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Pro-Life News
Stem cell breakthrough uses aborted fetal cells
"A pro-life group is reporting that a recent stem cell breakthrough that turns adult skin cells to "embryonic" is not a pro-life solution as currently done.

"On November 21st and 22nd, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and Dr James Thomson published back-to-back studies that were hailed as moral alternatives to embryonic stem cell research. Both studies involved introducing genes into adult stem cells through a lentivirus, which reprogrammed them to become 'embryonic' or induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, without destroying human embryos. But pro-lifers may have celebrated too soon, without studying the methods used in the papers."

Related link:
LA police raid clinic, arrest abortionist

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 VIDEO/TEXT
Benedict XVI sings praises of deceased Greek schismatic, prays for his 'noble soul'
"Greece is in mourning today as it laments the loss of the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos. Pope Benedict XVI has sent a telegram to expressing his condolences and praising Christodoulos’ work towards Catholic-Orthodox unity."

Related link:
Pope prays for Greek Orthodox Church

NOW Comments:
What unity? Did Christodoulos bring any of his fellow separated brethren into the Catholic Church? Of course not; the "unity" spoken of above is that connected to the false ecumenism fostered by Vatican II. Benedict promotes the heresy of salvation outside the Catholic Church by suggesting with his condolences that Christodoulos was saved through a schismatic sect.

 PHOTOS/TEXT
Gymnastics "Mass" in French cathedral
Warning: Immodest attire

 PHOTOS/TEXT
Swiss church is venue for blasphemous play
Warning: Immodest attire

The Fruits of Vatican II
Most births in once-Catholic France are now illegitimate
"Last year, France became the first non-Scandinavian country in Western Europe where a majority of births are now out-of-wedlock. World Congress of Families International Secretary Allan C. Carlson called it, 'a troubling development which underscores the danger of weakening the natural family by accepting marriage-substitutes.'"

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Conciliar church concedes he's been 'credibly accused' in scores of assaults
Acknowledged serial 'pedophile priest' spotted living in Washington town
"Former Spokane priest Patrick G. O'Donnell, who has admitted to molesting dozens of teenage boys over three decades, has been quietly living in this Western Washington town for the past four years, to the surprise of neighbors. O'Donnell was named in 66 of the 176 claims alleging sexual abuse by priests in the Spokane Catholic Diocese, more than any other single priest, and the diocese considers him 'credibly accused.' That history has his neighbors upset. 'It's unbelievable this can happen,' said Jennifer Smith, who lives down the street from O'Donnell."

Background link:
Compensating for the sins of the fathers

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Explicit Communicatio in Sacris included in pact
Australian Anglicans, 'Catholics' to sign covenant
"It is reported the agreement will entail holding an annual ecumenical service of worship, an annual joint clergy day, annual exchange of pulpits and examining the possibilities of sharing church planting."

Serial pedophile previously sentenced to 12 years
Former Marist brother jailed for abuse in Ireland
"A former Marist brother has been sentenced to two years in prison for sexually abusing a former pupil at a school in Sligo in the 1970s. Martin Meaney, who was known as Brother Gregory, now lives in Clondalkin in Dublin."

Legislating intolerance: Is marriage a dying institution in England?
"There’s a problem at the moment in Britain with our sense of national identity. The problem is a compound of many things, of course: an all-pervasive culture of pop music and TV soaps, muddle about the way history is (or isn’t) taught in schools, a substantial and growing Islamic presence, confusion about our role in the world, an obsession with denouncing the (real and imagined) mistakes and evils of our past. But probably the single most important component is the one that most debates and discussions on the subject overlook: the collapse of marriage and family structures. And new laws that took effect in April this year are going to have a marked impact on all of this."

Settlement tops $79 million in Northern Kentucky 'diocese' suit
"About 240 people have now been awarded more than $79 million in a class-action settlement between victims of sexual abuse at the hands of church officials and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in northern Kentucky."

 "I understand context" (Yeah, right!)
Catholic League's Donahue wimps out when it comes to standing up against blasphemy
"Religious rights groups are split on whether ESPN's Dana Jacobson should be fired for making comments derisive of Jesus Christ. Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said Thursday he is dropping plans to seek dismissal of the popular young host. Donahue told Cybercast News Service that he reached his decision after conversations with top ESPN executives this morning."

NOW Comments: Is there ever an appropriate context for blasphemy, Bill? That Jacobson is young and was intoxicated at the time of the hostile remarks may be true, however does that mean she should be allowed to keep her high profile, cushy job? Sure she deserves a second chance, but isn't a demotion, at the very least, in order? Had the tables been turned and a Christian made a derogatory remark about Jews, we doubt that she'd have gotten off so lightly. The Anti-Defamation League's (ADL's) Abe Foxman would have seen to that. Incidentally, out of curiosity we visited the ADL's website to find out whether Jacobson, who is Jewish, would be defended or mildly chided for her statements. Now, although the ADL is rightly known as a group that targets primarily incidents it perceives to be anti-Jewish, it's stated mission reads as follows:

"The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 'to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.' Now the nation’s premier civil rights/human relations agency, ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all."

Now, in light of this it would be reasonable to see some sort of condemnation, however slight, against Jacobson's remarks. We searched the site for "Dana Jacobson," but we searched in vain. Not even one entry came up. So much for the mission statement of the ADL, though we can't say we were all that surprised.

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Jaw-drop!
Did Cardinal Ottaviani really go Modernist?
For nearly three years the Tradition in Action (TIA) website has maintained and updated a valuable section entitled "Progressivist* Document of the Week," which chronicles the Modernist background of some of the leading figures at Vatican II and in the post-conciliar church. Most of the usual suspects can be found there, including: Balthasar, Bugnini, Casaroli, Chenu, Congar, Küng, Lonergan, Lubac, Montini, Rahner, Ratzinger, Schillebeeckx, Suenens, Teilhard, Willebrands and Wojtyla. (The numerous examples compiled there on the teachings of Fr. Joseph Ratzinger (aka Benedict XVI) should give reason for pause to any Catholic who imagines him to be a great champion of Tradition, such as him declaring the Tridentine Mass a dead liturgy, the anti-Modernism teachings of the Popes obsolete, Gaudium et Spes is a "counter-Syllabus" and his beliefs to be the same now as during his suit-and-tie days at Vatican II.)

