Significant timing; illuminating censure
Ukrainian priest 're-excommunicated'
"The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced the excommunication of a Ruthenian-rite priest in Ukraine, the KAI news service reports. Father Basil Kovpak is the head of the Priestly Society of Saint Josephat Kuntsevych (SSJK), a group with ties to the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) which has been active among Byzantine Catholics in the Ukraine since the early 1990s. Bishops of the SSPX-- themselves excommunicated because they were consecrated without approval from the Holy See-- have ordained priests for the SSJK."
 

Book Review: Tradition Persecuted in Western Ukraine by Fr. Basil Kovpak

NOW Comments: Although we're belated in catching up with this article, it still bears examination at a couple of levels. First, the timing is quite interesting as it comes in less than two weeks after Novus Ordo officials met with their schismatic Orthodox counterparts to pick at the Church's teaching on papal primacy. Fr. Kovpak is, of course, the furthest thing from "ecumenical" priest, so he can be seen as an annoyance to conciliar authorities, while as an Eastern Rite priest he's positively loathed by Orthodox authorities. The renewal of his 2003 "excommunication" can be perceived as a way for the counterfeit church to score points with the Eastern schismatics. Second, his censure sheds light on SSPX's real status with the Vatican and tears away the conciliatory mask worn by "Cardinal" Darío Castrillón Hoyos, who has repeatedly said through much of this year to anyone credulous enough to believe him, that the SSPX bishops, while "excommunicated" are nevertheless "inside the Church," but to use new church doublespeak, only in partial communion with it and adopting a schismatic attitude without being schismatic. The trouble for those who accept Hoyos' claim is that it's trumped by John Paul II in Ecclesia Dei, the 1988 document that declared Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and those he consecrated as having taken part in a schismatic act, and to make it clear he regarded them as completely severed from his church, he urged "all those who until now have been linked in various ways to the movement of Archbishop Lefebvre, that they may fulfill the grave duty of remaining united to the Vicar of Christ in the unity of the Catholic Church, and of ceasing their support in any way for that movement [emphasis added]." No "partial communion" there. This second censure is more significant than the first because the former, which came from the Ukrainian "prelate," was deemed null and void for lack of proper form and the latter was issued by the so-called Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which brings it figuratively speaking just down the hall from Hoyos' office, in an effort to cover the failings of the first, as it were. In sum, Fr. Kovpak's censure reveals that the closing of the gap between Modernist Rome and the SSPX is not nearly as imminent as many have thought and perhaps is but an illusion. 

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Courtesy: San Francisco 'Archdiocese'
Controversial pro-sodomite 'priest' has pro-life activist parishioner arrested
'"A pro-life activist long-time parishioner was arrested at the request of a pro-homosexuality Catholic priest on Tuesday, November 13 for trespassing on church grounds at St. Matthew's parish in San Mateo after the activist allegedly defied a ban on attendance at the church."

Related story: “You don’t harass them”

'New springtime' update
New Jersey 'diocese' consolidating schools
"Camden's Roman Catholic diocese will shut down nine elementary schools by next fall. The move comes in response to declining enrollment. Five schools were closed last year."

Actually he fails on more (such as his pro-'gay' stand), but we won't quibble
'Catholic' Giuliani fails on six of eight major Catholic social issues
"Of the sixteen Republican and Democrat presidential candidates in the 2008 presidential race, Rudy Giuliani, who considers himself Catholic, scores the lowest by supporting the 'intrinsically evil' position in six of the eight major issues identified by the US Catholic Bishops."

'Gay Pride' clubs  ignite controversy in Canadian 'Catholic' schools
"An Ontario Catholic school board approached by a family issues group concerned about pro-homosexual materials in school libraries, is now facing the opening of homosexual student clubs in its high schools."

'Post-Christian," post-conciliar insanity
Meet the women who won't have babies—because they're not eco friendly
"Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers -- and a voice calling her Mummy. But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

"Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet. 'Having children is selfish. It's all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,' says Toni, 35."

