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Showing posts with label Paul VI. Montini. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Notes: Friday, August 1-Wednesday, December 31, 2014 (part 2 of 2)

9. H.H. The Pope on, among other things, the death penalty

See the Speech to the delegates of the International Association of Penal Law, October 23, 2014, available at the "October 2014 Speeches" page at the Vatican's website:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/october/index.html

Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, justice

10. Dr. Brown on the content and structure of the New Order of Mass compared to that of the Traditional Latin Mass

See his comment of 1 November 2014 at 11:01 pm at Fr. Zuhlsdorf's blog post "GERMANY: Where the weird stuff comes from" of November 1, 2014 at Fr. Z's Blog:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2014/11/why-is-it-that-truly-weird-stuff-comes-into-the-church-from-germany/#comment-483619

Labels: N.O.M., theology, T.L.M.

11. Dr. Summers on, among other things, H.M.A. Government's continuing overseas Feminist propaganda

See the opinion piece "Forget the F-word, action is what counts", by Dr. Anne Summers A.O., dated November 15, 2014, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/forget-the-fword-action-is-what-counts-20141113-11m2g5.html?skin=text-only

(That article came to my attention via the version printed on p. 38 in the "COMMENT" pages of the "NEWS REVIEW" section of The Sydney Morning Herald, weekend edition, November 15-16, 2014, Issue No. 55256, ISSN 0312-6315, published by Fairfax Media Publications Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: feminism

12. Ms Wilkinson on, among other things, "the growing body of “guilty until proven innocent” laws being made" in Australia

See the opinion piece "Politicians should be considered guilty until proven innocent too", by Cassandra Wilkinson, dated November 8, 2014, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/politicians-should-be-considered-guilty-until-proven-innocent-too/story-fnhuliiz-1227116002659

(That article came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline (though all the letters were in capitals), with the same author, on p. 22 in the "INQUIRER" section of The Weekend Australian, November 8-9, 2014, Second Edition, No. 15570, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: burden of proof, law

13. Some recent articles regarding the State of Israel's proposed 'nation-state of the Jewish people' bill

See
  • the article "Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet backs 'Jewish state law' as tensions run high in Israel", by Isabel Kershner, dated November 24, 2014, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

    http://www.smh.com.au/world/benjamin-netanyahus-cabinet-backs-jewish-state-law-as-tensions-run-high-in-israel-20141124-11sdlx.html?skin=text-only
Labels: Confessional State, Jews, State of Israel

14. "Montini was moved out of the Vatican and made Archbishop of Milan in 1954 in an attempt by conservative factions in Rome to reduce his influence. But the next Pope, his friend John XXIII, in 1958 made him the first of his cardinals, and he succeeded John as Pope Paul VI in 1963."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "The renewed relevance of Paul VI", by The Rev. Fr. Bruce Duncan C.SS.R., undated, downloaded from the website of the Redemptorists of Australia and New Zealand:

http://www.cssr.org.au/contact_us/dsp-default.cfm?loadref=619

(That article came to my attention via this CathNews item.)

Labels: Paul VI. Montini

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Monday, December 31, 2012

Notes: Tuesday, October 9-Monday, December 31, 2012 (part 1 of 2)

1. A couple of recent items regarding the death penalty

1.1 "The secular power can, without mortal sin, exercise judgment of blood, provided that it punishes with justice, not out of hatred, with prudence, not precipitation."

The quotation in that headline is an alternative translation to the one found in Denzinger (see the Systematic Index). My proximate source for it is this B.B.C. web-page (which came to my attention via the September 22, 2012 9:54 PM comment by Papalinton in the combox at this blog post by Prof. Feser):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/christianethics/capitalpunishment_1.shtml

and its ultimate source, at least on-line, seems to be Cardinal Dulles's April 2001 First Things article "Catholicism & Capital Punishment":

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/08/catholicism-amp-capital-punishment-21

Labels: death penalty

1.2 "The Mosaic Law specifies 36 offences which carry the death penalty with provision for execution by a variety of means: stoning, burning, decapitation and strangulation."

The quotation in that headline comes from the paper "Reflections on the death penalty on the tenth anniversary of the Bali Bombings", by The Rev. Fr. Frank Brennan S.J. A.O.:

http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/preview.aspx?aeid=33646

Interestingly, Fr. Brennan goes on to mention something which Catholic opponents of the death penalty tend to fail to take into account:
Jesus accepted that the State may impose capital punishment; he himself was subject to such penalty, without his questioning the right of the State to impose such punishment.
(That paper came to my attention via this Catholica thread-starter.)

