Saturday, February 04, 2006
Special Update: Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Amendment
If you are NOT a PA resident but know someone who is, please send this to them.
Special Update: Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Amendment
Your action and involvement today is vital to protecting marriage in Pennsylvania.
READ ACTION ITEMS AT END OF MESSAGE. PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY!
In a great show of support, hundreds turned out for the Stand Up For Marriage Rally last Tuesday at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. Dozens of co-sponsors from the House and Senate attended as well. At current count, there are 89 House co-sponsors and 14 Senate co-sponsors. It was a tremendous kick-off event, but the opposition has swung into action. For example:
Since the Rally:
Marriage as one man and one woman has been the essential foundation of society since the dawn of civilization. Almost every culture, in every part of the world, in every time period from the Stone Age to the present, has recognized this by protecting and honoring the institution of marriage. Marriage is the unique relationship that produces children and provides them with a stable environment of a mom and a dad that will shape and mold the future citizens of every nation. Help protect marriage, children, family and the future of Pennsylvania.
ACTION ITEMS:
http://votervoice.net/target.asp?id=pafi:7800311
Thanks to Patte G. for passing this information on to us
Special Update: Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Amendment
Your action and involvement today is vital to protecting marriage in Pennsylvania.
READ ACTION ITEMS AT END OF MESSAGE. PLEASE TAKE ACTION TODAY!
In a great show of support, hundreds turned out for the Stand Up For Marriage Rally last Tuesday at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg. Dozens of co-sponsors from the House and Senate attended as well. At current count, there are 89 House co-sponsors and 14 Senate co-sponsors. It was a tremendous kick-off event, but the opposition has swung into action. For example:
Since the Rally:
· Eggs were thrown at the office of one of the co-sponsors.Now, the Truth:
· Many co-sponsors have been barraged with rude emails and letters that include personal attacks from amendment opponents.
· Activists in support of same-sex marriage have launched a lobbying blitz using untruths and scare tactics to try and weaken support for the Marriage Protection Amendment. They claim their tactics are working.
· Newspaper columnists across the state have been blasting lawmakers who have co-sponsored the Marriage Protection Amendments, and say that those who want to keep marriage as the union of one man and one woman are bigoted hate-mongers.
· Without the Marriage Protection Amendment, Pennsylvania's marriage law could be thrown out in court, and a judge order same-sex marriage legalized in Pennsylvania. It just happened in Maryland last week.Same-sex marriage is about catering to the desires and wants of adults, not the needs or best interest of children.
· The Marriage Protection Amendment will prohibit courts from creating counterfeit marriage like "same-sex marriage" or "civil unions" which are marriage in every way - but name. Calling a quartz crystal a diamond may fool some, but it's still not a true diamond.
· The Marriage Protection Amendment won't change anything currently in law in Pennsylvania. Crass opponents are trying to scare senior citizens saying it will take some of their benefits away!?!?! It won't take benefits away from anyone. It just will keep marriage what it has always been, and prevent government (especially judges) from minting counterfeits to marriage in the future.
· If a court legalizes same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania (like one did in Massachusetts) society will undergo a massive restructuring. Terms like father and mother, husband and wife will be stricken from the law (this happened in Ontario, Canada). School curriculum will celebrate same-sex marriages, and describe homosexual relationships in sex education courses (proposed curriculum guidelines in Massachusetts will require 5th graders to be tested on whether they can describe different sexual orientations, and different "types of families. Teaching on these subjects would begin in pre-kindergarten.) Birth certificates will no longer list "mother's name" and "father's name" but instead, "parent A" and "parent B."
Marriage as one man and one woman has been the essential foundation of society since the dawn of civilization. Almost every culture, in every part of the world, in every time period from the Stone Age to the present, has recognized this by protecting and honoring the institution of marriage. Marriage is the unique relationship that produces children and provides them with a stable environment of a mom and a dad that will shape and mold the future citizens of every nation. Help protect marriage, children, family and the future of Pennsylvania.
