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Protestantizing devotional
life
'Catholic Charismatic' movement's revealing
history
Like the "new Mass," the so-called "Catholic charismatic
renewal" movement was one of the fruits of John XXIII's "new Pentecost"
that emerged in the 1960s after Vatican II, falsely promising Catholics
a "new, improved" way to pray. It also paralleled the Novus Ordo Missæ
by mimicking Protestant services, in this case the delirium of the
Pentecostals; just as the Montini-Bugnini "Mass" moved the focus of
worship from a renewal of Christ's sacrifice on Calvary and His Presence
in the Blessed Sacrament to a celebration of the congregation,
Charismatic services are very much geared to the "experience" of the
participants.
Playing the role of
Obama's hitman
'Priest' who mocked Hillary again draws spotlight
"He's a white priest at a largely
black church. He's held hands with Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan. He's been arrested dozens of times and battled anyone he
thinks has wronged his parish -- from gun dealers to a local Catholic
sports league. Now the Rev. Michael Pfleger is something else: the
latest thorn in the side of presidential candidate Barack Obama."
VIDEO
Pfleger
at Obama's church (If you haven't seen him in action, watch as
Pfleger does his imitation of a black minister. LOL)
NOW Comments:
On the heels of Pfleger's remark 'Cardinal'
Francis George "issued a press
release Friday in which he criticized both Pfleger's involvement in a
political campaign and a 'personal attack' on Clinton." This misses the
real issue, which is that no one worthy of the name Catholic should be
backing Obama, Clinton or any candidate who holds anti-God stands
in favor of such evils as legal abortion, "gay" rights and
euthanasia.
Modernist Rome has approved
'scriptural version' WYD Stations of the Cross changed to
please non-Catholics
"In a bid to ensure the World Youth Day Stations of the Cross will not
incite anti-Semitic feelings and appeal to all Christians, organizers
have dropped six traditional stations which have no scriptural
foundation. The Sydney Morning Herald reports the Church has
changed one of its most popular devotions and a landmark event of World
Youth Day to take account of the sensitivities of Jews and draw other
Christian denominations into its youth celebrations."
No,
explain it to the unborn!
'Archbishop' explains admonishment of pro-abortion Kansas governor
"Archbishop of Kansas City Joseph F. Naumann has further explained the
motives for his public admonishment of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
for her support for legal abortion. The archbishop’s May 9 column,
citing her recent veto of an abortion law reform bill passed by the
Kansas legislature, had warned Governor Sebelius not to present herself
for Holy Communion until she has publicly repented."
NOW Comments:
Some "neo-traditional" types (mainly the same crowd that views Benedict
XVI's Latin Mass motu proprio as the greatest thing since, well, since
Quo Primum)
will vigorously applaud Naumann, but their approbation is very much
misguided. It is instructive to note that Sebelius (easy to
remember, rhymes with rebellious) isn't excommunicated for
being an abortion facilitator, because for Naumann and other members of
the Novus Ordo hierarchy (including "Pope" Ratzinger"), tangibly
assisting in prenatal infanticide simply isn't a very serious matter.
Please keep this in mind when some conciliar apologist tells you how
"pro-life" his or her church is, because it's not: One can be a
conscious abettor of these crimes against the weakest and most innocent
members of society and still be a member of the Vatican II
church. It's no big deal!
Yet another push for a 'global ethic'
Tony Blair's new foundation tacitly promotes one-world religion
"Tony Blair will today launch his long
awaited
Faith Foundation in New York,
saying that he wants religion to be seen as a force for good in the
world. The new organization, for which he is seeking hundreds of
millions of pounds of charitable funding, will focus on developing
better understanding between faiths as well as fostering concrete action
on fighting poverty and disease."
NOW Comments:
It has been noted that Novus Ordo convert Blair has his friend,
Modernist
Hans Küng, in part to thank for "becoming
a Catholic." Blair, who
hasn't reputed a single iota of the staunchly pro-abortion, pro-sodomite
record he assembled while Prime Minister,
seems to have patterned his foundation closely
after his pal Küng's own interfaith
Global Ethic Foundation.
Good, but the need for measure shows insanity of the times
Personhood amendment certified for Colorado ballot
"A Colorado proposal defining a fertilized egg as a human person has
been certified for the November ballot by Colorado Secretary of State
Mike Coffman, who said about 103,000 people validly signed petitions
backing the proposal."