Labels: death penalty

2. Victoria's abortion laws "are classed as the second worst in the world after China's one baby per family policy."

The quotation in that headline comes from the letter printed under the heading "Abortion", by Robert Bom, on p. 8 (the "Editorial and Letters" page) of the Sydney Catholic Weekly, October 7, 2012, Vol. 71, No. 4642, published by The Catholic Press Newspaper Company Pty. Ltd., available on-line here:

http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=2&subclassID=5&articleID=10908&class=Comment&subclass=Letters

Labels: abortion, Victoria

3. Fr. Flader on, among other things, Paul VI.'s Apostolic Exhortation Petrum et Paulum Apostolos of February 22, 1967:

http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/article.php?classID=3&subclassID=59&articleID=10892&class=Features&subclass=Question Time

(That article came to my attention via its printing on p. 10, same column, same headline, same author, the Sydney Catholic Weekly, October 7, 2012, Vol. 71, No. 4642, published by The Catholic Press Newspaper Company Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: Paul VI. Montini

4. "The results of the research of recent years, and of the conference, "will be a preliminary inventory of the Council Fathers' archives. This will be fed into an online database which may be consulted free of charge on the website of the Pontifical Council"."

http://www.news.va/en/news/studying-vatican-council-ii-from-the-archives

Labels: Vatican II

5. "THE Bodleian Library has put more than 300,000 rare books online"

Find them here:

http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&fromLogin=true&dstmp=1349937982316&vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&fromLogin=true

(The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Precious Bodleian manuscripts now just a click away", by Nicola Woolcock, dated October 10, 2012, downloaded from (behind the paywall at) The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/precious-bodleian-manuscripts-now-just-a-click-away/story-fnb64oi6-1226492687379)

Labels: books

6. Ms Devine on the Proud Schools programme

See
  • the article "HETEROSEXIST HIGH[: ]Schoolkids told straight isn't 'norm'", by Miranda Devine, on the front page of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, October 17, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2671, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd., apparently not available on-line
Related material:
  • the Warren (Brown) cartoon, p. 25, ibid.
  • the letters "Foster tolerance not differences", "A valuable program to prevent school thugs", "Time for a reminder to departmental heads", and "We need a broader approach to bullies", p. 56, ibid., and two S.M.S.s in the "TXTTHEEDITOR" column, p. 57, ibid.; neither the letters nor the S.M.S.s are available on-line
  • the letters "Proud Schools goes a step too far for some", "A sense of pride in controversial program", and one in the "SHORTANDSHARP" section with no heading of its own, pp. 104-5, the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Friday, October 19, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2673, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd., not available on-line
The following links lead to web-pages which I found using Google:

http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/11380

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/children-to-be-taught-39heterosexuality-not-the-norm39-in-australian-school/

http://catefaehrmann.org/2012/10/devines-fear-mongering-out-of-touch-greens/

http://gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/national/9200-proud-schools-trial-here-to-stay.html

http://www.samesame.com.au/news/local/9044/Fear-mongering-over-not-so-straight-school-program.htm

Labels: education, G.L.B.T., Proud Schools

7. "On the Security Council we'll be working for the rights of women and girls - to education, training and jobs, and to maternal and reproductive healthcare. Its what we're already doing in Myanmar, Indonesia and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Our rightful place at the table of world powers", by Sen. The Hon. Bob Carr, dated October 22, 2012, downloaded from the Sydney Daily Telegraph's website:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/our-rightful-place-at-the-table-of-world-powers/story-e6frezz0-1226500165396

(That article came to my attention via its printing with the same headline and author on p. 13 of the Sydney Daily Telegraph of Monday, October 22, 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2675, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: abortion, contraception, feminism

8. Some recent items regarding the G.L.B.T. proportion of the population

8.1 "Massive study finds only 3.4% of American adults identify as LGBT"

The quotation in that headline is the headline of an article by Andrew Malcolm, dated October 18, 2012, published at INVESTORS.com:

http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/101812-629809-tiny-fraction-of-americans-publicly-identify-as-lesbian-gay-bisexual-or-transgender-lgbt.htm#ixzz29lG9hrAI

(That article came to my attention via the blog post "Study shows self-identifying homosexuals are actually a very small percent of US population", by The Rev. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, downloaded from his blog:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2012/10/study-shows-self-identifying-homosexuals-are-actually-a-very-small-percent-of-population/)

Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.

