CATHOLIC HEADLINES 4.4.16

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GTV: 40-MINUTE MEETING W/ SSPX BISHOP FELLAY A PREEMPTIVE TACTICA MOVE AHEAD OF JOYOUS FRANCISEXHORTATION

JOHN ALLEN ON SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM: ‘MOST CATHOLICS WHO WANTED ACCESS TO ANCIENT MASS ALREADY HAD IT?’

‘THEN FINALLY THEY WENT FOR THE WHOLE THING’ – RD SLAMS FFSP/SSPX COMMUNITIES: A CATHOLIC TOWN IN IDAHO WHERE THE POPE IS A HERETIC

CHINACHURCH: ‘WE ARE SUFFERING LIKE JESUS ON THE CROSS. WE FIGHT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FOLLOW THE GOSPEL – BUT WE ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY EITHER ROME OR CHINA.’

BRITISH MAN RAPED BY MUSLIM REFUGEE ON HIS BIRTHDAY

OUTCRY AS MUSLIM STUDENTS ARE EXEMPTED FROM SWISS TRADITION OF SHAKING TEACHERS’ HANDS AT SCHOOL AFTER ‘REFUSING TO ADOPT THEIR WAY OF LIFE’

GOD-SEARCHER MORGAN FREEMAN MEETS WITH UN GLOBAL WARMING LIAISON, ARGENTINE ABP. SANCHEZ SORONDO, PREACHES PRE-CATHOLIC ROME

"I don't see anything happening"

“I don’t see anything happening”

MORGAN FREEMAN TRAVELS THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF GOD

NEWLY DISCOVERED 5TH-CENTURY CHURCH SHOWS VIOLENCE OF MUSLIM CONQUEST

‘VOLUMES HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ON THE ‘JUST WAR THEORY,’ WITH GROUNDS THAT ARE GETTING LESS AND LESS TENABLE IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF OUR CONTEMPORARY WORLD.’ – NIGERIAN CD. ONAIYEKAN BRINGS MORE PACIFISM TO NOTRE DAME?

IS IT PAUL RYAN? INSIDERS PREDICT SPEAKER WILL BE THE CANDIDATE AFTER AN OPEN REPUBLICAN CONVENTION (AS HE ISSUES ANOTHER DENIAL)

REPUBLICANS MAY DITCH OFFICIAL ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE DESPITE TRUMP AND CRUZ OPPOSITION

SCOTTISH BISHOPS URGE CATHOLICS TO JOIN ‘A POLITICAL PARTY’ TO ‘SHAPE A BETTER SOCIETY!’

NOTRE DAME FACULTY FOR LIFE SLAM LAETARE MEDAL FOR BIDEN

THE DIVINE MERCY DEVOTION BACKSTORY

LET ME KNOW WHEN THE JOY OF SEX IS ‘RELEASED’

UNDERGROUND PRIEST: ‘ROME MAY BETRAY US, BUT I WON’T JOIN A CHURCH WHICH IS CONTROLLED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY’

CRUXMAG’S ALLEN: UPCOMING FRANCISEXHORTATION ON HOLY COMMUNION MAY BE JUST AS IGNORED AT BENEDICT’S SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM?!

FR. RUTLER: NO SADNESS OR REGRETS AT THE DEATH OF MOTHER ANGELICA

NO MORE HÄAGEN-DAZS AND BARNEY MUSIC AT MASS FOR MARQETTE BISHOP DOERFLER

“ANTI-ISLAM FAR-RIGHT ACTIVISTS” WHO MOWED DOWN MUSLIM PEDESTRIAN WERE ACTUALLY (SURPRISE!) MUSLIMS FROM MOLENBEEK

AIRLINE STEWARDESSES MUTINY OVER ORDER TO WEAR MUSLIM HEADSCARVES WHEN LANDING IN IRAN

POPE FRANCIS RECEIVED SSPX BISHOP FELLAY

FRANCIS: WE HAVE TO FINISH WRITING THE ‘GOSPEL OF MERCY’ THAT JESUS STARTED?