These are men, of course, who have or had long track records of un-Catholic positions, some of them (like Ratzinger) even being suspected of being heretics during the reign of Pope Pius XII or accused of being Freemasons (like Bugnini), so it comes as little surprise to see them on TIA's "rap sheet." The title of TIA's "Progressivist" post for January 12th, however, certainly qualifies as a bombshell: "Cardinal Ottaviani gives up and accepts Progressivism." The prelate in question was none other than Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, a leading defender of the Church's magisterium at the so-called Second Vatican Council, whose literal silencing during debates regarding the liturgy was symbolic of the council's rejection of Catholic Tradition.

The "smoking gun" here is an interview Cardinal Ottaviani is said to have given in October 1965, part of which was reproduced in a book entitled Le Journal du Concile, by French author Henri Fesquet, a supporter of Vatican II. The key part of the incriminating Ottaviani quote reads:

"Once the new laws become the treasure of the Church, an enrichment of the gold reserve, then only one principle counts: to serve the Church. And this service means to be faithful to her laws." (emphasis added)

Now, assuming the citation is correct, this really does sound like an abandonment of his former views, just as stated by Tradition in Action. It could be argued, perhaps, that he's reconciled the two by convincing himself (or being convinced by someone else) that there is no contradiction between them. However, we think this needs a bit of perspective. First, it will be agreed that, unlike the Küngs and Schillebeeckxs of the world, whose positions have been constantly in variance with Church teaching, for Cardinal Ottaviani to adopt a Progressive stance is completely out of character. This is a remark he made as the council was winding down and he had come out on the losing side of the battle. True, it would have been preferable for him to say that he wasn't giving up the good fight, but he had somehow rationalized the situation to conclude that the contradictions between the magisterium and the council were merely superficial, then from his confused perspective he was doing the right thing by serving the Church in her "new springtime."

Elderly, isolated, almost totally blind and with the traditions he had fought valiantly to defend crashing down all around him, Cardinal Ottaviani was undoubtedly struggling with the situation at hand and this could represent an attempt at compromise based on ill-placed loyalty; not that this would excuse such a collapse, as others in the same situation did not capitulate. Still, it must be remembered that this interview is the equivalent of a snapshot or sound bite when placed in the context of his entire career. And what's more, four years later he would rebound heroically, affixing his name to one of the most significant documents of Catholic resistance to the Modernist occupation of the Church: The Ottaviani Intervention.

So, to Tradition in Action we say, fine, if Cardinal Ottaviani said what is attributed, then he's fair game to be castigated, but please don't present the quote in a vacuum, giving what for some might be the impression that he was thereafter an enthusiastic supporter of the Vatican II revolution. Surely, he deserves better treatment than that!

Featured link:
TIA's Progressivist Document of the Week archive

*Note:
While TIA makes distinctions between Liberals, Modernists and Progressivists and calls Progressivism the son of Modernism, which is more or less analogous to calling it neo-Modernism, NOW maintains that the Modernist movement didn't die out with the decrees of St. Pius X, but merely went underground until the danger largely had past—soon after Pius's death in 1914. And this coincides fairly closely with TIA's start-date for the Progressivist movement in the 1920s. The point is that when TIA says after the council, Cardinal Ottaviani "gave up his ideals and aligned himself with Paul VI and the progressivist current," to NOW's thinking that is synonymous with saying he accepted Modernist ideas. In any case, this is why Progressivism is in the title of TIA's article, while above we use what we believe to be the more straightforward term, Modernist.

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From same 'bishop' that supported Terri Schiavo's killing
Pro-life workers arrested at St. Petersburg, FL cathedral
"Andrea Terry, 32, and Joseph Landry, 26, were placing pro-life flyers on windshields in the parking lot of the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg, Florida during the Sunday evening Mass (that is, a Saturday evening Novus Ordo "Sunday vigil Mass").…Both Terry and Landry indicated they had wanted to settle the dispute in-house when confronted and not involve the police. According to Landry they attempted to enter into a discussion with the staff prior to their arrest."

Gets past phony conservative 'archbishop' with behind-the-back dribble
St. Louis University president ignores Burke over 'pro-choice' hoops coach, V-Monologues
"Thus far, Archbishop Raymond Burke and St. Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus have had their say in the public flap between the two that has placed the university in the crossfire.  But the Rev. Lawrence Biondi, SLU's president, has remained relatively silent on the issue. He has not responded to numerous requests from the Post-Dispatch for interviews sent via e-mails, to phone calls and to visits to his office."

From Christ or Chaos (Right, like 360 degrees around!)
Singing the old songs ('Oh, Benedict will turn things around')
"This commitment to false ecumenism that Ratzinger has made from the beginning of his 'reign' is not rhetorical. It is real,. It is actual. It permeates everything about Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI as he has consistently rejected opportunities presented to him to invite non-Catholics into the true Church. Indeed, Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI has wished God's 'choicest blessings' upon Buddhists and Methodists and Baptists and Zionist athletes, among many others. He has taken off his shoes while entering into the 'Blue Mosque' in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 30, 2007, so as to signify that he was standing in a 'holy' place and turned with his Mohammedan host in the direction of Mecca while assuming the Mohammedan prayer position. Saints gave up their lives rather than to give even the appearance of such apostasy."

From the 'render unto Big Brother' department
Wisconsin forces 'Catholic' hospitals to provide 'emergency contraception'
"The Wisconsin State Assembly has passed legislation mandating that all Wisconsin hospitals, including religiously-affiliated hospitals, must inform any self-described victim of sexual assault of “emergency contraception” and must provide it upon her request."

'Jerry Springer' designed to evoke outrage
Anti-Catholic musical comedy to hit Carnegie Hall
"A choir sings 'Jesus is gay' and that the Virgin Mary was 'raped by angels.' Jesus is introduced as 'the hypocrite son of the fascist tyrant on high.'"

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Part of bogus 'Week of Prayer for Christian Unity'
Benedict, WCC leader meet for 'ecumenical Vespers'; Kasper to receive award
"Pope Benedict XVI and the Rev Dr Samuel Kobia, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), along with high-level representatives of the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC, will meet in Rome on Friday 25 January 2008, at the centennial of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. On Friday morning, the WCC general secretary will meet the Pope in a private audience along with members of the Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the WCC."

