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NEWS ARCHIVE for JANUARY, 2010
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'Vatican
II is the French Revolution of the Church'
Requiem in honor of King Louis XVI of France
(clip)
“I
die innocent of all the crimes imputed to me. I pardon the
authors of my death, and pray God that the blood you are
about to shed will never fall upon France.”
— Last words of
King Louis XVI
Carnival Mass in Wurzburg
Clowns, jesters, majorettes, rainbow vestments and a pop rock band…what
more could you ask for?! Well, a valid, reverent Mass would be a nice
change. Bertone's
retention sends a message to the wise
Benedict XVI's
recent
retention of "Cardinal" Tarcisio Bertone
as Modernist Rome's Secretary of State was a
telling move that further belies the "Pope's"
undeserved reputation as a friend of
Tradition. Bertone, who had reached the
Vatican's mandatory retirement age, was nonetheless retained
what Benedict, in a letter to Bertone,
called “the good carried
out.” Specifically mentioned was “your delicate work in
establishing dialogue with Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre.”
This was also the same Bertone, of course,
who
faked the Third Secret of
Fatima
and
helped give Communist Cuba a much-needed
propaganda boost. So, sure, this is an
excellent person to retain...if
you're a Modernist!
"…one
of the first steps to Socialism"
Fr. Fahey takes on Obamacare
"While Fr. Fahey has been criticized by
'free marketers' for his supposed 'quirky' economic positions, he certainly
saw what modern welfare legislation was intended to do. In the
hard-hitting journal, Fiat, published by the organization that he
founded in the early 1940s, Fr. Fahey attacked a social security system
that was being proposed for Ireland. The argument against social
security could easily be employed in the current healthcare debate:
The proposed Social Security Scheme for this country,
as outlined in the White Paper, is in line with similar developments
in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. Such a scheme is
a sorry commentary on our avowed Catholic social philosophy and our
adherence to the principles of social reform set forth in the Papal
Encyclicals. The wide diffusion of ownership in productive property
is the ideal envisaged in the Encyclicals. The Social Security
Scheme cuts across such a solution of the social problem. It is
designed as one of the first steps to Socialism. Such Scheme would
result in the creation of a vast proletariat, with a correspondingly
large bureaucracy to administer it; with membership compulsory for
the working population, enforced by the sanctions of prosecution and
exclusion from employment. (Fiat, No. 22, 1950)
"America's social welfare legislation is based largely
upon the 19th-century German model designed by Bismarck, which was a
'conservative' measure to offset the rising tide of socialism and that
of laissez faire."
More »
Our memorandum
recapitulating the well-founded accusations against the so-called
Servant of God, Karol Wojtyla, has not received the least response.
To proclaim the heroic character of the virtues of John Paul II
without knowing the objections brought against his possession of the
virtues of faith, hope and charity constitutes a lie by omission.
"In 1983, when the Abbé
de Nantes took to Rome his Book of Accusation against John Paul II,
Cardinal Ratzinger was in charge of the Sacred Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith. Not only did he not deny the allegations of
the Abbé de Nantes, but he did not deign to appear, leaving Msgr.
Hamer to respond by a lie, pretending that Father had acknowledged
his errors in 1968 during the preliminary inquiry into his case at
the Holy Office!
"Now, however, twenty-seven years later, if he thinks to respond to
the accusation of heresy, schism and scandal by the indirect means
of beatifying John Paul II, it is he who is the liar this time! He
lies by omission because, before proclaiming the heroic character of
the faith of John Paul II, it would first of all be necessary to
respond to the accusation made by the Abbé de Nantes according to
which the so-called “Servant of God” was a “corruptor of the Faith.”
If the Abbé de Nantes is wrong, let them say it loudly and firmly!"
More >
Pro-abortion candidate widely supported by
'Catholics' in Rome’s provincial election
"Political and Vatican watchers in Italy are
expecting an interesting fight for the governor’s seat of the province
of Lazio, the province of Rome and the Papacy, as a virulently
anti-Catholic, hard-left candidate takes centre stage. Senator Emma
Bonino is the darling of the far-left feminist movement and a leading
member of the anti-clerical Radical Party in Italy.…Despite Bonino’s
being a major player in the abortion movement, Sandro Magister, Italy’s
leading Vatican-watch journalist wrote today that “many of the Catholic
clergy and laity” support Bonino, 'and the hierarchy is giving her free
rein.…'”
NOW Comments:
"Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of Antichrist." So spoke
our Lady at La Salette and the incredible support being given to Bonino
by members of "the Church" in once-Catholic Italy is but the latest
example demonstrating the prophetic import of those words. In 1949 the
Vatican issued Pope Pius XII's warning of excommunication to Italian
Catholics voting for Bonino's Communist counterparts, but now Benedict
XVI and his cronies in Modernist Rome allow "Catholic" voters around the
world to vote for subversives like Barack Obama and Emma Bonino. Again,
"Rome will lose the Faith and become the seat of Antichrist." "He
that hath ears to hear, let him hear." (Matt 11:15)"
Benedict XVI's Holocaust Remembrance Day message
displays selective memory
"Pope Benedict XVI has marked Holocaust
Remembrance Day by denouncing the 'horror' of the Shoah and the 'unheard
of brutality' of death camps created by Nazi Germany. The German-born
pope issued an appeal Wednesday 'that such tragedies never repeat
themselves.'"