FRANCISCARDINAL SCHÖNBORN: WE MUST DETACH OURSELVES FROM OUR BOOKS AND GO INTO THE MIDST OF THE CROWD AND LET OURSELVES BE TOUCHED BY THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE.

CD. SCHOENBORN: HARD-HEARTED PRIESTS AND CARDINALS ARE LIKE PHARISEES, DEVILS, AND WOLVES BECAUSE THEY DON’T ACCEPT GOD’S ‘EXCESSIVE MERCY’

PA BISHOP MALESIC TALKS ABOUT FRANCISMERCY, ‘WOUNDED FAMILIES,’ AND BRINGING CHRIST OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH WHERE HE ISN’T LOCKED, TO THE PEOPLES.

SPIRITUAL POVERTY? – ONE WONDERS IF THE HOLY FATHER WILL MENTION THIS UTTER DEVASTATION OF THE POOR IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE REFORMATION

THE VICTIM IS THE BABY. THE MOTHER IS HIS MURDERER.

DID TRUMP MAKE A GAFFE OR MAKE ALL OF US FACE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH?

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC SOCIETY FACING DEREGISTRATION FOR ‘DISCRIMINATION’ AFTER 88 YEARS

Is Fr. Longenecker a FrancisChurch Evangelist, or Just a Tortured Bubbling Pot of Rage?

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One of the most sinister fronts in the barrage of Pope Francis faux-Catholic leftist political propagandizing is his ongoing comparison of faithful people to ISIS.  After regularly denouncing Catholics who believe Church teaching as sick, twisted ‘fundamentalists,’ Francis chose last week to blame ‘fundamentalists’ for the recent Brussels bombing which killed 70 and injured 300.   Refusing to fault the actual Islamists for the massacre, our Holy Father easily linked these mass-murderers to strong adherents in any religion, including Catholics.  “We have them too,” Pope Francis loves to say.

Closer to home, this shocking FrancisTorch is carried by media pundit and former Anglican priest, Fr. Dwight Longenecker.  Some weeks ago Fr. Longenecker wrote an outrageous piece tying the faithful Catholic ‘fundamentalists’ at The Remnant, who vigorously defend Church teaching, to people on the edge of violence.

The magazine’s editor Michael Matt was quick to respond in a powerful critique and call for retraction, but that wasn’t all.  Today we find that attorney and Remnant columnist Chris Ferrara, conscious of the ramifications of such anti-Christian slander, also sent a demand letter directly to Longenecker.

This worked.  The response was quick and complete, apologetic and accurate. It also had three published versions, each progressively less chastened, more angry, and condescending.

Notice the changes in the following three segments.

 

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Mr Matt is Not a Violent Man

March 31, 2016 by Fr. Dwight Longenecker

I have received a letter from Christopher A. Ferrara–an attorney for The Remnant which says:

Accordingly, I hereby demand that within five days of the date of this letter you publish on your website, with as much prominence as the original article, your full and unequivocal retraction of the statements “given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to physical violence” and “given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to personal violence” as they apply to the Remnant its Editor and his associates.”

In compliance with Mr Ferrara’s request I retract fully, unequivocally and completely any statement or suggestion that Mr Matt, The Remnant staff, readers and associates might tend towards violence of any kind, nor would they ever threaten anybody.

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Mr Matt is Not a Violent Man

March 31, 2016 by Fr. Dwight Longenecker

I have received a letter from Christopher A. Ferrara–an attorney for The Remnant which accuses me of libel and says:

Accordingly, I hereby demand that within five days of the date of this letter you publish on your website, with as much prominence as the original article, your full and unequivocal retraction of the statements “given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to physical violence” and “given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to personal violence” as they apply to the Remnant its Editor and his associates.”

In compliance with Mr Ferrara’s request I retract fully, unequivocally and completely any statement or suggestion that Mr Matt, The Remnant staff, readers and associates might tend towards physical violence of any kind.

I further retract my outrageous suggestion that Mr Matt and his associates would ever resort to personal violence, or threaten anybody.

