practice (ad orientem worship) wherever possible, with prudence and with the necessary catechesis, certainly, but also with a pastor’s confidence that this is something good for the Church, something good for our people. Your own pastoral judgement will determine how and when this is possible, but perhaps beginning this on the first Sunday of Advent this year, when we attend ‘the Lord who will come’ and ‘who will not delay’ (see: Introit, Mass of Wednesday of the first week of Advent) may be a very good time to do this. Dear Fathers, we should listen again to the lament of God proclaimed by the prophet Jeremiah: “they have turned their back to me” (2:27). Let us turn again towards the Lord!”</div>
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“So too kneeling at the consecration (unless I am sick) is essential. In the West this is an act of bodily adoration that humbles us before our Lord and God. It is itself an act of prayer. Where kneeling and genuflection have disappeared from the liturgy, they need to be restored, in particular for our reception of our Blessed Lord in Holy Communion. Dear Fathers, where possible and with the pastoral prudence of which I spoke earlier, form your people in this beautiful act of worship and love. Let us kneel in adoration and love before the Eucharistic Lord once again!”</div>
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“We must ensure that adoration is at the heart of our liturgical celebrations. Too often we do not move from celebration to adoration, but if we do not do that I worry that we may not have always participated in the liturgy fully, internally…If I am never silent, if the liturgy gives me no space for silent prayer and contemplation, how can I adore Christ, how can I connect with him in my heart and soul? Silence is very important, and not only before and after the liturgy.”</div>
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“Before I conclude, please permit me to mention some other small ways which can also contribute to a more faithful implementation of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sacrosanctum Concilium</em>. One is that we must sing the liturgy, we must sing the liturgical texts, respecting the liturgical traditions of the Church and rejoicing in the treasury of sacred music that is ours, most especially that music proper to the Roman rite, Gregorian chant. We must sing sacred liturgical music not merely religious music, or worse, profane songs.”</div>
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In thinking of a few people I have blogged about most recently the word 'hypocrite' comes to mind instantly. Now it's time to add another person to this category: Rev. Dwight Longenecker.<br />
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Rev. Longenecker's work has appeared in this blog before - I used to copy/paste articles from <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/" target="_blank">his blog.</a> They were well thought out pieces of solid orthodoxy and often presented Church teaching in an insightful manner.<br />
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One day Rev. Longenecker emailed me to ask that I no longer copy/paste the entire article but just a teaser with the intent that any reader here would then go to his site that was using the website Patheos as a platform. What I later found out was that Patheos pays its contributor by the hit count.<br />
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Now perhaps he doesn't care about the money or even donates every penny to a worthy cause, but I found this request peculiar enough to just stop promoting Rev Longenecker's teachings entirely. Problem solved.<br />
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If you didn't know <a href="http://www.patheos.com/" target="_blank">Patheos</a> is a for-profit multi-faith website that tries to be all about dialogue. Many different faiths have their own 'channel' including Catholicism, Mormonism, Wiccan, and even Atheism (ironically). It seems Rev. Longenecker is not blogging as much as he used to, however, he managed to make waves this week on another questionable website, <a href="http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2016/05/27/radical-catholic-blogs-may-be-a-cesspool-but-saying-so-wont-help/" target="_blank">Crux Now</a>. <br />
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From Crux's About Us:<br />
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About Crux: Taking the Catholic Pulse<br />
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Welcome to Crux! We’re an independent Catholic news site, operated in partnership with the Knights of Columbus.<br />
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Crux strives to cover the worldwide institution of the Catholic Church, from the papacy to the hierarchy to local dioceses. We’ll explore the theology, doctrine, liturgy, practices, and traditions of Catholicism in the context of the life of modern-day Catholics, giving full voice to disagreements and challenges facing the Church and Catholics.<br />
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We’re committed to balance and fairness, striving to build a “Catholic commons” in which believers of different outlooks, backgrounds, and experiences can come together to build friendships and exchange views.<br />
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<i>John L. Allen Jr., the editor of Crux, specializes in coverage of the Vatican. </i><br />
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I'm not sure what the Knights of Columbus have to do with this website and can't be bothered to look into it. The KoC should be much more than a bunch of old guys hanging out in their hall.<br />
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John L. Allen Jr, used to write for the National catholic Reporter, an extremely dissident publication that has been asked twice by their Ordinary to stop using the name Catholic, but guess what, they disobey him. Mr. Allen has also written for the Boston Globe, a virulently anti-Church newspaper that ran more stories on the Boston priest sex abuse scandal than it covered the Second World War.<br />
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Some people defend Mr. Allen as being one of the least dissenting writers at dissenting outlets, but that's not much to be proud of. It would be no stretch to consider him on the Church's left (to borrow a political axis). I don't have time to read much on Crux Now but after a quick glance it's much further to the right than the NcR.<br />
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If there is a next pope (and given the state of the world I'm starting to root for the asteroid) it will be interesting to see all these media outlets who gush over Pope Francis give the same treatment to a more 'traditional' pontiff such as a Cardinal Burke or Sarah.<br />
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Rev. Longenecker's contribution this week threw gas on the Rev.Rosica fire he has burning against 'traditionalists'. It's dripping with passive aggressiveness - a trait common among the 'modernist' types. Eventually he agrees with the Battlin' Basilian and denounces those not in favor of changing doctrine or other articles of the faith.<br />
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Whatever.<br />
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One good thing to come from this unnecessary attack is the other blogs Rev Longenecker mentions. If he doesn't like them then there's probably some valuable reading to be done. Thanks for the heads up.<br />
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This whole 'rad trad' stereotype is really old. Yes, of course there are some easily angered holier-than-thou types who could be classified as old school, but same thing can be said of the modernists, charismatics, cafeteria goers, etc. Because this label usually gets applied to those who prefer the Extraordinary Form the best argument against this 'rad trad' stereotype is to go to an EF Mass. I'll bet after Mass there will be socializing, fellowship, and even...laughter. One of these days I'd like to walk out of the nave and find some 'rad trad' flipping over tables and whipping anyone not wearing a suit or mantilla. Just once.<br />
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Yes, some people who prefer reverence and tradition in their worship make posts on their blogs that could have been nicer. However, they are usually frustrated with the 'Church Of Nice' and outraged that more of our clergy, teachers, parents, and other leaders are not passing on the faith or even trying to live it themselves. Yes, they have righteous anger at the thought of all the souls perishing in eternal fire due to weak or even contrary catechesis by those entrusted with their everlasting life.<br />
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It's called Church Militant because our time in this life is a spiritual battle and right now many of us think we're losing. No, the Gates Of Hell will not prevail but as many saints, doctors, Our Lady, and even Jesus Our Savior have told us - many are called, few chosen. I'm willing to bet Rev.Rosica doesn't talk about Satan much but the Prince Of Lies is real and powerful. As priests, both Rev. Longenecker and Rosica have a duty to teach the faith so those who walk the earth now won't burn in Hell later. Maybe all the time spent worrying about people who prefer the Latin Mass could be spent more productively.<br />
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So back to the charge of Hypocrites. Remember when Rev. Rosica called people who prefer the Latin Mass, 'Taliban Catholics'?<br />
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If anyone's comments have been a <span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Sentinel SSm A', 'Sentinel SSm B', Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25.6px;">a</span> cesspool of hatred, venom and vitriol, it's Rev.Rosica.<br />
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To my knowledge, he has never retracted this gross insult nor apologized and no reasonable person is waiting for it. Rev.Rosica is a childish bully. His lawsuit threat against the blogger, <a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Vox Cantoris</a>, is proof of that. He used bully tactics to try and silence a critic but then backed off as soon as some larger muscle came to defend the Vox. Typical bully move.<br />
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So here's what the two revs think of those who use the Internet to counter the modernist lunacy that goes on in way too many parishes around the world:<br />
<br /><i>“Often times the obsessed, scrupulous, self-appointed, nostalgia-hankering virtual guardians of faith or of liturgical practices are very disturbed, broken and angry individuals, who never found a platform or pulpit in real life and so resort to the Internet and become trolling pontiffs and holy executioners!..in reality they are deeply troubled, sad and angry people.”</i><br /><br />"Pulpit" is an interesting word choice. As ordained ministers obviously they have access to a pulpit from which to preach. Are they inferring that only the ordained can teach the faith, or object to heterodoxy? If the Internet and Catholic Blogs were around after Vatican II, would we have priests offering Mass facing us (not God in the Tabernacle) giving an all vernacular liturgy, the sanctuary full of laity, and Holy Communion being distributed like Low Church Protestants? Maybe not. Maybe the Catholic Blogosphere would have erupted and alerted the sheep about the wolves. <div>
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Rev.Rosica's other pulpit is the dying television channel, Salt & Light (commonly referred to as Pepper & Darkness). Rev.Rosica didn't become the CEO of this outlet due to his extensive experience in broadcasting, his MBA, or personal flair in front of a camera (none of which he has). No, he found himself a sugar daddy, silent investor. </div>
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And what does Rev.Rosica preach from his digital pulpit? Remember this interview with heretic <a href="http://kwtraditionalcatholic.blogspot.ca/search?q=baum" target="_blank">Gregory Baum</a>? Mr (ex-priest) Baum holds positions contrary to the Church on contraception, same-sex “marriage”, divorce, and women priests. Did Rev. Rosica correct the wayward soul? Of course not, instead he gushed over him. </div>
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"... many of those who are on the front lines - the crusaders - of the orthodoxy today (I would call it a pseudo-orthodoxy) are among the most unhappy and sad and angry ..."<div>
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I wonder how many 'traditionalists' he actually knows. When if ever has he attended a Latin Mass? If anyone is obsessed it seems to be him. If his accusations are true then shouldn't he be reaching out to all these disturbed people and trying to save their souls or at least give them a chuckle?</div>
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Actually, Rev.Rosica has caused many people I know to laugh - at him. 'What did Rosey say today?' is heard sadly too often but does bring amusement in a carnival performer sort of way. </div>
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As for Rev.Longenecker's other pulpit, Patheos, again - whatever. If getting some attention from a 'all religions are equal' platform stokes his ego then fine. There are better sources for spiritual development from people who aren't paid by the hit which makes their efforts more meaningful and sincere. </div>
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"The greatest among you must be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of Heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter." Matthew 23: 11-14</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-3643104008120605632016-01-31T11:41:00.001-05:002016-01-31T12:26:48.590-05:00By Their Rotten Fruit We Can Know ThemIf you were the devil how would you spend your time? Who would you work on? I would target the clergy because if you get one of them you're likely to get many of their flock. Satan tempted Jesus so he has no problem going after a priest. I believe clergy are under constant attack and sadly some of them fall.<br />
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There are three types of Catholics today: those who believe we're in a major crisis caused by the changes since the last council, those who believe the crisis is because we haven't made enough changes, and those who wonder what the other two are talking about ('What crisis?'). Pope St. Pius X saw this crisis coming and labelled it Modernism. He even made the newly ordained take an <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P10MOATH.HTM" target="_blank">oath against it.</a> Sixty years later that oath was removed for some reason.<br />
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<a href="http://www.romancatholicman.com/its-not-religion-anymore-2/#.Vq3n0cLAYUc.facebook" target="_blank">Fr. Richard Heilman references</a> the first major crisis in describing the current one. I don't know how Arius came to the conclusion Jesus wasn't divine, but he managed to convince eighty percent of the clergy into thinking likewise. Judas was the first clerical traitor; Luther perhaps the most effective. Since we've always had them it's unlikely the Church is without clerical traitors today. <br />
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No one is born a traitor to the Church. At some point they turn, succumbing to the temptations of the Enemy.<br />
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Dr. Bella Dodd was once a great enemy of the Church; Archbishop Sheen helped get her back. If her <a href="http://catholicism.org/bella-dodd-%E2%80%94-from-communist-to-catholic.html" target="_blank">testimony is to be believed </a>then while a communist, she helped get eleven hundred fellow communists into the seminary with the purpose of undermining the faith. Why would she lie about that? If true then it's likely some of those clergymen were at Vatican II in positions of authority and/or influence.<br />
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Vatican II was the first ecumenical council called for no specific reason in particular. It was to be a pastoral council to create a new language to relate to the modern world. It wasn't in defence of heresy like Nicea was to Arianism or Trent was to Luther. It should have focused on the heresy of Modernism but perhaps that will be tackled by Vatican III. Two years of consultations prior to the council created an agenda that was <a href="https://www.tanbooks.com/index.php/the-inside-story-of-vatican-ii-a-firsthand-account-of-the-council-s-inner-workings.html" target="_blank">scrapped on the first day</a> primarily by a small group from the Rhineland. Their first target was the liturgy.<br />
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A good priest once told me Vatican II was necessary but occurred at the worse possible time. Europe was still recovering from the horrors of fascism (including a subconscious guilt of anti-semitism) North America was engulfed by materialism, Communism was at its peak, and the Sexual Revolution was just around the corner. The liturgy which had grown slowly and organically since the Passion had been bottled up for four centuries. It's reported that Pope Paul VI would later say a window was opened to let in some fresh air but the smoke of Satan blew in instead.<br />
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Another good priest once told me we are to judge events by their fruit. How then are we to judge Vatican II - a pastoral council with ambiguous documents? Pope Benedict XVI said we misinterpreted the documents; the intended fruit is yet to ripen.<br />
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I've been told when all the changes were made the laity didn't challenge them because Catholics were to pray, pay, and obey. They didn't have the Internet back then so when the altar rails were ripped out in the <a href="https://www.ewtn.com/library/Theology/SIPVAT2.HTM" target="_blank">'spirit of Vatican II'</a> who could have known otherwise? That's not the case today, so when your new pastor decides to <a href="http://catholicbridge.com/catholic/is_yoga_ok_for_catholics.php" target="_blank">start a yoga class</a> you should object. If he seems fixated on unCatholic change you should oppose him.<br />
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As a church it's time to have a family chat. We need to be honest, thorough, and loving. We need to look at the state of the Church today and agree we're in a major crisis. We need to accept that most of the changes made in the 'spirit of Vatican II' are rotten. We need to look at each other (clergy and laity) and increase our faith, hope, and charity through <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm" target="_blank">fraternal correction</a>. It's no longer acceptable to pretend everything's ok, that everyone's nice, that the Church is exempt from treachery.<br />
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Most of us were poorly catechized, That's the past. The future will be determined by what we do today. We have all the tools necessary to catechize ourselves and those around us. You can order the Baltimore Catechism from Amazon and study it in a small group of family members or fellow parishioners. You can subscribe to <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/" target="_blank">Church Militant</a> and learn the faith from the computer you're reading this blog on. You have a duty to inform yourself. <br />
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Since the Church draws her power from the liturgy we also need to acknowledge its role in our faith formation. The old expression rings true: <a href="http://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=39029" target="_blank">Lex Orandi Lex Credendi Lex Vivendi</a> (As we worship so we believe and live). Yes the Ordinary Form is valid and can be offered reverently. However, to appreciate its richness requires a solid formation built by proper catechesis. How many pewsitters today know the Mass is the bloodless re-presentation of Calvary? How many think it's a happy community event designed to make us feel good about ourselves and each other? If the liturgy is being abused it's possible other abuses are occurring.<br />
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Of course it's preferable to attend one's local parish but if your spiritual needs are not being met then the prudent thing to do is go parish shopping. If the pastor never talks about sin, salvation, or the devil, then you need to leave. If the homily is always a version of "God loves you; Love one another" then leave. The church may be full on Sunday but if the <a href="http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2014/01/22/we-should-be-dying-to-go-to-confession/" target="_blank">confessional is empty</a> the afternoon before then chances are many souls are perishing.<br />
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For those without the means of transportation to another parish or live in a small town then not making your Sunday Obligation isn't an option. You need to speak to your pastor, then maybe the bishop, and as a last resort <a href="http://www.clerus.va/content/clerus/en.html" target="_blank">write a letter to Rome</a>. You suffer through bad liturgy and sappy homilies, offering it up, thinking of our Crucified Lord, but you don't condone error. We all have a responsibility to help as many souls get back to Heaven, including those entrusted with keeping us out of Hell.<br />
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The Church has survived every crisis and as its Founded told us the gates of Hell will not prevail. The good news is the generation that made all the rotten changes is dying and going to their Judgement. Pray for them and know that your own fate is yet to be determined. What will you say to our Lord at your Judgement when He asks, "What did you do with the <a href="http://catholicstraightanswers.com/gift-knowledge/" target="_blank">Gift of Knowledge</a> I gave you?". <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-19741930113623222982016-01-20T14:03:00.000-05:002016-01-20T14:03:58.386-05:00National catholic Reporter & Its Priestly ReadersIt should not take anyone long to realize the <a href="http://ncronline.org/mission-and-values" target="_blank">National catholic Reporter</a> has an agenda. With even a basic level understanding of the Catholic faith it is obvious this publication promotes a disobedient, dissenting, and sometimes heretical perspective. It shows no interest in the salvation of souls preferring to advance left wing political philosophies and Protestant principles.<br />
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<i style="background-color: red;">"The National Catholic Reporter is the only significant alternative Catholic voice that provides avenues for expression of diverse perspectives, promoting tolerance and respect for differing ideas."</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 14.72px; line-height: 22.08px;"><br /></span>
Allow me to translate: "alternative" = dissenting<br /><br /> "diverse" = heretical<br /><br /> "tolerance" = consent of the sinful<br /><br /> "respect" = flattery of the sinful<div>
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<i style="background-color: red;">Our Mission:<br />NCR connects Catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif; font-size: 14.72px; line-height: 22.08px;"><br /></span>
Allow me to correct: Notice how they don't capitalize the 'c' in "church". That's because they are probably not referring to the Catholic Church, but indeed a 'new church' or the Protestant belief in some invisible church all followers of Christ belong to.</div>
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Translation: Once again, the word 'church' is lower case while 'Spirit' is correctly in upper case. The Gospel message is their privately interpreted one, not necessarily the one of the Magisterium.</div>
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Correction: Vatican II's spirit is not 'independent' especially in the sense the NcR is trying to fool people into believing. Nor did the Council suggest we do away with clerical management. If the NcR's vision was truly ecumenical they'd be trying to bring people into the Church, not break away from it.</div>
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Four years after it launched in Kansas City, Missouri, Bishop Charles Helmsing (their Ordinary) asked them to stop using the word 'Catholic'.<br />
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<i>"The Catholic Reporter</i>, formerly the official newspaper of the Kansas City - St. Joseph, was begun by my predecessor under <u>a policy of editorial freedom</u>. That policy of editorial freedom [I] endorsed on my appointment as bishop of Kansas City - St. Joseph. When the<b><i>National Catholic Reporter</i></b> was launched, that original policy of editorial freedom was announced as basic to the new publication.<br />
At all times it was presumed that the policy of editorial freedom was none other than that legitimate liberty declared and defended by the Second Vatican Council in its <i>Declaration on Religious Liberty,</i> further defined in the conciliar <i>Decree on Communications,</i> and, likewise, defended in the <i>Constitution on the Church in the Modern World</i>. <u>It could not imply</u> that pseudo-freedom from man's obligations to his Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier in vogue under the standard of the 19th century liberalism. <u>It could not imply</u>, as a conciliar declaration on religious liberty clearly states, freedom in the moral order. As Cardinal Koenig pointed out in his recent address to editors, there is a legitimate freedom of opinion to be exercised by the Catholic press so long as it is absolutely loyal to the <u>C</u>hurch's teachings. If an editor is to merit the name "Catholic," he must remember "to think with the <u>C</u>hurch."<br />
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As long as the Catholic editor carries the name Catholic, he can never forget that he is a teacher of Christ's revelation. What he writes necessarily touches on faith -- that gift of the Holy Spirit which "we carry in earthen vessels" and by which we accept Christ, the Word of God Incarnate, and His revelation.<br />
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The Catholic editor must manifest a reverence which must shine through in his attitude and in his every expression. The Gospel is clear on the destructive effects of ridicule, for example, in recounting of the taunts hurled at Simon Peter: "You also were with Jesus of Nazareth," and their effects on him who, once converted, was to confirm his brethren.<br />
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As the editors of the <b><i>National Catholic Reporter</i></b> know, I have tried as their pastor, responsible for their eternal welfare, and that of those whom they influence, to guide them on a responsible course in harmony with Catholic teachings. When private conferences were of no avail, as is well known, I had to issue a public reprimand for <u>their policy of crusading against the Church's teachings on the transmission of human life</u>, and <u>against the Gospel values of sacred virginity and dedicated celibacy</u> as taught by the <u>C</u>hurch.<br />