ACTION ITEMS:
· Contact your State Representative and State Senator TODAY. Ask them to co-sponsor the Pennsylvania Marriage Protection Amendment. Thank them if they are co-sponsors. Visit the Citizen Action Center at www.pafamily.org to get contact information.Click the link below to log in and send your message:
· Write letters-to-the-editor. Refute the name calling and intolerant words of columnists and others who misrepresent the actions and motives of those who support the Marriage Protection Amendment. Newspaper contact information is available at the Citizen Action Center.
· Enlist others to the cause. We need every hand on deck for this battle. Download a petition from www.PA4marriage.org. Distribute it.
· Forward this email to like-minded people. Print this page and distribute it.
http://votervoice.net/target.asp?id=pafi:7800311
Thanks to Patte G. for passing this information on to us
Gospel for Saturday, 4th Week in Ordinary Time
From: Mark 6:30-34
The Apostles Return
[30] The Apostles returned to Jesus, and told Him all that they had done and taught. [31] And He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. [32] And they went away in the boat to a lonely place by themselves.
First Miracles of the Loaves
[33] Now many saw them going, and knew them, and they ran there on foot from the towns, and got there ahead of them. [34] As He landed He saw a great throng, and He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.
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Commentary:
30-31. We can see here the intensity of Jesus' public ministry. Such was His dedication to souls that St. Mark twice mentions that the disciples did not even have time to eat (cf. Mark 3:20). A Christian should be ready to sacrifice his time and even his rest in the service of the Gospel. This attitude of availability will lead us to change our plans whenever the good of souls so requires.
But Jesus also teaches us here to have common sense and not to go to such extremes that we physically cannot cope: "The Lord makes His disciples rest, to show those in charge that people who work or preach cannot do so without breaks" (St. Bede, "In Marci Evangelium Expositio, in loc."). "He who pledges himself to work for Christ should never have a free moment, because to rest is not to do nothing: it is to relax in activities which demand less effort" ([St] J. Escriva, "The Way", 357).
34. Our Lord had planned a period of rest, for Himself and His disciples, from the pressures of the apostolate (Mark 6:31-32). And He has to change His plans because so many people come, eager to hear Him speak. Not only is He not annoyed with them: He feels compassion on seeing their spiritual need. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). They need instruction and our Lord wants to meet this need by preaching to them. "Jesus is moved by hunger and sorrow, but what moves Him most is ignorance" ([St] J. Escriva, "Christ Is Passing By", 109).
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Source: "The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries". Biblical text taken from the Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries made by members of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarre, Spain. Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Reprinted with permission from Four Courts Press and Scepter Publishers, the U.S. publisher.
The Apostles Return
[30] The Apostles returned to Jesus, and told Him all that they had done and taught. [31] And He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. [32] And they went away in the boat to a lonely place by themselves.
First Miracles of the Loaves
[33] Now many saw them going, and knew them, and they ran there on foot from the towns, and got there ahead of them. [34] As He landed He saw a great throng, and He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.
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Commentary:
30-31. We can see here the intensity of Jesus' public ministry. Such was His dedication to souls that St. Mark twice mentions that the disciples did not even have time to eat (cf. Mark 3:20). A Christian should be ready to sacrifice his time and even his rest in the service of the Gospel. This attitude of availability will lead us to change our plans whenever the good of souls so requires.
But Jesus also teaches us here to have common sense and not to go to such extremes that we physically cannot cope: "The Lord makes His disciples rest, to show those in charge that people who work or preach cannot do so without breaks" (St. Bede, "In Marci Evangelium Expositio, in loc."). "He who pledges himself to work for Christ should never have a free moment, because to rest is not to do nothing: it is to relax in activities which demand less effort" ([St] J. Escriva, "The Way", 357).
34. Our Lord had planned a period of rest, for Himself and His disciples, from the pressures of the apostolate (Mark 6:31-32). And He has to change His plans because so many people come, eager to hear Him speak. Not only is He not annoyed with them: He feels compassion on seeing their spiritual need. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (Hosea 4:6). They need instruction and our Lord wants to meet this need by preaching to them. "Jesus is moved by hunger and sorrow, but what moves Him most is ignorance" ([St] J. Escriva, "Christ Is Passing By", 109).