Novus Ordo church in Minneapolis set to 'bless' same-sex couples
"St. Frances Cabrini Church, of the St. Paul and Minneapolis archdiocese, has announced on their website that they are ready to 'bless' homosexual partners."

Related Column: Joseph Sobran on Same-sex what?!

From Fr. Louis Campbell
The Seeds of Revolution (on the infiltration of the Church)
"An apostate priest named Canon Roca was already saying at the end of the 1800s: "The liturgy, ceremonial, ritual and regulations of the Roman Church will shortly undergo a transformation at an ecumenical council... the Papacy will fall; it will die under the hallowed knife which the Fathers of the last Council will forge. The papal Caesar is a host (victim) crowned for the sacrifice." A prominent French Freemason wrote that as of 1908: 'the goal is no longer the destruction of the Church but rather to make use of it by infiltrating it.'"

USCCB give thumbs-up to anti-Catholic film, The Golden Compass
[See further down on the page you're on for in-depth analysis of the film from Novus Ordo Watch and external links.]

Demands Mexico City's cathedral remain open after worshippers attacked
Mexico's Masonic government to conciliar church: We own you!
"When ecclesiastical authorities decided to close the doors of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mexico City indefinitely following a Sunday, Nov. 18, attack on worshippers by leftists during the noon Mass, some politicians, instead of condemning the aggressors, severely criticized the Church for shuttering the cathedral."

Sheer apostasy: 'collaborative action' with idolaters, not conversion
Vatican message to Hindus encourages them in their errors

Wacky ball nuns

More to blame on Novus Ordo? LOL
The lost art of Catholic drinking
"There is Protestant drinking and there is Catholic drinking, and the difference is more than mere quantity. I have no scientific data to back up my claims, nor have I completed any formal studies. But I have done a good bit of, shall we say, informal study, which for a hypothesis like this is probably the best kind."

'Laus Deo' inscription removed in DC
Liberals chastised for censorship
"America is a nation that prides itself on freedom of speech, religion and expression. But the extremist left in America is once again attempting to censor religion by exterminating God in yet another aspect of historical American culture. This time, the words 'Laus Deo,' which is Latin for 'Praise be to God,' have been stricken from the Washington Monument replica that tourists can view…."

 VIDEO/TEXT
Indicted Life Teen founder starts 'non-denominational' worship center
"The former pastor at a Mesa Catholic church who faces seven misdemeanor charges of sexual misconduct has started a new worship center and conducted his first services. More than 500 worshippers gathered to hear Dale Fushek conduct a service at a Mesa hotel Thursday."

Background article: Bishop Accountability.org page on Dale Fushek

Irreverence in the guise of political protest
Filipino politicians replace Mary and Joseph in nativity mural
"A Filipino cinema owner has made a political stand by hanging a nativity mural using the faces of the current and former presidents in place of Mary and Joseph."

Like having Marxists teach business administration
Dutch bishops to train priests and seminarians in the Traditional Latin Mass

'…the nightmare is still going on'
'Priest' says clerical sex abuse issue not over
"A Catholic priest, who for over 20 years has been a leading advocate of the rights of people sexually abused by clergy, has warned the worst is not over where the issue is concerned. 'Nothing could be further from the truth,' US Dominican priest Fr Tom Doyle has said. A canon lawyer and former US air force chaplain, in 1985 he helped draft a report on clerical child sex abuse for America's Catholic bishops."


 AUDIO  Related link:
Abuse scandal still echoes through Catholic Church

Moral outrage or damage control?
'Pope' removes Illinois 'monsignor' from 'priesthood'
"Pope Benedict XVI has removed an Illinois monsignor from the priesthood following allegations of sexual misconduct, church officials said. Monsignor Eugene Costa, 57, of Springfield, is the former pastor of St. John Vianney Church in Sherman and Holy Family Church in Athens. He has been on leave since January 2005.