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NOW, AS a last resort, I am forced as bishop to issue a condemnation of the <i>National Catholic Reporter</i> <u>for its disregard and denial of the most sacred values of our Catholic faith</u>. Within recent months the <i>National Catholic Reporter</i> has expressed itself in <u>belittling the basic truths expressed in the Creed of Pope Paul VI</u>; it has <u>made itself a platform</u> for the <u>airing of heretical views</u> on the <u>C</u>hurch and its divinely constituted structure, as taught by the First and Second Vatican Councils. Vehemently to be reprobated was the airing in recent editions of <u>an attack on the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the virgin birth of Christ</u>, by one of its contributors.<br />
<br />Finally, it has given lengthy space to <u>a blasphemous and heretical attack on the Vicar of Christ</u>. It is difficult to see how well instructed writers who <u>deliberately deny and ridicule dogmas of our Catholic faith</u> can possibly escape the guilt of the crime defined in Canon 1325 on heresy, and how they can escape the penalties of <u>automatic excommunication</u> entailed thereby.<br />
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In fairness to our Catholic people, <b>I hereby issue an official condemnation of the <i>National Catholic Reporter</i></b>. Furthermore, I send this communication to my brother<u>bishops</u>, and make known to the <u>priests</u>, <u>religious</u> and <u>laity of the nation</u> my views on <u>the poisonous character of this publication</u>.<br />
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As a bishop, a member of the college of bishops, and one in union with the head of the college, Christ's Vicar on earth, I proclaim with my brother bishops that the Church is, indeed, always in need of reform. This reform is a matter of putting on the mind of Christ, as St. Paul declared, through our contemplation of Christ in His teachings and through our loyalty to the teachings of the <u>C</u>hurch so painstakingly expressed in recent years in the constitutions, decrees and declarations of the Second Vatican Council.<br />
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The status of the world when our Lord came was a deplorable one. We are not surprised that the status of man, wounded by original sin, remains deplorable as long as he does not heed the voice of Christ and his authoritative teacher, his <u>C</u>hurch. Sociological studies, according to modern techniques, can help us appreciate the status quo -- the exact thinking and acting and attitudes of our people. For this we are grateful. But it is a total reversal of our Divine Lord's policy to imagine for a moment that the disclosure of attitudes through such surveys becomes the norm of human conduct or thinking.<br />
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Christ and His apostles preached first and foremost penance, <i>metanoia</i>, the change of mind and heart. The Church continues to do so today, but it finds itself increasingly more frustrated in its teaching of the ideals of our Lord by <u>the type of reporting, editorializing and ridicule</u> that have become <u>the week-after-week fare</u> of the <b><i>National Catholic Reporter</i></b>.<br />
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IN AS MUCH as the <b><i>National Catholic Reporter</i></b> <u>does not reflect the teaching of the Church</u>, but on the contrary, has <u>openly and deliberately opposed this teaching</u>. I ask the editors in all honesty <b>to drop the term "Catholic" from their masthead</b>. By retaining it they deceive their Catholic readers and do a great disservice to ecumenism by being responsible for the false irenicism of watering down Catholic teachings.<br />
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I further ask the editors and the board of directors, for the love of God and their fellow men, to change their <u>misguided and <b>evil</b> policy</u>; for it is evident to me that they have<u>already caused untold harm to the faith and morals</u> not only of our <u>laity</u>, but of too many of our <u>priests</u> and <u>religious</u>.<br />
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I make this statement with apostolic freedom as given by our Lord to His followers; I make it conscious of the heavy burden that is mine as a bishop, as one enjoined by the Holy Spirit through the pen of St. Paul: "Reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine; for there will come a time when they will not endure the sound doctrines; but having itching ears, will heap up to themselves teachers according to their own lust, and they will turn away their hearing from the truth and will turn aside rather to fables." (2 Tim. 4:2-4)"<br />
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Bishop Helmsing was quite clear but his words fell on harden soil. When a bishop tells you the mortal sin of heresy is upon your soul, the prudent thing to do is repent before <a href="https://churchpop.com/2015/10/28/5-saints-who-had-terrifying-visions-of-hell/" target="_blank">it's too late</a>. The NcR did not comply.<br />
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In 2013, the Ordinary of Kansas City, Bishop Robert Finn, reminded the NcR of Bishop's Helmsing's charges and repeated the request to <a href="http://kcur.org/post/bishop-finn-condemns-national-catholic-reporter-0#stream/0" target="_blank">drop the word</a> "Catholic" but got the original response. </div>
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In contrast, in 2011 Bishop Vigneron asked Michael Voris to <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/real-catholic-tv-service-removes-catholic-from-new-name/" target="_blank">remove the word</a> 'Catholic' from his media outlet. There were no charges of heresy or dissent. Voris complied and the renamed Church Militant 'dot' tv is doing better than ever.<br />
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Church Militant along with the Lepanto Institute have <a href="http://www.lepantoinstitute.org/usccb-petition/" target="_blank">launched a petition</a> to the USCCB requesting the NcR comply with their bishop's instruction to remove the word 'Catholic' from their name. It's an important petition and one I hope you will sign.<br />
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As Christians we all have a duty to proclaim the Gospels, to teach, and help as many souls get back to Heaven as we can. Three of the seven <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10198d.htm" target="_blank">Spiritual Acts Of Mercy</a> include: Instruct the ignorant, Counsel the doubtful, Admonish the sinner. Therefore we have a responsibility to speak out against dissenting, heretical media outlets that have been condemned by at least two bishops.<br />
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Unfortunately, not all clergy in these modern times agree. It's extremely difficult to imagine how any priest with all their education in the seminary, guidance from their bishop, and daily dealings in Church matters could somehow be unaware of the NcR's disobedience. This outlet makes no secret of its support of female ordination, homosexual marriage, contraception, etc. Why then do the following priests support the NcR in their social media platforms (and yes, continued re-tweets of theirs is support)?<br />
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Thomas Rosica, CSB. Vatican Spokesperson, CEO Salt & Light TV</div>
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Sometimes where there is smoke there is fire (pun intended). Those who subscribe to the NcR should know it's a publication that has been condemned. As such they should unsubscribe, stop reading it, stop re-tweeting it. Other sources that push the envelop such as James Martin SJ, John Allen Jr, American Magazine, Crux Now, The Tablet, etc, should be treated likewise. This matter isn't about pettiness, 'holier than thou' or any other ulterior motive. It's about the obedience that leads to salvation. Eternity is a long time to be wrong; <a href="http://www.catholiconlineinfo.com/what-is-hell-what-is-hell-like/" target="_blank">the consequences are unpleasant and permanent</a>. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-57777208364155127452016-01-19T10:34:00.000-05:002016-01-19T11:19:21.196-05:00What The Francis?Soon after the <a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2015/09/27/vaticaninsider/eng/the-vatican/a-pope-who-surprises-us-with-the-gospel-JxciKv6zZjPTpDMkGS3jhL/pagina.html" target="_blank">Pope Of Surprises</a> took office some suggested a new blog was needed: WDTPRS (What Did The Pope Really Say) but the acronym is already taken. Assuming this isn't the last papacy I think the history books will look back at it in wonder. A new phrase may even come into use. When someone says something wild and absurd, the response could be "What the Francis are you talking about?" or in type, "WTF?"<br />
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To be fair, some of the bizarre statements attributed to Pope Francis have been taken out of context. His infamous, "Who am I to judge?" is traditional Church teaching if you <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/full-transcript-of-popes-in-flight-press-remarks-released/" target="_blank">read the whole statement</a>. The mainstream media have spun other pope's comments into their secular narrative (ex: 'Pope Benedict XVI <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/world/europe/22pope.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Approves Condoms In Africa</a>').<br />
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Last month Pope Francis said Christmas trees and <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/pope-francis-calls-christmas-a-charade-the-whole-world-is-at-war-20151122" target="_blank">nativity scenes are a charade</a> since there is not peace on Earth.<br />
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The <a href="http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/pope-francis-officially-de-emphasizes-papal-titles" target="_blank">self-proclaimed Bishop Of Rome</a> has made a habit of uttering confusing and insulting remarks directed at no one in particular. <a href="http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-obstinate-christians-are-rebels-and-i" target="_blank">On Monday, in his homily</a> in the papal chapel (without kneelers) Pope Francis accused those opposed to change as being idolaters and rebels. The problem with this accusation and others is that he doesn't specify to whom it is directed. The closest he got was to state it's not the lawmakers. Can we speculate that means he is not referring to changing the Sacrament of Marriage? Who knows?<br />
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So who could he have been referring to?<br />
- his personal chef who refuses to put Argentinian items on the menu<br />
- his personal assistant who insists the pope dress like a pope<br />
- liturgists who only invite men to the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11514287/Pope-Francis-washes-the-feet-of-TV-showgirl-who-was-jailed-for-fraud.html" target="_blank">Washing Of The Feet</a><br />
- sedevacantists who reject the Novus Ordo as invalid<br />
- bishops who reject <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum.html" target="_blank">Summorum Pontificum</a><br />
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Since he usually doesn't clarify statements such as these we will probably never know and that's probably a good thing. The ambiguous nature of such insults has led some to suggest the prudent approach with our Holy Father is to ignore him. I've tried that but in our age of social media and constant information it's a hard thing to do. Pope St. Pius V may have said a lot of loony things but no one tweeted them out to the world. How things may have been different if the Internet was around immediately after Vatican II.<br />
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There is evidence to suggest those in and around the Vatican either follow or are aware of new media, blogs, and other humble voices. The Vatican's English spokesperson <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/02/breitbart-canadian-fr-thomas-threatens-to-sue-canadian-blogger-vox-cantoris/" target="_blank">threatened to sue</a> one blogger so we know that blog gets attention in Rome. When the mid-term report of the first synod on the family came out insinuating the Church was about to legalize sodomy, bloggers raised hell and the matter went away. Coincidence? Church Militant dot com has recently exposed Cardinal Wuerl's <a href="http://spectator.org/articles/64692/cardinal-wuerl%E2%80%99s-embassy-row-penthouse" target="_blank">taste for luxury</a> and Cardinal Dolan's preference to <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/12/12/email-to-dolan-details-pee-drinking-priests-alleged-affair/" target="_blank">cover-up urine drinking</a> priests; stories the mainstream Catholic media prefers to ignore.<br />
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If we speculate as to what the Church would be like today without voices of the orthodox porters it's difficult to imagine anything good. One of the pope's closest advisers recently admitted to something we've known all along - the <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/cardinal-rodriguez-homosexual-lobby-in-the-vatican-exists/" target="_blank">Lavender Mafia</a> is real and powerful. What this gay lobby hates is exposure - ironically preferring to remain in the closet. Their manipulation is sinister and deceptive. The best way we laity can help rid the Church of modernist rot is to shine a light on it and await the holy clergy to remove it.<br />
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In a recent post I shared St. Thomas Aquinas guidelines for correcting clergy. When necessary it needs to be done in such a way as to not <a href="http://www.beginningcatholic.com/catholic-examination-of-conscience.html" target="_blank">violate the Second Commandment</a> and thus commit a mortal sin. The end goal of correcting anyone should always be the salvation of their soul. Prudence and charity are to be exercised when sounding the alarm bell. We should be humble because the destination of our soul is not yet determined.<br />
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Pope St Pius X <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-x/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-x_enc_19070908_pascendi-dominici-gregis.html" target="_blank">warned us of modernists</a> in 1907, Blessed Pope Paul VI told us in 1972 the <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/10/the-smoke-of-satan-returns" target="_blank">smoke of Satan</a> had entered the Church, and Pope Benedict XVI told us upon his election <a href="https://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/homilies/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20050424_inizio-pontificato.html" target="_blank">wolves threatened him</a> so no one is being paranoid or a 'rad trad' by responding to the enemy's attacks. Since most of us today were poorly catechised such operations can be self-teachable moments. The wise among us will take the time to learn the faith so as not to appear like some barking lunatic - a yappy mutt too insignificant to kick off the porch.<br />
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In conclusion and return to the subject, I still have hope for this pope. I hope he will stop talking so much and actually do something constructive for the Church so desperately in need of repair. The Curia needs to be swept clean, his Jesuit order needs to be rebuilt, the laity need to return to the Sacrament of Confession and fulfill their Sunday Obligation every week. As a bonus I keep hoping he will at least start the process of reunifying the Eastern Orthodox and return the SSPX to normal communion (although at this point they may not want it).<br />
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Sts Peter and Paul, pray for us.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-14437495981384935552016-01-09T17:23:00.000-05:002016-01-09T17:23:58.949-05:00The Actual Francis Effect <img alt="Image result for chiesa espresso on line" 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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Jubilee of Mercy, But With the Confessionals Empty</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The shocking letter of a priest with the care of souls. Fewer and fewer penitents, and less and less repentant. The counterproductive effects of a “door” thrown open too wide </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351203?eng=y" target="_blank">by Sandro Magister</a><br /><br /><br /><img border="0" src="http://data.kataweb.it/kpmimages/kpm3/misc/chiesa/2016/01/09/jpg_1351205.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><br />ROME, January 9, 2016 – One thing that made the news at the end of the year was the data furnished by the prefecture of the pontifical household on attendance in 2015 at the public audiences with Pope Francis, with numbers down almost by half compared to the previous year:<br /><br />At the Wednesday general audiences there was a drop from 1,199,000 visitors in 2014 to 704,100 in 2015. While for the Sunday Angelus the fall was from 3,040,000 to 1,585,000.<br /><br />This does not change the fact that Pope Francis remains overwhelmingly popular. His popularity ratings are not enough, however, to determine what level of effective religious practice corresponds to them.<br /><br />Other revelations are much more indicative in this regard. For example, the official figures that ISTAT compiles every year in Italy on the daily life of a gigantic sampling of citizens, made up of almost 24,000 families, for a total of 54,000 individuals residing in 850 cities large and small.<br /><br />In the most recent annual report made public, relative to 2014, the “percentage of persons over the age of 6 who go to a place of worship at least once a week” turned out to be 28.8 percent.<br /><br />The fact that more than a quarter of Italians go to church at least once a week can be seen as significant, in itself and in comparison with other countries. But if this figure is compared with the results of previous years, here as well a clear drop can be seen.<br /><br />During the seven years of the pontificate of Benedict XVI, this same indicator was consistently above 30 percent in Italy, on average around 32-33 percent. Decisively higher than in 2014, the first full year of the pontificate of Francis and the one in which his popularity reached its peak.<br /><br />The following letter takes these statistical indicators into account. But it evaluates the real “Francis effect” on religious life with the more up close and direct gaze of the pastor of souls, of the confessor. Who writes that during this pontificate he has experienced not only a further drop in the practice of sacramental confession, but also a deterioration in the “quality” of the confessions themselves. A deterioration that does not seem unrelated to the use of certain remarks of pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio that have had enormous success in the media.<br /><br />The author of the letter is a churchman with a high level of scholarly specialization and with significant teaching appointments in Italy and abroad, but who also dedicates a great deal of time and energy to pastoral care.<br /><br />His evaluations reflect those of a growing number of pastors, who - in a private capacity - do not fail to confide similar concerns to their respective bishops.<br /><br />And “www.chiesa” also guarantees confidentiality to the author of the letter, who would be too exposed to the predictable retaliation of an ecclesiastical “new establishment” - as he calls it – whose conformist fawning over this pontificate is one of its most deleterious vices.<br /><br />A confidentiality that allows that “parresia” or frankness of speech so greatly encouraged by Pope Francis himself, who even during a synod wants the attention to be on “what” is said in the assembly, but not on “who” says it.<br /><br />___________<br /><br /><br /><br />“Who are you to judge me?” The confessions of a confessor<br /><br /><br />Dear Magister,<br /><br />Not a little has been written on the impact of the pontificate of Pope Francis “ad intra” and “ad extra Ecclesiae,” when it comes to the renewal of the spiritual life of the faithful and their communal participation in that of the Church, as also on the hoped-for return to evangelical and sacramental practice by those who had distanced themselves from it in recent decades. And it has been written from different perspectives: theology, anthropology, history, sociology, culture, communication, and politics. I do not believe it is necessary to add anything in this regard, in part because many of these facts and considerations still need to be digested through calm, critical reflection.<br /><br />There nevertheless remains open - and in part undecided - the identification of a robust spiritual and pastoral indicator for measuring the effect of a change of personality, discipline, or teaching on souls and on the people of God.<br /><br />I am aware of this. “Souls” and “people of God” are two theological and ecclesial categories that are decommissioned today, particularly in the statements of the current pontiff and his “new establishment.” But barring evidence to the contrary they are still part of the Catholic faith as confirmed by Vatican Council II itself. And negligence of them carries the risk, which is anything but transitory, of exchanging the “salus animarum” for the “vota aliquorum” and the “bonum populi Dei” for the “popularis consensus.” I translate: the health of souls for the wishes of a few and the good of the people of God for popularity.<br /><br />I leave to the devotees of the sociology of religion, of the public communication of the faith, and of ecclesiastical politics every consideration on the mass participation of the faithful and of nonbelievers in public events at which the Holy Father is present (general audiences, Angelus, liturgical celebrations, etc.) - the official statistics on which as furnished by the prefecture of the pontifical household show a marked decrease from the first to the third year of the pontificate of Pope Francis - and on the possible significance that these numbers might present in terms of conversion to the Gospel and adherence to the pontiff’s message “urbi et orbi” for a “new springtime” of the Church, characterized by the “doors” being thrown open with facility for all (if memory serves, however, the Gospel of Luke speaks of a “narrow gate” through which one must “strive” to enter, make an effort, and of the “many who will seek to enter but will not be able”).<br /><br />I would like instead simply to communicate the experience - the facts as they present themselves in the daily like of pastoral work on the periphery, so that “contra factum non valet illatio” - of a priest who dedicates his remaining time and energy, after fulfilling the primary ministry that the bishop has entrusted to him, to the work of sacramental reconciliation, convinced that the mercy of God passes above all, in the ordinary and always accessible way, through the discretion of the dim partition and the narrow window of the confessional, and not by entering, in the beacon lights of the basilica and before the eyes of all, through the great doors of the Holy Year (the merit of which is another: that of obtaining remission before God of the temporal punishment for sins already remitted, as for their guilt, in the sacrament of confession, which remains the first and fundamental vehicle of God’s mercy toward us sinners, after baptism).<br /><br />The facts are these. Since the opening of the Holy Year backed by Pope Francis and on the occasion of the Christmas festivities of 2015 - as also since Jorge Mario Bergoglio has been sitting on the throne of Peter - the number of faithful who approach the confessional has not increased, neither in ordinary time nor in festive. The trend of a progressive, rapid diminution of the frequency of sacramental reconciliation that has characterized recent decades has not stopped. On the contrary: the confessionals of my church have been largely deserted.<br /><br />I have sought comfort for this bitter consideration by imagining that the basilicas connected to the Holy Year in Rome or in other cities, or the shrines and convents, have been able to attract a larger number of penitents. But a round of phone calls to some fellow priests who regularly hear confessions in these places (using the opportunity of the Christmas wishes that I extend every year) has confirmed my observation: lines of penitents that are anything but long, everywhere, even less than at the festivities of past years.<br /><br />And there is also less and less news of memorable conversions of sheep lost for many years and returning to the sheepfold of the Good Shepherd through the “useless servants” of his mercy that we priests are. When this happens, very rarely, there is neither explicit nor implicit reference to the person or the word of the current pope more than there was in the past for his predecessors (how many young people came back from the World Youth Days and put into practice their resolution of frequent confession!).<br /><br />Distrusting the value of the numbers, because even the salvation of one soul has an infinite value in the eyes of God, I reviewed the “quality” of the confessions I have heard and I asked - while respecting the secret of the confessional concerning the identity of the penitent - for news from a few fellow confessors of long experience. The picture that presents itself is certainly not a happy one, both concerning the awareness of sin and in reference to the awareness of the prerequisites for obtaining God’s forgiveness (in this case as well, I know that the term “forgiveness” is giving way to “mercy” and is in danger of being mothballed soon, but at what theological, spiritual, and pastoral cost?).<br /><br />Two examples stand for all. One middle-aged gentleman whom I asked, with discretion and delicacy, if he had repented of a repeated series of grave sins against the seventh commandment “do not steal,” of which he had accused himself with a certain frivolity and almost joking about the circumstances, certainly not attenuating, that had accompanied them, responded to me with the words of Pope Francis: “Mercy knows no limits” and by showing surprise that I would remind him of the need for repentance and for the resolution to avoid falling back into the same sin in the future: “I did what I did. What I will do I will decide when I go from here. What I think about what I have done is a question between me and God. I am here only to have what everyone deserves at least at Christmas: to be able to receive communion at midnight!” And he concluded by paraphrasing the now archfamous expression of Pope Francis: “Who are you to judge me?”<br /><br />One young lady, to whom I had proposed as an act of penance connected to the sacramental absolution of a grave sin against the fifth commandment “do not kill” that she kneel in prayer before the Most Holy Sacrament exposed on the altar of a church and perform an act of material charity toward a poor person to the extent of her means, responded to me with annoyance that “no one must ask for anything in exchange for God’s mercy, because it is free,” and that she had neither the time to stop at a church to pray (she had to “run around doing Christmas shopping downtown”), nor money to give to the poor (“who don’t even need it that much, because they have more than we do”).