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Source: "The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries". Biblical text taken from the Revised Standard Version and New Vulgate. Commentaries made by members of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarre, Spain. Published by Four Courts Press, Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Reprinted with permission from Four Courts Press and Scepter Publishers, the U.S. publisher.
Friday, February 03, 2006
Group goes to defense of Archbishop Burke
They defend their "shepherd" with their presence and prayers.Actually, the "violent opposition" began several months ago...the opposition started within a month or two after Archbishop Burke arrived and increased in intensity over the succeeding months.
A small group of local Catholics calling themselves Defenders of Archbishop Burke attended the 7 a.m. Mass he said at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica Jan. 26...The group’s founder, Bill McKenzie, a member of St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Brentwood, met the archbishop for the first time after the Mass when he shook his hand in the back of church. He called the archbishop a "holy, courageous, humble man."
McKenzie founded the group a few weeks ago because he said he thought the festering controversy over St. Stanislaus Kostka situation had generated "violent opposition" toward the archbishop.
Archbishop Burke expressed gratitude to McKenzie’s group. "Their love for the Church is most edifying for me," the archbishop said. "Certainly, they encourage me to give the best possible shepherd’s care to the archdiocese. They devote themselves in a special way to clarifying misinformation and dispelling misunderstandings regarding the Church and especially the archbishop".
"They serve the good of the whole Church by being heralds of the truth and of love of Christ. For all of these reasons, I am deeply grateful to the Defenders of the Archbishop," Archbishop Burke said.
As always, prayers for Archbishop Burke and his detractors are in order.
More at the St. Louis Review here...
Feb 12-Card. Avery Dulles to Speak at St Louis Priory
Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, long one of the country’s most noted theologians, will be the main speaker at the St. Louis Abbey Golden Jubilee Celebration Lecture Sunday, Feb. 12.
The cardinal will present "John Paul II and Benedict XVI: Continuity and Contrast." The lecture will begin 3 p.m. in the Kevin Kline Theatre at St. Louis Priory School, 500 S. Mason Road in Creve Coeur.
Admission is free. A reception will follow.
For more information, call (314) 434-0031
The cardinal will present "John Paul II and Benedict XVI: Continuity and Contrast." The lecture will begin 3 p.m. in the Kevin Kline Theatre at St. Louis Priory School, 500 S. Mason Road in Creve Coeur.
Admission is free. A reception will follow.
For more information, call (314) 434-0031
After Death Do We Part
by Pete Vere, JCL
It seems like a worthwhile endeavor to write Cardinal Arinze. Certainly he has plenty to do, but this national scandal does need to be addressed. I still find it impossible to comprehend or believe that this "marriage" occurred in a Catholic parish. It seems like just another example of patients running the asylum...
Like many people, I was disturbed by news of Michael Schiavo’s recent wedding to his fiancée Jody Centonze. As Gudrun Schultz reported on Life Site News, “Michael Schiavo, who had his disabled wife Terri killed last March by refusing her food and water, was re-married last Saturday in the Roman Catholic Church of Espiritu Santo in Florida. Schiavo married Jodi Centonze. He had two children with her during the years he worked towards achieving Terri’s death.”Full article on Catholic Exchange here.
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Rather than stand for this scandal, Catholics should write Francis Cardinal Arinze at the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments and ask for an investigation into this matter. Here is His Eminence’s address:Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments
Palazzo delle Congregazioni
Piazza Pio XII, 10
00120 CITTÀ DEL VATICANO, Europe
It seems like a worthwhile endeavor to write Cardinal Arinze. Certainly he has plenty to do, but this national scandal does need to be addressed. I still find it impossible to comprehend or believe that this "marriage" occurred in a Catholic parish. It seems like just another example of patients running the asylum...
Something I need to reflect on, daily!
Beyond Death
The judgement will be dreadful for those who knew the way perfectly well, showed it to others or encouraged them to follow it, but would not go along it themselves.
God will judge and condemn them out of their own mouths.