Related links:
2008 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (from the Vatican website)
Benedict XVI: Ecumenical cause is advancing
Pope says Christian unity moved by prayer, Holy Spirit
Kasper: Christians must recover spiritual inspiration
Paul Couturier on the Web
The Key to Church Unity (from a Traditional site)

Reality Check:
Modernist Rome's claim that it is observing a centennial of a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is a typical distortion coming from that source. What was approved by Pope St. Pius X was the Chair of Unity Octave, a devotion started by an Episcopal clergyman who promoted reunion with Rome and who converted and brought a group of religious with him, the Graymoor Friars.  Pope Benedict XV also gave his blessing to the practice in 1916. The Chair of Unity Octave, then, is a traditional, pre-Vatican II devotion that extends from the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome (January 18--feast removed from the 1962 Missal) until the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (January 25). The Chair of Unity Octave was replaced with the eight-day Week of Prayer for Christian Unity as a result of the John XXIII reforms (the days observed are not longer fixed, either, as is seen here). It is relevant to note that the title Chair of Unity was deliberately changed because implicit in the name is the understanding that the Chair of Peter, namely the papacy, represents true Christian unity, for as St. Ambrose declared more than a millenium-and-a-half ago, Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia (that is, "Where Peter is, there is the Church"). And yet this position, defended by Pope Pius IX against the false ecumenists of his day, is dismissed on the Week of Prayer 2008's official website:

Today we have come a long way from Pope Pius IX's condemnation of the Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity (he apparently means the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom, which Pius condemned in 1964; see The Fantasy of Reunion) with its desire for common prayer for unity. The Week of Unity belongs to all Christians who are sincerely interested in the fulfillment of Christ's prayer "that all may be one." Today it is sponsored by the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Church(es) and the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity.…

While the "official" switch from a devotion with a Catholic basis to a pan-Christian one (where "unity" did signifies not communion with the Catholic Church as the magisterium teaches, but a "no-fault" reunion of Catholics with the spiritual descendants of those who broke from the Church in the schisms of Photius and Henry VIII, and the heresies of Luther, Calvin and other Reformation Protestants) came at Vatican II, as early as the 1930s Abbé Paul Couturier  (photo right), a French priest and devotee of the apostate Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, proposed a similar "solution" to the one offered by the very group condemned by Pius IX. (Concerning Fr. Couturier, Dr. Thomas Droleskey has noted his "ecumenical" influence on John Paul II and Benedict XVI in the article "Conciliarism's Big Tent") And let it be duly noted that prayers for the conversion of the Jews, which occur on January 24th in the Chair of Unity Octave, have been omitted from the Vatican II version. In short, the so-called Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is but another example of subversives "reforming" the prayers of the Church in a way that brings about destructive change, in this case to the essential meaning of of the term Christian unity and, indeed, even a distortion of the fundamental maxim and infallible teaching, extra ecclesia nulla salus—namely, the lie that God uses false churches as means of salvation, because in some inscrutable way they are part of the Catholic Church. (See below on this page under the heading "Benedict XVI pushes for joint prayer with Lutherans" for a link to Pope Pius XI's encyclical on the subject, which condemns decades in advance the false ecumenism of the Novus Ordo church.)

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'Paid attack troop' also possessed?
'Demonic' grunts, barks confront prayer warriors
"A new video posted by the Catholic-based Gloria TV has documented the "demonic" behavior of pro-abortion activists who grunt, bark and shriek in the faces of pro-life prayer warriors in Vienna. With jaws slack, eyes glazed, tongues hanging out and fingers arched, the abortion activists are in the pay of prominent Vienna abortionist Christian Fiala, according to the video report, which describes the individuals as 'a paid attack troop' set in motion to 'harass and humiliate the pro-lifers.'"

"New springtime" update
Novus Ordo officials may close two NY churches
"As worship attendance dwindles and churchgoers grow older, church officials say two area Catholic churches may be facing closure by the end of 2010. St. Alphonsus Church on Broad Street in Glens Falls would be closed by January 2009 and St. Joseph’s Church on Broadway in Fort Edward would be shuttered by March 2010 if a plan put forth by the Glens Falls Planning Group is approved by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany."

Twenty-year-old 'Missal' also taken
Turin 'holy water' theft blamed on Satanists
"Satanists have struck at one of Turin's most famous churches, stealing a vial of holy water and a missal, or prayer book. The items were taken from behind the altar at the Chiesa della Gran Madre di Dio, or Church of the Great Mother of God, at the end of last week. A source at Turin police said a special team of carabinieri military police are investigating the break-in, and that the 'most likely explanation' was that 'the items were stolen to be used in a rite of black magic.'"

NOW Comments:
Oops! One can almost feel sorry for these klutzy cultists, who are so out of touch that they think using Novus Ordo items will be efficacious in their dark rituals. However, if they want to continue pulling the criminal equivalent of the misadventures of the nearsighted cartoon character, Mr. Magoo, then that's their problem.

"Death of Communism" update
Conciliarists battle Vietnamese government over land
"Quietly, Vietnam's Catholic Church is challenging the nation's government more boldly than it ever has since the communists took power over five decades ago. For several weeks, church leaders and their followers in Hanoi have been gathering daily to pray in front of the old Vatican embassy, one of many church properties taken over by the government after 1954."

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New darling of the abortuaries uses old subterfuge  
Obama: 'I don't know anybody who is pro-abortion'
"Perhaps he hasn't looked in the mirror lately. I don't say so glibly. But I wonder: how glib is Sen. Obama being with Christianity Today?

CT: For many evangelicals, abortion is a key, if not the key factor in their vote. You voted against banning partial birth abortion and voted against notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. What role do you think the President should play in creating national abortion policies?

Obama: I don't know anybody who is pro-abortion. I think it's very important to start with that premise.…

"Well, sure it is. Otherwise people might get the wrong idea and think that your 100% NARAL rating and unrelenting supporting of abortion might actually be pro-abortion. By the way, just so we're all clear: the prefix 'pro' means 'in favor of a proposition or opinion.'"

