Thursday, July 6, 2017
Laos: New Cardinal Imprisoned by the Communists for Three Years
(kath.net/CWN/jg) Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, apostolic vicar of Pakse (Laos) and one of the cardinals who were created on 28 June, spent three years in prison during his communist regime.
His "offense" was to proclaim the gospel in villages and prisons without permission from the government. In 1984 the then 40-year-old was arrested and accused of "propaganda for Jesus".
He was in prison three years with chains on my arms and legs, he recalls. The time was essential for his inner formation. It was necessary for the "conversion and purification" of his person and also for others, he says retrospectively.
Rome Reports - Cardinal Ling from Laos spent three years in communist prisons: "For me it was like another novitiate" (English) Photo: Symbolbild
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Scholas Occurrentes: Pope's Video Message for a "Culture of Encounter" Without Christ
Scholas Occurrentes is a project in cooperation with state and private schools founded by Jorge Mario Bergoglio when he was still Archbishop of Buenos Aires. After his election to the Pope he gave the project the legal form of a papal foundation and settled it in the Vatican. In the meantime, more than 400,000 schools in over 80 countries are involved worldwide, according to the Foundation.
The project wants to educate "peace", "dialogue" and "encounter".
Scholas Occurrentes is regarded as a favorite project by Pope Francis, which has been criticized several times in the past. It was known that the pope's name was used for gambling, and that the foundation, on papal instructions, refused a substantial donation by the incumbent Argentine president, apparently because he belonged to the "false party", and finally that the foundation supports gender ideology with its publications in Spanish speaking areas. All in all, doubts about the "pedagogical revolution" that Francis was pursuing with the Foundation were voiced.
"Civil Society" instead of Christianity?
The project is therefore very popular with ministries of education, school authorities and administrators because the religious aspect is completely thrown out. Neither God nor Christianity play a role. They are not even mentioned. The project focuses on "civil society" education on "peace, peaceful coexistence , dialogue and encounter."
In his numerous speeches and messages, which Pope Francis addressed to Schola's Occurentes in the past four years, Christ and the Christian faith never appeared. In his videotape, Francis spoke of "variety" and "diversity" that "breathe all the same air" and "inhabit the same earth", which is "the common house." Everyone has "their history", but "all live together". This is also the model given by Jerusalem. It is about "openness", as the Church chief emphasized several times, and is therefore "without prejudice."
According to the Pope, the goal of Scholas Occurrentes is to create a "culture of encounter". The Pope said "no to unity," but yes to "commonality in cultural diversity".
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Photo: CTV/Youtube (Screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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New Archbishop of Milan Will be General Vicar Mario Delphini
Cardinal Angelo Scola should be retired tomorrow due to age. His successor in all likelihood is to be Vicar General Mario Delphini |
"Group elevation" to make adolescents "actors"
"At the end of the high feast, the episcopal 'superintendant' of the celebration celebrated not only with his priestly concelebrants, but youths, specially called to the altar, to elevate the chalices with the Precious Blood of Christ and the Hosts with the Body of Christ. Apart from the fact that normally only one chalice and a ciborium with the consecrated hosts are raised, even if several are used: the group elevation was not carried out by priests or deacons, who stood idly in the background, but by young laymen, girls and fellows who had previously been fished out of the church nave by the coordinating priest.
The embarrassed facial expressions of the young people in the pictures are quite telling. You clearly are in the wrong place. There is no cross on the altar. It was forgotten in the zeal of a conspicuous priesthood of all believers. The Lord is hanging on the side wall in the background. The photo was even published on the website of the church newspaper IncrociNews of the Archdiocese of Milan, among the official reports on World Youth Day 2013 .
The example shows that they are priests who behave like elephants in the liturgical china shop.
"I am absolutely convinced that the gesture was intended to give the young people the feeling of being actors during the week of World Youth Day" (as the Pope said yesterday). Moreover, we are not sure that it was decided by S. Ex. Mons. Delpini. The leaders of the celebration do not always decide the liturgical gestures, sometimes at the last moment they execute them at the instruction of others."