8.2 "One in 66 Britons is gay or bisexual - NOT one in ten, as previously thought"

The quotation in that headline is the headline of an article by Steve Doughty, dated September 29, 2012, downloaded from the British Daily Mail's website:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2210310/One-66-Britons-gay-bisexual--NOT-previously-thought.html#ixzz283ZfWAIw

and brought to my attention by this True Catholic post:

http://members7.boardhost.com/TrueCatholic/msg/1350435583.html

Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.

9. Some recent items regarding economics and families

9.1 "ABOUT 87,000 families a year will receive a baby bonus worth $3000 instead of $5000 for their second or subsequent children, prompting warnings from welfare groups that the poor would suffer and criticism from the Coalition that it was an attack on larger families. "

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "'Mean, nasty' cut an attack on poor and bigger families", by Patricia Karvelas, dated October 23, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/treasury/mean-nasty-cut-an-attack-on-poor-and-bigger-families/story-fn59nsif-1226501034300

Labels: economics, families

9.2 Mrs. Shanahan on the Federal Government's agenda to "[f]orce more women into the workforce by skewing all family benefits to working women who put their children in institutional childcare"

See the opinion piece "Baby bonus cut a slap at stay-at-home mums", by Angela Shanahan, dated October 27, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/baby-bonus-cut-a-slap-at-stay-at-home-mums/story-e6frg6zo-1226504051315

(That came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline, by the same author, on p. 18, "INQUIRER" section, The Weekend Australian, October 27-28, 2012, Second Edition, No. 14949, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: economics, families

9.3 "ALMOST half of all mothers in two-parent families are back at work before their youngest child turns one"

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Social revolution at work: mums go back to their jobs as reality hits home", by George Megalogenis and Sophie Gosper, dated October 31, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/social-revolution-at-work-mums-go-back-to-their-jobs-as-reality-hits-home/story-fnegj121-1226507043793

See also Mr. Megalogenis's opinion piece "Howard-era baby payments failed to do the job intended", dated November 3, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/howard-era-baby-payments-failed-to-do-the-job-intended/story-e6frg7ex-1226509430778

(That came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline, by the same author, on p. 24 of the "INQUIRER" section of The Weekend Australian, November 3-4, 2012, First Edition, No. 14955, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: economics, families

9.4 "The majority of pregnant women take at least two months sick leave from work, according to a new study."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Pregnant women take 'at least two months sick leave' from work, says controversial study", no byline, dated November 7, 2012, downloaded from the Mail Online website:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2228829/Pregnant-women-months-sick-leave-work-says-controversial-study.html

See also the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' press release "BJOG release: New study finds majority of pregnant women require an average of two months additional sick leave from work", published by Caitlin Walsh, dated November 7, 2012:

http://www.rcog.org.uk/news/bjog-release-new-study-finds-majority-pregnant-women-require-average-two-months-additional-sick

and also the British National Health Service article "Pregnant women 'take two months sick leave'":

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/11November/Pages/Pregnant-women-take-two-months-sick-leave.aspx

(That research came to my attention via an article, apparently not available on-line, in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, Saturday, November 10, 2012, presumably Vol. 1, No. 2692, ISSN 1038-8745, published by Nationwide News Pty. Ltd.)

Labels: economics, families, pregnancy

9.5 "Fisher imagined a country in which "every person honestly able and willing to work should be able to earn sufficient to enable him to keep his wife and family in comfort"."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Labor defines itself through the voices of its statesmen", Nick Cater's review of For the True Believers: Great Labor Speeches that Shaped History, dated October 8, 2012, downloaded from The Australian's website:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/labor-defines-itself-through-the-voices-of-its-statesmen/story-fn9n8gph-1226531416233

(That came to my attention via the version printed under the same headline, by the same author, on p. 25 in the "BOOKS" section of the "review" supplement of The Weekend Australian, December 8-9, 2012, First Edition, No. 14985, ISSN 1038-8761, published by Nationwide News Pty. Limited.)