NOW Comments: Pardon the cynicism, but with the serious financial rat hole the Novus Ordo church has suffered—the myriad bankruptcies and other payouts caused by the "pedophile priest" plague, not to mention an equally serious hit the sect has taken in terms of its public image and credibility as a voice of moral authority, the motives behind Benedict's recent get-tough measures are ambiguous at best, all the more so when this bit of recent history is recalled.

Ireland: Former 'priest' pleads guilty to sex assaults
"A former priest yesterday pleaded guilty at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee, Co Kerry, to 53 counts of indecent assault against three females and two males. The offences occurred in Co Kerry between 1965 and 1973 and there were 32 counts of indecent assault on one of the boys and 16 on one of the girls."

Tell us sweet lies, Rudy
Giuliani to conservatives: I'm with you on judges
"Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani Friday assured conservatives he will nominate Supreme Court justices they would find acceptable. Speaking in Washington to the Federalist Society, a group of influential conservative lawyers, Giuliani said he would nominate justices in the vein of the current conservative wing of the court."

Oh, by the way: Rudy employs pal, accused "pedophile priest"

Ohio 'priest' removed after allegation of sexual abuse
"According to Bishop Daniel Conlon, Father Gary Zalenski, the pastor of Scared Heart Parish in Neffs, was withdrawn from active ministry as a result of a credible allegation of having sexually assaulted a minor in 1991 when he was a pastor in Lore City, Ohio."

Only 'Wanted' posters will help!
Ontario 'diocese' to use posters in fight against abuse
"Three new posters aimed at eliminating sexual abuse will soon be made available throughout the Diocese of London. The posters are part of a new sexual abuse policy being developed by a From Isolation to Action (FITA) committee established in the diocese."

Good question, just don't expect a straight answer
Oakland group wants to know why lewd 'priest' was made pastor
"A small but emotional group gathered outside the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland headquarters Friday to question why a priest with a public lewdness arrest was chosen to oversee the Pleasanton parish. 'This man committed a deviant sex act and wanted to be seen,' said [Joey] Piscitelli, director of the Northern California chapter of SNAP. 'The Bishop is testing this priest on the people of Pleasanton.'"

 MOVIE REVIEW
Bella: an incomplete Catholic message

Another review:
The Bellum that Bella wages against the Merchants of Death

Missouri school suspends choral director after abuse allegation
"The choral director at St. Louis Community College at Meramec has been suspended with pay as administrators look into claims he had sex with one of his high school students nine years ago. Larry Stukenholtz was told of the decision Friday afternoon following a meeting of the college's board of trustees, said Community College System Spokesman Pat Crowe."

Said the spider to the fly?
Philippine abuse victims promised help by 'archidiocese'
“'Come and see us,' Msgr. Achilles Dakay, media liaison officer of the Cebu Archdiocese, advised the teenage girls who complained they were harassed by a priest last year. Dakay said they want to talk to all the girls who accused Fr. Benedicto Ejares of acts of lasciviousness, child abuse and sexual harassment so the archdiocese can help them."

Scottish 'bishop' apologizes for 'pedophile priest"
"The Bishop of Whitby, the Right Reverend Robert Ladds, said he was sorry to the individuals affected by the actions of former Middlesbrough clergyman Trevor Ward. Ward's victims were invited to the special service to pray for a return of trust to the parish of the Church of St Agnes in Easterside."

'He ruined so many lives'
Molestation case continues for former L.A. 'priest'
"A former priest accused of molesting two boys he met while serving at churches in Pico Rivera and Los Angeles will return to court Nov. 30. Clad in an orange Los Angeles County Jail jumpsuit, Michael Stephen Baker, 59, appeared Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court for a hearing."

Fatima's fabulously hideous interfaith 'shrine'
A colossal monument to diabolic disorientation
"Thus it is clear the new basilica at Fatima is a monument to the diabolic disorientation of neo-modernism and ecumenism. This explains why there is nothing Catholic about its construction. This explains why there is nothing holy in its appearance. This explains why the average Catholic who still has the sensus fidei gapes at the building as something from another planet."