Photo: Vatican.va/MiL/IncrociNews (Screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Pope's Favorite Newspaper Opens the Hunt Against New CDF
"La Repubblica" and the Politics of Scorched Earth |
La Repubblica disapproves of the nomination of Ladarias as a Prefect of Doctrine and the Faith
The case of ex-priest Gianni Trotta
Politics of the Scorched Earth at La Repubblica
Photo: La Repubblica (Screenshots)
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New FSSP Ordinations in Germany by Cardinal Burke
Cardinal Müller: "I can not accept this style" -- Words About His Firing
"I can not accept this style," said Müller. The social doctrines of the Church must also be valid for dealing with Roman Church employees. When asked about his current relationship with the Pope, Müller referred to the statements of Francis himself, who said that "the relationship was always very good." Müller could confirm, "This is still true today."
"Not to be hitched to the cart"
Always loyal
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Cardinal Meisner is Dead -- Pope Failed to Answer His Dubia
Cardinal Joachim Meisner (1933-2017) was Bishop of Berlin from 1980-1989 and Archbishop of Cologne from 1989-2014.
(Cologne) As the Archdiocese of Cologne reported, Joachim Cardinal Meisner, peacefully passed away in the early morning hours.
"+++ In deep grief +++
Cardinal Meisner has died.
We mourn our old Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner.
We pray for the deceased and always remember him well.
Let him rest in peace. "
This news was published by the Archdiocese of Cologne on his Facebook page.
Bishop at ecclesiastical and political flash points
Cardinal Meisner was born in the Silesian capital of Breslau on 25 December 1933, the Christmas Day, which he felt as a special grace. After the mass forced relocation of the German population to East Germany, he became a banker in Thuringia. In 1951 he entered Magdeburg in a late-semester seminary. In 1962, he was ordained in Erfurt for the Diocese of Fulda and promoted in 1969 to the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Cardinal Meisner at his First Communion
In 1975 he was appointed Pope Paul VI. to the auxiliary bishop of the Episcopal Office of Erfurt-Meiningen, by combining the diocesan parts of Fulda and Würzburg, which lay in the DDR, beyond the Iron Curtain. The life of the church in the Communist dictatorship shaped Meisner deeply. He developed a special relationship with Catholic Eichsfeld in Thuringia, in which he felt reminded of his Silesian homeland.
In 1980, Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of Berlin, who was divided and divided by a wall, was altogether under Allied occupation, but was a united church unit. The Polish pope held the Silesian Meisner, whom he personally knew, as the most suitable man for one of the most difficult diocese, which was also part of a Catholic diaspora. In 1983, John Paul II raised him to the rank of Cardinal to give the Bishop of Berlin special weight. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was also President of the Berlin Bishops' Conference, in which the DDR's ordinaries were gathered.
The "Roman" minority
Shortly before the collapse of the Communist dictatorship and German reunification, the Pope appointed Meisner to be Archbishop of Cologne, one of the most important and influential bishops' seats in the world, alongside Milan and Chicago. John Paul II thus honored the Cardinal and expressed his appreciation and confidence, and set a strong signal for the idea of German unity, which was already very much in process at that time. Above all, he signaled that he wanted a faithfulness, like that exemplified in the Cardinal, in the internally disturbed German church. The appeal to the Archdiocese of Cologne had become possible because the cathedral chapter could not agree on any candidate, and the Pope considered the right of the proclamation to be dilatory.
Episcopal ordination in Erfurt, 1975
In the following years, the Cardinal became a fixed, "Roman" reference point in the German episcopate, which pushed most of the time ever more in a progressive direction. Many Catholics, and in the entire German-speaking world, saw in him a "rock in the surf". The cleavages and majority relations in the German episcopate were made clear by the fact that Cardinal Meisner was never elected president of the German Bishops' Conference. He remained the leader of a "Roman" minority who, in the post-conciliar period, would no longer succeed in becoming a majority. With the death of Bishop Dyba, the persecution of Bishop Mixa, the ouster of Bishop Tebartz van Elst and the retirement of Cardinal Meisner, who Pope Francis retired in 2014, after the Cardinal had finished his 80th year, the axis shifted even more clearly Left (not in the sense of parliamentary buttressing, but in the sense of right from legitimacy and justice). When the Cardinal resigned, not a few German Catholics complained that they felt "orphaned". A meaningful description of the situation of the church in Germany
The shadow of the "pill after"
One year before his retirement, a shadow fell over his episcopate. It was about the case of a woman who was allegedly raped, who had requested the "morning after pill" from Catholic hospitals, but had been rejected. Because of the potentially abortifacient effect, the "morning after pill" was rejected by the Catholic Church. Meisner reversed his rejection at the end of January 2013, which made a corresponding decision of the bishop's conference possible. Since then, the "morning after pill" can be administered to Catholic hospitals.