<br /><br />It is evident that a certain message, at least as received from the pope and come down to the faithful, easily lends itself to being misunderstood, mistaken, and therefore of no help in the maturation of a sure and upright conscience in the faithful concerning their sins and the conditions of their remission in the sacrament of reconciliation. With all due respect to Msgr. Dario Viganò, prefect of the secretariat for communication of the Holy See, the “zigzag course” through concepts without ever pausing to clarify any of them - which he recognizes as a gem of the “communication style of Pope Francis,” capable of “making him so irresistible” to the modern listener - presents a few spiritual and pastoral inconveniences, far from trivial if they have to do with grace and the sacraments, the treasury of the Church.<br /><br />I will stop here, so as not to exploit your patience in reading me. I am not making the claim of proposing as a thermometer of ecclesial faith and life the quantity or quality of confessions and, more in general, of recourse to the sacraments, nor of making them an exclusive parameter for the evaluation of a pontificate or of the state of the Church’s health. This would not be fair and would lose sight of other dimensions of life according to the Gospel and the ecclesial mission.<br /><br />But we should also not neglect to take into consideration some worrying signals that are coming from the churches of the “periphery,” as also from those of the “center.”<br /><br />Those bishops were not entirely wrong who, at least until Vatican Council II and in many cases even afterward, during pastoral visits in their dioceses asked the priests above all how many confessions and how many communions they administered in a year, comparing them to the number of baptized entrusted to their care.<br /><br />Nor were those popes wrong who, in the past, had the bishops on their visits “ad limina apostolorum” deliver to them the overall number of sacraments administered in their dioceses.<br /><br />They were bishops and popes who drew useful indications on the state of the care of souls and the holiness of the people of God simply from the medicine of souls and from the vehicle of sanctifying grace.<br /><br />They certainly did not have at hand the whole apparatus of institutions, communications, technology, and organization made possible by religious sociology and by the print and broadcast media, but they did have the humble certainty that it is not by coddling the cultural and anthropological fashions of the time that souls are saved, nor by following in the wake of individual and social (re)sentiments and demands inside and outside the Church that the people of God are strengthened on the path of holiness.<br /><br />Thank you for your attention and many cordial greetings, “ad maiorem Dei gloriam.”<br /><br />[Signature]</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-36738577128477547472016-01-04T10:08:00.000-05:002016-01-04T10:08:42.586-05:00Laity Correcting Clergy - St Thomas Aquinas<br />Article 2. Whether <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm">fraternal correction</a> is a matter of precept?<br /><br />Objection 1. It would seem that fraternal correction is not a matter of precept. For nothing impossible is a matter of precept, according to the saying of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">Jerome</a> [Pelagius, Expos. Symb. ad Damas]: "Accursed be he who says that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> has commanded any. thing impossible." Now it is written (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/ecc007.htm#verse14">Ecclesiastes 7:14</a>): "Consider the works of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, that no <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> can correct whom He hath despised." Therefore fraternal correction is not a matter ofprecept.<br /><br />Objection 2. Further, all the precepts of the Divine Law are reduced to the precepts of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04664a.htm">Decalogue</a>. But fraternal correction does not come under any precept of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04664a.htm">Decalogue</a>. Therefore it is not a matter of precept.<br /><br />Objection 3. Further, the omission of a Divine precept is a mortal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, which has no place in a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holy</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a>. Yet <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holy</a> and <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> men are found to omit <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm">fraternal correction</a>: since <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Civ. Dei i, 9): "Not only those of low degree, but also those of high position, refrain from reproving others, moved by a guilty cupidity, not by the claims of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>." Therefore fraternal correction is not a matter of precept.<br /><br />Objection 4. Further, whatever is a matter of precept is something due. If, therefore, fraternal correction is a matter of precept, it is due to our brethren that we correct them when they <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. Now when a man owes anyone a material due, such as the payment of a sum of money, he must not be content that his creditor come to him, but he should seek him out, that he may pay him his due. Hence we should have to go seeking for those who need correction, in order that we might correct them; which appears to be inconvenient, both on account of the great number of sinners, for whose correction one <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> could not suffice, and because religious would have to leave the cloister in order to reprove men, which would be unbecoming. Therefore fraternal correction is not a matter of precept.<br /><br />On the contrary, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Verb. Dom. xvi, 4): "You become worse than the sinner if you fail to correct him." But this would not be so unless, by this neglect, one omitted to observe some precept. Therefore fraternal correction is a matter of precept.<br /><br />I answer that, Fraternal correction is a matter of precept. We must observe, however, that while the negative precepts of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10582c.htm">Law</a> forbid <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinful</a> acts, the positive precepts inculcate acts of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>. Now <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinful</a> acts are <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> in themselves, and cannot become <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a>, no matter how, or when, or where, they are done, because of their very <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm">nature</a> they are connected with an <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> end, as stated in Ethic. ii, 6: wherefore negative precepts bind always and for all times. On the other hand, acts of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a> must not be done anyhow, but by observing the due circumstances, which are requisite in order that an act be <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtuous</a>; namely, that it be done where, when, and how it ought to be done. And since the disposition of whatever is directed to the end depends on the formal aspect of the end, the chief of these circumstances of a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtuous</a> act is this aspect of the end, which in this case is the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>. If therefore such a circumstance be omitted from a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtuous</a> act, as entirely takes away the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>, such an act is contrary to a precept. If, however, the circumstance omitted from a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtuous</a> act be such as not to destroy the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a> altogether, though it does not perfectly attain the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>, it is not against a precept. Hence the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01713a.htm">Philosopher</a> (Ethic. ii, 9) says that if we depart but little from the mean, it is not contrary to the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>, whereas if we depart much from the mean <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a> is destroyed in its act. Now fraternal correction is directed to a brother's amendment: so that it is a matter of precept, in so far as it is <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10733a.htm">necessary</a> for that end, but not so as we have to correct our erring brother at all places and times.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 1. In all <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">deeds</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man's</a> action is not efficacious without the Divine assistance: and yet <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> must do what is in his power. Hence <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Correp. et Gratia xv): "Since we ignore who is predestined and who is not, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a> should so guide our feelings, that we wish all to be saved." Consequently we ought to do our brethren the kindness of correcting them, with the hope of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God's</a> help.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 2. As stated above (32, 5, ad 4), all the precepts about rendering service to our neighbor are reduced to the precept about the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07462a.htm">honor</a> due to parents.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 3. Fraternal correction may be omitted in three ways.<br /><br />First, meritoriously, when out of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a> one omits to correct someone. For <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Civ. Dei i, 9): "If a man refrains from chiding and reproving wrongdoers, because he awaits a suitable time for so doing, or because he <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021a.htm">fears</a> lest, if he does so, they may become worse, or hinder, oppress, or turn away from the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">faith</a>, others who are weak and need to be instructed in a life of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">goodness</a> and <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>, this does not seem to result from <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04462a.htm">covetousness</a>, but to be counselled by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>."<br /><br />Secondly, fraternal correction may be omitted in such a way that one commits a mortal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, namely, "when" (as he says in the same passage) "one <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06021a.htm">fears</a> what people may think, or lest one may suffer grievous pain or death; provided, however, that the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10321a.htm">mind</a> is so dominated by such things, that it gives them the preference to fraternal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>." This would seem to be the case when a man reckons that he might probably withdraw some wrongdoer from <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, and yet omits to do so, through fear or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04462a.htm">covetousness</a>.<br /><br />Thirdly, such an omission is a venial <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, when through fear or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04462a.htm">covetousness</a>, a man is loth to correct his brother's faults, and yet not to such a degree, that if he saw clearly that he could withdraw him from <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, he would still forbear from so doing, through fear or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04462a.htm">covetousness</a>, because in his own mind he prefers fraternal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a> to these things. It is in this way that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holy</a> men sometimes omit to correct wrongdoers.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 4. We are bound to pay that which is due to some fixed and certain <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a>, whether it be a material or a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a>, without waiting for him to come to us, but by taking proper steps to find him. Wherefore just as he that owes money to a creditor should seek him, when the time comes, so as to pay him what he owes, so he that has <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> charge of some <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> is bound to seek him out, in order to reprove him for a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. On the other hand, we are not bound to seek someone on whom to bestow such favors as are due, not to any certain <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a>, but to all our neighbors in general, whether those favors be material or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> goods, but it suffices that we bestow them when the opportunity occurs; because, as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Doctr. Christ. i, 28), we must look upon this as a matter of chance. For this reason he says (De Verb. Dom. xvi, 1) that "<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a> warns us not to be listless in regard of one another's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>: not indeed by being on the lookout for something to denounce, but by correcting what we see": else we should become spies on the lives of others, which is against the saying of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/pro024.htm#verse19">Proverbs 24:19</a>: "Lie not in wait, nor seek after <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">wickedness</a> in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest." It is evident from this that there is no need for religious to leave their cloister in order to rebuke <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a>-doers.<br /><br /><div>
Article 3. Whether fraternal correction belongs only to prelates?<br /><br />Objection 1. It would seem that fraternal correction belongs to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> alone. For <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">Jerome</a> [<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11306b.htm">Origen</a>, Hom. vii in Joan.] says: "Let <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12406a.htm">priests</a> endeavor to fulfil this saying of the Gospel: 'If thy brother <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> against thee,'" etc. Now <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> having charge of others were usually designated under the name of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12406a.htm">priests</a>. Therefore it seems that fraternal correction belongs to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> alone.<br /><br />Objection 2. Further, fraternal correction is a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01328f.htm">alms</a>. Now corporal alms giving belongs to those who are placed above others in temporal matters, i.e. to the rich. Therefore fraternal correction belongs to those who are placed above others in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> matters, i.e. to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a>.<br /><br />Objection 3. Further, when one <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> reproves another he moves him by his rebuke to something better. Now in the physical order the inferior is moved by the superior. Therefore in the order of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a> also, which follows the order of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm">nature</a>, it belongs to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> alone to correct inferiors.<br /><br />On the contrary, It is written (Dist. xxiv, qu. 3, Can. Tam Sacerdotes): "Both <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12406a.htm">priests</a> and all the rest of the faithful should be most solicitous for those who perish, so that their reproof may either correct their <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinful</a> ways. or, if they be incorrigible, cut them off from the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm">Church</a>."<br /><br />I answer that, As stated above (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm#1">Article 1</a>), correction is twofold. One is an <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">act</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>, which seeks in a special way the recovery of an erring brother by means of a simple warning: such like correction belongs to anyone who has <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>, be he subject or prelate.<br /><br />But there is another correction which is an act of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08571c.htm">justice</a> purposing the common <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a>, which is procured not only by warning one's brother, but also, sometimes, by punishing him, that others may, through fear, desist from <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. Such a correction belongs only to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a>, whose business it is not only to admonish, but also to correct by means of punishments.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 1. Even as regards that fraternal correction which is common to all, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> have a grave responsibility, as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Civ. Dei i, 9): "for just as a man ought to bestow temporal favors on those especially of whom he has temporal care, so too ought he to confer <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> favors, such as correction, teaching and the like, on those who are entrusted to his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> care." Therefore <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">Jerome</a> does not mean that the precept of fraternal correction concerns <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12406a.htm">priests</a> only, but that it concerns them chiefly.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 2. Just as he who has the means wherewith to give corporal assistance is rich in this respect, so he whose reason is gifted with a sane judgment, so as to be able to correct another's wrong-doing, is, in this respect, to be looked on as a superior.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 3. Even in the physical order certain things act mutually on one another, through being in some respect higher than one another, in so far as each is somewhat in act, and somewhat in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01124a.htm">potentiality</a> with regard to another. On like manner one <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> can correct another in so far as he has a sane judgment in a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10053b.htm">matter</a> wherein the other <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, though he is not his superior simply.<br /><br />Article 4. Whether a man is bound to correct his prelate?<br /><br />Objection 1. It would seem that no <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> is bound to correct his prelate. For it is written (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/exo019.htm#verse12">Exodus 19:12</a>): "The beast that shall touch the mount shall be stoned," [<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15515b.htm">Vulgate</a>: 'Everyone that shall touch the mount, dying he shall die.'] and (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/2sa006.htm#verse7">2 Samuel 6:7</a>) it is related that the Lord struck Oza for touching the ark. Now the mount and the ark signify our <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a>. Therefore <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> should not be corrected by their subjects.<br /><br />Objection 2. Further, a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06586a.htm">gloss</a> on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gal002.htm#verse11">Galatians 2:11</a>, "I withstood him to the face," adds: "as an equal." Therefore, since a subject is not equal to his prelate, he ought not to correct him.<br /><br />Objection 3. Further, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06780a.htm">Gregory</a> says (Moral. xxiii, 8) that "one ought not to presume to reprove the conduct of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holy</a> men, unless one thinks better of oneself." But one ought not to think better of oneself than of one's prelate. Therefore one ought not to correct one's prelate.<br /><br />On the contrary, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says in his Rule: "Show mercy not only to yourselves, but also to him who, being in the higher position among you, is therefore in greater danger." But fraternal correction is a work of mercy. Therefore even <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a> ought to be corrected.<br /><br />I answer that, A subject is not competent to administer to his prelate the correction which is an act of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08571c.htm">justice</a> through the coercive <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm">nature</a> of punishment: but the fraternal correction which is an <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">act</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a> is within the competency of everyone in respect of any <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> towards whom he is bound by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>, provided there be something in that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> which requires correction.<br /><br />Now an act which proceeds from a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07099b.htm">habit</a> or power extends to whatever is contained under the object of that power or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07099b.htm">habit</a>: thus vision extends to all things comprised in the object of sight. Since, however, a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtuous</a> act needs to be moderated by due circumstances, it follows that when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness, but with gentleness and respect. Hence the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">Apostle</a> says (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/1ti005.htm#verse1">1 Timothy 5:1</a>): "An ancient <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> rebuke not, but entreat him as a father."<br /><br /> Wherefore <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05013a.htm">Dionysius</a> finds fault with the monk Demophilus (Ep. viii), for rebuking a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12406a.htm">priest</a> with insolence, by striking and turning him out of the church.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 1. It would seem that a subject touches his prelate inordinately when he upbraids him with insolence, as also when he speaks ill of him: and this is signified by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God's</a> condemnation of those who touched the mount and the ark.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 2. To withstand anyone in public exceeds the mode of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm">fraternal correction</a>, and so <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">Paul</a> would not have withstood <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11744a.htm">Peter</a> then, unless he were in some way his equal as regards the defense of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">faith</a>. But one who is not an equal can reprove privately and respectfully. Hence the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">Apostle</a> in writing to the Colossians(<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/col004.htm#verse17">4:17</a>) tells them to admonish their prelate: "Say to Archippus: Fulfil thy ministry [<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15515b.htm">Vulgate</a>: 'Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.' Cf. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/2ti004.htm#verse5">2 Timothy 4:5</a>." It must be observed, however, that if the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">faith</a> were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">Paul</a>, who was <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11744a.htm">Peter's</a> subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13506d.htm">scandal</a> concerning <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">faith</a>, and, as the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06586a.htm">gloss</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gal002.htm#verse11">Galatians 2:11</a>, "<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11744a.htm">Peter</a> gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects."<br /><br />Reply to Objection 3. To presume oneself to be simply better than one's prelate, would seem to savor of presumptuous <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12405a.htm">pride</a>; but there is no presumption in thinking oneself better in some respect, because, in this life, no <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> is without some fault. We must also remember that when a man reproves his prelate charitably, it does not follow that he thinks himself any better, but merely that he offers his help to one who, "being in the higher position among you, is therefore in greater danger," as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> observes in his Rule quoted above.<br /><br />Article 5. Whether a sinner ought to reprove a wrongdoer?<br /><br />Objection 1. It would seem that a sinner ought to reprove a wrongdoer. For no <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> is excused from obeying a precept by having committed a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. But fraternal correction is a matter of precept, as stated above (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm#2">Article 2</a>). Therefore it seems that a man ought not to forbear from such like correction for the reason that he has committed a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>.<br /><br />Objection 2. Further, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> alms deeds are of more account than corporal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01328f.htm">almsdeeds</a>. Now one who is in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> ought not to abstain from administering corporal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01328f.htm">alms</a>. Much less therefore ought he, on account of a previous<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, to refrain from correcting wrongdoers.<br /><br />Objection 3. Further, it is written (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/1jo001.htm#verse8">1 John 1:8</a>): "If we say that we have no <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, we deceive ourselves." Therefore if, on account of a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, a man is hindered from reproving his brother, there will be none to reprove the wrongdoer. But the latter proposition is unreasonable: therefore the former is also.