NOW Comments: Ah, yes, "diabolical disorientation," the one-size-fits-all explanation neo-traditionalists prefer to use rather than that nasty little word apostasy. It permits them to avoid acknowledging culpability of conciliar leaders (depending on the situation, of course, and who is involved). 

Revolutionary rumblings in once-Catholic nation
An earthquake shaking the Spanish monarchy
“'I also burn the Monarchy!' was the slogan being shouted in Barcelona and all of Catalonia by the separatist movement of that province at recent demonstrations. It was not only shouted, but followed by the actual burning of pictures of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia, present day monarchs of Spain. It is the first time such an outburst has occurred in the 32 years (1975-2007) of the constitutional monarchy that was artificially restored by Dictator Francisco Franco."

 PHOTO GALLERY
'Bishops' go native in Papua New Guinea
Inculturation, liturgical dancing, heathen "bishops"…everything but the Catholic Faith!

Another take: Papua New Guinea bishops

Iowa diocese fails to file bankruptcy plan as scheduled
"The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport failed to file a bankruptcy reorganization plan yesterday, missing a court deadline. The diocese offered little explanation for missing the deadline. The plan they were due to submit is necessary so that damages can be paid to people who have accused the diocese's priests of sexual abuse."

And, as we predicted, no communion ban for pro-abort, pro-'gay' politicos
'Catholic bishops' offer voting guide, allowing some flexibility on issue of abortion
"The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops approved principles Wednesday intended to guide Catholics in choosing whom to vote for but leaving the door open for them to back candidates who support abortion rights. Nearly all the bishops approved the document, 'Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.' That broad consensus might help the church avoid the fissures that occurred in 2004, church experts said, when some conservative Catholic groups issued voter guidelines that identified abortion as 'non-negotiable' and a group of bishops touched off a debate about whether Catholic candidates who back abortion rights should be denied Communion."

 VIDEO  Related link:
Catholic Bishops debate on voting

Reality Check:
Democrats' secret weapon - How American bishops kept abortion legal for thirty years

NOW Comments: There is nothing at all surprising in this document; it is, rather, exactly what we've come to expect from the USCCB, echoing legitimate Catholic teaching in one sentence and qualifying it away in the next. As the article suggests, it "seemed to offer something for everyone," pleasing both "pro-choice" and pro-life factions in the Novus Ordo church. After all the doubletalk, though, the bottom line, quite simply, is that for these "bishops" the life of the unborn very definitely is a negotiable issue. Let them wax eloquent all they want about fighting the "culture of death," when you cut through the rhetoric they are (aside from a precious few weak-kneed, ineffectual exceptions) a collection of tinplate hypocrites who would to a man have no problem rubbing elbows at posh dinners with pro-abortion politicians after giving them communion earlier in the day. And they're going to tell us how to form our consciences? What a joke!

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Bernardin described as 'an evil man and a flaming homosexual'
Was the most powerful 'Cardinal' in America after Vatican II a secret Satanist?
"A woman using the pseudonym Agnes for her own protection claims that she was raped by “Cardinal” Bernardin. She has testified to this in a sworn deposition, in accounts to investigators, in affidavits submitted in support of others’ cases against Bernardin, in phone calls and letters to “Church” officials, and in sworn affidavits with Vatican officials.

Agnes claims that when she was eleven years old – which was several decades ago – Joseph Bernardin raped her as part of a satanic ritual which Bishop John J. Russell of Charleston, South Carolina also took part in. Agnes was brought to the ritual by an abusive father who was a member of a satanic cult. Agnes said that her dad offered her to the cult as part of a satanic sacrifice.…"

Related links:
They who understand
Book Review: Amchurch Comes Out
Attorney: Bernardin lied, visited crime scene
Sex scandal death knell for Church? [Bernardin & Co.'s ritualistic abuse exposed]

Also see: Bernardin feature in the Novus Ordo Watch archive for August 2006

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Church money went in part to please male lover
Connecticut judge denies sentencing delay for 'priest' thief
"A federal judge denied a request by the Rev. Michael Jude Fay, who pleaded guilty to stealing up to $1 million from St. John Roman Catholic Parish, to delay his sentencing due to his cancer. The denial was filed on Oct. 25. Federal prosecutors opposed the request, saying the former pastor of Darien’s oldest Catholic church began his criminal activity in 1999 and his victims should not have to wait longer for justice."