NOW Comments:
Benedict's remarks coincided with
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year fell on the
65th anniversary of the Soviet capture of the Nazi's
Auschwitz
concentration camp. The commemoration technically honors all "the
victims of the Nazi era," the focus is squarely on Jewish victims.
While is proper to speak out against man's inhumanity
to man, wherever and whenever it occurs and regardless the victims, we
do find it problematic that the "Pope" makes a point of speaking out on
the occasion of a United Nations-sponsored remembrance that
propagandistically targets the cruelty of one regime,
Nazi Germany, while omitting the
far greater slaughtersperpetrated elsewhere in the 20th century, most notably by the
Communists in China and Russia. The notion that Germans under Hitler are
deserving to be singled out for such crimes, while Chinese principally
under Mao and Russians mainly under Lenin and Stalin get a free pass
from the remembrance lobby. Worse, is that Benedict, himself a German,
is content to play this game, too. He could have used the opportunity to
specifically denounce these other acts of barbarism and thus distancing
himself from the ideological bias of one interest group, but he chose
not to do so, even perpetuating an untruth when he used the word
"unprecedented," when, in fact, over ten million Russians had been
slaughtered in the Soviet Union more than a decade before a single
person was incarcerated in any of the Nazi camps.
Pop
psychology & the demise of a seminary
'Sacrilege:
Liberation enters the Church'
"The 'renewed' seminary of St. Anthony's opened itself to the world. A
large number of laypeople from the town began attending services at the
seminary, which had become exciting. "By 1968, Eucharistic services
incorporated
outdoor settings, electric guitars and drums, fluorescent vestments, pop
art banners, and sculptures decorated with mod designs and slogans" such
as, 'Life is where the action is,' and invitations to 'Feel free (free,
free, free, free) to be!' Sister Corita (she of the felt banners) and
Cesar Chavez (he of the grape boycott) were attracted to this liberated
atmosphere. The rector of the seminary, Robert Van Handel, founded a
boys' choir and molested the boys. The seminary
closed in
1987 because of declining enrollment. In 1989 complaints against Van
Handel led to the exposure of the abuse. To whom could the boys have
complained earlier? The rector, Van Handel? He was abusing boys. The
auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, Ziemann, who was in charge of the Santa
Barbara area? He was himself allegedly abusing boys."
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An indictment of the 'Archdiocese'
Cincinnati Pro-Life Rosary Procession 2010
For over 20 years Catholics in Cincinnati have gathered
in January to offer Rosaries to stop the sin of abortion. On Saturday,
January 23, the procession had one of it's largest turnouts ever, when
nearly 1000 people took part. Catholics in other cities have also have
their own gatherings and one of the ironies is that almost invariably
these are sponsored by traditional Catholics (though people from the
Novus Ordo also take part). We say ironic because prior to Vatican II
such events would have been under the aegis of the local ordinary and
conducted through Catholic action groups such as the Holy Name Society
or the Knights of Columbus. It does not speak well for the so-called
"springtime of the Church," when such public displays for the rights of
God are all but forgotten by the supposed princes of the Church. For
more about the procession and it's parent group, visit the website of
the Cincinnati
ProLife Committee.
Concerning
purported miracle attributed to Pius XII
John Paul II: "I can't do anything. You must pray
to this other priest'
"Some details of the case under investigation regarding a possible
miracle attributed to Venerable Pope Pius XII have been made public.
The story features not just one former Pontiff, but two. On Tuesday
morning, Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli published an article in
Il Giornale describing at length the situation which
'mysteriously involves' John Paul II."