– St. Josemaria Escriva, Furrow, #888
The judgement will be dreadful for those who knew the way perfectly well, showed it to others or encouraged them to follow it, but would not go along it themselves.
God will judge and condemn them out of their own mouths.
– St. Josemaria Escriva, Furrow, #888
Mar 20-St Joseph's Dinner with Bishop Robert Vasa
Credo is pleased to co-sponsor with the Catholic Central Union the
Annual St. Joseph’s DinnerOur Speaker:
on Monday, March 20th 6:30 p.m.
at The Crowne Plaza Hotel
7750 Carondelet Ave
Clayton, MO
The Most Reverend Robert F. Vasa D.D., Bishop of Baker Oregon.
The Topic:
"Evaluating and Questioning Safe Environment Programs for Children"
Bishop Vasa was born in Lincoln Nebraska in 1951. He studied at the St Thomas Seminary in Denver Colorado, the Holy Trinity seminary in Dallas Texas where he earned a Master of Divinity and at the Gregorian University in Rome were he earned his J.C.L. On May 22, 1976 he was ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln Nebraska Glennon P.Flavin.
The bishop has served in a number of positions in The Diocese of Lincoln including Vicar General.
He was named Bishop of Baker in 1999 by John Paul II.
Bishop Vasa is solidly orthodox and particularly noted for his support of parents rights... Could we expect anything less from a bishop who spent his formative years in the diocese of Lincoln Nebraska under the direction of Bishops Flavin and Bruskewitz?
Join us for a delicious dinner and an enlightening talk at the Crowne Plaza on March 20.
Free inside parking at the 7777 Bonhomme Parking garage. (Take the Orange Level Bridge to the hotel.)
Tear off the coupon below and send it with your check for $20.00 per person payable to Credo of the Catholic Laity
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Cardinal Mahony Petitions SOTUS to Keep Priest Files Private
The petition follows a decision by the California Supreme Court last year that the archdiocese must produce the files, which were subpoenaed three years ago.
"There is no legitimate privilege that shields the evidence we seek," countered Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Brent Ferreira. "Our subpoenas are simply seeking evidence of these crimes, no matter who has it or how it was obtained."
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Bishops Bruskewitz & Corrada on the Future of the Traditional Latin Mass
Bishop Fernando Rifan of the Apostolic Administration of St. John Marie Vianney, Campos, Brazil, said there were four U.S. bishops who allowed their diocesan priests full approval to offer the Classical Roman rite of Mass while delivering the keynote address for an Una Voce America Conference held November 18-20 in Providence, R.I.As are many everywhere, it seems...Some are still praying daily that the various liturgical abuses here are addressed and corrected.
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Bishop Rifan specifically cited Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis; Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Neb.; Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Ill.; and Bishop Álvaro Corrada, SJ, of Tyler, Texas, as having been generous in the Ecclesia Dei indult application, as requested and emphasized repeatedly by the late Pope John Paul II.
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Bishop Bruskewitz:In the Diocese of Lincoln, the Novus Ordo Mass is done with great care and rubrical exactness. And as a result, we don't have large numbers of people, as they do in some other places, who want to frequent the Tridentine rite. For instance, where I lived in Milwaukee, I think that huge numbers who attend Mass in the Tridentine rite are really refugees from liturgical abuses they have found in other areas.
Bishop Bruskewitz(continued)...:More here...I think where the Novus Ordo is done reverently and correctly, and with the proper amount of devotion, and with proper aesthetics, it can serve a wonderful purpose. I think that especially the way this Holy Father offers Holy Mass provides a lot of wonderful and correct inspiration and example for the whole world. I think he recently spoke to the Sistine choir explaining how the Papal Mass must be exemplary because of television.
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The temptation when the Mass is coram populo is that one thinks the personality of the priest has to come through or that somehow or another, a priest is talking to the people when he's addressing God. It's exacerbated because you have some of the prayers to God and then you are talking to the people: "Let us offer each other the sign of peace."
The people get the impression the priest is somehow entertaining them or addressing them, which is a misunderstanding of what is going on.