Labels: economics, families

9.6 "WOMEN are being discouraged from returning to work after having children, as tax, childcare costs, and lost government benefits leave some earning as little as 20¢ for every dollar they earn."

The quotation in that headline comes from the article "Mothers penalised for working", by Stephanie Peatling, dated November 25, 2012, downloaded from The Sydney Morning Herald's website:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/mothers-penalised-for-working-20121124-2a00y.html?skin=text-only

Labels: economics, families

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Monday in the Octave of Christmas, A.D. 2012
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Notes: Wednesday, November 9-Monday, November 14, 2011

1. "Franco resisted bid by Paul VI to end role in naming bishops"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39637

According to the web-page to which that AQ thread-starter links,
In his letter, Paul VI recalled the Council’s appeal to governments to renounce their privilege in nominating bishops.
[http://www.osservatoreromano.va/portal/dt?JSPTabContainer.setSelected=JSPTabContainer%2FDetail&last=false=&path=/news/cultura/2011/258q11-A-Dio-quello-che---di-Dio.html&title=To%20God%20that%20which%20is%20God]
Would anyone care to let me know the Act of Vatican II in which the Council made that appeal? (I don't recall it being in Dignitatis humanæ, and I checked Lumen gentium, Gaudium et spes, and the Address of Paul VI., on behalf of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, to "all those who hold temporal power" but couldn't find it in any of them.)

Labels: Church and State, Francisco Franco, Hierarchy, John Charles I. Borbón, Paul VI. Montini, Spain

2. "The proportion of IVF cycles resulting in a live baby remained at 17 per cent in 2009, the same as in 2005, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare"

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/big-breakthrough-for-saving-tiny-lives-but-its-an-overseas-exclusive-20111110-1n9kj.html?skin=text-only

Labels: I.V.F.

3. Fr. Zuhlsdorf and Messrs. Magister and Keener on H.H. The Pope's apparent call, in Caritas in veritate, for a World State

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/11/more-on-the-one-world-government-white-paper-from-pont-council-for-justice-and-peace/#comment-305633

I do not find Mr. Magister's defence of the Holy Father's vision for the governance of globalisation convincing. The word "moderamen" is used once in Caritas in veritate, in §57:
Ne periculosa quaedam constituatur universalis potestas monocratici generis, globalizationis moderamen formam induere debet subsidiarietatis, diversis in gradibus ordinibusque dispositum, qui mutuo cooperentur.
[italics in the original,
AAS 101 [2009: 8], p. 693 (53 in Adobe),
http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/2009/agosto%202009.pdf]
The Vatican website's English section has the following translation:
In order not to produce a dangerous universal power of a tyrannical nature, the governance of globalization must be marked by subsidiarity, articulated into several layers and involving different levels that can work together.
[italics in the original,
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html]
But the same logic would apply to ordinary, non-worldwide States; so for instance, in the case of several small States uniting into a Federation, one might say that 'in order not to produce a dangerous Federal power of a tyrannical nature, the governance of interaction between member States must be marked by subsidiarity, articulated into several layers and involving different levels that can work together'; subsidiarity is, after all, a requirement of any society which is made up of other, smaller societies.

Furthermore, keep in mind the rest of §67; the proposed "true world political authority" ("vera Auctoritas politica mundialis"—italics in the original) would "need to be universally recognized and to be vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights" ("Auctoritas sane haec ab omnibus est agnoscenda, quae reali potestate pollere debet, ut unicuique securitas, iustitiae observantia, iurium item tuitio praestentur") and would "have to have the authority to ensure compliance with its decisions from all parties, and also with the coordinated measures adopted in various international forums" ("facultate ipsa pollere debet suarum deliberationum observantiam sodalibus itemque simul disposita in internationalibus tribunalibus praecepta imperandi"). How is that anything other than a World State in all but name?

(Caritas in veritate in Latin is also available here.)

