CATHOLIC HEADLINES 5.19.16

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FIRST WE LOST THE SALTINESS, NOW WE HAVE THE TRAMPLING

FRANCIS  GOES FULL-BORE COMMUNISTA: THE RICH SUCK THE BLOOD OF THE POOR!  THE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR IS A MORTAL SIN!

Who is he pointing at?

POPE FRANCIS RULES OUT CHANGE IN PRIESTLY CELIBACY

WILL AMORIS LAETITIA’S SPECIAL NEW ‘MERCY’ APPLY TO CLERICAL PEDOPHILES?

STRATEGICFRANCIS SEEKING SOME CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT WITH THE SSPX?

FATIMA:  THOSE WHO ASK THAT WE SIMPLY BELIEVE WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THE WHOLE TRUTH IN THIS MATTER ASK TOO MUCH.

THAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH FR. ROSICA.  HE’LL BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR ONE PART OF SOCIETY, AND THEN FEELS FREE TO BACKHAND ANOTHER. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THE ONES HE BACKHANDS ARE THE ONES WHO ADVOCATE FOR FOLLOWING THE FAITH.

CARDINAL MARX, GERMAN BISHOPS CALL FOR MORE ISLAMIZATION, THOUGHT CONTROL: ‘FIGHT RADICALIZATION AND BRUTALIZATION OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT AGAINST MIGRANTS!’

FRANCIS TELLS AMBASSADORS TO PUSH FOR MORE ISLAMIC ‘REFUGEES’

TWISTED:  FRANCIS LOOKS AT THE LIFE-GIVING MISSION THAT JESUS CHRIST GAVE TO HIS CHURCH AS FOUND IN THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, AND HE SEES SOMETHING AKIN TO THE QUR’AN AND ITS SATAN-INSPIRED TEXT CALLING FOR JIHAD.

CARL OLSEN ON RECENT FRANCISINTERVIEW: UNEVEN AND UNCONVINCING. HE RELIES OFTEN ON A VICTIM MENTALITY, CONTINUALLY RESORTS TO EMPTY CLICHÉS ABOUT ARMS MANUFACTURERS AND SUCH, AND APPEARS TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANY SEMBLANCE OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE, AS IF IT IS THE PROBLEM.

SOMETHING IS GRAVELY WRONG WITH POPE FRANCIS’ THINKING

MUSLIMS ACCOUNT FOR 91% OF CHILD RAPES IN UK

CUPICH’S ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO TO OFFER 12 WEEK PAID PARENTAL LEAVE

CHINA, VATICAN INCREASE TALKS OVER BISHOP APPOINTMENTS

THE ‘BERGOGLIO PHENOMENON’ IS AT RISK OF BEING CONSIDERED AS ONE WHOLE, OF WHICH DUBIOUS SYMPTOMS ARE SO MANY THAT IT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISING IF THE FUTURE QUARANTINES IT ALTOGETHER.

SCIENTISTS MAKING PIG PEOPLE

 

Leftist Euro Bishops Hold Their Own Synod. First Agenda Item: Love

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At the Register Edward Pentin has the somewhat frightening report of a progressive ‘shadow synod’ being driven from Germany.

A one-day study meeting — open only to a select group of individuals — took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University on Monday with the aim of urging “pastoral innovations” at the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Family in October.

Around 50 participants, including bishops, theologians and media representatives, took part in the gathering, at the invitation of the presidents of the bishops’ conferences of Germany, Switzerland and France — Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Bishop Markus Büchel and Archbishop Georges Pontier.

One of the key topics discussed at the closed-door meeting was how the Church could better welcome those in stable same-sex unions, and reportedly “no one” opposed such unions being recognized as valid by the Church.

Participants also spoke of the need to “develop” the Church’s teaching on human sexuality and called not for a theology of the body, as famously taught by St. John Paul II, but the development of a “theology of love.”

It’s amazing how little these types of clerics actually know about love, isn’t it?  Is love sex? Is love gay sex?

I guess when you spend most of your adult life pleasing false superiors, then later on simply shuttling from one catered event to another, handled by servants and office help; your judgment can get skewed.  In Germany if you rise to cardinal, in effect you become a permanent bureaucrat at the top of a state-funded empire with few hard  demands upon your leadership or expenses.  You also have tremendous leverage.