Dr Ed Peters on Reconciling "Traditionalists"
Reports are circulating that Pope Benedict XVI is exploring ways to bring the followers of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (d. 1991) back into full communion with the Catholic Church; in other words, that the pope is doing one of the main things that popes are supposed to do, trying to heal divisions in the Mystical Body of Christ. But this process and its outcome are not completely under the control of Pope Benedict.What?, you might be asking? What does he mean? His answer is here.
Missouri Bishops Appeal Stem-cell Title Ruling
From the St. Louis Review...(All emphasis is mine):
As we can see, the consequence of sin is sin - Sin begets sin...It becomes a vicious cycle of slavery and spiritual and sometimes bodily death. These people deliberately, with full knowledge, attempt to deceive the public to back their nefarious schemes of human experimentation. Moral depravity infects them all. From the abyss of hell, they have summoned their leader to guide them. we must pray for their immortal souls!
We can pray that Judge Kinder's ruling wil be overturned and that Missouri voters will know exactly what they may be voting on.
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri’s Catholic bishops last week appealed a Cole County Circuit Court judge’s ruling over the language that would appear on a proposed ballot issue protecting embryonic stem-cell research, which the Church condemns as immoral.Deception by the agents of evil and death...What is "St Jack" Danforth's position on deceiving the public? His blindness and the blindness of others does not permit them to see clearly.
In their appeal, the bishops stated that the official ballot title "misleads and deceives the voters of the state of Missouri." The bishops added their support to an appeal filed by the plaintiffs, Missourians Against Human Cloning, which filed the suit on which Judge Byron Kinder ruled.
The ballot title, which is the only information on the proposal voters will see in the voting booth, includes a statement that the proposal bans human cloning.
But those opposing the measure have said the full text of the proposal allows a human cloning procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
Using this procedure scientists would create human embryos only to destroy them for biomedical research purposes. This type of research is commonly referred to as "therapeutic cloning."
In their appeal the bishops state: "Despite the fact that the proposed initiative authorizes cloning for biomedical research, the secretary of state’s official ballot title states that the proposed initiative will ‘ban human cloning.’ Consequently, a Missouri voter who wants to ban human cloning for all purposes will be deceived by the official ballot title, which makes no distinction between cloning for research and cloning for reproduction.
"Catholic Missouri voters could unwittingly vote for a ‘ban on human cloning or attempted cloning’ because such would be entirely consistent with the teachings of their faith. Only later would these voters discover that their votes did not support their respect for the sanctity of human life," according to the bishops’ appeal.
By state law the ballot title must accurately summarize the full proposal and not mislead voters.
The Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures is backing a proposed constitutional amendment to prevent the legislature from banning embryonic stem-cell research and work. They are petitioning to gain enough signatures to place the issue on the Nov. 7 election.
Church leaders have recommended Catholics decline to sign the nominating petition and vote against the measure if it goes to a vote.
As we can see, the consequence of sin is sin - Sin begets sin...It becomes a vicious cycle of slavery and spiritual and sometimes bodily death. These people deliberately, with full knowledge, attempt to deceive the public to back their nefarious schemes of human experimentation. Moral depravity infects them all. From the abyss of hell, they have summoned their leader to guide them. we must pray for their immortal souls!
We can pray that Judge Kinder's ruling wil be overturned and that Missouri voters will know exactly what they may be voting on.
Local Pharmacist’s Firing Linked to Planned Parenthood Pressure
From the St. Louis Review:
Pharmacist Heather Williams of St. Charles was fired from her job at a Target store after Planned Parenthood threatened to boycott the chain because of her employment, according to Americans United for Life.
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"Under the threat of a Planned Parenthood boycott, the chain decided to cease protecting her right of conscience and terminate her employment," Americans United stated in a news release.
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Target’s corporate communications department in Minneapolis called the statements made in a news release by Americans United for Life "completely inaccurate and misleading."
Should I recite, or toss, formula prayers?
From time to time we've all received via email or some other method, an invitation to recite or pray a "prayer that never fails"...Sometimes there are items in the vestibule of a church which make similar claims? What do you do with these?