<br /><br />On the contrary, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm">Isidore</a> says (De Summo Bono iii, 32): "He that is subject to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403c.htm">vice</a> should not correct the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403c.htm">vices</a> of others." Again it is written (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rom002.htm#verse1">Romans 2:1</a>): "Wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself. For thou dost the same things which thou judgest."<br /><br />I answer that, As stated above (3, ad 2), to correct a wrongdoer belongs to a man, in so far as his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12673b.htm">reason</a> is gifted with right judgment. Now <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, as stated above (I-II, 85, 1,2), does not destroy the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm">nature</a> so as to deprive the sinner's reason of all right judgment, and in this respect he may be competent to find fault with others for committing <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. Nevertheless a previous <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> proves somewhat of a hindrance to this correction, for three reasons. First because this previous <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> renders a man unworthy to rebuke another; and especially is he unworthy to correct another for a lesser <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, if he himself has committed a greater. Hence <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">Jerome</a> says on the words, "Why seest thou the mote?" etc. (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat007.htm#verse3">Matthew 7:3</a>): "He is speaking of those who, while they are themselves guilty of mortal <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, have no patience with the lesser <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> of their brethren."<br /><br />Secondly, such like correction becomes unseemly, on account of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13506d.htm">scandal</a> which ensues therefrom, if the corrector's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> be well <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">known</a>, because it would seem that he corrects, not out of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>, but more for the sake of ostentation. Hence the words of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat007.htm#verse4">Matthew 7:4</a>, "How sayest thou to thy brother?" etc. are expounded by<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08452b.htm">Chrysostom</a> [Hom. xvii in the Opus Imperfectum <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781a.htm">falsely</a> ascribed to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08452b.htm">St. John Chrysostom</a>] thus: "That is--'With what object?' Out of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>, think you, that you may save your neighbor?" No, "because you would look after your own <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13407a.htm">salvation</a> first. What you want is, not to save others, but to hide your <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">deeds</a> with <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> teaching, and to seek to be praised by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">men</a> for your <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">knowledge</a>."<br /><br />Thirdly, on account of the rebuker's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12405a.htm">pride</a>; when, for instance, a man thinks lightly of his own <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, and, in his own heart, sets himself above his neighbor, judging the latter's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> with harsh severity, as though he himself were just <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a>. Hence <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Serm. Dom. in Monte ii, 19): "To reprove the faults of others is the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05215a.htm">duty</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> and kindly men: when a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">wicked</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> rebukes anyone, his rebuke is the latter's acquittal." And so, as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Serm. Dom. in Monte ii, 19): "When we have to find fault with anyone, we should think whether we were never guilty of his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>; and then we must remember that we are men, and might have been guilty of it; or that we once had it on our <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm">conscience</a>, but have it no longer: and then we should bethink ourselves that we are all weak, in order that our reproof may be the outcome, not of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07149b.htm">hatred</a>, but of pity. <br /><br />But if we find that we are guilty of the same <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, we must not rebuke him, but groan with him, and invite him to repent with us." It follows from this that, if a sinner reprove a wrongdoer with <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07543b.htm">humility</a>, he does not <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, nor does he bring a further condemnation on himself, although thereby he proves himself deserving of condemnation, either in his brother's or in his own <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm">conscience</a>, on account of his previous <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>.<br /><br />Hence the Replies to the Objections are clear.<br /></div>
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Article 6. Whether one ought to forbear from correcting someone, through fear lest he become worse?<br /><br />Objection 1. It would seem that one ought not to forbear from correcting someone through fear lest he become worse. For <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> is weakness of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14153a.htm">soul</a>, according to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/psa006.htm#verse3">Psalm 6:3</a>: "Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak." Now he that has charge of a sick <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a>, must not cease to take care of him, even if he be fractious or contemptuous, because then the danger is greater, as in the case of madmen. Much more, therefore should one correct a sinner, no matter how badly he takes it.<br /><br />Objection 2. Further, according to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">Jerome</a> vital <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15073a.htm">truths</a> are not to be foregone on account of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13506d.htm">scandal</a>. Now <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God's</a> commandments are vital <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15073a.htm">truths</a>. Since, therefore, fraternal correction is a matter of precept, as stated above (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm#2">Article 2</a>), it seems that it should not be foregone for fear of scandalizing the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> to be corrected.<br /><br />Objection 3. Further, according to the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">Apostle</a> (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rom003.htm#verse8">Romans 3:8</a>) we should not do <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> may come of it. Therefore, in like manner, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> should not be omitted lest <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> befall. Now fraternal correction is a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> thing. Therefore it should not be omitted for fear lest the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> corrected become worse.<br /><br />On the contrary, It is written (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/pro009.htm#verse8">Proverbs 9:8</a>): "Rebuke not a scorner lest he <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07149b.htm">hate</a> thee," where a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06586a.htm">gloss</a> remarks: "You must not fear lest the scorner insult you when you rebuke him: rather should you bear in mind that by making him <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07149b.htm">hate</a> you, you may make him worse." Therefore one ought to forego <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm">fraternal correction</a>, when we fear lest we may make a man worse.<br /><br />I answer that, As stated above (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3033.htm#3">Article 3</a>) the correction of the wrongdoer is twofold. One, which belongs to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a>, and is directed to the common <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a>, has coercive force. Such correction should not be omitted lest the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> corrected be disturbed, both because if he is unwilling to amend his ways of his own accord, he should be made to cease <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinning</a> by being punished, and because, if he be incorrigible, the common <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> is safeguarded in this way, since the order of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08571c.htm">justice</a> is observed, and others are deterred by one being made an example of. Hence a judge does not desist from pronouncing sentence of condemnation against a sinner, for fear of disturbing him or his friends.<br /><br />The other fraternal correction is directed to the amendment of the wrongdoer, whom it does not coerce, but merely admonishes. Consequently when it is deemed probable that the sinner will not take the warning, and will become worse, such fraternal correction should be foregone, because the means should be regulated according to the requirements of the end.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 1. The <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05072b.htm">doctor</a> uses force towards a madman, who is unwilling to submit to his treatment; and this may be compared with the correction administered by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a>, which has coercive power, but not with simple <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm">fraternal correction</a>.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 2. Fraternal correction is a matter of precept, in so far as it is an act of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtue</a>, and it will be a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm">virtuous</a> act in so far as it is proportionate to the end. Consequently whenever it is a hindrance to the end, for instance when a man becomes worse through it, it is longer a vital <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15073a.htm">truth</a>, nor is it a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10053b.htm">matter</a> precept.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 3. Whatever is directed to end, becomes <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> through being directed to the end. Hence whenever fraternal correction hinders the end, namely the amendment of our brother, it is no longer <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a>, so that when such a correction is omitted, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> is not omitted lest <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> should befall.<br /><br />Article 7. Whether the precept of fraternal correction demands that a private admonition should precede denunciation?<br /><br />Objection 1. It would seem that the precept of fraternal correction does not demand that a private admonition should precede <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04733b.htm">denunciation</a>. For, in works of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a>, we should above all follow the example of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, according to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/eph005.htm#verse1">Ephesians 5:1-2</a>: "Be ye followers of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, as most dear children, and walk in love." Now <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> sometimes punishes a man for a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, without previously warning him in secret. Therefore it seems that there is no need for a private admonition to precede <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04733b.htm">denunciation</a>.<br /><br />Objection 2. Further, according to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> (De Mendacio xv), we learn from the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">deeds</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holy</a> men how we ought to understand the commandments of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/index.html">Holy Writ</a>. Now among the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01115a.htm">deeds</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holy</a> men we find that a hidden<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> is publicly denounced, without any previous admonition in private. Thus we read (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/gen037.htm#verse2">Genesis 37:2</a>) that "<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08506a.htm">Joseph</a>accused his brethren to his father of a most <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">wicked</a> crime": and (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/act005.htm#verse4">Acts 5:4-9</a>) that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11744a.htm">Peter</a> publicly denounced Ananias and Saphira who had secretly "by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06249a.htm">fraud</a> kept back the price of the land," without beforehandadmonishing them in private: nor do we read that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a> admonished <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08539a.htm">Judas</a> in secret before denouncing him. Therefore the precept does not require that secret admonition should precede public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04733b.htm">denunciation</a>.<br /><br />Objection 3. Further, it is a graver <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10053b.htm">matter</a> to accuse than to denounce. Now one may go to the length of accusing a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> publicly, without previously admonishing him in secret: for it is decided in the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04670b.htm">Decretal</a> (Cap. Qualiter, xiv, De Accusationibus) that "nothing else need precede accusation except inscription." [The accuser was bound by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09079a.htm">Roman Law</a> to endorse (se inscribere) the writ of accusation. The effect of this endorsement or inscription was that the accuser bound himself, if he failed to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12454c.htm">prove</a> the accusation, to suffer the same punishment as the accused would have to suffer if <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12454c.htm">proved</a> guilty.] Therefore it seems that the precept does not require that a secret admonition should precede public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04733b.htm">denunciation</a>.<br /><br />Objection 4. Further, it does not seem probable that the customs observed by religious in general are contrary to the precepts of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Christ</a>. Now it is customary among religious orders to proclaim this or that one for a fault, without any previous secret admonition. Therefore it seems that this admonition is not required by the precept.<br /><br />Objection 5. Further, religious are bound to obey their <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12386b.htm">prelates</a>. Now a prelate sometimes commands either all in general, or someone in particular, to tell him if they <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">know</a> of anything that requires correction. Therefore it would seem that they are bound to tell them this, even before any secret admonition. Therefore the precept does not require secret admonition before public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04733b.htm">denunciation</a>.<br /><br />On the contrary, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a> says (De Verb. Dom. xvi, 4) on the words, "Rebuke him between thee and him alone" (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat018.htm#verse15">Matthew 18:15</a>): "Aiming at his amendment, while avoiding his disgrace: since perhaps from shame he might begin to defend his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>; and him whom you thought to make a better <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a>, you make worse." Now we are bound by the precept of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm">charity</a> to beware lest our brother become worse. Therefore the order of fraternal correction comes under the precept.<br /><br />I answer that, With regard to the public denunciation of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> it is <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10733a.htm">necessary</a> to make a distinction: because <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> may be either public or secret. On the case of public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, a remedy is required not only for the sinner, that he may become better, but also for others, who <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">know</a> of his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, lest they be <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13506d.htm">scandalized</a>. Wherefore such like <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> should be denounced in public, according to the saying of the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm">Apostle</a> (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/1ti005.htm#verse20">1 Timothy 5:20</a>): "Them that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> reprove before all, that the rest also may have fear," which is to be understood as referring to public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a>states (De Verb. Dom. xvi, 7).<br /><br />On the other hand, in the case of secret <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, the words of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a> seem to apply (<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat018.htm#verse15">Matthew 18:15</a>): "If thy brother shall offend against thee," etc. For if he offend thee publicly in the presence of others, he no longer <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> against thee alone, but also against others whom he 'disturbs. Since, however, a man's neighbor may take offense even at his secret <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a>, it seems that we must make yet a further distinction. For certain secret <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> are hurtful to our neighbor either in his body or in his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14153a.htm">soul</a>, as, for instance, when a man plots secretly to betray his country to its enemies, or when a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07256b.htm">heretic</a> secretly turns other men away from the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm">faith</a>. And since he that <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> thus in secret, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> not only against you in particular, but also against others, it is <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10733a.htm">necessary</a> to take steps to denounce him at once, in order to prevent him doing such harm, unless by chance you were firmly persuaded that this <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm">evil</a> result would be prevented by admonishing him secretly. On the other hand there are other <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> which injure none but the sinner, and the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11726a.htm">person</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinned</a> against, either because he alone is hurt by the sinner, or at least because he alone <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">knows</a> about his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, and then our one purpose should be to succor our <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinning</a> brother: and just as the physician of the body restores the sick <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a> to health, if possible, without cutting off a limb, but, if this be unavoidable, cuts off a limb which is least indispensable, in order to preserve the life of the whole body, so too he who desires his brother's amendment should, if possible, so amend him as regards his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm">conscience</a>, that he keep his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>.<br /><br />For a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06636b.htm">good</a> name is useful, first of all to the sinner himself, not only in temporal matters wherein a man suffers many losses, if he lose his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>, but also in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14220b.htm">spiritual</a> matters, because many are restrained from <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinning</a>, through fear of dishonor, so that when a man finds his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07462a.htm">honor</a> lost, he puts no curb on his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinning</a>. Hence <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08341a.htm">Jerome</a> says on <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/mat018.htm#verse15">Matthew 18:15</a>: "If he <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> against thee, thou shouldst rebuke him in private, lest he persist in his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> if he should once become shameless or unabashed." Secondly, we ought to safeguard our <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sinning</a> brother's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>, both because the dishonor of one leads to the dishonor of others, according to the saying of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm">Augustine</a>(Ep. ad pleb. Hipponens. lxxviii): "When a few of those who bear a name for <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm">holiness</a> are reported <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05781a.htm">falsely</a> or <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12454c.htm">proved</a> in <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15073a.htm">truth</a> to have done anything wrong, people will seek by busily repeating it to make it <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02408b.htm">believed</a> of all": and also because when one <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man's</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> is made public others are incited to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> likewise.<br /><br />Since, however, one's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm">conscience</a> should be preferred to a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>, <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a> wished that we should publicly denounce our brother and so deliver his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm">conscience</a> from <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, even though he should forfeit his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>. Therefore it is evident that the precept requires a secret admonition to precede public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04733b.htm">denunciation</a>.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 1. Whatever is hidden, is <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">known</a> to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, wherefore hidden <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> are to the judgment of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a>, just what public <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sins</a> are to the judgment of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">man</a>. Nevertheless <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> does rebuke sinners sometimes by secretly admonishing them, so to speak, with an inward inspiration, either while they wake or while they sleep, according to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/job033.htm#verse15">Job 33:15-17</a>: "By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men . . . then He openeth the ears of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm">men</a>, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn, that He may withdraw a man from the things he is doing."<br /><br />Reply to Objection 2. <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a> as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">knew</a> the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08539a.htm">Judas</a> as though it were public, wherefore He could have made it <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">known</a> at once. Yet He did not, but warned <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08539a.htm">Judas</a> of his <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> in words that were obscure. The <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> of Ananias and Saphira was denounced by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11744a.htm">Peter</a> acting as <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God's</a> executor, by Whose <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13001a.htm">revelation</a> he <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">knew</a> of their <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>. With regard to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08506a.htm">Joseph</a> it is probable that he warned his brethren, though <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13635b.htm">Scripture</a> does not say so. Or we may say that the <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> was public with regard to his brethren, wherefore it is stated in the plural that he accused "his brethren."<br /><br />Reply to Objection 3. When there is danger to a great number of people, those words of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a> do not apply, because then thy brother does not <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a> against thee alone.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 4. Proclamations made in the chapter of religious are about little faults which do not affect a man's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>, wherefore they are reminders of forgotten faults rather than accusations or denunciations. If, however, they should be of such a <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm">nature</a> as to injure our brother's <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12776c.htm">good name</a>, it would be contrary to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord's</a> precept, to denounce a brother's fault in this manner.<br /><br />Reply to Objection 5. A prelate is not to be obeyed contrary to a Divine precept, according to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/bible/act005.htm#verse29">Acts 5:29</a>: "We ought to obey <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm">God</a> rather then men." Therefore when a prelate commands anyone to tell him anything that he <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08673a.htm">knows</a> to need correction, the command rightly understood supports the safeguarding of the order of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm">fraternal correction</a>, whether the command be addressed to all in general, or to some particular <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07762a.htm">individual</a>. If, on the other hand, a prelate were to issue a command in express opposition to this order instituted by <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord</a>, both would <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm">sin</a>, the one commanding, and the one obeying him, as disobeying <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm">Our Lord's</a> command. 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Of course, some faith pursuits are better than others. The Protestant assemblies and Evangelical groups have the right direction but wrong path. The Jews have half the story right. Islam is a cult founded by a violent pedophile. Hindus and Buddhists mean well. Pagans and New Age are just silly.<br />