Labels: Benedict XVI. Ratzinger, Caritas in veritate, political science

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Feast of St. Josaphat, Bishop, Martyr, A.D. 2011
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Notes: Tuesday, September 6-Wednesday, September 14, 2011 (part 2 of 2)

9. Dr. Tighe on what makes a Council Ecumenical

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/09/a-pessimitic-article-about-sspx-and-talks-with-rome/#comment-294303

Labels: Church Councils, Eastern Schism, Hierarchy, Papacy, theology

10. More from Dr. Brown on the notion of "the Eucharist [as] a memorial of the Last Supper"

Point 3 of this blog comment, in which there is a link to the text of one of Paul VI.'s General Audiences:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/09/when-diocesan-priests-choose-to-use-exclusively-the-extraordinary-form-fr-z-rants-a-lot/#comment-294513

Labels: liturgy, Paul VI. Montini, Sacraments, theology

11. "it has now become a constitutional convention that [the British] Parliament does not interfere in the internal affairs of the Established Church"

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2011/09/uk-mp-pushes-to-force-church-to-have-contrary-to-nature-marriages-or-no-marriages-at-all/#comment-294030

Labels: Anglicans, U.K.

12. A very short, but very interesting, biography of St. Robert Bellarmine

http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1141

(I first read that biography in the Sydney Catholic Weekly last Sunday.) These are the parts which were of most interest to me and for which I log that biography here:
His most famous work is his three-volume Disputations on the Controversies of the Christian Faith. Particularly noteworthy are the sections on the temporal power of the pope and the role of the laity. He incurred the anger of monarchists in England and France by showing the divine-right-of-kings theory untenable. He developed the theory of the indirect power of the pope in temporal affairs; although he was defending the pope against the Scottish philosopher Barclay, he also incurred the ire of Pope Sixtus V.

[...] ... The process for his canonization was begun in 1627 but was delayed until 1930 for political reasons, stemming from his writings. In 1930, Pope Pius XI canonized him and the next year declared him a doctor of the Church.
Labels: Papacy, political science, St. Robert Bellarmine, theology, William Barclay

13. Two recent opinions pieces from Mr. Steyn

13.1 "Using rights to gag free speech"

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/using-rights-to-gag-free-speech/story-e6frg6zo-1226136138035

(Needless to say, I reject that 'freedom of speech' is a true moral freedom; I mainly log that web-page for its information on examples of anti-'hate-speech' action.)

Labels: hate speech

13.2 "FOURTH TRIMESTER ABORTION"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38913

Labels: abortion

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Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, A.D. 2011
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Notes: Tuesday, April 12-Monday, April 18, 2011

1. Latest American figures on sexual abuse by Catholic priests

http://members7.boardhost.com/CathPews/thread/1302558767.html

http://www.catholicleague.org/nytstraighttalk.php

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36834

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=25812

Labels: sexual abuse

2. Dr. Gates on the G.L.B.T. proportion of the population

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/gay-equality-doesnt-add-up-until-we-do-the-numbers-20110412-1dcit.html?skin=text-only

Labels: demography, G.L.B.T.

3. Cardinal Pell with some facts about events in the post-Conciliar era
Pope Paul VI appointed no bishops who were opposed to the ethos of Vatican II, ...

[...] Incidentally it is a matter of historical record that at the 1971 Synod of Bishops, Pope Paul offered to the bishops the option of ordaining married men to the priesthood and the bishops declined to accept this.

[...] In Pope John Paul’s 27 years of pontificate 24 individuals were disciplined for their theological views, including eight who were silenced or removed, in the worldwide Catholic community of more than one billion believers.
[http://theswag.org.au/2011/04/some-gaudium-and-no-spes/]
His Eminence also asserts in that letter that "the bishops of the Society of St. Pius X ... are still in schism", which is not only false, even from Rome's perspective, but illogical for him given that in the same section of the letter he says that their putative excommunications were lifted.

Labels: celibacy, George Pell, John Paul II. Wojtyla, Paul VI. Montini, S.S.P.X., Vatican II

4. "Ethnic federation calls on PM to bolster multicultural policy"

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/ethnic-federation-calls-on-pm-to-bolster-multicultural-policy/story-fn59niix-1226039379342

Labels: multiculturalism

5. Discussion thread on the pre-1955 Holy Week liturgical schedule

Mainly of interest to me for the references to the present and past practice of the S.S.P.X. in that connection:

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36891

Labels: liturgy, S.S.P.X., T.L.M.