From the "Dear Father" section of the St Louis Review. some sound advice:
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Send it to Dear Father, c/o St. Louis Review, 20 Archbishop May Drive, St. Louis, MO 63119, or fax to (314) 792-7534, or e-mail to slreview AT stlouisreview.com.
From the "Dear Father" section of the St Louis Review. some sound advice:
Prayer is a good thing, but when you subscribe to these prayers that are guaranteed "to never fail" you are turning prayer into a magical formula bordering on superstition. Such prayers also do not represent the best understanding of just what intercession is all about.Father Lombardi, a priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Family is associate pastor of St. Wenceslaus Parish in South St. Louis.
There are two ways we can approach prayer. One is as a communication of love and trust and the other is as a business transaction. If our prayer is authentic, we are opening ourselves to God’s will and trusting Him to answer us. The problem is when we pray these prayers that are guaranteed "never to fail" we are trying to manipulate God.
In that God always answers our prayers in one way or another, there is truth in the claim that authentic prayer is guaranteed "never to fail." God answers all our prayers but sometimes, His answer is "no."
I really question prayers that require publication, strict formulas, mathematics or circulation because it represents an impoverished approach to the spiritual life.
We should never approach prayer as if it is conducting a business transaction with God.
St. Francis de Sales tells us:"Do not distress yourself about your prayers. It is not always necessary to employ words, even inwardly. It is enough to raise your heart and let it rest in our Lord, to look lovingly upward toward this divine lover of our souls, for between lovers the eyes speak more eloquently than the tongue."
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Feb 14 - Lecture by Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga at SLU
Saint Louis University's Department of Theological Studies presents
11th Annual DeLubac Lecture
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
7:00 pm
Busch Student Center Multipurpose Room 170
Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga
"Challenges of Globalization for the Church in Latin America"
Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, is a Roman Catholic Cardinal and the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was President of the Latin American Conference of Catholic Bishops (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999. Prior to the April 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, he was mentioned by some in the Press and Media as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II.
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1942. As a boy, he had wide interests that included saxophone-playing and aviation. He entered the religious life and joined the Pious Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco) in 1961. He taught at Salesian colleges in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, at the Salesian Theological Institue in Guatemala.
He was ordained a priest in 1970 in Guatemala City, and was named Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa in the same year. He was rector for three years at Guatemala's Francisco Marroquín University from 1975; he became Archibishop of Tegucigalpa in 1978, and in 2001 Pope John Paul II made him a Cardinal--the first from Honduras.
Cardinal Rodriguez's campaign for human rights and the poor have won widespread praise. In this connection, he served as the Vatican's spokesperson to the International Monetary Fund and the the World Bank on the topic of debt in the developing nations. During the G-8 meeting of major world leaders in 1999, Cardinal Rodriguez teamed up with rock star Bono to present a petition, signed by 17 million people, calling for debt relief—an effort that has subsequently borne fruit. He is the founder of of the Catholic University of Honduras and an ecumenist who has encouraged dialogue between Catholics and Pentecostals in Latin America. He has brokered peace accords with rebels and led rebuilding efforts after natural disaster. He was honored by the Parliament of Central America with the Francisco Morazán Medral.
11th Annual DeLubac Lecture
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
7:00 pm
Busch Student Center Multipurpose Room 170
Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga
"Challenges of Globalization for the Church in Latin America"
Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, is a Roman Catholic Cardinal and the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He was President of the Latin American Conference of Catholic Bishops (CELAM) from 1995 to 1999. Prior to the April 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI, he was mentioned by some in the Press and Media as a possible successor to Pope John Paul II.
Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 1942. As a boy, he had wide interests that included saxophone-playing and aviation. He entered the religious life and joined the Pious Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians of Don Bosco) in 1961. He taught at Salesian colleges in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, at the Salesian Theological Institue in Guatemala.
He was ordained a priest in 1970 in Guatemala City, and was named Auxiliary Bishop of Tegucigalpa in the same year. He was rector for three years at Guatemala's Francisco Marroquín University from 1975; he became Archibishop of Tegucigalpa in 1978, and in 2001 Pope John Paul II made him a Cardinal--the first from Honduras.