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Ours is an age where objective truth is offensive or intolerant and all opinions are equal. There are multiple shades of grey in many people's minds regarding any issue. Politicians win elections by being all things to all people and making whatever promises the voters need to hear.<br />
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This is why the Catholic Church (the one and only Christ founded) is at odds with the times. In the Church, something is either a sin or it's not. One either attains salvation or not. Prior to consecration it's just bread; after it's His Body. There are no grey areas on Judgement Day nor will anyone's opinion matter. Good or Evil; Right or Wrong, Heaven or Hell. Catholic or Not.<br />
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In dialoguing with the Nots one needs to extend charity and prudence while not compromising the truth. True evangelization involves guiding people towards the Light, not grey areas. False ecumenism lumps the true faith in with any and all others.<br />
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Patheos is a website where the only path to salvation gets mixed up with a bunch leading to damnation. It is described as a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patheos" target="_blank"> non-denominational, non-partisan online media company providing information and commentary from various religious and nonreligious perspectives</a>. It has a dozen faith channels including Catholicism, Paganism, and even Atheism. Basically it's a blog hosting site.<br />
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In the Catholic channel there are a couple decent blogs that can be found on their own. Clicking on a <a href="https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/patheos-and-catholicism/" target="_blank">Patheos blog post</a> encourages advertisers who fuel the fire (pun intended). My advice is to avoid this particular source.<br />
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There are many outstanding Catholic blogs none of whom I'm aware of promote the heresy of <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07759a.htm" target="_blank">Indifferentism</a> like Patheos does. Several can be found near the bottom on my blog under "My Blog List".<br />
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Then there are the dubious ones: <a href="http://www.sanctepater.com/2014/09/the-blurred-vision-of-mission-of.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth Scalia</a>, <a href="https://www.catholicvote.org/mark-shea-offers-a-public-apology/" target="_blank">Mark Shea</a>, and <a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/12/dave-armstrong-responds-on-fb-vox-is.html" target="_blank">Dave Armstrong</a>. These are professional Catholic bloggers/writers who knowingly or not have strayed from Church teaching at one point or another. What's worse is they eventually get into loggerheads with faithful Catholics like Michael Voris, Lila Rose, and Vox Cantoris. They are either current or past <a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/blasphemy-from-the-patheos-catholic-channel-manager/" target="_blank">Patheos contributors</a> and got paid by the click.<br />
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Most of us don't have the time and/or interest to thoroughly research any issue that people dispute on the Internet. When I come across one of these flame wars, invariably it's the one making petty insults, absent of facts and reason, and committing fallacies like ad hominem attacks and straw men that are in the wrong. Another quick evaluation would be if the party contributes to a source that holds the Church with the same consideration as pagans and atheists. Transubstantiation is not the same as <a href="http://kwtraditionalcatholic.blogspot.ca/2011/03/enemys-latest-front.html" target="_blank">dancing around a tree</a>. <br />
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Patheos was started and is run by a couple outside the Church probably for financial gain. With so many authentically Catholic websites and blogs to choose from it doesn't make sense supporting heretics who could risk your eternal destination.<br />
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As both proponents and opponents know, the Catholic Church is home to some of the world's greatest pieces of art. It's one of the things the Church is known for. Of course, some of it is better than others.</div>
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The Church is also known for mercy. No matter what the sin forgiveness is available. No matter how sinful the life salvation is possible. The Sacrament of Confession isn't available anywhere else.<br />
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The Return Of The Prodigal. Rembrandt.<br />
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To start the Church's new year at the first Sunday of Advent, Pope Francis declared this jubilee year will be <a href="http://www.im.va/content/gdm/en.html" target="_blank">dedicated to mercy</a>. There are special indulgences available, all confessions at SSPX chapels are valid, those who excommunicated themselves due to abortion can make a full restitution in any confessional (something some dioceses offer as standard anyway). There will be several dates where specific groups will celebrate their own jubilee.<br />
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If all this pomp and circumstance surrounding mercy helps bring back those fallen away from the Church, inspires conversions, or motivates the faithful to live their lives in a more Christ-like manner then great. It also has the potential to mirror the recent synod on the family and be much ado about nothing </div>
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Marko Rupnik, S.J. is an artist living in Rome. His mosaics can be found in Lourdes and Fatima. His style is sacred iconography so when it was decided an official logo would be appropriate eyes turned toward him. </div>
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Art is subjective to a degree. Some people may not be thrilled with the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but I doubt anyone has ever thought it to be ugly.</div>
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The piece below is clearly one of Jesus carrying a sinner (one of us). Perhaps the woman is trying to free the man or be included His loving grasp. I wouldn't pay money for this piece but Rupnik doesn't need my support anyway. Someone in the Vatican thought this piece worthy to become the official logo for the Year Of Mercy. </div>
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While it's doubtful anyone has looked at the Sistine Chapel ceiling and thought it ugly, I doubt I'm the only one who finds this logo hideous. </div>
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It's becoming typical of the Francis papacy that the best intentions go astray somehow. How can something as loving as mercy get distorted by this logo? </div>
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Then there's the matter of the third eye:</div>
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My advice to those frustrated or confused by Pope Francis is to pay less attention to him and more on your interior life. Catholics in this century have all the resources necessary to work on our salvation without leadership from the Vatican or bishop's mansion. If you don't like the official logo then find another to assist your prayer life. If you don't like the official catechism then use another. </div>
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"Patristic tradtion further associates counsel with the Beatitude: "Happy the merciful: They shall have mercy shown to them." (Mt 5:7). The reason is that among the virtues that counselors need, none stands higher than mercy, which knows how to be compassionate and forbearing under provocation, and communicates this spirit to those who come for advice. "The only remedy for great evils, the only way of plucking them out is to forgive and to give." When persons come for help, no matter what their problems may be, two things they always need and that the counselor should offer by word and example are forgiveness of injuries (real or imagined) and great generosity, both covered by the concept of mercy." John Hardon, S.J. 'The Catholic Catechism' </div>
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Pastors, the best way to make the Year Of Mercy a success is to make the Sacrament of Confession more available. Saturday afternoon is not a convenient time, and we live in an age of convenience. If people return to the confessional they will return to weekly Mass. Weekly Mass attendees are more likely to be living as our Father wants and that improves the chances of salvation. Simple stuff.</div>
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We can't avoid Hell without Christ's mercy. We won't receive His mercy if we don't ask for it. We won't know to ask for it if we don't know what sin is. "Merciful like the Father" is directed to priests whom we laity need to support. </div>
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<br />Have ever been in a crisis or utterly chaotic situation and the person in charge wanted to do everything BUT focus all of his or her energies in dealing with immediate crisis? If you have, then you’ve bore witness to what it looks like when a Beta Male is in charge.<br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/782ba0c4dd642ab53d0a8d03666f9082?s=48&d=mm&r=g" /> <a href="http://www.davidlgray.info/blog/author/admin/">DAVID L. GRAY</a> — <a href="http://www.davidlgray.info/blog/2015/12/alpha-beta-male/">12/30/2015</a><br /><br /><br /><img height="219" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.davidlgray.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/RTR3ITKQ-1024x670-e1451424618113.jpg?resize=800%2C438" width="400" /><br />Whether we receive it through nature or through nurturing, each of us has a personality that has its own particular traits, which happen to be common traits shared by other intelligent beings. Within this framework of personality traits comes the classifications of Alphas, Betas, and Omegas, to which I have been addressing through a Catholic perspective since 2012 in my articles, ‘<a href="http://www.davidlgray.info/blog/2012/02/what-is-alpha-malehood-and-why-was-jesus-the-epitome-of-all-alpha-males/">What is an Alpha Male, and Why was Jesus the Epitome of All Alpha Males</a>,’ and ‘<a href="http://www.davidlgray.info/blog/2014/10/pope-francis-barack-obama-the-rise-of-the-beta-male/">Pope Francis, Barack Obama, and the Rise of the Beta Male</a>‘.<br /><br /><br /><br />I am not intentionally writing a series of articles on this subject, inasmuch as it is an idea that I do enjoy sharing and have been interested in exploring since I was an undergrad. The person responsible, now a notable Chicago politician, for choosing the candidates to pledge his fraternity, of which I was in that small group, said we were his experiment to see what it would look like if a bunch of ‘ones’ as he called us (meaning Alpha Males) pledged his fraternity. I didn’t know what he meant back then. I just thought he was a lunatic, but later I came to appreciate and respect his madness.<br /><br />As I wrote in the latter article, “For the first time in the history of the world, the leader of Christians in the world, and leader of the most powerful/influential government in the world are Beta Males.” I then went on to list the five common traits that Beta Males like Francis and Obama can never hide; that is, (1) Their desperate need to be liked; (2) Their hatred of Alpha males (e.g. Raymond Cardinal Burke and Vladimir Putin), (3) Their insecurity and cliquish nature (e.g. surrounding themselves with people who agree with them), (4) Their inability to lead, and (5) Their machiavellian plots to get their way.<br /><br />The observation I have to offer in this article in regards to Francis and Obama goes along perfectly with the fourth constant in identifying a Beta Male; their complete inability to lead a sheep out of a maze that has no dead ends.</article><article class="post-7677 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-perspectives-on-the-papacy tag-alpha-male tag-alpha-dog tag-beta-male" id="post-7677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></article><article class="post-7677 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-perspectives-on-the-papacy tag-alpha-male tag-alpha-dog tag-beta-male" id="post-7677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /><b>The Alpha and the Beta who You Work/Live With</b><br /><br />Beta Males are wonderful multitaskers, but absolute failures in crisis management. Why? Because multitasking allows you to have many opportunities at success; opportunities to boost your self esteem and feel accomplished. This is why Beta Males are the best at things that involve doing several different little things at once; such as many IT (information technology) jobs, cooking, nurturing multiple children at once (stay-at-home dads), parish pastor, politician, and many management fields. A Beta is the guy or gal who you can trust to deftly negotiate large and complex tasks and operations.<br /><br />In contrast, Alpha Males run into crisis and chaotic situations, because that is where they thrive. They love just thinking about one thing and handling just that one thing. That is when they are in their zone, when they have just one task or mission to accomplish, and they won’t quit until it is completely done. It’s in their blood to take charge of a situation and rally other people around a common cause. This is why Alpha Males usually make bad husbands because their job or hobby takes all of their attention. They are really good fighters and hunters. In football they usually make for better position coaches than they do head coach. Alpha Males can be pretty good quarterbacks and point guards, but they are more than likely to be linemen and centers, because it allows them to focus all of their energies on one task (tackle, block). And Alpha is the guy or gal who you can trust to focus all of their energies to get a job done to complete satisfaction.</article><article class="post-7677 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-perspectives-on-the-papacy tag-alpha-male tag-alpha-dog tag-beta-male" id="post-7677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></article><article class="post-7677 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-perspectives-on-the-papacy tag-alpha-male tag-alpha-dog tag-beta-male" id="post-7677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /><b>Beta Males Run from Crisis Situations</b><br /><br />Have ever been in a crisis or utterly chaotic situation and the person in charge wanted to do everything BUT focus all of his or her energies in dealing with immediate crisis? If you have, then you’ve bore witness to what it looks like when a Beta Male is in charge.<br /><br />In fact, we’ve witnessed that in 2015 when the Church was being seriously pressed on by Satan and the world was being pressed on by Islamic Terrorists, all Pope Francis and Barack Obama wanted to talk about was Climate Change. In 2015 the world needed the Church to speak clearly on the meaning of family and on the value and sanctity of life, but Pope Francis and his gang wanted to talk about communion for people living in sin and new ways to not tell the truth about homosexual acts. In 2015 people were pouring through the southern border, Islamic terrorists were committing jihad all over the world and Barack Obama was intent on not calling Islamic terrorists Islamic terrorists and congratulating everyone and their momma who decided they were ‘gay’.<br /><br />Don’t misunderstand me, Beta Males do see the crisis, but they are afraid to focus all of their energies on it because they are afraid of failure on all levels, but most especially any type of monumental failure. Again, Betas need people to like and appreciate them and they need Alphas to respect them, and they believe that if the fail big, no will like them and Alphas will see them for who they are.<br /></article><article class="post-7677 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-perspectives-on-the-papacy tag-alpha-male tag-alpha-dog tag-beta-male" id="post-7677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></article><article class="post-7677 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-perspectives-on-the-papacy tag-alpha-male tag-alpha-dog tag-beta-male" id="post-7677" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Conclusion</b><br /><br />Hopefully 2016 will be the last year we have two Beta Males sitting in the most influential and powerful positions in the world. The only thing worse than a leader who can do something, but does everything but something, is leader who can do something, but does absolutely nothing.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/782ba0c4dd642ab53d0a8d03666f9082?s=200&d=mm&r=g" /><br /><br />About the AuthorDavid L. Gray<br />Until December 31, 2015 all donations made to DavidLGray.INFO Inc. will go towards the<a href="http://www.davidlgray.info/blog/2015/11/appeal-tolton/">Promotion of the Novena to Fr. Augustus Tolton for the Spiritual Welfare of the Black American Community.</a> Please check out this Appeal and Support it in any way you can. Thank you. Be sure to Download the<a href="http://www.davidlgray.info/blog/davidlgray-info-catholic-app"> Fresh Catholic Perspective APP</a> for your mobile device!</article>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-27479973094025991902015-12-28T10:02:00.000-05:002015-12-28T10:02:25.641-05:00Worshiping Towards God, Not Each Other<h2 class="subhead" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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This traditional direction of liturgical prayer, referred to as <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem </em>(facing east), had been nearly ubiquitous before the Second Vatican Council, yet almost vanished after it. This left most Catholics feeling the Council called for the priest to face the congregation, yet this was just that — a feeling — rather than a correct perception. None of the 16 conciliar documents contains an endorsement, let alone a mention, of the practice of the priest facing the congregation (<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">versus populum</em>) during the prayers of the Mass. </div>
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When Father Gawronski points this out to parishioners, he finds them to be generally receptive to it. “Old St. Patrick’s” worshippers have found his <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem</em> Masses to be coherent and meaningful expressions of prayer. Rather than thinking of Father Gawronski as “having his back to the people,” parishioners see his positioning as the Church intends, expressive of the unity of the priest and congregation in their quest for God.</div>
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Father Gawronski believes the whole point of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem</em> worship is to demonstrate that the entire community is on the same page by facing the same God in prayer.</div>
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“The priest is meant to lead the people to God, not to be a distraction,” Father Gawronski said. “Liturgical positioning is not about making me or the community the focus; it’s about making God the focus. This God-centeredness is the hallmark of any authentic worship.”</div>
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Authentic worship has been on the mind of Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. He published <a href="http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/2015/aug/12/cardinal-robert-sarah-liturgical-english/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a noteworthy article</a> on this theme on June 12 in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">L’Osservatore Romano.</em> The topic drawing most attention in the article was the direction of liturgical prayer — specifically, how the priest and people should be facing the same way during many parts of the Mass.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center;">While some see this as a return to a “pre-Vatican II” liturgy, Cardinal Sarah showed it is quite the opposite — that it is, in fact, consonant with conciliar teachings. In the opening sentence of the prefect’s letter, he sets the stage by asking, “Fifty years after its promulgation by Pope Paul VI, will the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy [</span><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></em><span style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: center;">] finally be read?”</span></div>
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The African cardinal explained that “it is in full conformity with the conciliar constitution — indeed, it is entirely fitting — for everyone, priest and congregation, to turn together to the east during the penitential rite, the singing of the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gloria</em>, the orations and the Eucharistic Prayer, in order to express the desire to participate in the work of worship and redemption accomplished by Christ.”</div>
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Cardinal Sarah emphasized that the priest must become the “instrument that allows Christ to shine through.” In the pursuit of this goal, he references Pope Francis remarking that the celebrant is not the host of a show, nor should he be seeking affirmation from the congregation, as if the primary concern of worship were a dialogue between the priest and assembly.</div>
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On the contrary, Cardinal Sarah believes that in order to enter into the true conciliar spirit, self-effacement is necessary for the priest who leads public worship. This self-effacement is implicit in the rubrics of the Roman Missal, which presume the priest will <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">not </em>be facing the congregation through the entirety of the Mass.</div>
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Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, Okla., has offered the ordinary form of the Mass <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem</em> for nearly five years. “Ninety percent of the time in the cathedral I offer Mass facing the same direction as the people,” he said. “The exceptions are when a great number of priests are concelebrating, because they would block the view of what is happening in the sanctuary.”</div>
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Bishop Slattery sees Cardinal Sarah’s recent liturgical remarks as a continuation of what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger taught, especially in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ignatius.com/promotions/spiritoftheliturgy/index.asp" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Spirit of the Liturgy</a></em>, while serving as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prior to his election as Pope Benedict XVI. This, in turn, is seen by Bishop Slattery as a continuation of what the Fathers of Vatican II taught: “It’s nothing new, really. It’s not only a decades-old tradition, but a centuries-old tradition of the Church that has solid theological and practical foundations.”</div>
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It is common sense to Bishop Slattery, who recalls simple rules of communication: “When I’m speaking to someone, I usually face that person. So when I’m giving a sermon, I face the people, because they are the ones I’m addressing. When I’m in prayer — especially offering Jesus to the Father at the altar — I’m addressing the Father, so it is no wonder that I should be facing him, rather than the people.”</div>
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Bishop Slattery believes authentic participation is not facilitated by the priest facing the people at these times, because then the priest becomes the central focus: “The metaphor I use to describe this is of a door. The only time you notice a door is when it’s locked. Otherwise, you don’t even think of the door, because the purpose of an unlocked door is to lead you from one place to another.”</div>
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“The priest is supposed to lead the people in Christ to the Father,” the bishop added, “yet when the priest faces the people, he becomes a <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">locked </em>— rather than an <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">open </em>— door. Instead of thinking about Christ going to the Father, the faithful are thinking about the personality of the priest.”</div>
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While Bishop Slattery prefers <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem </em>worship, he believes there is a deeper, more important element of prayer underlying the discussion. Regardless of the physical position or posture of the priest, what matters most, he said, is whether or not those present at Mass are entering into the sacred mysteries made present.</div>
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This entrance has been commonly seen in recent decades as an “active participation,” which calls the laity to proclaim the readings, distribute holy Communion and do various other things that were once reserved for the priest or deacon. However, Bishop Slattery sees the matter of active participation differently.</div>