6. Figures on the use of contraception by American Catholics

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36893

Labels: contraception

7. Two items regarding John Paul II.

7.1 Review of a biography of John Paul II.

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36884

Labels: John Paul II. Wojtyla

7.2 List of quotations from John Paul II. regarding Islam

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=404020#404020

Labels: Islam, John Paul II. Wojtyla

8. Note regarding possible new admissions to the Order of the Garter

This Saturday, April 23 (which is usually St. George's Day), is Holy Saturday. Apparently,
This year 2011, St Georges Day will be officially celebrated on May 2nd. This is because Easter falls late this year and April 23rd is Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Under the rules of the Church of England, if St Georges Day falls within a week of Easter then Easter has precedence and St Georges Day is moved to after Easter. This will the first Monday in May, May Day Bank Holiday, ...
[http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/StGeorge.htm]
Now there are currently three vacancies in the Order of the Garter (judging by the list at H.M. The Queen's website, one would think that there were only two, but that list has not been updated to take into account the death of His late Grace The Duke of Grafton). If Her Majesty intends to fill some or all of those vacancies this year, I wonder whether the announcement will be made on Holy Saturday, or on May 2? Delaying any announcement till the latter date would be convenient in that The Queen could also announce Miss Middleton's admission to the Order as one of its Royal Ladies.

Labels: Order of the Garter

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Monday in Holy Week, A.D. 2011
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Notes: Wednesday, March 16-Monday, March 21, 2011 (part 1 of 2)

1. A couple of recent articles regarding the Russian Orthodox Church

1.1 Reasons not to be too optimistic about the prospects for Rome-Moscow relations

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36412

Labels: ecumenism, R.O.C.

1.2 "Russian Orthodox Church hierarch calls for strategic alliance with Catholics, Protestants"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36513

Labels: ecumenism, R.O.C.

2. An AQ thread on, among other things, the requirements imposed on F.S.S.P. priests regarding Vatican II and the Novus Ordo Missæ

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36360

Labels: F.S.S.P.

3. Mr. Assange on the Internet as "the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen"

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/internet-is-worlds-greatest-spying-machine-and-obstacle-to-free-speech-assange/story-e6frgakx-1226022439504

Labels: Internet

4. A couple of interesting items from this month's edition (the first for the new year) of the Sydney Archdiocese's Life, Marriage and Family Centre's monthly e-mail

4.1 Dr. van Gend on same-sex 'marriage', same-sex parenting, and Lord Russell's views on marriage

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/liberation_--_or_deprivation/

Labels: Bertrand Russell, G.L.B.T., marriage, morality, parenthood

4.2 The survival of the pro-life movement as a reason for hope in the face of the argument that opponents of 'gay marriage' are 'on the wrong side of history'

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/01/2439

Labels: abortion, G.L.B.T., marriage

5. Mr. Muehlenberg on the re-definition of marriage

http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/03/16/marriage-equality-let%e2%80%99s-go-for-the-whole-hog/

Labels: Katrina Fox, marriage, morality

6. "Philosopher argues against abortion through reason alone"

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=25470

Labels: abortion, Christopher Kaczor, morality

7. "New documents reveal inner workings of papal birth control commission"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36478

Labels: contraception, Magisterium, morality, Paul VI. Montini

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Benedict, Abbot, A.D. 2011
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Notes: Saturday-Monday, October 2-4, 2010

(I have not finished reading the weekend papers yet, so there might be more items to come from Saturday. There were many book reviews of interest to me and perhaps to you in the weekend papers, so I'll cover them in a separate post.)

Two recent Vatican Information Service daily e-mail bulletin items mentioning religious liberty

First one:

ARCHBISHOP MAMBERTI ADDRESSES U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

VATICAN CITY, 1 OCT 2010 (VIS) - On 29 September Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Holy See secretary for Relations with States, addressed the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. [...]

[...] On the subject of the Millennium Development Goals, the archbishop remarked on the importance of "bearing the great moral imperatives in mind: ... fulfilment of the promises of aid for development given by rich nations to weaker nations, and a guarantee of a more favourable financial and commercial climate". At a global level, the secretary for Relations with States identified the need "for more decisive and effective concern for refugees, displaced persons and the great migratory flows". In order for there to be integral human development there must also be a guarantee "of the exercise of religious freedom, ... the cornerstone of the entire edifice of human rights", he said [...]
DELSS/ VIS 20101001 (660)
[my square-bracketed ellipses, other ellipses in the original]

I'll have to find out what that ellipsis after "of the exercise of religious freedom" replaced.

Second one:

MISSION, AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE MISSION OF THE BAPTISED

VATICAN CITY, 4 OCT 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (North region 1 and Northeast region), who have just completed their "ad limina" visit.