Related article:
Hillary vows to appoint pro-abort judges
 
NOW Comments:
Obama, like Hillary Clinton (with whom he's shown sharing joke in the above photo), John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and a host of other defenders of abortion, has fallen back on a convenient bit of pro-abortion doublespeak every bit as hollow as the "pro-choice" and "I'm personally opposed to abortion" ruses. The fact that such contrivances are required is proof positive that most Americans are uncomfortable with abortion and with blatantly pro-abortion candidates. The "don't know anyone who is pro-abortion" lie centers on the same idea as the popular "I want to keep abortions rare, safe and legal," that is, that abortion's not a good thing, but because a woman has the "right" to kill the life within her under certain circumstances, it should remain legal to prevent backalley butchers from endangering "innocent" lives. But if candidate's such as the stealth Muslim Obama don't believe in the immorality of abortion, aren't against the availability of abortion, believe in a woman's "right" to abortion, seeks to maintain the legality of abortion, and speaks before a gathering of Planned Parenthood, which is a group that performs abortions,  then by any sane and reasonable way of reckoning, such candidates are by definition pro-abortion, are they not?!

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"Non-essential real estate" brings $31M
Mahony sells LA chancery (!) to cover abuse settlement
"The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has sold its 12-story chancery on Wilshire Boulevard to help pay part of the costs of a record-breaking $660 million lawsuit settlement with alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse reached in July 2007."

How 'Catholics' say 'Mass' in India!

Played cowboy in 'gay' propaganda flick
Brokeback Mountain actor dead at 28
“Oscar-nominee Heath Ledger was found dead Tuesday at his downtown Manhattan residence, face-down and naked at the foot of his bed with prescription sleeping pills in the apartment, police said. The Australian-born actor was 28.”

Commentary:
"Should those who look at things with the eyes of faith be surprised? No. This actor played a major part in a movie about homosexual cowboys. From what we’ve read, the movie had the intention and the effect of normalizing or glorifying the unnatural abomination of homosexuality in the eyes of much of the public.…" For complete commentary, go here or to the archive at the bottom of that page.

But could anyone tell the difference?
Boston N.O. teen group sponsored by Episcopal church
"At Theology on Tap, a religious lecture series held periodically at bars around Boston, beer and the Good Book are increasingly the norm. First belly up and order a cool draft. Then settle in for an intriguing spiritual discussion. During a recent evening chat at Cheers, part of the 'Portraits of Jesus' series sponsored by the Church of the Advent, an Episcopal church on Beacon Hill, the relaxed atmosphere was a big draw."

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Modernism still infects Society of Jesus
New 'Jesuit' leader blends old with new
"The Society of Jesus have elected a Spanish born academic who has spent the past five decades in Asia as its new Superior General. The province website of the Australian Jesuits has reported that 71 year old Fr Adolfo Nicolás was elected on the second ballot at the order's 35th General Congregation in Rome.… While it is not expected Fr Nicolás will lead the Jesuits in any direct challenge to Church teaching, observers say, his election is nevertheless a choice for a 'forward thinking' outlook, as well as for a sensibility to the realities of Catholicism outside the West."

Related link:
Nicolás says he's close to Ratzinger, admirer of Gandhi, who sought to "reformulate views" according to Vatican II

NOW Comments:
The blending mentioned in the title certainly is an appropriate description of one such as Nicolás, who according to an article written in February 2007, believes that "dialogue" and exchange are the essence of what the modern Jesuit must be about, and "has…expressed his wariness of missionaries who are more concerned with teaching and imposing orthodoxy than in having a cultural experience with the local people, saying, 'Those who enter into the lives of the people, they begin to question their own positions very radically.'" (See "Father Adolfo Nicolás" by Michael McVeigh, Province Express, 27 February 2007.)

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May require totalitarian regime!
Coercive population control: from the mouth of Frank Notestein
"Frank Notestein (1902 - 1983) was one of the most influential population control activists and demographers of the 20th century. His work led to the establishment of demography as an academic discipline. He worked as the first director of the population division of the United Nations, was instrumental in the founding of John D. Rockefeller's Population Council in 1952, and was a director of population research at Princeton University".

Reverent balloon homily (kidding!)
Preaching standards in the Diocese of Hildesheim
One can only imagine how Hildesheim's renowned 10th century ordinary, St Bernward, would have responded to a balloon homily! Speaking of Hildesheim, sadly, there are even worse things going on there, if you can believe it.

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Neo-trads already trying to put positive spin on move
Benedict XVI to change the Good Friday prayer for Jews in the 1962 Missal
"Benedict XVI has decided to reformulate the text of the prayer for the Jews on Good Friday in the 1962 edition of the "Tridentine" Missal which was derestricted with the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, having received requests from many rabbis.  I call to mind the long journey begun under Pius XII (who had published an explanation in which he reminded that "perfidis" referring to the Jews in the liturgy meant "without faith" and he required the genuflection also for this prayer), and continued under John XXIII (who in 1959 eliminated both "perfidis" and "perfidia") and not concludes with Papa Ratzinger, who has eliminated the reference to the blindness of the Jewish people."

Related Links:
Impact on interreligious relations of the wider use of the Latin 1962 Catholic Missal
The 1962 Roman Missal and Catholic—Jewish relations
The Cross & the Sword blog: Pope Benedict to change prayer for the conversion of the Jews
New Jersey Jewish Standard: Answered prayer
Summorum Pontificum blog (a comprehensive source for information on the motu proprio, including all relevant documents)

NOW Comments:
This is a major development without question. While this has been considered for months now, the announcement has pushed it past the status of unsubstantiated rumors. Despite all of the talk, we were skeptical of such a thing happening, simply because the language of Benedict's motu proprio made it clear that the 1962 Missal is not to be used on Good Friday, but rather the Novus Ordo Missae. (See our remarks below, accompanying "'Pope' faces ticking clock on prayer for conversion of Jews.") In the blog cited above,  "Fr." John Zuhlsdorf  states:" The new version will enter into effect already in the celebrations the faithful will follow in the older rite during the next Holy Week. [This will make celebrations of the older rite for Holy Week far more possible and perhaps frequent in many places. That is the upside.]" Rather than get into the various similar comments which our readers can access on the blogs linked here, we've decided to touch on this comment. "Fr." Zuhlsdorf suggests that the change could allow for a potential much greater number of opportunities for the "extraordinary form" of the Roman Rite to celebrated. In actuality, the changing of the prayer in the older missal should give pause for concern, not an occasion for rejoicing. Why? Simply, because what we're witnessing here looks like a bait-and-switch has begun. Remember, Summorum Pontificum plainly stated in Art. 2 that the 1962 Missal is permitted for use any day of the year "with the exception of the Easter Triduum." As we noted, this would render the whole controversy of the conversion prayer irrelevant.