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“The phrase<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> participatio actuosa</em>, which appears in Vatican II’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, was frequently translated as ‘active participation,’ but it’s more accurately stated as ‘<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">actual </em>participation,’” Bishop Slattery said. “The Fathers were not calling for more commotion; they were calling for an enhanced interiority. They wanted to have the hearts and minds of worshippers<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"> actually</em> attuned to what was taking place, rather than merely being physically present.”</div>
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Actual participation is seen in similar terms by Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Neb. He offered Christmas midnight Mass <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem</em> last year and wrote <a href="http://www.lincolndiocese.org/op-ed/bishop-s-column/3004-looking-to-the-east" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">an explanatory letter</a> preparing the faithful for his actions. Bishop Conley recalled that the Second Coming was especially emphasized in the early Church, where it was commonly understood that the reappearance of the Savior would take place soon. Because his first appearance occurred “in the East,” it was taken for granted that the second one would be similar.</div>
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Bishop Conley wrote, “In the season of Advent, we recall Christ’s Incarnation at Christmas, and we are reminded to be prepared for Christ’s coming. In the holy Mass, we are made present to the sacrifice at Calvary and to the joy of Christ’s glory in heaven. Yet we also recall that Christ will return, so we are called to be vigilant for this reality.”</div>
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For those who may have been concerned about the celebrant turning away from them at Mass, Bishop Conley reminded his flock, “In the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">ad orientem</em> posture at Mass, the priest will not be facing away from the people. He will be with them — among them and leading them — facing Christ and waiting for his return.”</div>
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Father Gawronski shares these sentiments and is grateful that Bishops Conley and Slattery — as well as Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wis. — are among those on board with Cardinal Sarah’s recent comments. Father Gawronski also reinforced Cardinal Sarah’s call to an honest reading of the documents of Vatican II by saying, “The hour has come to take another look at what Vatican II really taught.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At area Catholic churches, the tabernacle, 'Christ's dwelling place,' moves to center stage</span><br /><br /><a href="https://host-dot-madison-dot-com.bloxcms.com/users/profile/Doug%20Erickson">DOUG ERICKSON derickson@madison.com, 608-252-6149</a> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://host.madison.com/content/tncms/live/#1"><img height="264" src="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/host.madison.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/44/04469e92-db87-5cd6-bd20-778cf5ac5be2/567aed99d4184.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C793" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><br />The tabernacle at St. Peter Catholic Church in Ashton is at the center of the sanctuary, an example of an ideal position, according to Madison Bishop Robert Morlino.<br /><br /><br /><br />ASHTON — <a href="http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/at-area-catholic-churches-the-tabernacle-christ-s-dwelling-place/article_fe766c24-98b0-558c-9343-c4d59c99430c.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share" target="_blank">Like centuries of Catholic priests before him</a>, the Rev. Tait Schroeder consecrated the communion bread at a midday Mass last week, turning it into what the denomination’s faithful believe is the actual body of Jesus Christ.<br /><br />After offering the sacramental bread — referred to as the Eucharistic host — to parishioners, Schroeder walked the unused portion to an ornate, safe-like box behind him at the front of the sanctuary.<br /><br />In this secure shrine, called a tabernacle, the host would dwell until needed for the next Mass, available all the while for the faithful to pray before it or for Schroeder to take it to home-bound parishioners.<br /><br />As Christians around the world mark the birth of Christ in Bethlehem this Christmas season, many Madison-area Catholics are learning more about the profound role of the tabernacle in their parishes. Madison Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino has directed priests to move the tabernacle to a prominent spot at the center of the sanctuary at all diocesan churches.<br /><br />The directive was announced at an annual gathering of priests in September and could affect about half of the 134 worship sites in the diocese, although no exact count is available, said Patrick Gorman, director of the diocesan office of worship, which coordinates liturgical matters for the bishop and will be leading the effort. At these churches, the tabernacle may be off to one side of the sanctuary or in a separate side chapel altogether.<br /><br />Because church law requires that a tabernacle be immovable and made of solid material, the directive will require some cost and effort at some parishes, Gorman said. The bishop is giving priests three years to accomplish the goal, until October 2018.<br /><br />Gorman said the bishop’s intent is to place more emphasis and reverence on the Lord’s presence at the Eucharist, the term used by Roman Catholics for communion.<br /><br />“This isn’t just another piece of furniture in the sanctuary,” Gorman said. “It is housing the living God.”<br /><br />Morlino had been moving in this direction for a decade or more, encouraging priests in general to relocate tabernacles and requiring it during parish renovation projects, Gorman said.<br /><br />St. Peter Catholic Church, where Schroeder is priest, is an example of what Morlino considers an ideal placement of a tabernacle, according to the diocese. The neo-gothic church, constructed in 1901, is in Ashton, an unincorporated Dane County community northwest of Middleton.<br /><br />The tabernacle is at the central axis of the church, right behind the communion table and part of a soaring, decorative high altar that includes an array of statues and religious iconography.<br /><br />“It really is the focal point,” Schroeder said of the tabernacle. “It draws our hearts and minds to Christ and to our belief that he is really present with us.”<br /><br /><br />Schroeder said the tabernacle at St. Peter had moved around some over the decades, residing for a time off to the side of the sanctuary. His predecessor moved it back to its current, original spot.<br /><br />Following the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, there was a movement toward placing tabernacles to the sides of sanctuaries or to locate them in smaller chapels within the larger church buildings, Gorman said. One thought behind this was that the host could be more respectfully worshipped in a separate, quieter space, away from such events as wedding rehearsals, or, as is often the case with large cathedrals, tourist groups, he said.<br /><br />While the motivation may have been sound, “in reality, the tabernacle ended up just being bypassed by people,” Gorman said. “It didn’t accomplish what it set out to do. I think most priests would agree with that.”<br /><br />The tabernacle at the Ashton church is built into an elaborate wooden structure, but this does not need to be the case in every church, Gorman said. Some tabernacles are on pedestals that can be unbolted and moved to a more central spot with relatively little effort, he said.<br /><br />“I think, in most places, there will be a solution that will not be very costly,” he said.<br /><br />St. Bernard Catholic Church on Madison’s East Side is in the process of moving its tabernacle from a side of the sanctuary to the front as part of a much larger $240,000 restoration project that includes new carpeting and upgrades to electrical and sound systems, said the Rev. Michael Radowicz.<br /><br />“I was aware of the bishop’s desire to have the tabernacle front and center, and that did play an important part in the project,” he said. “It wasn’t, however, the sole reason for beginning the project.”<br /><br />Some parishioners are very happy about moving the tabernacle, while others are taking some time to warm to the idea, he said.<br /><br />“It’s the nature of the beast,” Radowicz said of the varied opinions. “I will point out, though, that I needed to go to the parishioners to ask for financial support so we could do the project. I received the support, so it’s my feeling that there are more in support than not. I also feel that once the parishioners see the project completed, they’ll be pleased with what we’ve been able to accomplish.”<br /><br />The Rev. Brian Wilk is pastor of a Catholic church in Middleton that also is named St. Bernard. When the church, built in 1959, was remodeled in the late 1980s, the tabernacle was moved to a chapel off the sanctuary, he said. During Mass, Wilk or a deacon must go to the side chapel to retrieve the host.<br /><br />Wilk said he’s just begun talking to the parish council about the need to move the tabernacle to the center of the sanctuary. There are no definitive plans yet, but he said he hopes the project can be undertaken in 2016, perhaps as part of other improvements.<br /><br />“I like the idea,” he said of making the tabernacle more prominent. “There’s the practicality of having the host close at hand when celebrating Mass. And then there’s what it represents. I think it can lead to a more reverent nature in the church building itself.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">A flashy and expensive white Mercedes rolled out from the four-car garage of Donald Wuerl around 10:05 PM on December 11. I was there in the parking lot of Queen of the Americas parish at 2200 California street in the luxurious neighborhood known commonly as Embassy Row.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Catholic cardinal of the nation’s capital since 2006, Wuerl has long had a reputation for high living — despite his exalted status as the most powerful American prelate in what the media calls the “humble church” of Pope Francis. (In his previous posting as a bishop in Pittsburgh, he lived in a 31-room mansion filled with antiques, rugs, and art.) But few know the details of his furtive pursuits on Embassy Row — a posh lifestyle which stands in shocking contrast to the simplicity Pope Francis insists he wants his shepherds to embrace.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I got a small glimpse of that contrast as I watched the white Mercedes move towards me. I put up my hand and the driver stopped and got out. “Do you work for Cardinal Wuerl?” I asked the black man, who appeared to be late middle age, as he exited the white Mercedes. “Yes,” he said. “I am his personal chef.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Unaware that Cardinal Wuerl employed a personal chef, I asked the gentleman his name. He refused to give it. But he did describe himself as “an archdiocesan employee.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Was the white Mercedes an archdiocesan vehicle? “I don’t know what you are implying,” said the man, who claimed the vehicle as his own, for which he paid with earnings from his time in the “military.”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nervous and upset, the man resented my stopping him. “I got to get back to Baltimore,” he complained.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Earlier in the day, I had called Fr. Charles Cortinovis, the personal secretary to Cardinal Wuerl, multiple times and received no response. I had learned that Cortinovis lives, along with Wuerl, on the fourth floor of the archdiocesan building at 2200 California, a property priced at north of $43,000,000.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cortinovis is the third personal secretary to Cardinal Wuerl during a tenure less than a decade. The other two had also lived on the same floor with the cardinal, which is “12,000 square feet,” according to a rough estimate by a lawyer familiar with the property records for the building.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Unbeknownst to most priests, lay people, and even donors to the Washington archdiocese, the palatial and multimillionaire floor also includes a chapel. Without any apparent consultation with his priests or the faithful, Wuerl during his tenure has made costly renovations to what he described to his architect as his “personal residence” and “personal chapel” on the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I would like to speak to Fr. Cortinovis,” I said to the black man leaning on the white Mercedes. He took out his cell phone and called up. He explained to Cortinovis that a reporter was in the parking lot seeking to speak with him. The man transferred the phone to me. “Is this Fr. Cortinovis?” I said as I got on the line. There was a very long pause, punctuated by Cortinovis barking, “Who are you?”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I am a reporter doing a story on Cardinal Wuerl,” I replied. “I have been trying to get a hold of you.” I asked him why he hadn’t returned my multiple calls and then said, “Could I come up and speak with you and Cardinal Wuerl?” Audibly agitated, Cortinovis shouted, “It is ten after ten, Mr. Neumayr!”</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I offered to come back the following day at a more convenient time. Still, my presence in the parking lot at the hour wasn’t unusual: after all, a loud Our Lady of Guadalupe festival was taking place on the floors below Wuerl’s penthouse, where the “Our Lady Queen of the Americas parish” resides (the striking pre-Vatican II chapel sits on the second floor). At 11 that evening, a Mass honoring the Virgin Mary was to be held, followed by a reception after midnight. Curiously, Cortinvois appeared oblivious to the noise from the build-up to the event below the penthouse he occupies with Wuerl.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Nobody is allowed to go up to the fourth floor,” more than one parishioner has said to me in a lowered voice. According to my reporting, neither Wuerl nor Cortinovis ever interact with members of the parish, many of whom come from Mexico, Central America, and Latin America.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rattled by my call, Cortinovis said that he needed to break away and would return to the line shortly. He never did. “Why did he abandon the call?” I asked the black man, who jumped into the white Mercedes and sped away.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have made multiple requests for information about Wuerl’s “personal chef” to the archdiocese in general and Chieko Noguchi, his director of media relations, in particular. She refuses to answer my questions.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is his name? How much does he receive in salary a year? The archdiocese declines to answer these questions, even though his salary, if he is in fact an archdiocesan employee, would derive from the donations of the faithful.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">At two book signings — one at the bookstore at Catholic University’s Basilica on December 14 and another at K street’s Catholic Information Center on December 16 — Cardinal Wuerl appeared. He has recently penned a book titled<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"> To the Martyrs</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">I showed up to both signings. At the first, shortly after Cardinal Wuerl arrived in the bookstore, two police officers came up to me and said, “We need to talk to you outside.” I was then informed that the archdiocese, which owns the bookstore’s property, wanted me “off it.” At the second signing, I arrived late, around 6:05 PM, as Cardinal Wuerl gave a little talk about his new book. I did not speak to him during the talk or during the question-and-answer session following it. But I did introduce myself to him as the book-signing phase of the event started and spoke to him privately as he approached the table at which he was to sign books.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Why won’t you speak to me,” I said to him as he weakly shook my hand and averted his eyes from me. As he sat down to start signing books, officials with Opus Dei, the organization that runs the Catholic Information Center, encircled me and demanded that I leave. Evidently they had been briefed by archdiocesan officials on my journalistic investigation into the cardinal’s Embassy Row lifestyle. “I am a member of the press,” I replied as they pressed against me. “Call the police” if you want me to leave, I said to them as they temporized about what to do with me.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The crowd, full of supporters of Wuerl, showered me in condemnations. I stood my ground, even saying to John Gizzi, a reporter with Newsmax whom I saw approaching me as a member of the crowd angry with me, “Mr. Gizzi, do you believe in press freedom?” On that evening, he didn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">As the crowd tried to bully me out of the bookstore, I said, “Call the police.” Eventually, they did. A police man arrived and informed me that the property owner wanted me off it. Twice in one week, Wuerl, the face of the “transparent and humble” church of Pope Francis in America, had me escorted off its property by police.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“He is handling this very badly,” said a prominent liberal religion reporter to me last week.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Questions about Wuerl’s putative personal chef — along with many other regarding his use of the faithful’s money to pursue a lifestyle more akin to the Borgia era than the Francis one — remain, and it is clear that Cardinal Wuerl is determined to stonewall every one of them. </span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">George Neumayr is co-author of No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.</em></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">by <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/author/christine-niles" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">Christine Niles</a></strong> • ChurchMilitant.com • <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/new-vatican-appointment-leaves-fr.-thomas-rosicas-position-in-doubt" target="_blank">December 23, 2015 </a> <a class="bubble" data-disqus-identifier="entry-17255" href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/new-vatican-appointment-leaves-fr.-thomas-rosicas-position-in-doubt#disqus_thread" style="background: rgb(79, 79, 79); border-radius: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 12px; margin-top: -2px; padding: 3px 6px 6px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; transition: opacity 300ms; vertical-align: 2px;">6 Comments</a></div>
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Greg Burke has been appointed No. 2 spokesman for the Pope</h2>
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VATICAN CITY (<a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/greg-burkes-appointment-signals-beginning-of-communications-reform" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ChurchMilitant.com</a>) - The Holy See Press Office has a new vice director. Greg Burke, former Fox News correspondent and a member of Opus Dei, has been appointed deputy spokeman for the Pope, as announced by the Vatican Monday. </div>
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As of February 1, Burke — a St. Louis, Missouri native — will become the Pope's No. 2 spokesman, reporting directly to longtime head spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi. In addition to arranging press conferences and helping communicate information about Vatican activities, Burke will also step in for Lombardi when he is unavailable. The new appointment leaves the position of the current English language attaché Fr. Thomas Rosica in question.</div>
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The Canadian priest and Basilian has effectively functioned as the English spokesman for the past several years, often appearing side by side with Fr. Lombardi during Vatican press conferences. His tenure has been dogged by controversy, however, with several high-profile gaffes that have sown doubt about his ability to represent the Holy See.</div>
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In February, Rosica <a href="http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/success-has-many-fathers-and-michael.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">threatened to sue</a> Catholic blogger David Domet over criticisms he had made against the priest implying dishonest and unethical behavior. Rosica's attorney <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.tv/documents/spec-2015-02-19.pdf" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">demanded</a> that Domet take down the posts and remove all reference to Rosica or else suffer a lawsuit.</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kwb8VZMP5I" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ChurchMilitant.com first reported on the incident</a>, which soon spread throughout the Catholic Internet, leading to loud complaints on Catholic websites and news outfits about Fr. Rosica's petty bullying of a small-time blogger. After the public outcry, Fr. Rosica relented and withdrew his threat to sue. </div>
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In early October, Fr. Rosica caused scandal when he permitted a <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/synod-showdown-reportoctober-8-2015" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">homosexualist dissenter</a> into the Synod press conference to ask a question — a rare privilege, and one that was repeated later on. Francis DeBernardo of New Ways Ministry — a Catholic group that dissents on Church teaching on homosexuality and whose founder has been censured by the Vatican — was granted a press pass, even though DeBernardo is a gay activist and not a journalist. Meanwhile, faithful Catholic journalists with legitimate media credentials were <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/micd-up-fr.-rosicas-homosexual-agenda" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">denied entry</a> into the Synod press hall.</div>
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The action was seen as further proof of Rosica's attempts to sway Synod proceedings in favor of a<a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/synod-manipulation" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">homosexualist agenda</a>; although Synod Fathers said homosexuality was hardly discussed in their meetings, Rosica presented a different picture as spokesman, offering multiple statements indicating that homosexuality was a major focus among the bishops.</div>
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This agenda was in evidence before the start of the Synod, when Fr. Rosica downplayed the controversial guest list for the Pope's visit to the White House. Although the list included LGBT activists, a gay Episcopal "bishop" and a dissident nun to greet the Pope, causing outrage among faithful Catholics, Rosica <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/vatican-spokesman-i-applaud-the-white-house" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">told the media</a>: "I applaud the White House for having such a wonderful reception."</div>
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Father Rosica again made headlines that month for <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/prominent-cardinal-corrects-vatican-spokesman" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">blocking numerous critics</a> on social media. As prominent spokesman for the 2015 Synod on the Family, Catholic authors noted the impropriety of the "ideological purge" on Twitter, and a hashtag was even created for the phenomenon:<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RosicaBlockParty" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">#RosicaBlockParty</a>, with a related <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Blocked-by-Father-Thomas-J-Rosica-CSB-Support-Page-1635512143377810/timeline/?notif_t=fbpage_fan_invite" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. To critics, the incident served as yet more evidence of Fr. Rosica's pettiness and lack of professionalism.</div>
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The English language spokesman was caught in a <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/someone-is-lying-about-the-popes-meeting-with-kim-davis" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">deliberate falsehood</a> in early October when he claimed the Pope had not met privately with Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue same-sex "marriage" licenses. Davis had become something of a conservative folk hero to those opposed to the gay agenda in America, and reports of the papal meeting were met with howls of protest from the liberal media and, conversely, shouts of victory from conservatives, who saw this as a major boost.</div>
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In the midst of the media flurry, Rosica stepped in and downplayed the significance of the meeting, claiming Davis had only been one among a number of other delegates that day, and that she hadn't received any special attention from the Holy Father. But Davis and her attorney went on record, with photos as evidence, confirming that the private meeting had indeed taken place, and that Pope Francis had encouraged her to "stay strong" in her fight against gay "marriage."</div>
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Whether Rosica will continue in his position as English spokesman for the Holy See remains to be seen, but with a new English speaker working directly under Fr. Lombardi, coupled with Fr. Rosica's numerous public gaffes and controversies, some are wondering whether Rosica's days are numbered.</div>
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis and the Holy See have been fervently pushing for a legally binding agreement on combating climate change in recent weeks, the chief objective of a multilateral United Nations meeting in Paris that wraps up today.</div>
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The COP21 Climate Change Conference, which has been taking place since Nov. 30 in Le Bourget near Paris, has been trying to achieve — for the first time in more than 20 years of U.N. talks — a legally binding and universal agreement to keep global warming below 2° Celsius.</div>
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At the time of writing, the talks looked like they were extending into Saturday, having been held up by wrangling over how much funding developed countries would be willing to pay poorer countries to respond to climate change and whether countries would agree on increasing their commitment to lower emissions.</div>
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The precise nature of the Holy See’s position on climate change, which is arguably even stronger than in Pope Francis’ 2015 environment encyclical <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Laudato Si</em> (the papal document <a href="http://edwardpentin.co.uk/a-call-for-ecological-conversion/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">said</a> the Church had “no reason to offer a definitive opinion” on climate change, saying an “honest debate must be encouraged among experts, while respecting divergent views”), has been crystallized over the past two weeks, beginning with comments the Holy Father made in Kenya.</div>
