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Thu May 31, 2007 9:41 pm (GMT -5)
NEW ZEALAND, (help, please send an email!!!!)
Yesterday the speaker of the house, Margaret Wilson, made yet another call for the parliamentary prayer to be dropped because of it’s Christian basis and more specifically because it mentions Jesus Christ. Before Helen Clark was even aware (so she say’s- year right!) of this, Catholic Archbishop John Dew was supporting Wilson’s request!!!
Once again Our Lord and His Kingship is being attacked. This time, our bishops are leading the charge. We should not stand for this so please take the time to send Archbishop Dew a note expressing your disgust. His email is j.dew@wn.catholic.org.nz and while your at it, send Cardinal Williams one too (His email is not advertised publicly but I sent one to t.williams@wn.catholic.org.nz and it hasn’t bounced back. )
Our bishops do this sort of thing and most of the time no one gets upset, but if all of us start jumping up and down, maybe our bishops might start to take us Catholics seriously. Please forward to all your Catholic friends.
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Thu May 31, 2007 6:45 pm (GMT -5)
Genoa’s mayor, archbishop headed for clash on abortion?
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Genoa, May. 31, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Genoa’s Mayor Marta Vincenzi has threatened legal action against a hospital that has stopped providing abortion services.
In a letter to the Galliera Hospital, which ended abortions two months ago, the mayor said that health-care institutions have an obligation to provide legal services.
The head of the hospitals administrative council is Genoa’s Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the president of the Italian Bishops Conference. The hospitals statutes indicate that the Archbishop of Genoa is to head the institution.
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Thu May 31, 2007 6:50 pm (GMT -5)
Spain shows Europe’s highest divorce rate
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Madrid, May. 31, 2007 (CWNews.com) - A survey by Spains Institute of Family Politics has found that Spain has the highest divorce rate in Europe.
Three out of every four Spanish marriages now end in divorce. In 2006, there were 142,000 divorces in the country.
In 2005, Spains governing Socialist coalition passed legislation liberalizing access to divorce, bringing a jump in the number of broken marriages.
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How many of the marriages that ended in divorce began with church weddings? How often did the spouses attend Mass? It’s one thing if the broken marriages began with civil weddings and/or the spouses rarely (if ever) went to church. I’d be surprised if three-quarters of those who were married in church and fulfilled their Sunday obligation on a regular basis divorced.
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Thu May 31, 2007 5:25 pm (GMT -5)
Pakistan Tells Pro-Abortion UN Committee that "Abortion is Murder"
CEDAW Committee members playing duplicitous game claiming treaty is abortion neutral while pressuring nations to allow abortion
By Samantha Singson
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(NEW YORK, May 31, 2007 (C-Fam.org) - On Friday the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) will conclude its latest round of two-week meetings in New York, having questioned six out of the eight countries under review on their abortion laws. As in previous sessions, CEDAW Committee members used the question of maternal mortality and contraceptive prevalence to bring up the issue of abortion in Mauritania, Mozambique, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone and Syria. Notably, two delegations took the opportunity to push back.
Abortion is not mentioned in the treaty, but delegations often go along with the committees line of questioning on abortion by providing data and answering queries on the subject during their reviews. During this round of talks, however, delegations deviated from the routine by making statements in stark contrast to the committees argument. The delegate from Pakistan, undergoing its first review, told CEDAW that abortion is considered murder once a fetus is conceived, and then stated that abortion was illegal in her country except to save the life of the mother.
When committee members criticized Sierra Leone for low contraceptive prevalence, the delegate responded that in Sierra Leone there was a prevailing cultural belief that children were a gift from God.
At variance with the dialogue behind the chamber doors during country reviews, CEDAW committee members maintain officially that the treaty is abortion-neutral. At a public meeting during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) last March, CEDAW Committee Chair Dubravka Simonovic stated that the CEDAW Convention contained no references to abortion. In response to NGO questions about the CEDAW provisions on health and family planning, Siminovic said that there is nothing about abortion in the treaty and stressed that the CEDAW Committee is very careful because we have to keep in mind the 185 States Parties and it is up to them to implement the provisions of the Convention.
At a joint panel discussion with Center for Reproductive Rights and others during the same CSW session, however, Simonovic stated that she believes abortion rights are in the spirit of the treaty.