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Mr Matt is Not a Violent Man

March 31, 2016 by Fr. Dwight Longenecker

I have received a letter from Christopher A. Ferrara–an attorney for The Remnant which accuses me of libel and says:

Accordingly, I hereby demand that within five days of the date of this letter you publish on your website, with as much prominence as the original article, your full and unequivocal retraction of the statements “given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to physical violence” and “given enough rope they will move from verbal violence to personal violence” as they apply to the Remnant its Editor and his associates.”

In compliance with Mr Ferrara’s request I retract fully, unequivocally and completely any statement or suggestion that Mr Matt, The Remnant staff, readers and associates might be angry fundamentalists who are inclined towards physical violence.

I further retract my outrageous suggestion that Mr Matt and his associates would even conceive of the idea of resorting to personal violence.

They would never, for example, threaten anybody.

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Funny.  Oh the irony!

What kind of person can only muster some fraternal respect and decency under pressure, and then only as little as possible?  Do Catholics now need to adopt the world’s childish, angry, and glib persona too?

Go ahead, Fr. Longenecker.  Defame and malign the faithful all you want.  We’ll continue to defend the Church whether you feel ‘threatened’ or ‘unsafe’ like some student activist or not.  Throw all journalistic integrity to the wind even though you’re a priest.  You’ll only make ever more clear the stark difference between what passes for a Catholic opinion leader these days and a true, gentle Christian.

Professional Pro-Lifers Reveal Themselves Over Trump

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I have to confess that I’m ignorant of the pro-life movement’s platform.  I didn’t know they had a policy, which they’d defined somewhere in unison on the wild chance that the powers that be would overturn Roe, against any punishment for women who choose to abort their children.  I’m not running for president on a pro-life ticket, but I am equally as dismayed as Trump seems to be.

Abortion is murder, yes?  If it’s only an accomplice to murder then that’s certainly a very strong complicity, like tying up the victim and holding the gun while someone else pulls the trigger.  But I’ve come to learn from ‘real pro-lifers’ and ‘real conservatives’ that ‘post-abortive’ mothers are actually victims too.

Is punishment for women who abort bad policy?  I suppose.  Is it even necessary?  Well it wasn’t before 1973, but they didn’t have the abortion pill then.  Is it poor political strategy?  Well I don’t know.  It’s not like the one they have is winning, is it?

But the great Catholic opinion leader, ever ready to distill and ponder Pope Francis’s latest bit of ‘wisdom,’ Robert George, says that when Trump called briefly for some consequence for women, under hostile and abusive grilling from Chris Matthews, it was a sure sign he doesn’t mean any pro-life word he’s uttered.  “He’s not one of us,” George pronounced.

Who cares?  Who do these pompous establishment scolds think they are?  Isn’t Trump’s position even more pro-life than theirs?  They only want sanctions for doctors, as if that’s gained them anything.

Trump wants more.  Ted Cruz wants to ‘enforce the border,’ but Trump wants a wall.  A wall is better because you know it’s working.  But look, Ted Cruz is serious and honest while Trump’s just a pretending unChristian racist, yes?

Does anybody seem to understand that when Ted Cruz jokes about how he’d like to back over Trump with his car he’s saying the same thing to the majority of his voters?  If Cruz is so saintly, why does he want to crush the bedrock of America under his wheels?  I think that’s a good question.  Why, when he smiles do people not see a smile?  When he laughs, why is nothing funny happening?

Carly Fiorina once again laid out the contemptuous slur that Trump has proven he has no principles.  Why? Because he wants to punish serious crimes somehow, or because he hasn’t studied up on defensive, losing pro-life policy?  Doesn’t everyone know that ex-mother and murdered child are one and the same?  That’s what pro-life means!  The movement is about healing, not judgmentalism, and we don’t want to make millions of ‘post-abortive’ women angry at Republicans either.

After all, who does this non-professional think he is trying to be a Republican presidential candidate without going deep into our policy?  Like the brilliant, grim, and unsmiling Charles Krauthammer tells us, ‘It’s not that Trump’s wrong.  It’s his “attitude toward ‘the facts!”‘