Cardinal Rodriguez's campaign for human rights and the poor have won widespread praise. In this connection, he served as the Vatican's spokesperson to the International Monetary Fund and the the World Bank on the topic of debt in the developing nations. During the G-8 meeting of major world leaders in 1999, Cardinal Rodriguez teamed up with rock star Bono to present a petition, signed by 17 million people, calling for debt relief—an effort that has subsequently borne fruit. He is the founder of of the Catholic University of Honduras and an ecumenist who has encouraged dialogue between Catholics and Pentecostals in Latin America. He has brokered peace accords with rebels and led rebuilding efforts after natural disaster. He was honored by the Parliament of Central America with the Francisco Morazán Medral.
"Shock" Priest Censured by Bishop DiLorenzo
VIRGINIA BEACH — The Rev. Thomas J. Quinlan Jr. famously loves to jar congregations with bluntly worded homilies, but he went too far when he mentioned the Virgin Mary’s birth canal during a Christmas Eve service – a Catholic bishop has banned him from performing any priestly function in public.Link...
“Your shock content was crude, offensive and disturbing,” particularly to families, youth and visitors, Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of the Richmond Diocese told Quinlan in a Jan. 17 letter. The bishop cited a sermon that Quinlan, known as “TQ,” gave at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Virginia Beach.
Rockville Centre Bishop William Murphy Revamps Religious Ed
Rockville Centre Bishop William Murphy announced a major shakeup of religious education yesterday that reconfigures the program that produced a generation of lay Catholic leaders, as well as many members of Voice of the Faithful, an activist group that has demanded the bishop's resignation.One reaps what one sows...the failure to promote authentic Catholic teaching produces such dissenting groups as Voice of the Faithful, and others and weeding these types out of parish RCIA, catechetical and religious education programs may take another generation. It's encouraging, if not miraculous, to see this initiative being taken in Rockville Centre.
Link.
Vision TV Airs "Secret Files of the Inquisition"
Despite the fact that reputable historians have debunked the myths and lengends of the Inquisition, Vision TV airing of it 4 part Docu-drama miniseries "Secret Files of the Inquisition" perpetuates the "black legends"...It begins thus:
You can read VisionTV's "stuff" here.
It was a reign of terror that would endure for more than 600 years.We should not be too surprised as a new wave of questions, concerns, antipathy, or attacks are forthcoming...
At the dawn of the second millennium, the Roman Catholic Church reigned supreme throughout the kingdoms of Europe. But by the 13th century, emerging Christian sects like the Cathars were challenging the Pope's authority. To counter their influence, the Church unleashed a new weapon: the Inquisition.
Some scholars say the Inquisition exists to this day, in the form of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a Vatican office that was headed until recently by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict XVI.What we need today is another like Tomas de Torquemada...
You can read VisionTV's "stuff" here.
UN Supports China's Population Program with $27 Million
Joseph D'Agostino, spokesman for the Population Research Institute - the organization which first exposed the horrors of China's coercive population program - commented, "It really shows that some people don't care about human rights."
Mar 3 & 4-Credo of the Catholic Laity Lenten Retreat
Credo of the Catholic Laity will be holding its Lenten Retreat immediately after Ash Wednesday on Friday and Saturday March 3rd & 4th at St.Francis de Sales Oratory located on Ohio Avenue at Gravois.
Our Friday Retreat Master will be Rev. C. Eugene Morris, S.T.L., Director of Worship and Assistant Professor of Sacramental Theology at Kenrick Glennon Seminary.
Father Morris is an experienced Retreat Master who has conducted many retreats. He is often heard on our local Catholic Radio Station WRYT and KHOJ.
Msgr. Henry J. Breier, Secretary to Archbishop Burke, will be the homilist at the Solemn High Mass on Friday evening.
On Saturday, Rev. Karl Lenhardt, Rector of St Francis de Sales Oratory and Vice Provincial of The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in the United States, will conduct the retreat.
We will close the retreat on Saturday with another Solemn High Mass.