More »
NOW Comments:
An interesting ploy of the Conciliar Church in recent
years has been to attempt to establish in people's minds a bond with
the Catholic Church prior to Vatican II. This represents an abrupt
change in strategy after decades of disassociating itself from all
that went before as part of "the Church was born at the Council"
indoctrination. Hence, John Paul II's simultaneous
"beatifications" of Venerable Pius IX and his Conciliar antithesis,
John XXIII. Now, Benedict XVI continues this sort of unholy
pre-conciliar/post-conciliar joining at the hip by at the same time
naming Pope Pius XII and John Paul II "venerable". As it turns
out, there's been an unexpected upshot to this latest farce. It
seems that an apparent miracle of Pius XII occurred in 2005, not
long after "Pope" Wojtyla's death. A husband prayed to John Paul II,
asking for that his young expectant wife be healed of cancer. Not
long after he began imploring the Koran kisser's intercession, the
man had a dream in which John Paul II appeared to him and declared,
"I can't do anything. You must pray to this other priest." The man
then saw in his dream a tall, thin priest he didn't recognize, but
would later discover was Pius XII. He then directed his prayers to
Pius and his wife was cured. Now the fascinating question here,
assuming there was some substance to the man's dream, is: "Why did
John Paul II tell him he couldn't do anything?" One person in a
comment attached to the linked article opined that the reason was
the humility of the Polish "Pontiff." Now, given Wojtyla's apostasy,
this would need to be ruled out immediately. We know of Faith
that God would not ratify with a genuine miracle a person who wasn't
worthy of the honors of the altar. Therefore, best case scenario,
somehow John Paul was able to save his soul at the last moment and
ended up in Purgatory, and God allowed him to direct the petitioner
to someone who did have great favor with God and could intercede for
him. Worst case scenario would find Wojtyla in Hell and God made him
direct the man's prayers to the appropriate source. Some might argue
that a person in Hell would not have do such a thing because he
lacks charity. Still, there are cases where during exorcisms Satan
or other evil spirits can, according to Fr. Celestine Kapsner (in
Begone Satan!),
"be forced to speak the truth even though he is the father of lies
from the very beginning." So there's nothing in theory to stop God
from using John Paul II against his will from doing such a thing and
it's certainly quite plausible given Wojtyla's abandonment of the
Faith.
The
occasion? Hint: He wasn't there to convert anyone
Benedict XVI visits Rome's central Synagogue
Benedict XVI's visit to the Jewish community of
Rome was held in an atmosphere of brotherhood and emotion. In
his speech before the community gathered in the synagogue, the
pope emphasized that "the most authentic spiritual attitude to
experience this special and happy moment of grace [is] to praise
the Lord .... for granting us this opportunity to come together
to strengthen the bonds which unite us."
NOW Comment:
Once more Benedict's action belies the fiction that he's intent
on returning to Catholic Tradition. Retracing the steps of John
Paul II as well as his own visits to synagogues, everything that
he uttered was standard Novus Ordo interreligious rhetoric.
There was the usual bowing to his hosts and couching all his
talk around their interests. How totally unalike is the
Conciliar behavior here to that a real Catholic from
centuries back,
St.
Vincent Ferrer
, who entered a synagogue not with intention of "dialogue," but
to preach Jesus Christ crucified to the congregation, after
which they became Catholics and the synagogue was converted into
a church. But "Pope" Ratzinger would have no part of that;
nothing contained in his speech gave them the slightest motive
to convert, but rather they believed in the same God as he and
their religion cannot be condemned,
he assured them. One particular point he went out of
his way to address was what he referred to as the "singular and
deeply disturbing drama of the Shoah." He even invoked the
teaching of many rabbis that the Holocaust represents an attempt
by "the rulers of the Third Reich" to "kill the God who called
Abraham" by slaughtering the Jews, which some have pointed out
could be taken as an to substitute the Jewish people for Christ
as the Savior of mankind. [Aside to Christopher Ferrara:
Good news! Remember how you were so concerned that your great
champion of the Church, Benedict XVI, might have a problem on
his hands with "Cardinal" Walter Kasper? Well, not to worry! The
two are getting along together famously and Kasper even
accompanied on his historic visit (he can be seen on the left
side of the above picture). And you know, it was probably a good
idea that Ratzinger brought him along, since
Kasper is well versed in Talmudic studies. I guess as it
turns out those are two termites you just can't separate, huh?!]
Still coming out of the
woodwork Ex-'priest'
convicted of sexually
assaulting boys
"A former member of the
Brothers
of the Holy Cross
religious order who later
became a Catholic priest
pleaded guilty Friday and
was convicted of sexually
assaulting two boys in the
Elm Grove area, one in the
late 1970s and the other in
the early 1980s Prosecutor
Debra L. Blasius said the
state will argue that James
R. Blume receive a 10-year
prison term when he is
sentenced March 26.…
"Blume in the criminal
complaint acknowledged that
he was forced to take a
leave of absence from the
priesthood in 1989 because
of allegations made by a
boy.…At the time, 'the
church was like GM. It's
called cut your losses and
run, so basically they
handed me $50,000 and told
me to start a new life,'
Blume told Elm Grove police
Detective Craig Mayer."