But the presumed upcoming change would seem to have another, more important and sinister motive beyond that of merely placating the Jews, and that it is one that many members of the Ratzinger Fan Club would prefer not to think about: the hybridization of the two liturgy. Of course, the response will be something like: "Relax, it's only one prayer that's being changed, and one that's only used once a year, anyway. Chill out!" Many of these trusting souls no little or nothing of the liturgical changes of the 1960s that led up to the "new Mass" or else they'd prefer not to draw the logical comparisons. Change did not come all at once during the first phases of the liturgical revolution, but were imposed on the Catholic faithful incrementally, so as not to alarm them. And what was observed were "transitional liturgies" that moved steadily, relentlessly towards the utterly un-Catholic Montini-Bugnini service. Once the neo-traditional motu crowd quietly accepts the fact that their 1962 Missal has been supplanted by the 1962/2008 Missal, they've taken another step toward their own auto-destruction, and the end will be in sight as per the plans of the Modernist subversives for the complete ruin of the Church. But while the end is in sight, the path that leads there will involve continuous small changes and updates to the John XXIII Missal. (Recall the telling passage in Benedict's explanatory letter that accompanied the motu: "the two Forms of the usage of the Roman Rite can be mutually enriching: new Saints and some of the new Prefaces can and should be inserted in the old Missal. (emphasis added)" The only safe course, then, is to avoid the entire conciliar establishment, since the Faith has long ago been substantially abandoned in those quarters, and to what we can to alert others of the grave danger associated with any involvement concerning Benedict XVI, Modernist Rome and the entire counterfeit church. In short, those men are not our friends.   

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Study in contrasts, conflict
When Küng and von Hildebrand came to Loyola Marymount
"My first philosophy class was a special topics course in the evolutionary 'optimism' of Rev. Teilhard de Chardin, overlooking both original sin and redemption on the way to the omega point. I was a bit shocked, but I interpreted it all positively, giving everyone the benefit of the doubt. I thought perhaps they were trying to strengthen my faith by presenting challenges to it -- though I wondered why there was no effort expended to defend the Faith or answer the objections presented by modern thinkers."

They've been hit by the Vatican II flu
Philly's 'Catholic' schools continue to fail
"A parochial urban school system, already troubled with declining enrollment, has found the rapid proliferation of charter and cyber schools in the city is rapidly making the problem of emptying Catholic schools worse."

NOW Comments:
This shouldn't be thought of as a bad thing, though; the sooner parents start waking up to the fact that these schools are hotbeds of heresy, the better. They should be pulling their children out of them in droves, rather than waiting for "renewal" to take place.

But how many haven't been reported!
Satanic rites reported at Turin church
"The Italian daily La Stampa reports that two Satanic rituals have been celebrated at a church in Turin, Italy. The events have been tied to followers of the founder of the Church of Satan, Anton La Vey."

Hmm, just like in Stalinist Russia
Pro-life activist jailed for refusing court-required psych exam
"An Iowa grandmother has been banished to jail, including a night in isolation, after refusing to give in to a judge's demand that she submit to a psychiatric exam and take psychotropic drugs if prescribed to mitigate her opposition to abortion, her husband has confirmed."

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'Bishop' relegates AMU to sideshow status
Hey, what time is it, kids?! It's time again for 'Circus Mass'!
"Last Sunday, Diocese of Venice Bishop Frank Dewane celebrated Mass at a Sarasota church accompanied by priests wearing colorful Ferris wheels, clowns, giraffes, unicycles, lions and merry-go-rounds on their vestments." (Click photo for enlargement.)
 

Background check:
'Circus Mass' outside of Paris
Send in the Clowns
'Circus Mass' at Holy Trinity
JP2 'Mass' dedicated to circus
Ratzinger: yet another circus 'pope'

Memo to the Motu crowd:
Remember when you told everyone that after Summorum Pontificum we wouldn't have to worry about "clown masses" anymore? Please accept the following heartfelt apology from the staff of Novus Ordo Watch. How foolish we were to doubt you!

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Liturgical madness in Vienna
"At each new youth Mass, they just push the envelope a little further. But they cannot see that little by little Catholic culture is being taken apart. What is the use of thousands of young people, when it is so clear from the pictures that they are not receiving the inheritance of the Faith."

NOW Comments: Question: Why does CathCon blog persist in calling this Catholic? Do they even know themselves why they do so?

Rise of 'neo-traditional' bloggers
Is that really fresh air at St. Peters?
"There is a bewildering array of American Catholic blog sites these days. Some are liberal, but the overwhelming majority seem to express an ever-more confident Catholic orthodoxy on matters of faith, morals and liturgy. Many of the posters seem to be young, and take an apparent delight in winding up that generation of post-Vatican II Catholics still moaning about not getting their way in the contemporary Church."

Dublin conciliar 'diocese' joins Irish ecumenical council

He reiterates Vatican II era error on 'search for truth'
'Pope': Catholic schools key in midst of 'educational crisis'
"The Pope contended that schools face a new challenge, that of 'the coming together of religions and cultures in the joint search for truth.' This means, he said, on the one hand, 'not excluding anyone in the name of their cultural or religious background,' and on the other 'not stopping at the mere recognition' of this cultural or religious difference."

Related link: 13 'Catholic' schools to close in Rochester, NY

NOW Comments:
This concept "joint search for truth" is an error has been propagated as the new "Catholic" thinking since Vatican II. It's proponents have used the Modernist argument that the Church must eschew anything smacking of "triumphalism" (that is, among other things, the Catholic Church must discard the notion that she has any special claim to know Truth as the one true Faith instituted by Christ). Indeed, Benedict's words sound very close to what the heretical Polish bishop Karol Wojtyla (later John Paul II) declared at the council: "It is not the church's place to teach unbelievers. She must seek in common with the world.... Let us avoid any spirit of monopolizing and moralizing." As for the closing schools, this is further plain evidence of the fraudulent "new springtime" promise of the post-conciliar church, which in reality has been ruining everything Catholic it can lay its hands on for the past five decades!