Cardinal Meisner with Pope Benedict XVI
To this day, the rumor circulates that Cardinal Meisner had been misinformed by people he trusted who had misinformed him about the "morning after pill." On the basis of a study published by a leading abortionist, an abortion effect was denied and a decision was made instead of calling for further studies. Behind the scenes, the then Green Minister of Health had threatened to turn off the money tap for Catholic hospitals, if they did not administer the "morning after pill." A good third of the total health care in Cologne and surrounding area is operated by the Catholic Church.
Amoris laetitia, Dubia, and the eloquent silence of the pope
Recently, the Cardinal was internationally known in connection with criticism of the controversial document Amoris Laetitia of Pope Francis. As one of four cardinals, he had asked Pope Francis, in the Dubia (doubts), to clarify ambiguous passages of this document. More than nine months after the Cardinals presented their concerns to the Pope in the form of five questions, Cardinal Meiner has now died without receiving a reply.
Because the Pope refuses to speak, and does not react to Dubia at all, they asked him to receive them by the audience in April, in order to present their concerns. Even in this case they received no answer. Although Francis declared the "dialogue" to be the essential feature of his pontificate, his willingness to negotiate has boundaries, but "in the wrong direction," as is the case of the four cardinals.
Cardinal Meisner, as can be heard from Cologne, was very much concerned about this development in the Church and was personally disappointed.
In his last months of life, the former Archbishop of Cologne had to endure a flood of attacks by the "Chupamedias" of Pope Francis. The Chupamedias as it is called in Buenos Aires, as Francis explained in an interview, are Kriecher and Schleimer. Literally, the term means "spit lickers", as Pope Francis explained. Cardinal Meisner did not comment on the words of the "Chupamedias". How much pain they have given him is not known.
Requiescat in pace
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Archbishopric of Cologne / Facebook (Screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Priest Marries Aberrosexual Pair -- Bishop: "More Discernment is Needed"
Priest blesses aberrosexual pairing. Bishop: "More Discernment is Needed"
(Rome) Last Saturday, two lesbians of 37 and 34 years of age were "married" in the northern Italian city of Schio. The wedding ceremony took place in the town hall with the "tiny addition", that a priest, Don Giuseppe Gobbo, blessed the wedding rings in advance which the two women put on each other's left ring finger. The "homosexual marriage" was decided in June 2016 by the Italian Parliament with the tacit approval of the Episcopal Conference on the condition that they should not be called "marriages". Bishop Nunzio Galantino, the General Secretary and "Pope's man" at the Episcopal Conference, had informed the government behind closed doors.
Officially, "homosexual marriage" is therefore called a "civil bond," but is equal in marriage to the marriage, except in the name. This results in the title of the local newspaper, Il Giornale di Vicenza, of June 27: "Civil Marriage is Blessed by Priest." The report in a recently celestial Catholic area is as follows: "Two girls crown their beloved room with a civilian bond and the priest bless their rings." The mayor left the wedding ceremony to an oppositional council of the radical left.
Don Gobbo was ordained priest in 1978. He helps on Sundays and holidays in a pastoral center in the mountains. He is mainly the president of the social cooperative Progetto Zattera Blu (Project Blaues Stream), a social association in the diocese.
According to the media reports, the faithful in Vicenza drew attention to the incident. Bishop Beniamino Pizziol called upon Don Gobbo to discuss the matter with him. The result was a press release by the diocese. It is stated that the conversation "clearly showed" that the priest "was guided by feelings of undoubted pastoral love." However, he had obviously "underestimated the impact and consequences of his gesture, which threatened to appear like an unsatisfactory equation between the civilian covenant with the Sacrament of Marriage."
The Bishop called "his priests to greater prudence and discretion," "reaffirmed the doctrine of the Church on marriage," but did not take a position on homosexuality, but confined himself to inviting "all pastors and faithful to the diocese, To live and proclaim the Gospel with love and readiness so that fidelity to Christian values and understanding of the individual and the different situations in which they are can be realized in a common path of faith and true Christian love."
In short, the excitement about the blessing of the ring by the priest, which was carried out in open contradiction to ecclesiastical doctrine, dissolved itself in nothingness. There remains the dubious impression that the Church has accepted, even blessed, the "homosexual marriage". Only one must not (still) be caught.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Photo: Il Giornale di Vicenza (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
Katholisches...
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