The beatification of Louis and Zélie Martin will be held on Mission Sunday, October 19, in Lisieux.
John Allen Jr. reports
on the appointment
of Jesuit Fr. Luis Ladaria, a Spaniard, as secretary of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He uses the term
he coined “affirmative orthodoxy” in regards to Ladaria.
Which he previously described as “I mean a tenacious defense
of the core elements of classic Catholic doctrine, but presented in a
relentlessly positive key. “
I found one of the nice little
testimonials on Fr. Ladaria stick out.
“He is also very human. He laughs a
lot,
and is very gracious with the women who clean our offices etc.”
And he smiles at children.
Though I am all for describing people working at the CDF in a
human way instead of as breeds of dogs.
Appointing a Jesuit as Secretary of the CDF since many of the
theologians investigated come from the same order. OK
gratuitous Jesuit swipe and Fr. Ladaria certainly looks like another
very good appointment by the Pope.
In my mail I got a “breaking news alert” from the
National Catholic Reporter. You know it has to be pretty
silly when they get in high dudgeon on something
concerning the Church. In covering The archdiocese of St.
Louis and the attempted ordination of women let us see what upsets them.
The archdiocese of St. Louis authorized
the video recording of a Catholic women’s ordination ceremony that took
place in a synagogue last November. It then used the video, along with
photographs apparently taken from the video, as evidence to punish a
Catholic nun who attended the liturgy, according to several people
familiar with the case.
Sister of Charity Louise Lears was forced out of all church ministerial
roles and banned from receiving sacraments within the archdiocese by an
edict of St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke announced June 26.
You mean the archdiocese actually
videotaped a “ordination” ceremony
proudly advertised and announced before hand? A faux ceremony
that now entitles those who directly participate with auto
excommunication. An excommunication reserved to the Holy See to remit.
A ceremony where those in his diocese flagrantly disobeyed their
archbishop and the Church. Yeah the archdiocese would have no
reason to want to know who was attending this. Then they
dared to actually punish a nun who was causing scandal and was
disobedient by being there. Imagine that.
I also have to laugh at the word “edict”
which is what liberals call any Church document they disagree with.
It was actually a decree of extra-judicial adjudication.
However, several people familiar with the documents, prepared by the
archdiocese that made up the case against her, strongly criticized what
they called the “surveillance” video-taping.
One of the confidential archdiocesan documents, according to
knowledgeable sources, was an affidavit giving permission to an
individual to attend the ceremony in order to record it. The record of
the ceremony is contained on two electronic discs in Lears’ file.
So surveillance is now videotaping a
ceremony open to the public.
“It was a surveillance video. That’s
exactly what it was,” said Sean Collins, a co-pastoral associate of
Lears at St. Cronan Parish until he resigned July 2nd, in part, he
said, to speak about what he says has been a grave injustice taken
against Lears.
“What disturbs me even more is that the video taping was premeditated,”
he said, referring to the affidavit authorizing it by the archdiocese.
Collins did not see the document firsthand, but referred to
others who
had seen it.
Premeditated? Well I guess in
that context everything we do is premeditated. I guess also
that it wouldn’t be “disturbing” if the archdiocese had someone tape it
at the very last minute to avoid premeditation. Sadly
progressives crack me up when they see the grave injustice of punishing
someone who is not faithful and is totally disobedient to her bishop.
For them the problem is not that they do not at least give
religious submission of intellect and will as per Vatican II to what
has been infallibly defined by the ordinary Magisterium. Oh
no it is the archdiocese’s fault for videotaping them in their extreme
disobedience.
The article also wonders why Sr. Lears was
“singled” out when the reality is that he bishop had previously issued
a summons and canonical admonition and she failed to appear to defend
herself. She was also part of a pastoral team of a St. Cronan
parish whereas the other religious that attended were part of religious
orders directly and not working for the archdiocese.
Videotaping will send women back to the bad old days of secret ordinations on riverboats. Oh the shame.
Travis Boddreaux has developed an examination
of conscience for the iPhone. If you have one check it out
here and leave any comments here.
Marc Girard, 18, looked like your ordinary
Catholic teenager. But he was not. …
By now I am sure that you have heard that
the US bishops rejected the
proposed translation of Roman Missal. I do have an
exclusive
thought. The bishops have sent along some guidance to the
International Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL) as to what
would be acceptable. The following are some actual example pages shown.
Along with some rubrics for the GIRM.
Bishop Trautman called the sample changes “Great for both John and Mary
Catholic and Dick and Jane Catholic.” Catholic blogger Father Z called these proposals ineffable and that he would rather be strung up on a gibbet than use this translation for Mass.
The Church of England’s ruling body has voted its support for women to
become bishops without giving traditionalist supporters of male-only
priesthood the concessions they had sought.
One bishop broke down in tears at the meeting of senior British church
leaders Monday in York, northern England, as he described his distress
at the church’s lack of willingness to accommodate traditionalists who
have threatened to leave if they felt they were not adequately
protected.
