Tuesday, February 03, 2009

News Updates, 2/3

Pope sends message, chalice to new Russian Orthodox patriarch
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI gave a chalice to the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church and expressed his hope that Catholics and Russian Orthodox can improve their relationship.

Fr. Marcial, Founder of Legionaries of Christ, Fathered Child, Lived Double Life?
The Founder of the Legionaries of Christ and its lay movement, Regnum Christi, are deeply shocked and heartsick. Their founder, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado, had already been alleged to have been involved in serious and scandalous sexual impropriety in the past...

Many fear possible demise of Catholic schools
Enrollments decline steadily in U.S. dioceses

Catholic members of U.S. congress bully Pope
Lawmakers call for direct repudiation of holocaust denial
[How about a mass public excommication of these traitors to the faith and the republic?]

Liberal theologian: Pope should step down
Call for resignation over holocaust-denying bishop
[Clueless clown]

Pope's decision is "disastrous", says Dutch bishop
Roman Catholic Bishop Ad van Luyn of Rotterdam has said that Pope Benedict's decision to rehabilitate renegade British Bishop Richard Williamson is "disastrous"...
[It seems that most of the "wailing and gnashing of teeth" over the Pope's SSPX move comes from areas where bishops and priests have effectively destroyed the faith of countless Catholics...I cringe anytime I hear Dutch & Catholic in the same sentence]

SSPX to Discipline Bishop Williamson
Bishop Fellay is to announce possible sanctions against Richard Williamson in the coming days. "Yes. I'm already working on this," he said on Sunday outside of the chapel where Mass was being said in Zaitzkofen (Regensburg area), where the Society of St Pius maintains a seminar for priests.

Cardinal 'mystified' at reported federal probe
Did Mahony and other Church leaders commit fraud?

“Defying the clear will of Californians”
Sacramento City Council considers joining brief asking Supreme Court to void Prop. 8

Comcast airs porn during Super Bowl in Arizona
Hackers interrupt cable service after touchdown

Gay pride flag flies at Welsh police headquarters
Response: People prefer focus to be on crimefighting

Was high school girl possessed in class?
Student spoke in tongues, make grave predictions

Polish National Church may buy Catholic properties
Considers buildings closed by Diocese of Buffalo

Catholic hospitals fight abortion bill
'If FOCA passes, the impact's going to be felt'

Pelosi on "Stimulus" Says Dumbest Statement Ever Uttered by a Politician
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wins, while setting the bar sky high for anyone trying to top it. 500 million Americans will lose their jobs if the stimulus plan doesn't pass?
[It's understandable - she's a willfully ignorant fool! She's mired in the promotion of infanticide and the Culture of Death - yet she has suffered NO PENALTIES from the Church. Perhaps, were she to be punished with a JUST PENALTY, it might wake her from the nightmare of sin in which she wallows!]

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