Related column:
The Rise and Fall of Fr. Fay

Conciliar 'openness' = apostasy
A look at Venice's 'Catholic' mosque
"The pastor of the parish, Don Aldo Danieli, 69, affirms, 'It's useless to speak of religious dialogue and then bang the door on their face. Pope John Paul II addressed them as, "dear Muslim brothers." How can we close our church doors to them?'"

NOW Comments: If Danieli was a real Catholic pastor, welcoming Muslims to his church would have been to draw them out of the darkness of Islamism, not reinforce their devilish errors by inviting to worship their false god, Allah, there!

Victims groups view 'explanation' with distrust
USCCB: Child abuse in church found to mirror society
"An increase in reported incidents of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests in recent decades mirrors a jump in such incidents in society as a whole, according to preliminary findings by researchers hired by the Catholic Church to find answers to the abuse crisis. The findings, released yesterday at the Fall Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore, worried advocates for abuse victims, who said they hoped that sexual abuse by priests would not be played down just because other members of society did the same."

 VIDEO  (Warning: Disturbing content)
Sodomite 'educators' teach grade school students ABC's of Hell
Extremely slick propaganda directed at the youngest of children! The linked videos are from It's Elementary, a 78-minute feature film produced by homosexual activists. These are actual scenes from elementary schools in Massachusetts and New York.

Deemed a tad too 'ecumenical'
Officiating at interfaith funeral prompts firing of Baltimore priest
"Baltimore's new Roman Catholic archbishop removed a priest who was pastor of three South Baltimore parishes for offenses that include officiating at a funeral Mass with an Episcopal priest, which violates canon law. Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien personally ordered the Rev. Ray Martin, who has led the Catholic Community of South Baltimore for five years, to resign from the three churches and sign a statement yesterday apologizing for 'bringing scandal to the church.'"

NOW Comments: Whoa, there, hang on just a minute, "Abp." O'Brien! What about this?  Hmm?

Marriott spokesman: new approach 'less values-oriented'
So long, Gideons (post-Christian hotels remove Bibles, add 'adult amenities')
"In the rooms of Manhattan's trendy Soho Grand Hotel guests can enjoy an eclectic selection of underground music, iPod docking stations, flat-screen TVs and even the living company of a complimentary goldfish. But, alas, the word of God is nowhere to be found. Unlike traditional hotels, the 10-year-old boutique has never put Bibles in its guest rooms, because 'society evolves'" says hotel spokeswoman Lori DeBlois.…

Hide your crosses or else, they're told
'Bishops' barred from visit to Jerusalem's Wailing Wall
"No crosses at the Western Wall was the message sent by a rabbi to a group of Austrian Catholic bishops who refused to hide their Christian crosses before entering the courtyard of the Western Wall, the Jewish people's holiest prayer site."

NOW Comments: The delegation, led by Vienna's "Cardinal" Christoph Schonborn, was turned away by the Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, who explained the move to the Jerusalem Post by declaring: "Crosses are a symbol that hurts Jewish feelings." He refused to elaborate, though rekindling memories of a certain event that took place in that city one Passover nearly 2000 years and the great complicity of his religious ancestors, the Pharisees, in perpetrating the crime are no doubt things Rabinovitch would prefer to avoid at all costs.

 VIDEO  Victims group issues angry letter on hush money
Chicago's 'archbishop' elected USCCB president
"Francis Cardinal George has been elected president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops, winning about 85 percent of his colleagues' votes. George received 188 of 222 votes for the presidency at the bishops' conference in Baltimore on Tuesday."

Ratzinger Flashback: No particular form of primacy 'binding on all Christians'
Vatican-Orthodox commission agrees on primacy of Pope; differ on significance
"A joint commission working to heal the 1,000-year split between the Catholic and Orthodox churches has agreed the Pope has primacy over all bishops but disagrees over just what that authority permits him to do."