“I feel ashamed,” said the Right Rev. Stephen Venner, Bishop of Dover,
who is in favor of women bishops. “We have talked for hours about
wanting to give an honorable place to those who disagree. We have been
given opportunities for both views to flourish. We have turned down
every, almost realistic opportunity for those who are opposed, to
flourish.”
Both sides conceded that tradition of male-only bishops would be
changed, and the lengthy debate centered on what accommodation would be
given to dissenters. This was not billed as a final decision; church
legislation to implement the change is to be debated next year.
I must be dense, but I never understood
how this was not anything but inevitable. After you swallow
women priests and dump scripture, theology, sacred traditions, and the
Church Fathers regarding this then what in the world would not allow
women priests to become bishops. It seems to me that the only
real reason at the time that they did not allow women bishops was
political and just and effort to not bleed off even more members as a
result. I mean what theology or tradition could separate
priests from becoming bishops if gender was not part of the equation?
I wonder if Anglicans who at that time were against women
bishops if they really did not see the day when they would be approved?
Though I guess all of us have ways to fool ourselves from
seeing something. For Anglicans and really most
Protestants what is controversial today will be approved and will
become the norm tomorrow.
Where else then at the always creative Creative
Minority Report.
I hope that I don’t come off as paranoid or as someone who relishes conspiracy theories. I have no tinfoil hat and I am afraid that even the thickest grade of tinfoil will not protect us from this threat. Now this intro may seem a little overblown, but let me give you some documentary evidence before I make the case about this looming threat. Please forgive me for these graphic images, but sometimes we must see the reality to be shocked into action.
These photographs were all taken during Catholic Masses or were from
events such as a Eucharistic Conference. These puppets seem to come in all sizes from cute and cuddly, human size, to gigantic. Though there is a surprising consistency to all of them of a lack of joy and a very dour disposition. At first I thought it was just a coincidence to find all of these puppets used in liturgical contexts within a relatively short period of time.
I soon started pondering if perhaps something more nefarious was behind all of this. I know I for one do not welcome our new puppet overlords. As a SF fan I thought about Robert Heinlein’s novel The Puppet Masters where an alien slug-like creature took over the leadership and started to take control. When I first started seeing this puppets I thought their introduction was totally alien to the liturgy, that is when it struck me “alien” to the liturgy – what if aliens in the liturgy? I started to try to think what if I was part of a liturgically minded alien race whose different forms often looked like puppets. What steps would I do to infiltrate and then slowly become accepted until it was too late. Well if I was such an alien obviously I would go to the Religious Education Conference in Los Angeles. This would be the perfect hub to take control since many diocese send their people involved in liturgy there and they they pass on the latest liturgical fads to their own diocese. So I started to do some more investigation and it was not long till l found a picture of Rev. Joe Kempf. during the Gospel reading for a young adult liturgy at the RECongress in 2008.
Now you might somehow barely fathom puppets at Mass for children, but to give the Sesame Street treatment to a group of teenagers and above? Obviously these alien puppet-like creatures have hypnotic control or how else can you explain young adults being treated like this? I then wondered if they infiltrated the Diocese of Los Angeles Religious Education Conference than what else might they have they taken over? I once again tried to tap myself into the mind of these liturgically minded aliens as a kind of alien profiler. If I was in their shoes (or i guess in some cases a sock) what would I do to give me a strategic position and at the same time give me a good defensive stronghold once our plans were fully discovered?
It then dawned on me that Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral was a horrible design for a Catholic Church, but a great design for a defensive bunker. All that concrete would be perfect defense. But what alien artifacts might be already inside the Cathedral?
Why in the world would anybody pay one million dollars for this actual tabernacle in the Cathedral? The only sane interpretation is that the money was needed to create this alien artifact whose purpose I can not discern. If I put up a quiz with this picture and asked – alien artifact or tabernacle – which would you choose? Though it could be related to one of the liturgical puppet races since is has that same sad dour look to it. But if the L.A. Cathedral was actually designed as a bunker then this means this conspiracy goes all the way to the top!
No wonder Cardinal Mahony speaks so often about illegal aliens! He has been covering for the liturgical puppet aliens all along. First you slowly introduce all kinds of odd elements into the liturgy and pretty soon people won’t bat an eye at puppets being involved. Though I think I can discern a weakness in these human looking helpers for the liturgical puppet aliens. The answer was in front of us all along. Obviously they are deathly afraid of precious metals which is why they can only use glass chalices. Long after Redemptionis Sacramentum was published glass chalices and pitchers are still being used. We must hunt down these liturgists within. I suggest a crucifix made out of precious metal such as silver to test them. No wonder liturgists have done their best to get rid of silver and gold crucifixes.
Wake up people and act! Or else instead of mariology we will be force to learn marionetteology.
Update: I had originally identified Robert Scholla, S.J. as the priest with the puppet as per the REConference website. It was mistaken, the priest in the photo is Rev. Joe Kempf.