But not for their conversion, of course
Benedict XVI pushes for joint prayer with Lutherans
"This morning, Benedict XVI received an ecumenical delegation from Finland for the Feast of St. Henry, their country’s patron saint, whose feast day is celebrated tomorrow. In his talk, the Holy Father stressed the importance of prayer and dialogue for achieving Christian unity."

NOW Comments:
Benedict is pushing for the sort of thing that Pope Pius XI condemned most roundly in his encyclical on false ecumenism, Mortalium Animos, the 80th anniversary of which is commemorated this month. Let's keep in mind that Fr. Ratzinger has always been an unabashed admirer of his heretical countryman, Martin Luther, (See also Luther: No and No.) Since as "cardinal" he also forged a document with Lutherans that promoted a Protestant view of justification, well might we speculate as to whether the man is a crypto-Lutheran.

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Some religious anagrams of note
For anyone unfamiliar with the term, an anagram is a type of word play in which the letters of a word or phrase are rearranged to spell another word or phrase. Technically, in the loosest sense any transformation of a word (horse = shore) or phrase (New Delhi = Deli When?) can qualify as an anagram, but in the best of them there is always a connection of some sort, so that the second comments on or otherwise references the first (e.g., The eyes = They see). Down through the years there have been some Catholic anagrams of note, such as the one answering to Pilate's question, "Quid est veritas?" (What is truth?): "Est vir qui adest" (It is the man who is here) A more involved one, also from Latin to Latin, turns the prayer opening "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum" (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord [is] with you) into "Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata" (Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless).

Significantly, an anagrammatic response to the destructive "new Mass" has appeared. In line with Benedict XVI's false description of the Montini/Bugnini service as the "ordinary expression" of the Roman Rite, is it also called "normative," that is, the norm for religious worship in the counterfeit church. From the Latin for New Order [of the] Mass comes this anagram very full of meaning:

NOVUS ORDO MISSAE = A DEVIOUS NORM. SOS!

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Encouraged by Vatican II liturgical document
Hindu dancers at the Wurzburg Cathedral
"In the Cathedral of Wurzburg, Germany, a group of Hindu dancers perform during the Mass. The eight priests who are concelebrating the Mass stop to watch it as if it were a part of the liturgy.…"

Reality check:
"…they shall defile the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation." —Daniel 11:31

Deceving the elect
'Schismatic' groups coming home, reports Modernist Rome
"Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, as the president of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesiae Dei, is the Vatican official in charge of facilitating the return to full ecclesial communion of people linked to the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. 'We have already received responses [to the letter],' Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos said. 'Here in Rome we have a community that has asked to return and we have already begun mediating their full return.'"

NOW Comments:
We predicted that this would be the desired result of such a deception at the time of Fr. Ratzinger's dubious election in 2005 (See What to expect from 'Pope' Benedict XVI.) The only question that remains is how great will be the falling way.

False ecumenism news
California Novus Ordo 'bishop' takes part in Episcopal service
"Bishop Patrick McGrath of San Jose was among those present for the official welcoming and seating on Saturday, Jan. 11 of Mary Gray-Reeves, the first woman Episcopal bishop in California. During the event, held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in San Jose, Bishop McGrath, dressed in red robes, was seated prominently behind the altar."

Related link:
More of the same in Nevada

Freedom of press a mirage in Great White North?
Canadian magazine under fire for criticizing sodomites
"A Catholic magazine in Canada faces severe legal attack and possible censorship after a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission alleged it made derogatory comments about homosexuals."

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 MUST READ!  Guest column on the Motu Proprio
"One and the Same Rite": How Benedict XVI tries to destroy the Traditional Mass
"Fr. Ratzinger’s attempt to fuse the 1962 Missal (which, again, mostly appears to be the Traditional Mass) with the Novus Ordo Missal is the main blow against the Traditional Mass. Whoever wishes to be a part of Ratzinger’s church will therefore necessarily have to consent to the absurd idea that the New Mass and the Traditional Mass are, at the core, the very same thing, and that simply the “form” or expression is different. This means that either Mass (or “mass”) is essentially equal in its lex orandi and lex credendi, as Ratzinger points out specifically.

It further follows that once one recognizes the Traditional Mass to be nothing other than an 'extraordinary expression' of the Novus Ordo mass (let’s face it--the extraordinary is based on, and presupposes, the ordinary), it follows that one then recognizes the Novus Ordo mass as the Roman Catholic rite of Mass. In addition, what is extraordinary can be revoked at any time. With as little as just another motu proprio, the 1962 Missal can just as much be suppressed as it can be allowed. Whoever goes along with this “new indult” is, fundamentally, still at the mercy of the modernists (which should be an indication that the real problem is not the suppression of the Traditional Mass but the fact that Rome is occupied by modernist heretics).

"The burden of proof is on Benedict XVI, of course, to demonstrate how in the world two rites as different as the 1962 Missal and the 1970 Novus Ordo Missal can be “one and the same rite.” Benedict does not attempt such a demonstration in his motu proprio or his accompanying letter; he simply declares it to be so.…" Full column

Related link:
A new phase in the deception
IMPORTANT: 'Pope' to say Novus Ordo 'mass' versus Deum this Sunday
"Tomorrow (1/13), Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass (according to the Missal of Paul VI) facing the Altar of the Sistine Chapel, versus Deum, according to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, headed by Monsignor Guido Marini."

See also: 'Mass' ad orientem in the Sistine Chapel

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Former Geoghan haunt
Boston area pedophile church sold AME congregation
"The former St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church complex has been sold to the local Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church as its new headquarters.… St. Andrew’s was once home to infamous child-molesting priest John Geoghan, whose crimes there later sparked the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal."

Here's who not to buy from
Roll of Shame: sponsors of Planned Parenthood

Reversing Catholic stance of clergyman
Modernist Rome okays pagan cremation, scattering of ashes for its members
"Believers who choose to have their ashes scattered after being cremated are entitled to a Christian funeral, the Vatican said yesterday. The ruling follows the refusal of a parish priest in the Italian Alps to hold a funeral for a local man who had asked to have his remains spread in the mountains. Father Carmelo Pellicone, of the parish of St Etienne in Aosta, told the man’s widow that a religious funeral was impossible because it was against the dogma of the resurrection of the body."