Sedevacantism Debate - Lane vs. Sungenis
(Part 1) (See below for links to more of
the debate)
Assault upon the rights of God
California Assembly passes pro-euthanasia bill
"The California Assembly has approved a bill that promotes euthanasia in
limited circumstances. The bill would codify palliative sedation and
voluntary stopping of eating and drinking as legitimate means of pain
control and pro-life groups are strongly opposed to it."
VIDEO/TEXT
Lawsuit filed against 'priest' who made pornographic photos of himself
"A new lawsuit was filed Friday against
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and a suspended priest. The case
involves compromising pictures of the Rev. Gary Mercure apparently taken
more than a decade ago."
Related column:
Albany priest, diocese sued Ferociously pro-abortion
Kennedy: 'last lion' in the Senate?
"Sen. John McCain responded to the news of Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain
tumor saying that Ted Kennedy was the "last lion of the Senate." Nice
words, but hollow. Clearly Kennedy has been a forty-year force to reckon
with in the US Senate, but lionizing him for his headstrong political
partisanship over four decades is a little like saying that sticking
around for a long time and being opinionated qualifies as a 'legacy.' That very record of
anti-life advocacy is the measure by which his soul will be judged."
Hmm, not too well?
Conference examines how clergy abuse is handled by 'dioceses' worldwide
Not so different from a Modernist
one, come to think of it
'Cardinal' Martini's glimpse of the post-modern Church
"Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, retired Archbishop
of Milan, recently published an article in the Jesuit magazine
America that is worthy of analysis.…Last year he made headlines
stating the Church should open its doors to euthanasia. Prior to that,
he suggested that Benedict XVI take new steps in ecumenism to move
toward a Pan-religion. Even before that, he was one of the main voices
clamoring for a more extensive application of collegiality to diminish
the role of the Papacy, and calling for a Vatican III to achieve what
Vatican II did not accomplish, etc."
Lest we forget!
John XXIII Mass Changes
A noble, unjustly defamed institution
The truth about the Spanish Inquisition
"One need not have read Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum
to have heard of the dark dungeons, sadistic churchmen, and excruciating
tortures of the Spanish Inquisition. The rack, the iron maiden, the
bonfires on which the Catholic Church dumped its enemies by the
millions: These are all familiar icons of the Spanish Inquisition set
firmly into our culture. This image of the Spanish Inquisition is a
useful one for those who have little love for the Catholic Church.
Anyone wishing to beat the Church about the head and shoulders will not
tarry long before grabbing two favorite clubs: the Crusades and the
Spanish Inquisition.…"
'Art'
very possibly based on Satanist Crowley's blasphemous rite 'Bishop' offers
very muted criticism of crucified frog sculpture
"A sculpture of a
crucified frog holding a mug of beer on
display at a Bolzano museum has sparked outrage in Italy. ANSA reports
that local clerics and politicians want the work removed. The one
meter high work by late German artist Martin Kippenberger belongs to his
Fred the Frog series and depicts a warty, pop-eyed amphibian nailed to a
cross with a frothing mug of beer in one hand.
"Curators at Bolzano museum of modern art Museion said that
Kippenberger's work was a self portrait of the artist ''in a state of
profound
crisis,' but their explanation has been given short shrift by local
bishop Wilhelm Egger."
NOW Comments:
'Bishop" Egger complained: 'The crucified frog has shocked many visitors
to the Museion and has hurt their religious feelings. Even if this was
not the intention of the artist or the Museion, there is a law in place
that says religious feelings should be respected." This response is so
typical of the false shepherds leading the Novus Ordo sect. He suggests
that perhaps the artist or gallery didn't mean to shock and offend.
Really? What part of mocking our Lord's Crucifixion doesn't the man
understand? How much more obvious does it need to be? If an "artist"
throws a crucifix in a jar of urine or makes a portrait of the Blessed
Virgin Mary out of dung, isn't
that more than a hint as to the intent? If a "playwright" casts the role
of Jesus as a foul-mouthed, violence prone sodomite, can't it be safely
assumed that the man is not a friend of God? Ditto
for the one who seeks to turn Christ into a beer-guzzling amphibian on a
cross.