Reality Check:

"Certainly, no one who claims allegiance to Catholic theology can simply declare the doctrine of primacy null and void, especially not if he seeks to understand the objections and evaluates with an open mind the relative weight of what can be determined historically. Nor is it possible, on the other hand, for him to regard as the only possible form and, consequently, as binding on all Christians the form this primacy has taken in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The symbolic gestures of Pope Paul VI and, in particular, his kneeling before the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarch [the schismatic Patriarch Athenagoras] were an attempt to express precisely this and, by such signs, to point the way out of the historical impasse."

[Joseph Ratzinger, Principles of Catholic Theology (San Francisco, CA: Ignatius Press, 1987), p. 198]
 
For more see: "Cardinal" Ratzinger Denies Dogma of Papal Primacy

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Prophet and 'patron saint' of the Vatican II revolution
'A great Christian': 30 Days interview on 'beatification' of Fr. Antonio Rosmini
30 Days: Rosmini’s best known work is certainly The Five Wounds of the Holy Church. Put on the Index, it was fully rehabilitated before the Index of Forbidden Books was itself abolished… [NOW Comments: Not so. Paul VI's attempted abolition of the Index occurred in 1966, whereas the supposed full rehabilitation did not come until 2001 with a decree issued by then-"Cardinal" Joseph Ratzinger, some 35 years later.]
'Cardinal' José Saraiva Martins: It’s a book in some ways prophetic, anticipatory, perhaps too much so for its times. And the destiny of prophets, in the Bible but also, alas, in the history of the Church, is often that of being misunderstood and persecuted.…
30 Days: Another of the wounds pointed out by Rosmini had to do with the liturgy…
Saraiva Martins: Rosmini understood the drama of a liturgy that was no longer comprehensible to the people and, often, not even by the celebrants themselves. Also in this his intuition anticipated the movement for liturgical renewal and of the needs expressed in the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium of Vatican II.

NOW Comments: Fr. Rosmini's serious errors were condemned by the Church, and Rosmini retracted them (see Denzinger 1891ff., note 2), but, remember, it's these very errors (in some cases, heresies) that make him a hero to the conciliar church, it's these errors that John Paul II and Ratizinger went to such great lengths to "rehabilitate." Why? Simply because in the errors found in The Five Wounds of the Holy Church and elsewhere in his writings, Rosmini anticipated certain errors (noted in the accompanying links) that would be heartily embraced by the Novus Ordo church and which it has no intention of retracting.  

Related links:
Rosmini rehabilitation and the Ratzinger agenda
Blessed Liberty: The posthumous miracle of Antonio Rosmini
Antonio Rosmini among the inspiring figures of Vatican II

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Proposal doomed to failure
California 'bishops' won't support communion ban of pro-abort politicos
"Bishops to consider excluding pro-abortion politicians from communion, but California’s prelates unlikely to support such a ban."

Another vocation lost to 'renewal'?
Nun pleads no contest in sex abuse case
"A 79-year-old Roman Catholic nun pleaded no contest Monday to two counts of indecent behavior with a child for alleged sexual encounters with two male students at a church convent and school where she was principal during the 1960s. The nun, Norma Giannini, and her attorney left the courthouse without comment after entering the pleas in Milwaukee County Circuit Court."

From the same town that brought you Joseph Bernardin!
Dusting off skeleton in pedophile-coddling 'archbishop's' closet
"In February 2003…the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Father Kenneth Martin of Wilmington, Del., a consultant to the archdiocese on liturgical texts, had been staying at the cardinal's mansion during his monthly visits to Chicago. He had been staying there despite the fact that he had pleaded guilty in 2001 in Maryland to sexually abusing a teenage boy over three years in the 1970s when he was a lay teacher. Martin received a suspended sentence and was declared by the diocese to be a "priest in good standing" in Wilmington, provided he not do public ministry."

NOW Comments: Martin was allowed to be "ordained" despite admitting to having repeatedly abused a boy over a span of three years. Incredible!