Rotten fruit of the
Council
What hath 'the spirit of
Vatican II' wrought?
"What some refer to as a
'vocations crisis' is,
rather, one of the many
fruits of the Second Vatican
Council, a sign of God's
deep love for the Church,
and an invitation to a more
creative and effective
ordering of gifts and energy
in the Body of Christ."
— Cardinal Roger Mahony of
the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles, Holy Thursday,
April 20, 2000.
"I once heard the story of a
parishioner who, having seen his parish priest offer Mass
according to the Missal of 1962 for the first time, approached
him afterward and said, 'Father, you turned your back on me!'
"To which the priest replied, 'It isn't about you, Joe.'"
from
Sacred Then And Sacred Now: The Return of the Old Latin
Mass
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
It should go without saying that by citing this
anecdote Novus Ordo Watch neither agrees with nor endorses the
positions taken in said book, which promotes Benedict XVI's
false solution to the liturgical revolution, Summorum
Pontificum. Rather, it is included here because it reflects
very well the uncatholic mentality (referred to in
The Ottaviani Intervention as the
"spiritually and psychologically destructive elements" —
emphasis added) formed as a result of attending
Paul VI's "new Mass."
Vienna - A record number of Austrians
left the Catholic Church in 2009,
disgruntled by the Vatican's
controversial decision to readmit a
bishop who questioned the Holocaust,
local media reported Wednesday.
Vienna - A record number of Austrians
left the Catholic Church in 2009,
disgruntled by the Vatican's
controversial decision to readmit a
bishop who questioned the Holocaust,
local media reported Wednesday.
OBITUARY Ada
Raphael Federspiel (February 28,
1918 - January 13, 2010) This devout traditional Catholic lady was
a wife, the mother of 14 and grandmother (and great-grandmother of
countless more), a gifted poetess, a Third Order Franciscan, a
witness to the unknown light prophesized by our Lady at Fatima and,
we're happy to say, a friend of Novus Ordo Watch.
When she was 19 (about the time of the picture at left)
she witnessed what she later learned
was the sign from heaven of the pending Second World War, about
which
she has written. She and her husband,
Frank, were staunch defenders of the Faith, who fought the changes
that were introduced into their parish during the late 1960s in the
Fort Wayne, IN area.
She was buried out of Immaculate Conception Church in Cincinnati,
OH. May she rest in peace. [One of her poems can be read
here.]
Minister: Vatican II fulfilled many of
Luther's desires
Conciliar-Protestant joint service held
in
Germany
"In his talk, minister Christian Schmidt
said these words: 'Protestants are grateful
and happy because so many of the important
things Martin Luther desired for the Church
have become completely natural to the
Catholic Church since Vatican II.' Among
other things he mentioned 'the emphasis
given to the Bible, the introduction of
vernacular into the religious service and
the notion of a common priesthood of
believers.'"
"The number of Catholics leaving the Church
soared last year, according to Catholic
press agency Kathpress. It reported today
that 53,216 people had left the Church last
year - 30.9 per cent more than in 2008."
Vienna - A record number of
Austrians left the Catholic Church
in 2009, disgruntled by the
Vatican's controversial decision to
readmit a bishop who questioned the
Holocaust, local media reported
Wednesday.
Funky procession, bro!
Celebrating a 'Jesuit's' final vows
YouTube caption: "This was taken at the start of the celebration of Final Vows
for Br. Jim Sanders, SJ."
NOW Comments:
This is further evidence that the Catholic concept of vows being
something solemn and of profound significance is completely alien to
those raised in the Vatican II Church. The pity is they're told what
they're doing is Catholic and no one tells them otherwise.
VIDEO/TEXT
Sick joke: Portrayed as
protector of youth
Statue of former 'Archbishop' Weakland stirs new
debate
"I couldn't believe it. That this was a
practical joke, that this was someone joking about this.", says SNAP
Rep Peter Isley. The joke Isley is talking about is this statue. It
has an image of former Archbishop Rembert Weakland.
"Isley, a member of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
(SNAP), says Weakland's image should not be the Cathedral of St.
John. The statue, as well as a bust of Weakland stands in the
Cathedral of St. John. Weakland left his position in 2002 after
admitting to a sexual relationship with a seminary student decades
earlier. Isley says, 'this is an individual responsible for
transferring, concealing and moving dozens of priests who sexually
assaulted raped young children and immortalized himself in bronze.'"
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“I
die innocent of all the crimes imputed to me. I pardon the
authors of my death, and pray God that the blood you are
about to shed will never fall upon France.”
Bertone's
retention sends a message to the wise
Pop
psychology & the demise of a seminary
Concerning
purported miracle attributed to Pius XII
The
occasion? Hint: He wasn't there to convert anyone
OBITUARY 