As one of only seven nations which have not ratified CEDAW, the US has become a lightning rod of criticism from radical feminists and abortion rights NGOs at the UN. In Washington, CEDAW proponents take the opposite tack, insisting that the treaty is silent on abortion. The American Bar Association, which urges US ratification of the treaty, argues that CEDAW does not address the matter of abortion and, according to the US State Department is [sic] abortion neutral. Many countries in which abortion is illegal such as Ireland, Burkina Faso and Rwanda have ratified CEDAW. In fact, Ireland was pressured by the CEDAW to legalize abortion during its last two reviews in 1999 and 2005, as was Burkina Faso in 2000, and Rwanda in 1984 and 1993, which was its last report.
The CEDAW Committee will reconvene on July 23rd to review the reports of the Cook Islands, Belize, Brazil, Estonia, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea and Singapore.
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Thu May 31, 2007 5:29 pm (GMT -5)
O’Reilly Factor Does Hard-Hitting Exposé of Kansas Late-Term Abortionist
Accuses Kansas Governor of Protecting Tiller and “allowing him to continue the slaughter.”
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NEW YORK, 31 May 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Fox News host Bill O’Reilly issued a scathing criticism of the notorious late-term abortionist George R. Tiller that aired the evening of May 30. During the segment, O’Reilly blasted Tiller for “executing fetuses” for “vague medical reasons.”
He was equally critical of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who vetoed a bill that would have required Tiller to provide specific medical reasons for abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy. “Incredibly, Gov. Sebelius is protecting Tiller,” O’Reilly said during his broadcast. “And Gov. Sebelius is allowing him to continue the slaughter. How the governor sleeps at night is beyond me.”
O’Reilly produced a document showing that Tiller has a lengthy history of campaign contributions to Sebelius going back to 1994.
O’Reilly’s guest was Rep. Ben Hodge, who resigned a committee post in protest of the lack of action by Speaker Melvin Neufeld to bring Tiller to justice.
When asked by O’Reilly if this was a disgrace upon everyone who lives in Kansas, Rep. Hodge responded, “Yes, I think it is. I think at times in American history there will be times when branches of government fail the people and I think this is one of those times.”
“O’Reilly’s remarks underscore what our own research and work has revealed about the web of corruption that surrounds and protects Tiller,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, who worked behind the scenes with Kansas legislators in an attempt to bring Tiller to justice.
“Because women come from every state to abort late- term babies at Tiller’s Wichita abortion mill, this is a national problem. We pray that the national exposure O’Reilly brings to this scandal will force the people of Kansas to begin taking meaningful action to clean up governmental corruption and bring Tiller to a court where he can be held accountable under the law as soon as possible,” said Newman.
See the (8 min. 15 sec.) video online here:
http://www.kansasmeadowlark.com/2007/ShameOfKansas/OReilly-2…
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Thu May 31, 2007 3:56 pm (GMT -5)
The awe of tradition: Tired of the happy-clappy modernism taking root in churches? You do have a choice
By Rod Dreher
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"What’s the least I have to believe and do to feel good about myself?"
That’s the fundamental question modern religious seekers seem to be asking. For many contemporary Americans, religion is like a scented candle: The purpose of its light is to provide a comforting psychological ambience. But for a small, growing minority - for whom religion, properly understood, exists to illuminate the challenging path to truth and holiness - there is an alternative: tradition.
We’ll soon be hearing a lot about tradition - Catholic tradition, anyway. Pope Benedict XVI is soon expected to grant permission for the traditional Latin Mass to be celebrated in any Roman Catholic Church in the world. The Latin Mass was the liturgy used by the Roman church from the 1570s until 1970, when Pope Paul VI promulgated a new Mass following the dictates of the Second Vatican Council. The new Mass simplified the language of the traditional Mass, translated it into everyday languages and made it far less "high church." The traditional Mass was, for all intents and purposes, forbidden.
The new Mass ushered in an era of liturgical chaos and a sense among many Catholics that a crucial dimension of beauty, holiness and transcendence had been lost in translation. In 1984, Pope John Paul II ruled that local bishops could grant permission for the celebration of the traditional Mass in certain instances, but in the United States, many bishops balked. Catholic authorities saw the traditional Mass as a sign of division.
Traditionalists have a powerful ally in Pope Benedict, who supports the Vatican II reform but believes that it has gone too far. "I am of the opinion, to be sure, that the old rite should be granted much more generously to all those who desire it," then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote in 1997. Now, as pope, he’s going to give it to them.
The curious thing about enthusiasm for the traditional Mass is how many young people - Catholics who were not brought up hearing the Mass in Latin - hunger for it. In Dallas, Father Paul Weinberger’s celebration of the new Mass in Latin showed how breathtaking and exalting the Mass can be when said reverently, using the ancient liturgical language of the church. To witness a Latin Mass - whether the old Mass or the new Mass said in Latin - is to experience something both old and startlingly new.