[...] "Sometimes we hear the objection that imposing the truth - though it be the truth of the Gospel and of salvation - can be a violation of religious freedom", said the Holy Father, in which context he quoted words of Paul VI: "It would, of course, be a mistake to impose anything on the conscience of our brothers and sisters, but propounding knowledge of the truth of the Gospel and the salvation of Jesus Christ, with absolute clarity and full respect for the free choice of conscience (hence without coercion or dishonest persuasion), ... far from being an attack on religious freedom, is a homage to that freedom, which can choose a route that even non-believers consider noble and edifying. ... To present Christ and His kingdom in a respectful way, more than a right, is a duty of evangelisation".
[...]
AL/ VIS 20101004 (530)
[my square-bracketed ellipses, other ellipses in the original]

A startling figure on sexual activity by U.S. minors

From The Australian:

The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behaviour found sexually active 14 to 17-year-olds - 80 per cent of boys and 69 per cent of girls ...
[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/us-teens-use-more-condoms-than-adults-survey/story-fn3dxity-1225934015781]

Transalpine Non-Redemptorists still waiting for canonical regularisation

From a U.K. Catholic Herald article brought to my attention by Terra:

They have not been ecstatically welcomed, either. It is more than two years since they first approached Rome, yet they are still waiting for their bishop, Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen, to grant them legal status within the Church.

[...] On the advice of Fr [Josef] Bisig [F.S.S.P.], they arranged a meeting with Fr José Monteiro Guimarães, a Redemptorist official in the Congregation for Clergy (he is now Bishop of Garanhuns in Brazil). They travelled to Rome, staying in a hotel. It was, he says, very daunting. “We had the feeling that we should go back, that we had made a big mistake. We were completely out of our camp.”

In the months that followed they met officials at Ecclesia Dei, the body set up to negotiate with the SSPX. They met its prefect, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos. Their priestly suspensions were lifted. Later they wrote a constitution, lifting parts of old Redemptorist constitutions from 1921 and 1936. That has been approved. All that is needed now is for Bishop Moran, their local bishop, to issue a “decree of erection” that will put them in canonical good order. (Last Friday Bishop Moran issued a statement which said he was waiting for guidance from the Congregation for Religious, to whom the matter has now been passed.)

[...] “Nobody expected it to take this long,” says Fr Michael Mary.

“Nobody expected it to take this long”. Seriously?

Sydney Archdiocese Life, Marriage and Family Centre publication "Euthanasia: Myths and Reality"

http://www.lifemarriagefamily.org.au/RLS2010.pdf

As well as refuting the standard pro-euthanasia talking points, it contains some useful facts and figures, such as that

Government-sanctioned studies in the Netherlands have found that: 50% of cases of assisted suicide and euthanasia are not reported, more than 50% of Dutch physicians feel free to suggest euthanasia to their patients, and 25% of these physicians admit to ending patients’ lives without their consent (more than 1000 people each year).

Caius on the death of Sts. Peter and Paul at Rome

From a Catholic Encyclopedia article brought to my attention by last Sunday's Sydney Catholic Weekly:

We owe to Caius a very valuable evidence of the death of Sts. Peter and Paul at Rome, and the public veneration of their remains at Rome about the year 200. It is taken from the above-mentioned disputation with Proclus, and reads as follows (Eusebius, Church History II.25): "But I can show the trophies of the Apostles. For if you will go to the Vatican or to the Ostian Way you will find the trophies of those who laid the foundations of this church". By "trophies" is of course understood the memorial chapel that preserved in each case the body of the Apostle (cf. Barnes, St. Peter in Rome, London, 1900, p 145).
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144a.htm]

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Placid and Companions, Martyrs, A.D. 2010
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

Notes: Thursday, July 15, 2010

WOMEN'S brains function better at remembering information than men's, researchers have confirmed.

A Cambridge University study of 4407 men and women from East Anglia, southeastern England, discovered gender plays a clear difference in memory function.

In tests on participants aged between 48 to 90 years, women made an average of 5.9 fewer errors than men, regardless of age.

[...] “Although the links between sex and education and cognitive function have been explored before, this very large dataset provides striking evidence that these factors play a major role in determining how good our memory function is as we age," Dr Andrew Blackwell, Chief Scientific Officer at Cambridge University's Department of Psychiatry, said.