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Speaking to the U.N. Office in Nairobi Nov. 26, the Pope said the world is facing a “grave environmental crisis” and warned that a failure at the U.N. climate summit would be “<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/11/27/pope-francis-cop21/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">catastrophic</a>.” He was equally forceful a few days later, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/30/pope-francis-the-world-is-near-suicide-on-climate-change-its-now-or-never/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">telling</a> reporters on the papal plane back from Africa that an agreement on climate change was needed to save a world “at the limits of suicide.”</div>
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His concern was echoed by Holy See delegates at COP21, who have been similarly committed in their comments, sweeping away any ambiguity that might have existed over the Vatican’s position on the science.</div>
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Cardinal Peter Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, <a href="http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2015/12/08/cardinal_turkson_we_cannot_remain_blind_to_planetary_damage/1192772" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">called</a> for a “fair, legally binding and truly transformational agreement,” telling the Paris meeting on Dec. that COP21 “must be ambitious” because “when the environment is assaulted, the poor, least able to defend themselves, suffer most.”</div>
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In his own <a href="http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/put-ethics-at-heart-of-climate-talks-vatican-says-at-paris-summit-94178/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Nov. 30 remarks</a> to delegates, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, underlined “global solidarity” and laid out important factors to consider in any agreement, such as a “clear ethical orientation,” appropriate guidelines for governments and the private sector and effective follow-ups.</div>
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But many are wondering how the Holy See came to have such a clear and strong position on the science that, although backed by 800 U.N. scientists, remains highly contested by many others, as well as promoted by the population control lobby.</div>
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To some extent, the answer can be found by looking back into the history of papal pronouncements on environmental issues. Safeguarding the environment has been mentioned to some degree in all recent social encyclicals, but successive popes have increasingly waded into the scientific minutiae of the effects of human activity on ecosystems.</div>
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The environment first took on a more prominent role when Blessed Paul VI warned in his 1971 apostolic letter <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_letters/documents/hf_p-vi_apl_19710514_octogesima-adveniens.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Octogesima Adveniens</a></em> of the “tragic consequence” of unchecked human activity and an “ill-considered exploitation of nature.” He later <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/speeches/1970/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19701116_xxv-istituzione-fao.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">predicted </a>an “ecological catastrophe” caused by the explosive growth of industrial civilization and stressed the urgent need for “a radical change in the conduct of humanity.”</div>
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Pope St. John Paul was the first pope to call for an <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/audiences/2001/documents/hf_jp-ii_aud_20010117.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">ecological conversion</a> and introduced the theme of <a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_01051991_centesimus-annus.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">human ecology</a>. In his first encyclical, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_04031979_redemptor-hominis.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Redemptor Hominis</a></em>, he warned that human beings frequently seem “to see no other meaning in their natural environment than what serves for immediate use and consumption.” He would then go on to address the issue in additional detail in his <a href="https://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_19891208_xxiii-world-day-for-peace.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">1990 World Day of Peace Message</a>, “Peace With God the Creator, Peace With All of Creation.”</div>
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Benedict XVI expanded further on ecology, introducing an ecology of peace and social ecology. “The book of nature is one and indivisible,” he wrote in his 2009 social encyclical <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Caritas in Veritate</a></em>, adding that it encompasses the environment, life, sexuality, the family and social relations. “The deterioration of nature is closely connected to the culture which shapes human coexistence,” he said.</div>
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But most significantly, Benedict was the first pope to refer to climate change, mentioning it on seven occasions during his pontificate, the first time in <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070901_symposium-environment_en.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">2007</a>. He also became the first pope to <a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20091208_xliii-world-day-peace_en.htm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">wade into the particulars</a> of safeguarding the environment, trumpeting the “immense potential” of solar energy (installing it at the Vatican and signing a U.N. protocol), preserving water systems, “whose stability could be seriously jeopardized by climate change,” and implementing “appropriate policies for the management of forests.”</div>
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Francis has entered into considerably more detail, devoting a whole sub-chapter to climate change in his encyclical<a href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Laudato Si</em></a> (The Care for Our Common Home), saying it is a “ global problem with grave implications: environmental, social, economic, political and for the distribution of goods.” He has also delved into specific scientific areas and discussed a whole range of subjects, from the “decomposition of frozen organic material” to the “disappearance of ecosystems sustained by mangrove swamps.”</div>
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The Holy Father has backed up his words with gestures: On the feast of the Immaculate Conception, he allowed environmentalist groups to <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/images-and-reactions-to-vaticans-climate-change-light-show/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">stage a controversial light show</a> on St. Peter’s Basilica as part of a lobbying attempt to achieve what one of the organizers called “the most ambitious” deal in Paris and even <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cop21-pope-francis-joins-empty-shoe-protest-against-banned-paris-march-1531019" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">donated his shoes</a> in a show of solidarity with hundreds of climate-change marches taking place across the globe. </div>
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But the encyclical and the extent to which the Pope and the Holy See have cheered on the U.N.’s push for a universal agreement is a step too far for some. Father Robert Sirico, founding president of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, believes the Church’s advocacy gives the impression that the Church “doesn’t have confidence in her own competence,” instead giving the mistaken impression that “we’re scientists.”</div>
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Father Sirico said it’s not a matter of “ignoring the claims of science,” but added that he was “puzzled” by <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Laudato Si</em> for not beginning with “the insights of Revelation on this subject” and instead plunging “immediately into making a series of empirical claims.”</div>
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Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley, a prominent climate-change skeptic, saw what he called the Holy See's “me-too endorsement” in Paris of climate-change science as a “sad rejection and repudiation” of the Church’s “mission to the poor.” By depriving poor nations of fossil fuels, he believes it will keep poor countries poor and continue to cost millions of lives. By siding with those promoting climate-change science, history will remember the Pope “unkindly,” he predicted.</div>
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Indeed, the cost to poor countries of anti-climate change policies promoted by U.N. processes is something that Riccardo Cascioli, president of the European Study Center on Population, Environment and Development, views as indefensible. “Until now, man has always tried to defend himself from nature, but now, with the <a href="http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Kyoto protocol</a> [the U.N.’s 1997 agreement to cut emissions] and ideology, that’s all changed, and we are spending a lot of money to avoid natural laws,” he said.</div>
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Cascioli argues that countries should be investing in defending themselves from natural disasters, rather than spending vast amounts of money on trying to change the climate — something he also believes will adversely affect the poorest countries.</div>
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But for Cardinal Turkson, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Laudato Si</em> and the Pope’s advocacy for climate-change science are in continuity with his predecessors and build on what they said on the environment. The Pope’s position reflects his experience as a pastor, the cardinal told the Register; the cardinal feels Francis has been “prudent” when it comes to the subject of climate change.</div>
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The Pope, who has listened to bishops explaining how their islands are disappearing or ecosystems are being destroyed, is “not claiming any dogmatic position” or an “article of faith,” Cardinal Turkson said, but he recognized that climate change can be evidenced, even if “difficult to evaluate.”</div>
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“A whole lot of temptations are involved in this,” he said, referring to potential costs involved, but he believes, like the Pope, that a multifaceted approach is needed — one that tackles not only climate-change prevention, but also implementing defenses against natural disasters. The cardinal added, “Everyone working in Paris deserves our prayer, because some may come and say it’s an occasion to make money.”</div>
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Some in the Vatican, however, see the Pope’s position as more binding on the faithful. At a Dec. 3 <a href="http://www.acton.org/event/2015/dialogue-laudato-s%C3%AC-can-free-markets-help-us-care" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c1272d; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Acton Institute conference</a> on <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Laudato Si</em> in Rome, Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, insisted the Pope’s support for climate-change science is not mere opinion, but part of the ordinary magisterium, and so is owed the same obedience by the faithful as the recognition that abortion is a mortal sin (which is also part of the ordinary magisterium, he pointed out).</div>
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“When the Pope supports this because the majority tell him that scientific opinion thinks this, this isn’t an opinion; this is magisterium,” he said, stressing it’s not dogma and infallible, but still demands a level of obedience.</div>
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Cardinal Turkson, however, said he was aware of the differences of opinion and has received many experts in his offices who have argued that the science is not conclusive enough.</div>
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“Wisdom demands that we take a dispassionate look at it and try to do the one thing that Catholic social teaching often talks about: the well-being of the human being in all these situations,” he said.</div>
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That means engaging with the U.N., Cardinal Turkson stressed, even if the international body sometimes supports policies antithetical to Church teaching. And with Francis’ popular global standing, the cardinal said his moral voice is being heard.</div>
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“There has never been a pope whose writings have been quoted so profusely at a meeting like this one,” Cardinal Turkson noted. “And when the quotes are read, it’s not what the Pope said about climate change; it’s about what the Pope has said about respect for nature.”</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">by <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/author/christine-niles" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;">Christine Niles</a></strong> • ChurchMilitant.com • <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/after-intense-media-pressure-ny-priest-accused-of-embezzlement-resigns" target="_blank">December 12, 2015</a> <a class="bubble" data-disqus-identifier="entry-16959" href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/after-intense-media-pressure-ny-priest-accused-of-embezzlement-resigns#disqus_thread" style="background: rgb(79, 79, 79); border-radius: 6px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: 12px; margin-top: -2px; padding: 3px 6px 6px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; transition: opacity 300ms; vertical-align: 2px;"></a></div>
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BRONX (<a href="http://churchmilitant.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ChurchMilitant.com</a>) - Following intense media scrutiny over the last 48 hours, including from <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/special-report-gay-new-york" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">ChurchMilitant.com</a>, Fr. Peter Miqueli — the New York pastor <a href="http://docs.google.com/document/d/12yp-3ZDvMecdw_bjz4_Oa4VhfI59Ww-V2noaZhT_SWI/edit?usp=sharing" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">being sued</a> over allegedly embezzling more than $1 million to fund his perverted sex life — has resigned.</div>
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The announcement came this evening at 5:00 p.m. EST as Fr. Miqueli read a prepared statement outside of St. Francis de Chantal parish in Throggs Neck, New York. "I have made the decision to step aside from my position as pastor of this parish while this unfortunate and regrettable situation is investigated ... ." </div>
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<a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/special-report-gay-new-york" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.churchmilitant.com/images/uploads/peter-miqueli-pic-main-street-wire.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 237px; margin: 10px 16px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 400ms; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;" /></a>Father Miqueli insisted that he is "not guilty of the charges" documented in the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12yp-3ZDvMecdw_bjz4_Oa4VhfI59Ww-V2noaZhT_SWI/edit?usp=sharing" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">40-page lawsuit</a> filed Thursday by attorney <a href="http://www.mgdowdlaw.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Michael Dowd</a> on behalf of parishioners at St. Frances de Chantal.</div>
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The lawsuit also charges the archdiocese of New York and Cdl. Timothy Dolan with knowledge of these embezzlement crimes while they were occurring.</div>
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Miqueli concluded by saying, "It is in the best interests of the parish that this matter be resolved without me serving as your pastor," and that "Cdl. Dolan has graciously given me permission to [resign]."</div>
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Earlier today, Cdl. Dolan admitted he's known for some time about the allegations of drug-fueled sex romps and theft by Fr. Miqueli and that the priest has been cooperating with the archdiocese. But parishioners who have spoken with ChurchMilitant.com claim Dolan is "backpedaling."</div>
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Speaking at a Catholic Charities event Saturday, Dolan acknowledged he saw the explicit content in emails detailing Miqueli's sexual shenanigans. "You bet I saw it. You bet I saw it," he said.</div>
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The emails in question, turned over by Tatyana Gudin, jilted lover of Miqueli's sex partner Keith Crist, detail perverse sex acts involving drinking Crist's urine and calling Crist "Master" (details of<a href="http://nypost.com/2015/12/12/email-to-dolan-details-pee-drinking-priests-alleged-affair/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">emails</a> here; warning: graphic content). Gudin says she turned over the emails to Cdl. Dolan, who then requested she visit his office with all the information. Dolan claims that she failed to appear, and he then turned over the emails to the D.A.</div>
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But according to Gudin, she had initially agreed to meet with Dolan, but canceled after an archdiocesan lawyer forbade a parishioner plaintiff to accompany her. "Basically he wanted me to turn over the smut so they could continue the cover-up," she said.</div>
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<a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/special-report-gay-new-york" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.churchmilitant.com/images/uploads/Timothy-Dolan_e.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 10px 16px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 400ms; vertical-align: middle; width: 400px;" /></a>Dolan said Saturday, "What distresses me, I think, are the innuendo that the archdiocese is taking this with anything less than the gravity it deserves. We've been cooperating with these people. We've had a number of audits. And we're prepared to arrive at a resolution within the first of the year."</div>
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But parishioners of St. Frances de Chantal tell a different story. According to one parishioner who spoke with ChurchMilitant.com, "He's backpedaling. That <a href="http://archny.org/news/flocknote-on-st-frances-de-chantal-news-story" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">letter</a> from Zwilling [archdiocesan communications director] was a line in the sand. Now that Dolan's been approached, he seems to be [saying,] 'Oh, we <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">love</em> the people in Throggs Neck, we're so happy with what they're doing, it's great for them to do this."</div>
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Zwilling claims they "have not found anything that would confirm or substantiate the allegations raised."</div>
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Parishioners say they've been lodging complaints against Fr. Miqueli for at least two years, even setting up a public <a href="http://helpsfdchantal.weebly.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Remove-Fr-Peter-Miqueli-as-Pastor-of-St-Frances-de-Chantal-213413205520342/timeline/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> detailing his misdeeds (which include skimming from parish donations to the tune of more than $1 million, with Keith Crist a willing participant in the embezzlement scheme). The parishioners' pleading more often than not was met with silence. </div>
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In spite of the faithful's repeated requests over 18 months that the archdiocese take action, Cdl. Dolan allowed Fr. Miqueli to continue in active ministry. The only substantive response parishioners had received up to the resignation of Fr. Miqueli was <a href="http://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/whos-protecting-judas-priest" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">an audit</a> of the parish ordered in August by Cdl. Dolan, which, according to parishioners, had accomplished nothing.</div>
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Dolan claims he's found "some sloppiness" in parish finances, but thus far "I found no evidence at all of embezzlement." The <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/12yp-3ZDvMecdw_bjz4_Oa4VhfI59Ww-V2noaZhT_SWI/edit?usp=sharing" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0971b2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">lawsuit</a>, however, filed Thursday, claims it has proof of extensive financial misdealings by Fr. Miqueli and Crist, who not only embezzled money from the parish, but "attempted to cover up their diversion [of funds] by destroying financial records."</div>
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Dolan claims Miqueli is "as eager as anybody to see the truth come out. If the truth comes out and it hurts him, his priesthood is obviously over. But I'm hoping that's not the case."</div>
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Stay tuned to ChurchMilitant.com as the story continues to develop.</div>
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The Rev. Peter Miqueli is accused of looting the parish coffers by breaking Archdioceses rules governing donations and gifts.</h2>
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A scandalous lawsuit accuses a Bronx priest of looting more than $1 million from a pair of city parishes — then spending the cash on a long-running S&M romance with a muscle-bound boyfriend.</div>
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The Rev. Peter Miqueli reportedly paid $1,000 per rough sex session with his hunky lover, who demanded the priest address him as “Master” — and drink his urine, the lawsuit said.</div>
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The sex-slave priest and his boy toy have shared a house in Brick, N.J., after Miqueli paid $264,000 cash six years ago, according to the suit.</div>
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Miqueli, 53, was also accused of stealing money donated to fix a church pipe organ, siphoning funds from a parish thrift shop and getting high on drugs provided by a Bronx parishioner.</div>
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“This lawsuit seeks to finally put an end to this truly sinful conduct,” the 36-page court filing said. In addition to the alleged sexual shenanigans, Miqueli purportedly used his ill-gotten cash for vacations in Italy and Florida.</div>
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Rev. Miqueli reportedly paid $1,000 per rough sex session with his hunky lover, Keith Crist (pictured).</h2>
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Alleged boyfriend Keith Crist, named as a co-defendant, had nothing to say about the salacious claims.</div>
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“I don’t have to talk to you!” he yelped before hanging up on a Daily News reporter.</div>
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Neighbors in Jersey say there’s a steady stream of male visitors at the Brick home on Cornell Dr., where a new BMW allegedly belonging to Crist usually sits in the driveway. Miqueli also installed a heavily trafficked hot tub in the backyard, the neighbors said.</div>
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“He's a creep,” said a woman who lives on the block. “I won’t let my kids go near that house.”</div>
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Neighbors also said the garage is stuffed with boxes, and that cartons are moved in an out regularly.</div>
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Rev. Miqueli and his boy-toy shared this house in Brick, N.J., according to the lawsuit.</h2>
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“They’re packaging things there at 2 and 3 in the morning,” one woman said.</div>
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A couple who lives across the street said the mysterious boxes started showing up in the garage a few weeks ago.</div>
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Crist’s on-and-off girlfriend — who says former bodybuilder and escort Crist injured his knees in a bathtub sex romp with the priest — alerted church officials this year to the couple’s unholy rolls in the hay.</div>
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The suit was filed by parishioners from St. Frances de Chantal Church in Throgs Neck, where Miqueli remains the pastor, and from his old church, St. Francis Cabrini, on Roosevelt Island.</div>
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“These charges of theft and misconduct have been made for at least 10 years,” said lawyer Michael Dowd, who represents the two parishes.</div>
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“It is unbelievable that the diocese can’t come to a conclusion about the misconduct of Miqueli when there is money missing that may be a million dollars.”</div>
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Parishioners have united to oppose Rev. Miqueli.</h2>
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Miqueli did not return a phone call seeking comment, instead alerting the Archdiocese of New York to speak on his behalf. Timothy Cardinal Dolan and the archdiocese are also named as defendants in the Manhattan court papers.</div>
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The lawsuit charges the church hierarchy, in an echo of the pedophilia scandal, with covering up for the pervert priest.</div>
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“We can’t understand it,” said Bronx parishioner Jack Lynch. “It seems they are going out of their way to protect him, and for years. We suspect a scandal behind the scandal.”</div>
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According to the complaint, Miqueli emptied the parish coffers by breaking the archdiocese’s rules governing donations and gifts.</div>
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Money collected at Mass is supposed to go into a locked bag, stored in a safe, counted and logged by more than one trusted parishioner — and only then deposited in the church bank account.</div>
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Miqueli instead stuffed all donations into unlocked bags that he counted personally in his bedroom — sometimes leaving foot-high stacks of cash lying around, according to the complaint.</div>
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Church parishioners created a petition demanding the removal of Rev. Miqueli.</h2>
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The lawsuit says he provided no accounting of the money and routinely deposited the cash into his own personal account at an HSBC in Hauppauge, L.I.</div>