Oy vey, so get over it, already!
Burke angered by synagogue's hosting of women's ordination
"The Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis and a Jewish Reform congregation are on the same side when it comes to advocating for immigrants and the poor, often finding common ground in a zeal for social justice. But when the Central Reform Congregation offered its synagogue for Sunday's ordination of two women in a ceremony disavowed by the Roman Catholic church, it drew the ire of church officials and a pledge to never again partner with the congregation."

NOW Comments: Interesting to note that the "conservative" Burke is said here to be "advocating for immigrants (read illegal immigrants, still more proof of his phoniness.

Including roles as political candidates, military chaplains
America's 'Jesuit' editor promotes religious liberty for pagans
"Sadly history shows that there were times that Christians persecuted pagans, and there were times when pagans persecuted Christians. Hopefully we are beyond that today. Certainly since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has acknowledged religious freedom as a right for all people." "

 VIDEO  Flashback
Boston Clergy Abuse Scandal: 'Cardinal' Law reacts to release of Geoghan papers
"In January 2002, Boston Globe publishes troves of once secret documents surrounding case of notorious Boston pedophile priest John Geoghan. News reporters and the public react with dismay amidst further calls for resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law. News report by David Boeri of WCVB TV Channel 5 in Boston." (Warning: Disturbing content.)

Related link: 'Archdiocese' allowed Geoghan's serial abuse for decades

A friendly reminder: It's…
National Praying to God Month
"Now, the ultimate test: November has been declared as NaPraGoMo, or National Praying to God Month, by the Serra Club of St. Alphonsus Church in Greenwich Village."

A rare instance of justice prevailing
Swedish anti-sodomite web editor cleared of hate speech
"Sweden's Supreme Court has cleared website editor Leif Liljeström of charges of acting as an accessory to incitement to hatred of homosexuals. Liljeström, who runs the Christian website Bibeltemplet, was previously sentenced to one month in prison by the Court of Appeal for allowing the publication of hateful comments about homosexuality."

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Big budget film slips atheism through backdoor
Is The Golden Compass anti-Catholic?
"The fantasy film is based on a novel by Philip Pullman called Northern Lights. It is already attracting attention in the US for avoiding much of the book’s perceived anti-Catholic rhetoric. (. . . From the trailer:) Narrator: “[This] is a world dominated by the Magisterium, which seeks to control all humanity, and whose greatest threat, is the curiosity of a child.…”

"There are so many other details in the story that I could name as examples of the venomous anti Christian and particularly anti Catholic bigotry in these books. The ‘tempter’ is an ex nun who flat out tells the two children that Christianity is a mistake…and there is also a thinly veiled reference to sex when the book says her greatest time of ‘bliss’ was not when she was a nun. She also goes on to tell these two 12 year old kids that she was not married but lived with a man for four years. Then there is a bizarre story of the two male ‘angels’ who are in love with each other." 

Related articles:
His Dark Materials
Snopes.com on The Golden Compass
‘Catholic’ actress to star in anti-Catholic fantasy trilogy
FOX News Interview: Some 'Catholic' leaders upset over new Kidman film
Critics slam Golden Compass for 'castrating' anti-Church themes
Christian groups claim pro-atheist 'stealth campaign' in Golden Compass

NOW Comments: It's a little surprising that even a reasonably decent Novus Ordo "Catholic" would agree to star in this movie, but A-list actress Nicole Kidman is doing exactly that, playing what in Pullman's books is a very vicious caricature of a manipulative woman who supports the Magisterium (in other words, the Catholic Church). Granted, Kidman has said she wouldn't knowingly take part in an anti-Catholic film and The Golden Compass has largely downplayed the explicit anti-Catholic themes in the novels, but still she knew that already, conceding the film 'has been watered down a little.' Despite her knowing the antireligious nature of the trilogy, she's also signed on to appear in the sequels. But what does that matter, it could be argued, if the Catholic-bashing has been toned down? What matters is that the novels haven't had a great deal of sales outside of the U.K., so if the movies are successful they will spike the market for the books in other countries and those books are overtly atheistic, with the "happy ending" of the series being the death of God (identified as the feeble, senile "Authority"). Kidman's failure to denounce Pullman's books, while helping bring them a larger readership, does not speak well of her love for a Church she claims is "part of my essence."
 