One Swiss priest discussed the “importance of the human sex drive,” while another participant, talking about holy Communion for remarried divorcees, asked: “How can we deny it, as though it were a punishment for the people who have failed and found a new partner with whom to start a new life?”

Marco Ansaldo, a reporter for the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica, who was present at the meeting, said the words seemed “revolutionary, uttered by clergymen.”

French Biblicist and Ratzinger Prize-winner Anne-Marie Pelletier praised the dialogue that took place between theologians and bishops as a “real sign of the times.” According to La Stampa, another Italian daily newspaper, Pelletier said the Church needs to enter into “a dynamic of mutual listening,” in which the magisterium continues to guide consciences, but she believes it can only effectively do so if it “echoes the words of the baptized.”

The meeting took the “risk of the new, in fidelity with Christ,” she claimed. The article also quoted a participant as saying the synod would be a “failure” if it simply continued to affirm what the Church has always taught.

Pentin’s revealing piece full of greasy slogans and Leftist organs continues, but it’s safe to say this isn’t the kind of thing Mass-going faithful Catholics subsidize.  Dirty churchmen such as these can only be funded with dirty money.  Why must we all now be plagued with their abuse?

 

 

German Bishops Continue to Shut Down the Church Militant

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The German Bishops have just formally announced what many bishops in the U.S. would like to see; we will no longer screen ‘catholic’ employees for faithfulness.

This is generally the case already, but with this official change in Church law, the Germans are making sure that no-one ever fires or refuses to hire someone for a Catholic reason.  It’s a nightmare and it’s coming here quickly.

With potentially far-reaching consequences, the bishops of Germany have voted by more than a two-thirds majority to relax Church labor laws to allow civilly remarried employees or those living in same-sex unions to retain their jobs with Church institutions.

In an announcement Tuesday, the German bishops’ conference in Bonn said the majority of bishops had ruled that immediate dismissal will only be a “last resort” for employees who are divorced and subsequently “remarry” or those living in a registered partnership.

Until now, such employees were required to be dismissed from such employment, although the rules were often ignored. The Church is the second-largest employer in Germany.

“An automatic dismissal may now in future be ruled as out of the question,” said Alois Glück, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, the country’s top lay Catholic organization. From now on, he said, any public violation of loyalty to Church teachings must be examined on a case-by-case basis.

As limited as his reach seemed to be, can you imagine this kind of thing happening if Pope Benedict hadn’t become sidelined?  It would be unfaithful to lay the blame of any of this on Pope Francis, right?  He’s too holy to let that happen.  It’s amazing how much he’s just like the Pope we would get if they sort of muscled Pope Benedict out, isn’t it?

The amendment, when enacted by a bishop, explicitly overturns a 2002 ecclesiastical law, which stipulated that all Church employees need to be loyal to the magisterium. Glück said the change “represents a substantial paradigm shift in the application of ecclesiastical law,” adding that the new regulation will “open the way” for decisions to be made in accordance with “human justice.”

The lack of unanimity among bishops means the new regulation is left to Germany’s 27 bishops to implement the reform in their dioceses. But in practice, it could be unlikely that any bishop will be able to resist the new measures. According to the official statement, the bishops’ conference is setting up “an additional working group” to examine the question of whether the Church’s labor law can be “more institutionally oriented” in a bid to make it a nationwide and uniform labor structure. The bishops’ conference has also instructed dioceses to publicize the changes in their diocesan newsletters. This is required to formally enact the law.

“I expect and hope this will happen everywhere,” Cardinal Rainer Woelki, the archbishop of Cologne, said in a May 6 interview with Katholisch.de. The cardinal, who headed the committee that drew up the new law, said the first objective of the amendment is to ensure “compliance with lived practice,” but denied the amendment in any way undermines the principle of the indissolubility of marriage.

Caritas Germany, which employs 591,000 staff, welcomed the change. President Peter Neher said Church institutions need a “broader understanding of the concept of loyalty” and that ecclesiastical labor law should reflect how the Catholic Church “stands alongside” those who live broken lives.

Everything is always about Caritas.

The erasure of the Faith is never an organic thing.  It’s always a top-down leveraged affair.  The Christian Faith is natural.  It functions and it lives.  Murder, on the other hand, requires some force.