The Nine Day Novena To Our Lady of LaSaletteDay OneTheme: Welcome Scripture Says: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." (Mt. 11: 28, 30) Mary Said: "Come near, my children." Meditation: What a wonderful invitation! In all simplicity Mary at La Salette calls the two children to come near. Her words echo her Son's invitation to come to him that we may find rest from our burdens and refreshment for our spirits. This too is Mary's desire: that her children-meaning us as...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Cardinal Raymond Burke told the Catholic News Agency that he can envision a time when the Catholic Church in the United States "even by announcing her own teaching" will be accused of "engagin in illegal activity, for instance, in its teaching on human sexuality." When asked if he could even see American Catholics being arrested for their faith he replied, "I can see it happening, yes." See here. This is news?Back in June of 2005...
Saturday, November 26, 2011
England's intelligence agency GCHQ will play a key role in the new UK Cyber Security Strategy. This new strategy was crafted, we are told, to protect against "criminals, hackers, foreign intelligence services..who want to harm us by compromising or damaging our critical data and systems." See here. Sounds like good news right?But if one reads this document very carefully, a few red flags begin to emerge. It's not only...
Friday, November 25, 2011
In a November 20 pastoral letter on the importance of Sunday Mass, Cardinal Sean O'Malley urged people not to take the Mass for granted or to allow it to become a mere routine. Excellent advice indeed. But we must give more than lip service to the importance of the Holy Mass and the reverence with which we ought to assist at Holy Mass. The Council of Trent, in its Decree Concerning the Celebration of Mass (Sess. xxii) had this to...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Catholic Sun [Syracuse, NY Diocese] reports that a sculpture depicting Father Mychal Judge was dedicated at All Saints Parish in Syracuse, New York. The newspaper says, "Father Judge was well known in New York City for his ministry to people living with HIV and AIDS, people struggling with addictions and people living on the street. In his death, he is remembered far beyond the City. The program from the dedication affirmed that 'his life...
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Our Lord wept over Jerusalem and said, "If only you knew what makes for peace" (Lk 19:42). And now we do know (those of us who are Christian in more than name). Only a life lived in conformity with the mind of Christ as shown to us by His Catholic Church can bring true peace. By contrast, "Pride inflates man; envy consumes him; avarice makes him restless; anger rekindles his passions; gluttony makes him ill; comfort destroys him; lies imprison him;...
Friday, November 18, 2011
400,000 in US funds was funneled to the International Development Law Organization. At its website, the IDLO says that it "uses a variety of programs to reach its objectives. These programs are fully consistent with the 2005 UN Summit and the Millenium Development Declaration. We read in No. 58 of this document, pp. 16-17:Gender equality and empowerment of women58. We remain convinced that progress for women is progress for all. We reaffirmthat the full and effective implementation of the goals and objectives of the BeijingDeclaration...
Thursday, November 17, 2011
In a post published back in April of 2010, and which may be found here, I asked the question, "When will the media acknowledge the fact that the sexual abuse of children is not a 'Catholic problem'?" This post highlighted the fact that the sexual abuse of children is a far greater problem outside the Church than within it and that children are in fact much safer with a Catholic priest than with males in the general population where...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
In a letter to Mr. Paul Rondeau, the Executive Director of American Life League, Dr. William Marshner, a moral theologian who teaches at Christendom College, explains why Catholics should refrain from donating monies to the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). He writes, "..the funding of an organization is formal cooperation in what it regularly does. But in Catholic moral theology, it is never licit to cooperate formally...
Monday, November 14, 2011
Once again, the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts is promoting the "Catholic" Campaign for Human Development. This is most alarming since the CCHD, an organization which was inspired by radical agitator Saul Alinsky, a Marxist who dedicated his Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, whom he called "the first radical," is an umbrella organization and/or a front for various groups which dissent from the Church's authentic teaching. Especially...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
In his Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici, No. 37, Pope John Paul II reminded us that, "To rediscover and make others rediscover the inviolable dignity of every human person makes up an essential task, in a certain sense, the central and unifying task of the service which the Church, and the lay faithful in her, are called to render to the human family. Among all other earthly beings, only a man or a woman is a 'person', a conscious...
Friday, November 11, 2011
Today is Veteran's Day. And while many are enjoying the best of everything this country has to offer, many are not. 25 percent of homeless men in this country are veterans. Apparently we are content with this situation because it is only getting worse. My father served in Korea and during the Vietnam conflict. He was career military. But when he needed a hearing aid, he was denied one. We treat veterans in...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
In an article published at America Magazine online, and which may be found here, Michael O'Loughlin writes: "I've read a couple different stories over the last few days that offer a glimpse into the polarization of the Catholic Church on certain issues, in this case homosexuality and the place of gay people in the Church.First was the news that The Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, ran an opinion column in which Daniel Avila,...
Monday, November 7, 2011
Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director of the demonic organization "DignityUSA," and others associated with her dissent group, have issued a statement regarding Daniel Avila's opinion piece on same-sex attraction which was removed from The Pilot, Boston's Archdiocesan newspaper. The statement says (in part):"The comments made by Mr. Avila are outrageous, and have no place in any official Catholic communication vehicle. While we appreciate...
Saturday, November 5, 2011
As most of you probably know by now, Daniel Avila, policy adviser for marriage and family to the U.S. Bishops' Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage since June 20, has offered his immediate resignation because of an opinion piece which he wrote and which was published in the October 28th edition of The Pilot, Boston's archdiocesan newspaper.In his opinion piece, Mr. Avila linked same-sex attraction with the Devil. Specifically,...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