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'New Springtime' Update
Three once-Catholic Latin nations join drive for 'gay' rights
"Three Latin American countries have joined with non-profit organizations to launch an international campaign to advance the legal rights of homosexuals, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reports."


As God-haters seek to impose their will
Pharmacies not stocking abortion drugs are targeted as lawbreakers
"A federal court Thursday confirmed that the right of Washington pharmacists to obey their conscience when they object to dispensing abortion-inducing drugs on religious grounds will be protected while a lawsuit by two pharmacists and a pharmacy owner moves forward.  The court halted newly passed regulations, which the pharmacy and pharmacists are challenging, until a decision is reached in the case." 

NOW Comments: Catholics must view the passage of such regulations as ominous. Yes, this ruling is an important victory in the ongoing culture war against those who seek to impose a godless totalitarianism on America (and in other nations where the war is being waged), but this is hardly the end of the matter. For, if a government can pass laws requiring pharmacies to stock abortifacients, then what is to stop it from mandating that bookstores carry immoral works or clothing stores immodest fashions? And moving to other fields of endeavor, what's to stop it from dictating what news sources report or what priests preach from the pulpit? These types of regulations must be fought tooth and nail until their proponents are clearly shown to be the enemies of God and man and forced out of positions of power or else a stealth Communism will be soon imposed.

Victim advocacy groups critical of his record
George expected to be next head of U.S. conciliar 'bishops'
"The nation's bishops are expected to elect the archbishop of Chicago to head the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at an upcoming meeting in Baltimore."

Thus giving Burke a chance to playact as orthodox Catholic archbishop
Women to go ahead with 'ordination' ceremony despite warnings
"The Archdiocese of Saint Louis has warned two Saint Louis women they will excommunicate themselves if they undergo a planned “ordination ceremony” scheduled for this Sunday."

NOW Comments: "Archbishop" Raymond Burke provided some unintentional humor when he warned the women that they'd leave him with no choice but to "excommunicate" them "in order to protect the faithful from grave spiritual deception." Let's see, he wouldn't be spiritually deceiving anyone himself, would he? LOL

Wonder why he didn't publicly honor Pascendi centennial? Now you know!
Ratzinger: The teachings of the Popes against Modernism are obsolete
"Presenting to the press the document Instruction on the Theologian's Ecclesial Vocation composed by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Card. Joseph Ratzinger affirms that the teachings of the Popes against Modernism, Liberalism and Evolutionism are obsolete. According to him, they were only valid for the times for which they were written, for pastoral purposes. This is positively a modernist statement."

You can't up make this stuff!
'Priest' arrested for stalking late night TV host Conan O'Brien
"The Boston priest who was busted for stalking Conan O'Brien followed the Late Night star all over the country - and even popped up in Italy in search of his obsession, police sources said."

Demonic appearance in photo?
"A Colorado man reports he was able to kick his drug habit after a photograph of him at a relative's anniversary celebration showed – literally – a demon on his shoulder."

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Nun's murderer accused of child rape, torture in occult rites
Court reinstates lawsuit involving priest's Satanic rituals
"In a decision which will have far-reaching effects in clergy abuse cases and eerily issued just days before Halloween, the Sixth District Court of Appeals in Ohio has reinstated a 2005 lawsuit involving alleged satanic rituals against a Toledo priest who was convicted last year in the 1980 murder of a nun.

"Roman Catholic Gerald Robinson, now 69, was convicted in May, 2006, of the murder of a 71-year-old nun and was sentenced to 15 years to life. His request to remain free pending appeal was denied." 

Related columns:
Was jailed priest in satanic sex ring?
Killer priest convicted — but denial continues (touches on Satanic elements of the murder)

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