One has a similar liturgical experience at St. Seraphim Orthodox cathedral in Dallas where every Sunday, amid a panoply of colorful icons and clouds of incense, parishioners pray and sing the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. That rite, which is celebrated in English, can be traced back to the famed patriarch of Constantinople, who assumed the office in 398.
Among Protestants, there are also signs of a return to traditional forms of worship. Anglican convert Eric Keber is an under-30 Christian who worships in a northern Virginia parish that recently broke away from the Episcopal Church. Keber watched the nondenominational evangelical church of his youth chuck the older, more formal style of worship for casual contemporary. The church was so focused on What’s Happening Now that Keber didn’t learn anything about the history of Christianity until high school.
"Luther, Calvin, Aquinas - these were names from Western civ class, not church," he says. "It amazes me now."
Keber says young adults from his parish who have left behind their nondenominational pasts to embrace a more traditional form of Christianity appreciate the sense of "binding" that traditional worship gives them to generations of Christians who came before. Keber also appreciates the freedom that comes from not having to reinvent the faith every time the cultural Zeitgeist shifts.
At Wheaton College, a leading evangelical institution of higher learning, Leroy Huizenga, a New Testament professor, says the increasing number of students considering converting to Orthodoxy, Catholicism or traditional Anglicanism is looking for "transcendence and unity." They’re also searching for a solid ground of truth.
"They want existential relief from having to decide what to believe among these thousands of denominations with their truth claims, but it’s also that they take truth claims very seriously," Dr. Huizenga, an evangelical, says. "It’s not just a matter of feeling, and I’m proud of my students for that."
The question of truth cannot be separated from an authentic quest for tradition. Without a genuine desire for truth, traditionalism becomes merely an exercise in aesthetics and emotional gratification. If it is to have any weight, tradition must be viewed as the most trustworthy conveyor of religious truth.
David Klinghoffer, who detailed his conversion to Orthodox Judaism in his 1998 memoir, "The Lord Will Gather Us In," recalls that the liberal Reform Judaism in which he was raised taught him to accept only that part of Jewish teaching that he found "meaningful and relevant" to him as an individual. For Klinghoffer, the idea that a believer is free to cherry-pick from sacred tradition to suit one’s needs in the here and now is to view truth as essentially irrelevant - and thus to empty sacred tradition of its power to bind, to elevate and to endure.
Traditionalists of any religion fundamentally differ from modernists in that they see truth as objective and delivered within the rules, rituals and teachings of the tradition. Truth, so considered, is something around which individuals must shape their lives. The modernist sees religious truth as subjective, something that can be shaped to fit the lives of individuals in different times and places. If they’re right, there’s nothing regressive about reclaiming attractive and useful elements of tradition within a modernist context.
Except that it’s a dead-end. Orthodoxy (right belief) cannot be severed from orthopraxy (right practice); both inform and reinforce the other, beholding the truth and embodying it in the rites and pious practices of individuals and communities. The writer and Orthodox convert Frederica Mathewes-Green warns tradition-seekers that the reason the outward manifestations of tradition - the chants, the icons, the liturgies - have such power in our fast-moving, throwaway culture is that their authority is embedded within a living and longstanding communal tradition. If you don’t accept the tradition whole, you cut yourself off from its transformative power.
"It’s like gathering flowers: They look great when you bring them into your contemporary church, but they have no roots and they’re going to die," she says. "You’ll have to keep going out and getting more flowers. Eventually, the whole thing will feel stale. Unless you plug into the ancient-continuing church and let it form you, you’re just being a shopper."
Modernists nevertheless make a point that traditionalists ignore at their peril. Tradition has to be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances without abandoning its core principles. A tradition that loses touch with the needs of the living community is in danger of degenerating into rigid formalism. Some traditionalists make an idol of sacred tradition, as if it were an end in itself, not the most reliable and efficacious means to God.
A friend of mine left the Orthodoxy of his youth for evangelicalism because, in his telling, the static, spiritually moribund church he grew up in was more concerned with celebrating ethnicity than celebrating Jesus. Other Orthodox churches, however, refuse to act like an ethnic tribe at prayer and are being renewed by a flood of dynamic converts.