Kippenberger may have gotten the idea from an occult ritual written by
the notorious British Satanist,
Aleister Crowley
(photo right). Crowley entitled the rite
Stauros Batrachou ("Cross of a Frog"), and before the actual
killing of the animal, he goes through steps that include placing it in
a box while intoning a passage from the Te Deum ("Thou didst not abhor
the Virgin's Womb") and "baptizing" it. The ritual is from beginning to
end one of the most studiously blasphemous productions ever conceived in
the darkest recesses of a depraved human mind. For all that, we can only
wonder whether Egger would hold out that it might not have been
Crowley's intention to blaspheme, maybe he "meant well." Such is
the Conciliar mindset, where we see three essentially three types of
"bishops": those who are 1) weaklings too cowardly to stand up for
Christ, 2) equivocators who have adopted an "I'm OK, You're OK"
compromise with the world, and 3) outright infiltrators and turncoats,
who knowingly seek to undermine the Church and Christian
civilization. Such an across-the-board lack of just moral outrage, of
Catholic militancy in these men over those things which seek to mock God
and all things holy is one of the surest proofs that there is a
counterfeit church posing as the Catholic Church.
False ecumenism update
Benedict XVI to meet leaders of other religions in Australia
"Pope Benedict XVI will meet Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu leaders
during his visit to Australia in July, organizers said Wednesday. The
leader of the Roman Catholic church will speak with about 40
representatives from other faiths while in Sydney for World Youth Day, a
six-day celebration of the Catholic faith aimed at young people."
From
Christ or Chaos
One world plus one church equals Novus Ordo Seculorum "There is no end to the multiplicity of ways in which the
scions of the counterfeit church of conciliarism find to offend and to
blaspheme the Most Holy Trinity. Actually, of course, the conciliarists
simply give us variations on their apostate Modernist themes over and
over again, making each succeeding response to this endless array of
variations rather wearying, to say nothing of very redundant.'
Lyrics say 'smash…the bourgeois' Communist band opens for Obama
"A hip rock band that features the
Soviet national anthem and
communist-inspired lyrics
communist-inspired lyrics was on stage to open for Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama at his record-breaking Portland,
Ore., rally that attracted 75,000.…The Decemberists have posed for
publicity photos in
period Russian costumes with the red flag of the Bolshevik Revolution of
1917 waving behind them."
Reality Check: For more on Obama's Communist credentials elsewhere on this page,
click here and here.
Holy Shroud is really Christ's burial
cloth
(silent intro ends 00.52 into video)
Fool us once, shame on you; fool us twice…oh, well why not,
go right ahead!
L.A. report: Local 'parishes' contributing millions toward sex abuse
settlements
"Parishes across the sprawling Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
are answering an appeal from Cardinal Roger Mahony to help the church
pay its multimillion-dollar legal settlements with victims of clergy
sexual abuse."
Shambling towards the abyss
Millions celebrate 'gay pride' in once-Catholic Brazil
"Millions of people waving rainbow flags and wearing lavish Carnival
costumes paraded in South America's biggest city Sunday to celebrate gay
pride and demand an end to homophobia and sexism."
Customs director: They run the risk of being criminally liable
'Catholic' radicals to give sanctuary to (read harbor) illegal
aliens in Texas
"A group of faith-driven activists is trying to organize a network to
help illegal immigrants who fear new local immigration-related laws and
massive raids. The advocates—all Catholic—hope to provide places to
stay, food and health care for immigrants. They have a few families who
have volunteered
to host immigrants, but ultimately want to open a shelter."
And the 'diocese' agrees!
Cleveland considers making chapel 'less Catholic'
"Officials at the Cleveland airport say they're considering moving its
chapel because some visitors say the space is "too Catholic."
Same-sex 'marriage'
Post-Christian America
"'A Victory for Equality and Justice,' blared the headline above
the editorial. 'Momentous,' 'historic,' 'a major victory for civil
rights,' 'a scrupulously fair ruling based on law, precedents and common
sense.' This was the ecstatic reaction of
The
New York Times
to the California Supreme Court's declaration that homosexuals have a
right to marry and have their unions recognized as marriages.
"Now
there may be hugging around the newsroom at the
Times,
where one senior writer said, a few years back, three-fourths of the
folks who make up the front page are gay. But this is just another
streetlight on America's darkening path to perdition as a society and
republic."
Appealing words veil Modernist deception
Hoyos on Summorum Pontificum
No,
explain it to the unborn!
Ferociously pro-abortion