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“First and foremost, we want his removal as pastor — here or anyplace in the archdiocese,” said Dowd. “He is like a cancer and the best thing to do with cancer is to cut it out.”</div>
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Court papers say Miqueli also brought Crist into parish affairs, having him run a thrift shop where they are suspected of swiping money.</div>
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When Miqueli left Roosevelt Island in October 2012, he allegedly laid claim to the parish Jeep and the pastor’s apartment by putting both in his own name.</div>
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At de Chantal, Miqueli briefly tried to have Crist serve as the parish’s new business manager, according to the complaint — only to have the Archdiocese give the boyfriend the boot after a complaint.</div>
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Crist’s former girlfriend Tatyana Gudin said she saved copies of scores of text and email messages between the accused lovers.</div>
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The Rev. Miqueli remains the pastor at St. Francis de Chantal Church in Throgs Neck.</h2>
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Earlier this year, she said, she sent Dolan and other archdiocesan officials numerous emails providing details of what she knew about Crist and Miqueli.</div>
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The lawsuit says a Bronx doctor who’s also a church trustee provided the pair with illegal drugs to get high. Miqueli also reportedly gave $60,000 to the doctor for the downpayment on a house.</div>
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The priest was also accused of paying a $1,000 a month since 2013 to subsidize a Park Ave. apartment that Crist rents.</div>
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Parishioners calling for Miqueli’s removal have created a website, a Facebook page and have circulated flyers outside of masses alerting other churchgoers to their concerns.</div>
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Dolan spokesman Joseph Zwilling said the Archdiocese has “taken these allegations seriously” — but has yet to substantiate the charges of financial or sexual impropriety.</div>
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Earlier this year, Fordham University Dean John Feerick led a panel that investigated the financial charges, Swilling said. As a result, the cardinal ordered Miqueli to make changes in how the parish is governed.</div>
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He told Miqueli to issue annual financial statements, appoint two new trustees and publish collections in the church bulletin.</div>
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“We are continuing to look into it,” Zwilling said, noting the archdiocese is now conducting an audit of de Chantal’s accounts.</div>
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Zwilling offered no suggestion as to how Miqueli — on his modest pastor’s salary of $2,545 a month — could rack up a brokerage account and savings of almost $900,000, as alleged in the suit.</div>
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He said some priests have outside jobs or they inherit money. Dowd said he spoke with Miqueli’s siblings, who said any inheritance from his mother was less than $100,000.</div>
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</article>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-28090215762494024912015-12-10T08:45:00.000-05:002015-12-10T08:45:16.452-05:00The Next Synod Is Already in the Works. On Married Priests<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />In mid-February Pope Francis will go to Chiapas, where hundreds of deacons with their wives are pushing to be ordained as priests. And in the Amazon as well the turning point seems to be near. It was all written down in the agenda of Cardinal Martini <br /><br /><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351189?eng=y&refresh_ce" target="_blank">by Sandro Magister</a><br /><br /><br /><img border="0" src="http://data.kataweb.it/kpmimages/kpm3/misc/chiesa/2015/12/06/jpg_1351190.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />ROME, December 9, 2015 - While waiting for Pope Francis to rule on communion for the divorced and remarried, which two synods discussed and split over, there is already a glimpse of the theme of the next synodal session: married priests.<br /><br />The selection of the theme is up to the pope, as happened with the past synods and will take place with the next, independently of what will be proposed by the fourteen cardinals and bishops of the council that acts as a bridge between one assembly and the next.<br /><br />And that married priests will be the next topic of synodal discussion can be gathered from various indications.<br /><br />*<br /><br />The first indication is the evident intention of Pope Francis to implement the agenda dictated in 1999 by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, in a memorable statement at the synod of that year.<br /><br />The archbishop of Milan at the time, a Jesuit and the undisputed leader of the “liberal” wing of the hierarchy, said that he “had a dream”: that of a Church capable of getting into a permanent synodal state, with a “collegial and authoritative exchange among all the bishops on some key issues.”<br /><br />And here are the “key issues” that he listed:<br /><br />“The shortage of ordained ministers, the role of woman in society and in the Church, the discipline of marriage, the Catholic vision of sexuality, penitential practice, relations with the sister Churches of Orthodoxy and more in general the need to revive ecumenical hopes, the relationship between democracy and values and between civil laws and the moral law.”<br /><br />Of Martini’s agenda, the two synods convened so far by Pope Francis have indeed discussed “the discipline of marriage” and in part “the Catholic vision of sexuality.”<br /><br />There is nothing to prevent, therefore, the “key issue” of the next synod from being that which Martini put at the head of them all: “the shortage of ordained ministers.”<br /><br />*<br /><br />The shortage of priests - who in the Latin Catholic Church are by rule celibate - is felt especially keenly in some regions of the world. Above all in Latin America.<br /><br />One year ago Bishop Erwin Kräutler, Austrian by birth and the head of the Xingu prelature in Brazil, with only 25 priests in a territory larger than Italy and therefore with the possibility of celebrating the Mass and the sacraments only two or three times a year in the most far-flung localities, has made himself the messenger to Pope Francis of the request from many of his brother bishops to make up for the shortage of celibate priests by also conferring sacred ordination on “viri probati,” meaning men of proven virtue, and married.<br /><br />The request was not new. And the Brazilian bishops - but not only them - have made it repeatedly. Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, 81, archbishop emeritus of São Paulo and a leading elector of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, even proposed it when he was prefect of the Vatican congregation for the clergy, from 2006 to 2010.<br /><br />Today Hummes is president both of the commission for the Amazon of the episcopal conference of Brazil and of the Pan-Amazonian Network that unites 25 cardinals and bishops of countries in the area, in addition to indigenous representatives of diverse local ethnic groups. And in this capacity he told Vatican Radio last month that he is “working for an indigenous Church, a Church immersed in history and in the culture and religion of the indigenous, a Church that would have an indigenous clergy as its guide. They have the right to this. They are the last periphery that we have, the farthest away.”<br /><br />This time Hummes didn’t say more. But it is known that saying “indigenous clergy” in this context means envisioning a clergy that is also married.<br /><br />Rumor has had it this year that Pope Francis wrote a letter to Brazilian cardinal Claudio Hummes in support of a reflection on ecclesiastical celibacy and on the ordination of “viri probati.” Fr. Federico Lombardi has denied the existence of this letter. But, he added, “it is however true that the pope has invited the Brazilian bishops on more than one occasion to seek and propose with courage the pastoral solutions that they believe to be suitable for addressing the major pastoral problems of their country.”<br /><br />*<br /><br />In another area of Latin America, Chiapas, in the south of Mexico, the pressure for a married clergy has been made concrete in recent decades with the ordination of an exorbitant number of indigenous deacons, several hundred, in the vast diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, in which there are a few dozen priests and almost all of them are elderly.<br /><br />The mass ordination of these deacons, all of them married, had its culmination in the forty years of the episcopate, from 1959 to 2000, of Samuel Ruiz Garcia, who became famous for his proximity to Subcomandante Marcos, in the long conflict in Chiapas between the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación and the Mexican federal government.<br /><br />In 2000, however, with the retirement of Ruiz Garcia, Rome ordered a suspension of ordinations to the diaconate. It banned the practice of calling them “indigenous deacons,” as if this constituted a new and different kind of ministry in the Church. It enjoined the wives not to call themselves “deaconesses” or represent that they too had received sacramental ordination, on account of the practice of imposing hands on them as well during the ordination of their husbands. It demanded that the deacons already ordained state publicly that their ordination ended there and did not constitute in any way a stage toward a subsequent priestly ordination, as married priests:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20010626_declaracion_sp.html">> Congregación para el culto divino y la disciplina de los sacramentos. Carta al obispo de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, 20 de julio de 2000</a><br /><br />But after Bergoglio’s election as pope, the ban was revoked. In May of 2014, Rome again authorized the successor to Ruiz Garcia, Bishop Arizmendi Esquivel, to resume diaconal ordinations. And the bishop promptly announced that he had around a hundred of them planned:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2014/06/08/autoriza-el-vaticano-ordenar-mas-diaconos-permanentes-en-chiapas-arizmendi-2654.html">> Autoriza el Vaticano ordenar más diáconos permanentes en Chiapas</a><br /><br />Meanwhile, in Rome, Pope Francis was proceeding with a profound reorganization of the management and personnel of the Vatican congregation for the clergy, where the greatest resistance to the introduction of a married clergy lay.<br /><br />But there’s more. It is now certain that on his next intercontinental journey, to Mexico in mid-February, Francis will make a stop in none other than Chiapas, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas.<br /><br />Receiving last February 10 at Santa Marta twelve priests, five of whom have left the ministry to get married, when asked about it Francis replied: “The problem is present on my agenda.”<br /><br />And already there are some who can see another step ahead: that Francis would bring back into discussion not only the celibacy of the clergy, but also the ban on the sacred ordination of women. This is the hope expressed by, for example, one famous American Benedictine sister, Joan Chittister:<br /><br /><a href="http://ncronline.org/blogs/where-i-stand/ordination-married-men-would-cause-other-major-changes-within-church">> Ordination of married men would cause other major changes within the church</a><br /><br />__________<br /><br /><br />The previous articles from www.chiesa on this topic:<br /><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350199?eng=y"><br />> Vatican Diary / Priests against celibacy. Austria's rerun</a> (20.3.2012)<br /><br /><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350085?eng=y">> Married and Ordained. The Minor Leagues of the Catholic Clergy</a> (16.11.2011)<br /><br /><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1343736?eng=y">> Benedict XVI "Rethinks" Clerical Celibacy. In Order to Reinforce It</a> (15.6.2010)<br /><br /><a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1343466?eng=y">> Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven. The Argument over Celibacy</a> (28.6.2010)<br /><br />__________<br /><br /><br />English translation by <a href="mailto:traduttore@hotmail.com">Matthew Sherry</a>, Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.A.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21922676635547979.post-35147167432799298992015-12-09T15:59:00.006-05:002015-12-10T08:47:53.290-05:00New Coke: If Today’s Catholics Were In Charge<br />
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.857; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.onepeterfive.com/new-coke-if-todays-catholics-were-in-charge/#prettyPhoto" target="_blank">In April 1985, Coca-Cola Company</a> introduced a new formula for their flagship product, Coke. Called “New Coke,” it was a public relations disaster and within months the company reverted back to their beloved formula. But what if history were different? What if Coca-Cola handled the release of New Coke like many of today’s Catholic leaders handle the current crisis in the Church?</em></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">July 1985</strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meeting of top Coke executives</em></h3>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> So, it’s been three months since New Coke was introduced – how’s it going?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge, VP of Operations:</em></strong> Not so good. We’re getting a lot of complaints. People seem to like the old formula better.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann, VP of Marketing:</em></strong> Well, it takes time for people to accept change. I’m sure after a while people will start to embrace it – after all, all our experts have told us this is the way to go!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> I don’t know – it seems like most regular people want to go back to the old formula.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Well, the latest research clearly states that New Coke is the future and will bring Coca-Cola into the modern world.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> It doesn’t seem like our customers agree.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Well, there is always resistance whenever there is change. But we can’t go back to pre-New Coke days – that would be turning back the clock.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> I agree with Mr. Newmann – visionary companies like Coca-Cola don’t move backwards. Let’s stick with New Coke.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> Tell me some good news, people.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> I’m not sure if there’s…</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann (interrupting):</em></strong> New Coke is really taking the world by storm, sir! People are starting to ask for new formulas for all our drinks: Mello Yellow, Diet Coke, Sprite…</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> But our sales are down dramatically, and Pepsi’s are up.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Don’t be so negative, Mr. Eldridge, New Coke is the wave of the future. Just the other day the Washington Post was praising us for our bold moves to reshape the beverage industry.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> Didn’t you hear me? Our sales are down dramatically – it’s clear the people don’t like New Coke!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> That’s enough Mr. Eldridge. We need to be positive and understand the importance of what we’re doing here – we must look with joy and hope to a new and exciting future! Sure, making such a major change might ruffle some feathers, but the worst thing we could do is go backwards. On with New Coke!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> It’s been a year since we introduced New Coke; let’s have a status report.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Things couldn’t be better, sir. We are being praised by all the experts for our commitment to New Coke.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> Things couldn’t be worse, sir. Our sales have tanked. 20% of our workforce has left because they are so disillusioned, and we had to slash another 30% because of our decreased revenues.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Don’t listen to him, sir. I don’t know why he’s always so negative. We really are in a springtime for our company. We’re no longer bound to our old formulas and can reshape the company in a modern way. I propose that we change the formula for ALL our drinks!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge</em></strong>: What? Are you crazy!?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> That’s a great idea, Mr. Newmann. In two months I want every drink we offer to have a new, modern formula.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> I’ll get right on it, sir.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">August 1986</strong></h3>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> The new drinks have been on the market for a few weeks – what’s the response?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Great, sir! Every business journal is lauding our visionary leadership, and universities are starting to teach your management techniques as standard in their business schools.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> But no one is actually buying the drinks! We had to lay off another 20% of the staff – if we keep this up, there won’t be a company anymore!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Okay, perhaps we do need a change.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> Finally! So when can we get Old Coke back on the shelves?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Old Coke? I think you misunderstand me – I suggest that we introduce another new formula to Coke – make it “New New Coke!”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> What? But New Coke is only a little over a year old – and you want to introduce another new formula?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> New Coke is outdated now – that’s why sales are down. The solution, clearly, is to introduce a newer, fresher formula. That will bring our customers back.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> Great idea, Newmann. Let’s get a new, new formula out on the streets ASAP!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">December 1986</strong></h3>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> So, how is “New New Coke” doing?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> As I suspected, it’s…</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann (interrupting):</em></strong> Excellent, sir! There is really a groundswell of support for “New New Coke.” People were obviously tired of New Coke, and they will definitely embrace this new product.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> Actually, sales have fallen even faster than they did when we introduced New Coke. At this rate, the only people drinking our beverages will be in this room, and I’ve switched to Bourbon. I really think we should consider going back to Old Coke.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO & Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> (gasp!)</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> What are you, a reactionary? Why would we go back to such a time as Old Coke? We are marching into the 21<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span> century, and you want to go back to the Dark Ages!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> Newmann is right. We need to stay the course and continue to lead the beverage industry into the future.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> Your reports?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Everything is awesome, sir! Based on what I read in the papers and see on TV, we have never been more popular. True, we had to shut down 10 of our factories, but that is just a sign of the times – nothing we could do about it.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> We had to shut down those factories because no one is buying our drinks! Why can’t you guys see that our changes aren’t helping, they’re hurting?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Nonsense, Eldridge. It’s clear what we need to do.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> Please don’t say that we need to change the formula again…</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> That is exactly what I am going to say! “New New Coke” is old-fashioned – none of the young people identify with it. We need to introduce “New New New Coke!”</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> Another excellent idea, Newmann! Get right on that.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> I’m looking at these sales reports, and they don’t look so good.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Yes, sir, they don’t look that great, and I know the reason why.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> Finally!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> What is the problem, Newmann?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> The problem is Mr. Eldridge.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> What?!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Mr. Eldridge is holding us back. He’s always trying to bring back the bad old days of Old Coke, when people were slavishly drinking our product, instead of being open to other beverages, like Pepsi or Dr. Pepper.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge: </em></strong>But don’t we want people to drink our product?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> See what I mean? Mr. Eldridge, we shouldn’t be trying to proselytize others to Coke. We should allow them to choose their own beverage. After all, what does it matter which one they drink? We can’t be saying that our products are better than others, can we?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Eldridge:</em></strong> But…</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Clearly you need to go, Eldridge.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> I agree. Mr. Eldridge, you’re fired!</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(After Mr. Eldridge leaves)</em></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Newmann:</em></strong> Now, how do you like the sound of “New New New New Coke”?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO:</em></strong> I like it…</div>
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It's best to read the article in its entirety <a href="http://remnantnewspaper.com/web/index.php/articles/item/2198-the-year-of-mercy-begins" target="_blank">at the source.</a> </div>
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According to one papal adviser, Archbishop Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelization, the author of the article above and the publisher could face <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/papal-critics-threatened-with-excommunication-as-year-of-mercy-begins" target="_blank">excommunication for criticizing the pope. </a></div>
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This drew a quick response from a prominent canon lawyer, <a href="https://canonlawblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/most-words-are-not-crimes/" target="_blank">Dr. Ed Peters</a>.</div>
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Today, on the Feast Of The Annunciation, St. Peter's will be used as a projection screen by leftwing environmental activists, with the pope's blessing. </div>
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Fr Zuhlsdorf has <a href="http://wdtprs.com/blog/2015/12/turning-st-peters-basilica-into-a-projection-screen-for-climate-change-panic-propaganda/" target="_blank">this to say (and more)</a> about the slide show: "The Vatican basilica is a consecrated building. This is a non-sacred use – in fact it is an irreverent use – of a consecrated building."</div>
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If Pope Francis has accomplished anything he's shone a light on the principle of papal infallibility. The pope is only infallible when teaching on matters of faith. He can proclaim the Chicago Cubs will win the World Series this year, doesn't mean it's going to happen. No pope has ever been perfect. They all sin, some more than others. Thus it's not impossible for Pope Francis to have committed the sin of sacrilege today. It's also not impossible for a pope to condemn himself to eternal fire. </div>
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Now some will applaud Pope Francis for being all hip and down with the people. They will use this display to justify their secular performances in Catholic churches. I bet there are parishes scrambling to put on slide show presentations against their church exteriors too. Unfortunately, they would be in just as much error as the pontiff. </div>
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Other than expose the limitations of papal infallibility, what has this pope done so far? He's written two encyclicals, neither seems destined for the "Classic" designation. In one he instructed us to turn off our air conditioners. Recently he called our Christmas decorations (nativity scenes, trees, etc) charades. The corrupt curia remains in tact, his Jesuit order is still a mess, Mass attendance still hovers around 20% and the Confessionals are still mostly empty. Perhaps his worse blunder was the infamous "Who am I to judge" comment that was taken out of context and<a href="http://perezhilton.com/2013-12-17-pope-francis-named-the-advocate-person-of-the-year-gay-magazine#.VmcUoPkrLIU" target="_blank"> spun by the media</a> and entertainment industry as a papal blessing on sodomy. </div>
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Then there is the synod on the family. We're still waiting for the final document, the post-synod exhortation. Rumours abound it was actually written before the second session even began. What could this synod achieve anyway? No one can change doctrine. No pope can rule against doctrine. So how could the Cardinal Kasper & Marx proposition of giving Holy Communion to those in perpetual state of sin ever work?</div>
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My prediction is the synod will soon be forgotten. It will have been much ado about nothing. It will be Pope Francis' way of saying to the German bishops, "Hey, I tried. Now keep the money flowing, ok?"</div>
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Assuming Francis isn't the last pope, the next one will have <a href="http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2013/07/pope-francis-urges-catholics-to-make.html" target="_blank">a big mess to clean up indeed</a>. So here's another prediction: at the next conclave the cardinals will be more careful in who they vote for. They will be looking for someone who teaches clearly, orthodox, and won't be an easy target by the usual suspects who will want to criticize any return to tradition in the Vatican. </div>
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Cardinal Sarah. Guinean Cardinal Prelate Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments</div>
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