“Using these data, we can determine whether or not an individual’s memory function is normal or not for people of their age, sex and education level.

“A body of scientific literature has demonstrated that women typically outperform men on test of verbal function, whereas men tend to outperform women on tasks of spatial function.

"However, in this study, we used a measure of memory that is spatial and women consistently outperformed men.

“There are many possible explanations for this, including both neurobiological and environmental differences.”

"U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Vatican's Immunity Not What It Seems, Says Legal Expert"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32513

Most important part:

But Addison points out that the Supreme Court issued no ruling, but merely decided not to decide on the issue at this stage of the case. Further, he insists that the Ninth Circuit ruling has been grossly mischaracterized.

The Ninth Circuit decision, he writes, was merely meant to establish a theoretical point of law, where the court was asked to rule under the presumption that all of the plaintiff’s allegations are true. “There has been no trial regarding Doe’s allegations or assertions and all the legal proceedings so
far have been entirely questions of law,” emphasized Addison.

“For the purposes of deciding whether the Holy See COULD be liable the 9th Circuit had to accept the bare assertion by Doe that Father Ronan was an employee of the Holy See,” he writes. “On that basis they decided that if (and it is a very big IF) Ronan was an employee of the Holy See then the Holy See would be vicariously liable for his actions.”

Further, he pointed out that the appeals court accepted the Holy See’s status as a sovereign state, as well as the fact that that status guarantees it the same immunities as every other state.

Addison says the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case is “not unusual” given that there has not yet been a trial or any findings of fact. Given these circumstances, he concludes, the decision “does not mean that the Supreme Court necessarily agrees or disagrees with the 9th Circuit.” Rather, it indicates “merely that the case has not yet reached a stage which is appropriate for adjudication by the Supreme Court.”

"U. of IL to 'Review' Firing of Catholic Prof. [namely Kenneth Howell]"

http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32511

Mr. Donnelly on adoption by same-sex couples

http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-law-shouldnt-be-changed-in-nsw-to-allow-gay-adoption/

Dr. Brown on the respective pontificates of Paul VI. and John Paul II.

Pope Paul VI took a very soft stance on dissident priests, bishops, and theologians because he wanted to avoid a schism, and Pope John Paul II largely followed his lead (although he did push the church in the right direction in a lot of more subtle ways).
Comment by ies0716

It had nothing to do with wanting to avoid a schism. If PVI wanted to avoid a schism, he would not have been so hard on the SSPX. PVI wanted to move the Church to the left for political reasons, so the Church could deal with secular govts. JPII was also interested in international politics. Both were what the Italians call papa politico.

IMHO, Voris is right referring to the problems but not so right in attributing them to the present hierarchy, most of whom inherited the mess.

Comment by robtbrown — 13 July 2010 @ 8:59 pm
[http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/07/new-michael-voris-video-and-wdtprs-poll/#comment-213954]

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Henry II., Emperor, Confessor, A.D. 2010
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

The long shadow of Prof. Maritain

http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/the-model-of-a-multiculturalist-20090524-bjf4.html?page=-1

In last Sunday’s Sydney Catholic Weekly I read an obituary, which appeared originally in The Sydney Morning Herald, of the late Prof. Jerzy Zubrzycki. The obituary contained the following interesting tidbit:

Karol Wojtyla, later John Paul II, and Zubrzycki attended a students' summer camp together in 1938, seeking solutions for a world on the brink of war. They were influenced by Jacques Maritain, a leftish French philosopher who tried to apply the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas to modern problems, leaving room at the apex of the sciences for Christian theology.
The late Mr. Michael Davies had a trenchant exposition of the socio-political errors of Maritainism in his excellent The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty. For Maritainists, the State is not a juridical and moral person; it is just a specialised portion of society which is entrusted with the care of the public peace, and possibly also of natural morality (but not of truths of Faith knowable only by supernatural Revelation), while leaving the populace directly responsible for the elements (the spiritual elements, at least) of the common good not contained in what Dignitatis Humanæ called the ‘just public order’. Maritainism was influential for Paul VI and Dignitatis Humanæ itself has a strongly Maritainist flavour. Yet Maritainism is a utopian philosophy which is at odds with the Traditional body of doctrine on socio-political matters.

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Columba, Abbot, A.D. 2009
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