The imminent return of the Latin Mass offers a tremendous opportunity for Catholic traditionalists to appeal to those unsatisfied by happy-clappy modernism within contemporary Catholicism. The media attention that will be given to the Latin Mass moment is also a chance for other forms of religious traditionalism to step out of the incense-clouded shadows and show the world what they have to offer. Much to the astonishment of the baby boomer generation, who thought such things had been relegated to an irrecoverable past, everything old really is new again.
And why not? Times change, but human nature does not. The British poet Philip Larkin, an atheist, captured the eternal appeal of religious tradition in his poem "Church Going," told from the point of view of an unbeliever peeking in on an abandoned country church:
"A serious house on serious earth it is
"In whose blent air all our compulsions meet
"Are recognized, and robed as destinies.
"And that much never can be obsolete
"Since someone will forever be surprising
"A hunger in himself to be more serious
"And gravitating with it to this ground
"Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in
"If only that so many dead lie round."
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Rod Dreher is a Dallas Morning News editorial columnist. Readers may write to him at the Dallas Morning News, Communications Center, Dallas, Texas 75265; e-mail: rdreher@dallasnews.com.
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Connor Spencer
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Age 14, eighth grade
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Connor, who greatly enjoys Irish music, plays the Irish tin whistle competitively. He loves reading, and says he is entertained by “anything from Calvin and Hobbes to Shakespeare.” His favorite books and movies are The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and he wants to learn to speak Elven, the language J.R.R. Tolkein invented. One of his more interesting hobbies is parakeet breeding. Connor usually studied on his own while preparing for the national finals, but says his parents helped out by lessening his chores to give him more free time. He declares his role model is 2000 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion George Thampy, because “he is a great speller, great person, very smart, and above all, devoted to God.” His parents are Meg Spencer, a homemaker, and Joe Spencer, who works in sales.
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Thu May 31, 2007 4:25 pm (GMT -5)
DEVIL ESPECIALLY HATES PRAYERS IN LATIN, SAYS A PRIEST KNOWN AS ‘ROME’S EXORCIST’
May 30, 2007
A secular book about exorcism says that one thing rankles demons.
"The devil doesn’t like Latin," writes Tracy Wilkinson in The Vatican’s Exorcists. "That is one of the first things I learned from Father Gabriele Amorth, long known as Rome’s chief exorcist, even though that has never been his formal title.
"Now past the age of eighty, Father Amorth has dedicated the last decades of his life to regaining a measure of respectability for exorcism. Despite his advancing age, he continues to perform the rite several times a week at his office in Rome.
"Scores of people seek him out. He prefers to use Latin when he conducts exorcisms, he says, because it is most effective in challenging the devil."
That tidbit comes to us at a time when Benedict XVI is ready to loosen restrictions on Latin Mass. It’s in the new book — a secular and sometimes skeptical but fascinating glimpse into the world of Italian priests who see their job as casting out demons.
While the numbers dwindle in countries like the Canada, France, and the U.S., exorcists are on the rise on the Vatican’s home turf — thanks largely to priests such as Father Amorth.
In Italy the number of exorcists has grown tenfold in the past decade, according to the priest (who is himself author of two bestsellers, An Exorcist Tells His Story and An Exorcist: More Stories). Credit is also due to the legacy of John Paul II — who made the notion of exorcism, which was founded by Jesus Himself, respectable again.
Father Amorth was born in Modena in northern Italy and has been a priest since 1954. In 1986 he began performing exorcisms under the tutelage of the vicar for Rome.
According to Wilkinson, Father Amorth accepted the task "after praying to the Virgin Mary for her steadfast guidance and protection."
"On the walls of Amorth’s exorcism chamber, eight Crucifixes and pictures of the Madonna are hanging, plus a picture of Saint Michael the Archangel," says the book. "A two-foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary, the Madonna of Fatima, sits on a corner table.
"There are also pictures of the late Pope John Paul II; the popular saint Padre Pio; Amorth’s mentor, Father Candido; and Father Giacomo Alberione, the founder of the Society of Saint Paul Congregation."
Father Amorth calls them "my protectors," adding that "the more recent addition of John Paul’s has been especially effective and helpful."
"The demons become very agitated at his presence," Father Amorth says of the late Pope — who himself performed several exorcisms during his pontificate and warned of the rise of dark forces both in 1977 and then in 2005 just days before he lapsed in his final bout with illness.
How is exorcism done? There is the Crucifix. There is the Holy Water. There are the ritual prayers. Many times, those afflicted have to come back on a regular basis — the process a gradual one.
In Father Amorth’s appointment book, women outnumber men by three to one. That is perhaps because they are more in tune with the spiritual, says the exorcist, or because they are special targets as the descendants of Eve.
The very word "hysteria" — so often seen in the possessed — comes from the Greek word hyster for womb. Greeks believed it was caused by abnormalities in the uterus.
"I maintain that in part, the reason is because women are the ones who do the most praying," says the priest. "Another reason is women are more inclined to approach a priest than are men, in case of need."
In some cases, say other exorcists, the devil attempts to mask possession as insanity. This sets up conflict with the far newer practice of psychology — which looks down on exorcism as the psychiatrist’s couch has replaced the confessional.
"An exorcism is the residue of a medieval practice completely devoid of any foundation in reason," the book quotes Sergio Moravia, a philosopher at the University of Florence, as saying. "I don’t think it’s crazy. It’s worse."
Exorcists counter that psychological diagnoses such as "multiple personality" and "schizophrenia" are clinical covers for an infestation.
That opinion is shared by the many who have sought the services of Father Amorth — finding relief when the devil was cast away after years of frustration at the hands of psychiatrists who saw their problems so differently.
Blessed salt and Holy Water are often used not just by the exorcists themselves, but by those who have been exorcised — to stave off further disturbances.
Extraordinary strength, preternatural knowledge, speaking in foreign tongues unknown to the victim, vomiting of strange objects, and violent aversion to holy objects make pure psychological explanations suspect in strong cases.
Prayer, of course, also chases the devil and his manifestations away — apparently, Latin in particular.
Bishop Andrea Gemma of Isernia — who himself performs exorcisms — ascribes the Church’s move from Latin as part of a global plot to undermine Christianity.
"The devil is happy with the near-disappearance of Latin," said the bishop.
Does exorcism mask psychological illness with the supernatural, or is psychology itself a ruse, at least in certain instances, to prevent deliverance?
We have only to study the ministry of Jesus to know the answer.
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Pope Revives Latin Mass
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Under the guiding hand of Pope Benedict xvi, the traditional Tridentine Mass is making a comeback in spite of internal and external opposition, reports USA Today.
The Second Vatican Council, conducted from 1962 to 1965, restricted the use of the Latin, ultra-conservative Tridentine Missal, or prayer book, for use during mass. The reason for the change, which was made during a time of emerging liberalism, was clear: Many felt that changing times called for a more flexible, inclusive mass. Where the Tridentine Mass was conservative, inflexible and peppered with derogatory implications toward Jews and non-Catholics, the new mass would facilitate greater participation among laymembers, be more compact and be written in a variety of languages. Many in the church regard Vatican ii as a moment of badly needed reform and a new beginning, wrote Nicole Winfield.
Though the decision to restrict the Tridentine Mass was welcomed by most, it was scorned by hard-core Catholics. A younger Joseph Ratzinger was among the disgruntled conservatives. At the time, Ratzinger, now Benedict xvi, criticized the changes ushered in by Vatican ii: I was stunned by the ban on the ancient missal, he wrote in his memoirs (Sunday Times, Mar. 11).
Now that Ratzinger is the most powerful man in the Roman Catholic Church, he is in a position to reverse the Vatican ii decision. His intentions are not just to resurrect the Tridentine, but also to set it above the current mass. The Tridentine Mass will be an extraordinary universal rite, and the current mass will become an ordinary universal rite (ibid.).
Beyond simply reconnecting the Church with its medievel past, there are other reasons moving Benedict to make the change. Many young Catholics, for example, are expressing interest in the Latin and Greek mass rather than one in the vernacular; for them the old is actually new. For many born after Vatican ii, the Tridentine Mass strikes them as purer religion. Theres another level there that I dont find at other masses, one young attendee said (Baltimore Sun, Feb. 25).
Another reason for the change is that ultra-conservative groups that have held fast to the Tridentine Mass will fall back into the fold of Catholicism easily.
Benedicts mission to restore the old mass is no easy task. He is confronting a great amount external and internal opposition.
Outside the church, Jews and non-Catholics are concerned about the Tridentines prayers for those deemed unfaithful of different religious beliefs.
Inside the church, opposition from liberal Catholics is causing Benedict to seriously consider publication of a papal motu propio (literally, on his own initiative), which does not require the approval of church bodies. This would enable Benedict to ignore opposition from several cardinals, reported the Sunday Times in London.
Certainly, Benedicts resurrection of the Tridentine Mass is not intended to be popular or draw droves of followers. The move will likely alienate many more than it will please. It is another sign of how Pope Benedict xvi is leading the Roman Catholic Church back to its conservative rootsa trend we must continue to watch. History shows that there is no more formidable force than a medieval papacy.
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