Who's bigger enabler of baby killers?
Hillary, Obama jockey for pro-abortion vote

Not a true Catholic political position?
The moral of politics: 'The lesser of two evils'
"If the relevant Wikipedia article is correct, the origin of the principle is found in U.S. foreign policy statecraft of the Cold-War era. Whatever its source, the dictum is anything but Catholic. This may come as a revelation to political pragmatists, but Catholics may not choose any evil. None — period. There is a principle in Moral Theology — the principle of double effect — which, under certain clearly defined conditions, permits us to perform an act that has both a good and an evil effect, but there is no allowance whatsoever in the Catholic system for directly choosing an evil."

'Post-Christian' news
UK set to abolish offense of blasphemy
"The UK is set to abolish the ancient law of blasphemy under a proposed amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill.…[S]ignatories include Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy (source for The Golden Compass film--NOW), Ricky Gervais, the comedian who created the BBC comedy The Office and Richard Dawkins, the Oxford academic and atheist (and evolution propagandist--NOW) and Nick Hytner the director of the National Theatre."

There's infantile and then there's…
The Teddy Bear Picnic 'Mass'
What next, Teletubbies Litany?

And defends theft of your tax dollars to harbor them!
USCCB pushes National Migration (i.e., Illegal Alien) Week
"In a letter [accompanying a propaganda packet from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops essentially promoting acceptance of illegals--NOW], Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration, notes that 'rather than embracing newcomers to our land whose circumstances have compelled them to seek new lives among us, we too often respond in fear and harbor attitudes of resentment and suspicion.'

'He referred to the New Testament story of the loaves and fishes, when Jesus' disciples wanted to send away a crowd who had come to listen to him, because the disciples feared there was not enough food. 'In the same way, we are tempted to turn away migrants, fearing that our nation does not have enough resources -- jobs, schools, housing, medical care and other necessities -- to accommodate those who have made their way to this abundant land,' Bishop Wester wrote. 'The miracle of the loaves and fishes is God's promise not only to the disciples but to us as well. If we fail to minister to the needs of these newcomers, we fail Our Lord himself.'"

NOW Comments: Propaganda that promotes criminal activity while pretending to promote acts of corporal mercy, which has been the big lie of the USCCB for some time now. The deceit of Wester's argument is that of the half truth: The vast majority of "migrants" coming into this nation are Mexicans who choose to enter it illegally. Implicit in all his sanctimonious moralizing is that to "be like Jesus" Americans must "accommodate" the illegals with "necessities," which means the use of tax dollars to provide "entitlements" for those who in no way are remotely entitled to benefits. Wester dares to compare this criminal element with the crowd who listen to Christ, when a better comparison would be a swarm of locust. It should be kept in mind that even bishops widely perceived as "conservative" (such as Burke, Bruskewitz and Chaput) march in lockstep with Wester and the USCCB on this issue. Unlike the "communion for pro-abortion politicians" issue, there seems to be no debate at all about a pandemic threatening our nation's very economic wellbeing and political safety. Should this invasion of our border continue unabated and help drag the nation down into a 21st century replay of the Roman Empire's fall, then surely the false bishops of the USCCB will have played a large part in the tragedy and should be held accountable.

Related links:

How many illegal aliens?

Immigration's human cost No, not all (or even most) illegal aliens are armed robbers, rapists or murderers, but statistically the number of illegals involved in violent crime is much higher than would be expected.  Also see Predatory aliens and  VIDEO  Crime victims of illegal aliens

Illegal aliens [Contains numerous sections, including "Videos" and "National Sites," which has dozens of websites concerned with the illegal pandemic.]

Catholic reader faces a choice: her church or her country

 VIDEO/TEXT
PBS Religion & Ethics Feature: Immigrant Sanctuary Movement Typical leftwing agitprop from PBS, supporting the movement while maintaining a veneer of objectivity; good for hearing the arguments used by the pro-illegal gang. [Note: Should you watch the video, it would be wise to keep a magnifying glass at hand. Why? You'll see.…LOL]
 

Decline of the Jesuits since Vatican II

 VIDEO
Death and the Journey into Hell
It is difficult, if not impossible, to watch this video without being disturbed, even frightened, which is precisely the reason it was made. This is the ultimate wakeup call for sinners: Death comes for all, and then the Judgment; do not wait until tomorrow to make things right with God, for that tomorrow may never come. And for those who die in their sin, the punishment is swift and everlasting. At the same time, the video is a strong attack on one of the most popular heresies of the Novus Ordo crowd: "Since God is merciful, He would never send anyone to Hell."
 

In case you missed it …
Avoid doomsday speculation, 'Pope' advises
"Christians should not be caught up on apocalyptic prophecies and worries about the end of the world, Pope Benedict XVI told an audience in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, November 18."

NOW Comments: Right. Especially those parts such as "mystery of iniquity" and "abomination of desolation," huh? (As in "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.")

 VIDEO/TEXT  ABC host, ex-Clinton shill exposed
Huckabee slaps down Stephanopoulos on Terri Schindler-Schiavo
"George Stephanopoulos is still trying to put a spin on the judicial homicide of Terri Schiavo and the euthanizing of America’s disabled and elderly, to make the court-ordered homicide of a disabled woman more palatable to the American public and try to make legislators ashamed that they tried to save her life, to insure that she received the same consideration and rights as a convicted murdered sentenced to die.

"Although it’s been more than 2 ½ years since Terri’s death, more questions than ever exist about the days and months leading up to her sudden and still inexplicable collapse on Feb. 25, 1990, which resulted in brain damage and forever changed not only Terri’s life but the life of her family and in fact, changed the face of America in how it deals with the disabled, the elderly, the vulnerable.

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'Redemptorists' celebrate Christmas 'Mass' in Vietnam for non-Catholics
"People who are not Catholics found a warm welcome at a Redemptorist-run Christmas Mass here. Thirty-two of them joined 80 Catholics for the special liturgy on Dec. 20 evening at the Redemptorist abbey's chapel in Ho Chi Minh City, 1,710 kilometers south of Ha Noi. Redemptorist Fathers Joseph Le Quang Uy and Paul Ngo Van Phi led the Mass.

During the two-and-half-hour service, Father Uy explained the meaning of Mass, the Creed, the Gloria and the words "Amen" and "Halleluia." He also played the guitar and taught the congregation to sing the responsorial psalm.…

Noting that Mass is a banquet and Mass-goers the diners, the Redemptorist priest invited non-Catholic participants to receive bread at Communion time. He told them: "You receive the same bread as we Catholics receive, but we believe the bread is our Christ's body and blood." Father Uy gave consecrated bread to Catholics while Father Phi gave unconsecrated bread to the others."