Take advantage of the opportunity to make this Lent one of your most efficacious Lenten seasons.
The full schedule for the Retreat is shown below.
Our charge for the retreat is $15.00 per person to cover expenses. If you are able to send a little more please do so in order to assist those who might need help. If you have a problem covering this charge, especially those with large families do not hesitate to ask for help. We want to make this retreat available to as many people as we can.
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Name_______________________________________________________
Address____________________________________________________
Phone______________________email___________________________
Enclosed is my check for $_______to cover ________people
for the retreat.
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Forward this coupon along with your check made payable to Credo of the Catholic Laity to:
Howard Brandt, Credo Treasurer
4386 Honeydew Lane
St. Louis MO. 63128
Phone 314-894-0357
e-mail hbrandt AT i1.net
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2006 Credo of the Catholic Laity Retreat Agenda
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Friday, March 3rd - Rev. C. Eugene Morris
2:00 p.m. Opening prayer, "Veni Creator" Conference Downstairs
3:00 p.m. Exposition, Benediction, Rosary, and Confession
4:00 p.m. Light Supper Downstairs
5:00 p.m. Conference Downstairs
6:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross and Confession
7:00 p.m. Solemn High Mass
Msgr. Henry J. Breier, Secretary to Archbishop Burke, will be the homilist at this Mass.
Saturday March 4th - Rev..Karl Lenhardt
9:00 a.m. Confession, Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy
9:45 a.m. Conference Downstairs
11:00 a.m. Litany of All Saints, Benediction and Exposition
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Conference Downstairs
2:30 p.m. Solemn High Mass
4:00 p.m. Close
There will also be the regular 8:00 a.m. Low Mass on Saturday March 4th
Our Friday Retreat Master will be Rev. C. Eugene Morris, S.T.L., Director of Worship and Assistant Professor of Sacramental Theology at Kenrick Glennon Seminary.
Father Morris is an experienced Retreat Master who has conducted many retreats. He is often heard on our local Catholic Radio Station WRYT and KHOJ.
Msgr. Henry J. Breier, Secretary to Archbishop Burke, will be the homilist at the Solemn High Mass on Friday evening.
On Saturday, Rev. Karl Lenhardt, Rector of St Francis de Sales Oratory and Vice Provincial of The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in the United States, will conduct the retreat.
We will close the retreat on Saturday with another Solemn High Mass.
Take advantage of the opportunity to make this Lent one of your most efficacious Lenten seasons.
The full schedule for the Retreat is shown below.
Our charge for the retreat is $15.00 per person to cover expenses. If you are able to send a little more please do so in order to assist those who might need help. If you have a problem covering this charge, especially those with large families do not hesitate to ask for help. We want to make this retreat available to as many people as we can.
===========================================================
Name_______________________________________________________
Address____________________________________________________
Phone______________________email___________________________
Enclosed is my check for $_______to cover ________people
for the retreat.
============================================================
Forward this coupon along with your check made payable to Credo of the Catholic Laity to:
Howard Brandt, Credo Treasurer
4386 Honeydew Lane
St. Louis MO. 63128
Phone 314-894-0357
e-mail hbrandt AT i1.net
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2006 Credo of the Catholic Laity Retreat Agenda
__________________________________________
Friday, March 3rd - Rev. C. Eugene Morris
2:00 p.m. Opening prayer, "Veni Creator" Conference Downstairs
3:00 p.m. Exposition, Benediction, Rosary, and Confession
4:00 p.m. Light Supper Downstairs
5:00 p.m. Conference Downstairs
6:00 p.m. Stations of the Cross and Confession
7:00 p.m. Solemn High Mass
Msgr. Henry J. Breier, Secretary to Archbishop Burke, will be the homilist at this Mass.
Saturday March 4th - Rev..Karl Lenhardt
9:00 a.m. Confession, Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy
9:45 a.m. Conference Downstairs
11:00 a.m. Litany of All Saints, Benediction and Exposition
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Conference Downstairs
2:30 p.m. Solemn High Mass
4:00 p.m. Close
There will also be the regular 8:00 a.m. Low Mass on Saturday March 4th
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