NOW Comments:
The idea of having non-Catholics (even non-Christians) actively participate in a true Catholic Mass would never cross the mind of a priest, much less having a "mixed" Communion of consecrated and unconsecrated Hosts. And should a Redemptorist have dared try such a sacrilegious thing during the life of the Congregation's renowned founder, St. Alphonsus de Liguori, one could well imagine the consequences. For the true Redemptorist position on heretics one need go no further than St. Alphonsus' The History of Heresies and Their Refutation, who there instructs Catholics: "Leave heretics in their willful blindness—I mean willful when they wish to live deceived— and pay no attention to the fallacies by which they would deceive you." (p. 634)

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Ah, don't think so…
'Pope' faces ticking clock on prayer for conversion of Jews
"Here it is in a nutshell: What to do about a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews contained in the old Latin rite, which has been authorized for wider use by Pope Benedict XVI? The ticking clock is created by the liturgical calendar: Good Friday falls this year on March 21, just nine weeks away."

NOW Comment:
Wait, isn't this really a non-issue people are anguishing over? After all, according to the motu proprio the "ordinary form" of the Roman Rite (read "new Mass") is mandatory for Good Friday services in conciliar services, hence the 1962 Missal with its prayer for the conversion of the Jews isn't even going to be opened that day. Oops.

  FULL TRANSCRIPT   Satanic ritual murder of nun
Jailed priest's prosecutors defend their case
"The following is the text of a brief (which, as you can see, isn't exactly brief) filed by prosecutors last month in the case of Father Gerald Robinson (left), who 'was convicted in May, 2006, for the 1980 murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, a 71-year-old Catholic nun who was strangled nearly to death, then stabbed 31 times.…'"

Related links:
'Sacrilege: Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church'
Also see NOW's coverage in the November 2007 archive

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Guess Benedict XVI didn't hear about it, huh?
V-Monologue allowed to vomit still more impurity at 'Catholic' colleges
"The website of the University of Detroit-Mercy, Michigan's largest Catholic-affiliated institution of higher learning, has announced that try-outs for Eve Ensler's celebrated [sic] play, 'The V----- Monologues,' are scheduled for students on January 15 at the campus's Reno Hall."

NOW Comments:
Leave it to a "Jesuit" to defend this explicitly obscene play against those standing up for decency. Rev. James T. Keane, who teaches at Fordham University and writes for the irreverent Busted Halo website, attacks those who are "too strictly moralistic about dramatic art," while throwing out the sin of the Biblical figure Onan as a potential scene for a play. Er, maybe that wouldn't be too good a subject, "Fr." Keane. Let's see, what was it? Oh, yes, "And therefore the Lord slew him, because he did a detestable thing." (Gen. 38:10)  Something about "too strictly moralistic," was it? (For the record, yes, dramas often have evils portrayed, but they are not to be shown graphically and not to be glorified, as is done in the above play.)

Related columns:
V-Monologues sparks Catholic debate  Caution: While ably exposing the evils of this play, writer Mary Ann Kreitzer goes into some graphic detail.)
Campaign to Stop the V-Monologues The Cardinal Newman Society’s page is the occasion for some unintentional humor. The 2006 campaign is deemed a success because only 22 "Catholic colleges and universities hosted the 'Monologues,'” some ten fewer than in '03. Although fighting the obscenity is praiseworthy, there is a bit of unintended irony on the Newman page, for a photo of none other than "Pope" Ratzinger adorns the banner, as though he is a great leader who supports their efforts. The trouble is that he's let this continue unabated for going on three years now, when a simple command for American colleges to clean up their act would have been sufficient to have them fall in line. Perhaps, like the Niederauer/Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence scandal, he's just "totally ignorant" of it, which is the false solution offered by the self-deluded conservatives in the Novus Ordo church. Amazing, isn't it, how he can be up on everything from "global warming" to designer fashions, but when it comes to defending decency he's out to lunch. (Of course, where are the bishops and presidents of these schools in standing up for Catholic morality?)

Just before he got a pie in the face, no doubt!
'Cardinal' says no more clowning at 'Mass'
"[The 'Archdiocese' of Cologne—NOW] have given guidelines to the pastors. The title of the many-paged document is 'Liturgy and life. Guidelines for Masses in dialect and Masses following local customs'.… It says that cheerfulness is intrinsic to faith, but folk customs are not welcome in the church, although Low German can be used for preaching, but liturgical texts, certain prayers and the words of consecration are not permitted in dialect.…This started some unrest in Düsseldorf, because not only during Carnival, but over the whole year Masses or church services take place using Low German."

Related Link:  VIDEO  A sacrilegious 'clown Mass' in Oakland

'Catholic' church under pressure to stop sale of pedophile's book
"Where Donard Guards was written under a pseudonym by Father Daniel Curran, who has three convictions for sex offences against young boys. The priest tried to hide his identity by using the nom de plume 'Nicholas Russell.'"

Accompanying photo makes the blood boil!
The not-so-secret live of a Loyola professor
Timothy J. Gilfoyle, PhD. Associate Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago, also serves on the advisory board of the New York Museum of Sex, which attempts to glorify prostitution and perversion.

Torah reading forbidden (!)
How Benedict's elder brothers observe Christmas Eve
"On Christmas Eve, known in Jewish circles as Nitel Night, the klipot (shells) are in total control. The klipot are parasitical evil forces that attach themselves to the forces of good. According to kabbala (Jewish mysticism), on the night on which "that man" - a Jewish euphemism for Jesus - was born, not even a trace of holiness is present and the klipot exploit every act of holiness for their own purposes."

The trouble with Mitt Romney's pro-life conversion

Based on books about 'killing God'
Golden Compass's box office failure due to hedging its antireligious themes?
"Before the film was released, the makers proclaimed that they were “watering down” the anti-Catholic elements which infuse the original book trilogy by Philip Pullman, who said, 'My books are about killing God.' Even star Nicole Kidman went on record as saying, 'I wouldn't be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic.' Print ads for The Golden Compass even went so far as to include a glowing quotation from the now-infamous review released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops."