A cardinal holds his biretta as Pope Francis celebrates Mass with new cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this Nov. 29, 2020, file photo. (CNS photo/Gregorio Borgia, Reuters pool)
Heretical Prelates – “Unfortunately, it is not uncommon today to hear Catholic leaders affirm unorthodox views that, not too long ago, would have been espoused only by heretics.” Imagining a heretical cardinal (First Things)
Passionsspiele Oberammergau – “The world’s most famous Passion play is powerful theater. There’s a hole at its heart.” Oberammergau’s Broken Vow (Plough)
Trans Children’s Books – “She Persisted is a children’s book series featuring the stories of, you guessed it, women. Who persisted. Florence Nightingale, Temple Grandin, Helen Keller, Ruby Bridges, Ella Fitzgerald. A mix. A mix indeed.” On the Gender Beat (Charlotte Was Both)
Restoring All Things – A”fter two years of initial planning, Christendom’s Graduate School of Theology first launched the Christendom@ Project in 2018, with the goal of offering live, online, interactive lectures for students at universities that don’t offer courses in Catholic thought.” Program brings Catholic courses to colleges nationwide (The Arlington Catholic Herald)
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Peter. Here is a timeline of key events during his papacy:
2013
March 13 — About two weeks after Pope Benedict XVI steps down from the papacy, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio is elected pope. He takes the papal name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi and proclaims from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica: “Let us begin this journey, the bishop and people, this journey of the Church of Rome, which presides in charity over all the Churches, a journey of brotherhood in love, of mutual trust. Let us always pray for one another.”
March 14 — The day after he begins his pontificate, Pope Francis returns to his hotel to personally pay his hotel bill and collect his luggage.
July 8 — Pope Francis visits Italy’s island of Lampedusa and meets with a group of 50 migrants, most of whom are young men from Somalia and Eritrea. The island, which is about 200 miles off the coast of Tunisia, is a common entry point for migrants who flee parts of Africa and the Middle East to enter Europe. This is the pope’s first pastoral visit outside of Rome and sets the stage for making reaching out to the peripheries a significant focus.
Pope Francis gives the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 2, 2013. . Elise Harris/CNA.
July 23–28 — Pope Francis visits Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to participate in World Youth Day 2013. More than 3 million people from around the world attend the event.
July 29 — On the return flight from Brazil, Pope Francis gives his first papal news conference and sparks controversy by saying “if a person is gay and seeks God and has goodwill, who am I to judge?” The phrase is prompted by a reporter asking the pope a question about priests who have homosexual attraction.
Nov. 24 — Pope Francis publishes his first apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel). The document illustrates the pope’s vision for how to approach evangelization in the modern world.
2014
Feb. 22 — Pope Francis holds his first papal consistory to appoint 19 new cardinals, including ones from countries in the developing world that have never previously been represented in the College of Cardinals, such as Haiti.
March 22 — Pope Francis creates the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. The commission works to protect the dignity of minors and vulnerable adults, such as the victims of sexual abuse.
Pope Francis greets pilgrims during his general audience on Nov. 29, 2014. Bohumil Petrik/CNA.
Oct. 5 — The Synod on the Family begins. The bishops discuss a variety of concerns, including single-parent homes, cohabitation, homosexual adoption of children, and interreligious marriages.
Dec. 6 — After facing some pushback for his efforts to reform the Roman Curia, Pope Francis discusses his opinion in an interview with La Nacion, an Argentine news outlet: “Resistance is now evident. And that is a good sign for me, getting the resistance out into the open, no stealthy mumbling when there is disagreement. It’s healthy to get things out into the open, it’s very healthy.”
2015
Jan. 18 — To conclude a trip to Asia, Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Manila, Philippines. Approximately 6 million to 7 million people attend the record-setting Mass, despite heavy rain.
March 23 — Pope Francis visits Naples, Italy, to show the Church’s commitment to helping the fight against corruption and organized crime in the city.
May 24 — To emphasize the Church’s mission to combat global warming and care for the environment, Pope Francis publishes the encyclical Laudato si’, which urges people to take care of the environment and encourages political action to address climate problems.
Pope Francis at a Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on June 17, 2015. Bohumil Petrik.
Sept. 19–22 — Pope Francis visits Cuba and meets with Fidel Castro in the first papal visit to the country since Pope John Paul II in 1998. During his homily, Francis discusses the dignity of the human person: “Being a Christian entails promoting the dignity of our brothers and sisters, fighting for it, living for it.”
Sept. 22–27 — After departing from Cuba, Pope Francis makes his first papal visit to the United States. In Washington, D.C., he speaks to a joint session of Congress, in which he urges lawmakers to work toward promoting the common good, and canonizes the Franciscan missionary St. Junípero Serra. He also attends the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia, which focuses on celebrating the gift of the family.
Oct. 4 — Pope Francis begins the second Synod on the Family to address issues within the modern family, such as single-parent homes, cohabitation, poverty, and abuse.
Oct. 18 — The pope canonizes St. Louis Martin and St. Marie-Azélie “Zelie” Guérin. The married couple were parents to five nuns, including St. Therese of Lisieux. They are the first married couple to be canonized together.
Dec. 8 — Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy begins. The year focuses on God’s mercy and forgiveness and people’s redemption from sin. The pope delegates certain priests in each diocese to be Missionaries of Mercy who have the authority to forgive sins that are usually reserved for the Holy See.
2016
March 19 — Pope Francis publishes the apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia, which discusses a wide variety of issues facing the modern family based on discussions from the two synods on the family. The pope garners significant controversy from within the Church for comments he makes in Chapter 8 about Communion for the divorced and remarried.
April 16 — After visiting refugees on the Greek island of Lesbos, Pope Francis allows three Muslim refugee families to join him on his flight back to Rome. He says the move was not a political statement.
Pope Francis at the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, Feb. 24, 2016. Daniel Ibanez/CNA.
July 26–31 — Pope Francis visits Krakow, Poland, as part of the World Youth Day festivities. About 3 million young Catholic pilgrims from around the world attend.
Sept. 4 — The pope canonizes St. Teresa of Calcutta, who is also known as Mother Teresa. The saint, a nun from Albania, dedicated her life to missionary and charity work, primarily in India.
Sept. 30–Oct. 2 — Pope Francis visits Georgia and Azerbaijan on his 16th trip outside of Rome since the start of his papacy. His trip focuses on Catholic relations with Orthodox Christians and Muslims.
Oct. 4 — Pope Francis makes a surprise visit to Amatrice, Italy, to pray for the victims of an earthquake in central Italy that killed nearly 300 people.
2017
May 12–13 — In another papal trip, Francis travels to Fatima, Portugal, to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. May 13 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Marian apparition to three children in the city.
July 11 — Pope Francis adds another category of Christian life suitable for the consideration of sainthood: “offering of life.” The category is distinct from martyrdom, which only applies to someone who is killed for his or her faith. The new category applies to those who died prematurely through an offering of their life to God and neighbor.
Pope Francis greets a participant in the World Day of the Poor in Rome, Nov. 16, 2017. L’Osservatore Romano.
Nov. 19 — On the first-ever World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis eats lunch with 4,000 poor and people in need in Rome.
Nov. 27–Dec. 2 — In another trip to Asia, Pope Francis travels to Myanmar and Bangladesh. He visits landmarks and meets with government officials, Catholic clergy, and Buddhist monks. He also preaches the Gospel and promotes peace in the region.
2018
Jan. 15–21 — The pope takes another trip to Latin America, this time visiting Chile and Peru. The pontiff meets with government officials and members of the clergy while urging the faithful to remain close to the clergy and reject secularism. The Chilean visit leads to controversy over Chilean clergy sex abuse scandals.
Aug. 2 — The Vatican formally revises No. 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which concerns the death penalty. The previous text suggested the death penalty could be permissible in certain circumstances, but the revision states that the death penalty is “inadmissible.”
Aug. 25 — Archbishop Carlo Viganò, former papal nuncio to the United States, publishes an 11-page letter calling for the resignation of Pope Francis and accusing him and other Vatican officials of covering up sexual abuse including allegations against former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The pope initially does not directly respond to the letter, but nine months after its publication he denies having prior knowledge about McCarrick’s conduct.
Aug. 25–26 — Pope Francis visits Dublin, Ireland, to attend the World Meeting of Families. The theme is “the Gospel of family, joy for the world.”
Pope Francis at the 2018 World Meeting of Families in Ireland. . Daniel Ibanez/CNA.
Oct. 3–28 — The Synod on Young People, the Faith, and Vocational Discernment takes place. The synod focuses on best practices to teach the faith to young people and to help them discern God’s will.
2019
Jan. 22–27 — The third World Youth Day during Pope Francis’ pontificate takes place during these six days in Panama City, Panama. Young Catholics from around the world gather for the event, with approximately 3 million people in attendance.
Feb. 4 — Pope Francis signs a joint document in with Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, titled the “Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together.” The document focuses on people of different faiths uniting together to live peacefully and advance a culture of mutual respect.
Pope Francis and Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar, signed a joint declaration on human fraternity during an interreligious meeting in Abu Dhabi, UAE, Feb. 4, 2019. Vatican Media.
Feb. 21–24 — The Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church, which is labeled the Vatican Sexual Abuse Summit, takes place. The meeting focuses on sexual abuse scandals in the Church and emphasizes responsibility, accountability, and transparency.
Oct. 6–27 — The Church holds the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, which is also known as the Amazon Synod. The synod is meant to present ways in which the Church can better evangelize the Amazon region but leads to controversy when carved images of a pregnant Amazonian woman, referred to by the pope as Pachamama, are used in several events and displayed in a basilica near the Vatican.
Oct. 13 — St. John Henry Newman, an Anglican convert to Catholicism and a cardinal, is canonized by Pope Francis. Newman’s writings inspired Catholic student associations at nonreligious colleges and universities in the United States and other countries.
2020
March 15 — Pope Francis takes a walking pilgrimage in Rome to the chapel of the crucifix and prays for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. The crucifix was carried through Rome during the plague of 1522.
March 27 — Pope Francis gives an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing in an empty and rain-covered St. Peter’s Square, praying for the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
Pope Francis venerates the miraculous crucifix of San Marcello al Corso in St. Peter’s Square during his Urbi et Orbi blessing, March 27, 2020. Vatican Media.
2021
March 5–8 — In his first papal trip since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis becomes the first pope to visit Iraq. On his trip, he signs a joint statement with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani condemning extremism and promoting peace.
July 3 — Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis, is indicted in a Vatican court for embezzlement, money laundering, and other crimes. The pope gives approval for the indictment.
July 4 — Pope Francis undergoes colon surgery for diverticulitis, a common condition in older people. The Vatican releases a statement that assures the pope “reacted well” to the surgery. Francis is released from the hospital after 10 days.
July 16 — Pope Francis issues a motu proprio titled Traditionis custodes. The document imposes heavy restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.
Dec. 2–6 — The pope travels to Cyprus and Greece. The trip includes another visit to the Greek island of Lesbos to meet with migrants.
Pope Francis greets His Beatitude Ieronymos II in Athens, Greece on Dec. 5, 2021. Vatican Media
2022
Jan. 11 — Pope Francis makes a surprise visit to a record store in Rome called StereoSound. The pope, who has an affinity for classical music, blesses the newly renovated store.
March 19 — The pope promulgates Praedicate evangelium, which reforms the Roman Curia. The reforms emphasize evangelization and establish more opportunities for the laity to be in leadership positions.
May 5 — Pope Francis is seen in a wheelchair for the first time in public and begins to use one more frequently. The pope has been suffering from knee problems for months.
Pope Francis greeted the crowd in a wheelchair at the end of his general audience on Aug. 3, 2022. Daniel Ibanez/CNA
July 24–30 — In his first papal visit to Canada, Pope Francis apologizes for the harsh treatment of the indigenous Canadians, saying many Christians and members of the Catholic Church were complicit.
2023
Jan. 31–Feb. 5 — Pope Francis travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. During his visit, the pope condemns political violence in the countries and promotes peace. He also participates in an ecumenical prayer service with Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Moderator of the Church of Scotland Iain Greenshields.
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@ Abortion’s Never Necessary
A reasonable medical opinion that effectively questions the death of mother v prenatal infant proposition. Although as far back as 2003 Carmen Dolea MD and Carla AbouZahr MD recommended, to World Health Organization Geneva in cases of obstructed labor, the most common medical rationale for abortion – the Cesarean section.
@ Heretical Prelates
Bishop Paprocki makes a case for heresy by a prelate of high rank such as cardinal, and the issue of whether such a heretical cardinal can validly vote in a papal election.
Paprocki’s argument underscores manifest heresy, although what is evident on one level of responsibility is not in another such as the definition required by canon law. A reasonable definition is adamant and consistent heresy. Otherwise, every moment in deliberation, musing on issues, hypothetical speaking, whenever we make a misplaced statement intended or not we’d be condemned as heretics. The persons Bishop Paprocki alludes to, Cardinals Hollerich and McElroy have not to my knowledge made definitive repudiations of doctrine such as abortion, homosexuality. Words like ‘should’, must be changed, this requires reexamination based on research, what was formerly held is wrong, does not meet the consistent, adamant standard of canonical repudiation.
Whereas Pres Biden, speaker Pelosi are both manifestly adamant and consistent in their direct refutation of Catholic doctrine on abortion and homosexuality and the Church has not excommunicated them. If their bishops do not exercise their rightful authority to excommunicate the blatant heretic, how can we expect the Roman Pontiff, one who gives evidence of empathy with their positions, allows the Eucharist for them at the Vatican – to excommunicate these cardinals even with canonical cause?
If the bishop of Rome relents to take action most of our bishops except Paprocki, Cordileone are disposed to riding things out. Too many others empathize with McElroy. The next step for Cordileone would be to excommunicate Nancy Pelosi for her spiritual good. That’s doubtful. Although we can hope. Analogously it’s become the sheepish bishops without a shepherd.
Good reply father….but we know what these cardinals and bishops think…they are so Suttle and deceiving like one fr james martin…it is unfortunate that we adhere to the letter of canon law while ignoring the spirit of it…have all the lustful thoughts I want as long as I don,t commit adultery…fortunately Jesus saw through that justification..
Similarly you’re likely not to hear a Francis repeat of the words, ‘Forgive them, [in the confessional] whether or not they’re repentant. Always forgive!’ Rather we’re most likely to hear variations. Similar to Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini.
The blatantly pro-abortion Cardinal Martini not only never received a rebuke; he did receive bear hugs and endless praise about how great he was to the very end of his life by JPII “the great” and Benedict, the “great and generous scholar.” Martini who should have been laicized and excommunicated for aiding and abetting the mass slaughter of babies by publicly weakening the Church’s moral voice, even got a building named after him. How many lives were snuffed out as a result of cold blooded moral indifference by high prelates sending a confused message to the far corners of the world. Is the Church just playing one big game? Do we really care about the crushed skulls from this greatest holocaust in history?
Yes, there’s an apparent special club relationship among hierarchy that glosses over differences, serious ones as you indicate. It’s an anomaly belonging to a self assured elite class.
Card Martini was the author of the synodal Church concept designed to accelerate the Church’s identification with the world. He instituted and chaired the St Gallen Group that canvassed cardinals to elect Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio. Jorge was his disciple, Martini overjoyed when he was elected the second time around, the first attempt Ratzinger unexpectedly elected.
All this doesn’t bode well for a Church suffering this profound corruption of moral integrity. Our best option is deepen, stand fast in the faith. We may be in for worse. Our faith is being tested. Our commitment to Christ will save us, as well as others.
Even in my youthful atheistic years I postulated many things about what the nature of God would have to be if He actually did exist. I knew such things that He would have to favor those of weak native intelligence as much as the gifted. A high IQ man like myself enjoyed the gift of teaching swimming to “retarded” children in those years, whom many said shouldn’t have been allowed to be born. A good God would have to have divine anger towards vanity.
We should be happy within the creative limitations God has given us. But it boggles the mind how it cannot be self-evident to anyone of mustard seed faith that God is the exclusive source of truth and that His creatures create no truth at all. There is tremendous room for creativity in articulating and giving witness to truth, and to discover new implications coherent with received understanding, and this should be enough. Our Church is blessed to have your voice. Any theologian who thinks he creates anything wholly new is treading on heresy, and he should know it, and everyone of faith should know it from the laity to the highest episcopate.
And there in lies the crux of the matter, the erroneous claim that Vatican II did not change any Dogma even though we can know through both Faith and reason, that Vatican II did away with The Charitable Anathema as instituted by Christ, “You cannot be My disciples if you do not abide in My Word”, allowing heresy to take root and creating a counterfeit church that is attempting to subsist in The Body Of Christ, which we can know through Faith and reason, is not possible, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, (Filioque).
Therein lies the Great Deception which led to placing pachamama in The Holy Place.
Overlooked by many casual readers of Vatican II, are the “interventions” inserted into the Documents to prevent draft wording from misleading or undermining the legitimacy of the Council.
A few remnant Tielhardian phrases do remain, but here are some offsetting examples:
The most problematic Constitution GAUDIUM ET SPES does provide: “Contemplating this melancholy state of humanity, the Council wishes to recall first of all [!] the permanent binding force of universal natural law [!] and the all-embracing principles, Man’s conscience itself gives ever more emphatic voice to these principles. Therefore, actions which deliberately conflict with these principles, as well as orders commanding such actions, are criminal [!]” (n. 79).
The Constitution LUMEN GENTIUM (Chapter 3, n. 22, and the three-page Prefatory Note as an integral part of the voted document) defines “hierarchical communion.” It restrains “local Church authorities” by holding, instead, that local bishops and all bishops are to act collegially, that is, “Together with its head, the Roman Pontiff, and never without this head, the episcopal order is the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church.” Not the papacy versus the bishops, but the papacy by himself or the papacy with his bishops.
The Constitution DEI VERBUM was modified to re-assert the value of Tradition: “the result is that the Church draws its certainty on all things revealed not from Scripture alone,” (n. 9). It also asserts the historical nature of the Gospels: “whose historical nature it (the Council) affirms without hesitation” (n. 19).
The Declaration on ECUMENISM contain numerous subtle but clarifying “interventions” from Pope Paul VI himself:
(n. 1) Instead of “In truth, all are disciples of the Lord” with “In truth, all affirm that they are disciples of the Lord.”
(n. 4) Replace “Recognizing…the presence of the gifts of the Spirit in the lives of others” with “…recognizing the virtuous works [!] in the lives of others.”
(n. 14) Replace “not a few of these have apostolic origins” with “not a few of these glory in having been founded by the Apostles themselves.”
(n. 16) Replace “…the Sacred Council… declares that the Churches of the East have the right and the duty to govern themselves according to their discipline” with “they have the faculty [!] to govern themselves according to their discipline.”
(n. 21) Replace “…moved by the Holy Spirit they find God in the same Holy Scripture” with “Calling upon the Holy Spirit, they seek God in the same Holy Scripture.”
The oft-misrepresented and Declaration on RELIGIOUS LIBERTY affirms precisely: “that all men are to be immune from coercion [!] on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power [….],” and does not [!] even use the assumed wording “freedom of conscience.” So, not “freedom from” objective truth, but “freedom for” such truth. The institutional liberty of the Church is reiterated (n. 13). And the reality of the moral law and well-formed conscience is inserted into the higher-ranking Constitution Gaudium et Spes, above.
SUMMARY: Not perfect, but not a “counterfeit council,” and good reason why Pope Benedict distinguished the “real” Council of the Documents from the “virtual” Council pedaled by Hans Kung et al from 1965 forward.
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In answer to the critics, President Irma Becerra or her spokesperson clarify that financial savings are not so much the game as is a paradigm shift in overall focus and mission. Deleted Liberal Arts content would seem to involve a reallocation into more of a “diversity, equity and inclusivity” sort of flat-earth cacophony.
So, when the board of trustees votes, they should weigh two questions: (1) whether the President (a mole for possible outside agendas?) is competent to advance the university’s core mission (and core course requirements?) as a Catholic presence on a vapid national multi-versity landscape (admittedly a tough gig), and if not, then (2) the job description and qualification requirements for her possible replacement.
Given her weather vane mentality (“cognitive diversity”!), it seems like President Becerra would be more competitive elsewhere—as for any of those “meteorologist” positions on the mainstream media weather segments. But, who am I to judge?
In our Media Saturated Democracy, the discerning audience would have to contend at least with these 4 areas, I propose:
1. finding good entertainment
2. defending other authentic pastimes
3. being alert to what else happens in the media, of importance
4. perceiving the deeper nuances in what is engaged.
This web journal CWR and its lively and unflinching comboxers, are always offering bright tips on what is available for entertainment, pastime, education, updating and prayer. A rare commodity! Shared generously. Thank you CWR.
In case it gets overlooked, Dr. Fauci is still under investigation and could be on the ropes. Also, vaccine-death autopsies are turning up PROOFS, on the one hand, that gene- and protein-spike vaccines are injuring and killing; but on the other hand, TEST METHODS even for those who are alive, that could be used by those concerned about risk.
If you test and it shows you are at risk, you can detox from the vaccine. Alternatively, you can proceed and detox regardless of testing. For starters, detox information is available at the US Front Line Doctors website FLCCC.
Just being a trend is not really making a Civil Rights contribution.
Politics and law are at put at odds with each other and become convulsed in strife because basic principles in civil rights are not followed. This is my view on “wokeism”, that it is a passing phenomenon to do with the drive to sustain and/or spread political reach. Somewhat like a “marketing” brand. So the next trend will have its own label and background collectivity.
Incidentally, it also explains – as I make it – how they would give charitable status to Satanists who explicitly say they do not serve or believe in God and say they are not a religion and do not do charitable work. Just because you use the word “theism” as in “egotheism”, doesn’t mean God or religion as legal qualifications etc.
Satanists will necessarily use words and image to disguise what is involved and it necessarily disqualifies from legal status without chance of review.
‘ During that investigation, the confidential F.B.I. source asked Mr. Melzer what made him think he could get away with harming the U.S. military. Mr. Melzer replied, “because I fly under the radar,” act normally around other people “and don’t talk about my personal life or beliefs with anyone,” prosecutors said. ‘
According to the video, in 1991 total US abortions reached an all-time high of 1,608,600 but then in 1992 the number jumped to over 26,000,000.
Three questions. 1. What produced this jump between those two years 1991 and 1992?
2. What actually got said in the meeting with the Kennedys and the Jesuit priests in those days in the early Sixties?.
3. What really is the basis for the Pied Piper effect that turned the whole political spectrum to abortion and to -as I name it- Kennedy Catholicism, causing virtually everyone to run with the Kennedy Politics-With-Abortion?
What is the source for the numbers? That large a jump from 1991 to 1992 does not seem plausible. The Guttmacher Institute reported different numbers:
“The number of abortions performed per year remained relatively stable from 1980-90, at about 1,600,000, but declined to l,557,000 in 1991 and to l,529,000 in 1992.”
Author: Henshaw Sk, Van Vort J
Publish Year: 1994
Abortion services in the United States, 1991 and 1992 – PubMed
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8070545/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8070545/
Hi Elias,
The gal in the video says that the ‘total’ number of abortions in the US reached 26 million by 1992. The stat is a cumulative number, adding the number for each year to the total number for each year prior; i.e., the number during 1973, added to the number during 1974, added…until the number during 1991. That should give some number in the vicinity of 26 million (by 1992).
My second point relates to the impossibility of dialogue and witness when a certain secrecy takes hold. Those who participated in that “discussion” back then : how could they uphold Humanae Vitae?
Or, were they mixing into the opposition?
Or were they doing both?
And something comparable got imposed – again – with McCarrick when he buried the Pope’s direction on US abortion politicians.
THE TELEGRAPH has carried some intelligent reviewing of wokeness and Civil Rights. I found it through the YAHOO! page aggregator. Everyone’s noticing a problem.
‘ So the post-modern mockery of truth that underpins wokeness is now extending well beyond the humanities into areas that, until about five minutes ago, had been spared. ‘
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@ Abortion’s Never Necessary
A reasonable medical opinion that effectively questions the death of mother v prenatal infant proposition. Although as far back as 2003 Carmen Dolea MD and Carla AbouZahr MD recommended, to World Health Organization Geneva in cases of obstructed labor, the most common medical rationale for abortion – the Cesarean section.
@ Heretical Prelates
Bishop Paprocki makes a case for heresy by a prelate of high rank such as cardinal, and the issue of whether such a heretical cardinal can validly vote in a papal election.
Paprocki’s argument underscores manifest heresy, although what is evident on one level of responsibility is not in another such as the definition required by canon law. A reasonable definition is adamant and consistent heresy. Otherwise, every moment in deliberation, musing on issues, hypothetical speaking, whenever we make a misplaced statement intended or not we’d be condemned as heretics. The persons Bishop Paprocki alludes to, Cardinals Hollerich and McElroy have not to my knowledge made definitive repudiations of doctrine such as abortion, homosexuality. Words like ‘should’, must be changed, this requires reexamination based on research, what was formerly held is wrong, does not meet the consistent, adamant standard of canonical repudiation.
Whereas Pres Biden, speaker Pelosi are both manifestly adamant and consistent in their direct refutation of Catholic doctrine on abortion and homosexuality and the Church has not excommunicated them. If their bishops do not exercise their rightful authority to excommunicate the blatant heretic, how can we expect the Roman Pontiff, one who gives evidence of empathy with their positions, allows the Eucharist for them at the Vatican – to excommunicate these cardinals even with canonical cause?
If the bishop of Rome relents to take action most of our bishops except Paprocki, Cordileone are disposed to riding things out. Too many others empathize with McElroy. The next step for Cordileone would be to excommunicate Nancy Pelosi for her spiritual good. That’s doubtful. Although we can hope. Analogously it’s become the sheepish bishops without a shepherd.
Good reply father….but we know what these cardinals and bishops think…they are so Suttle and deceiving like one fr james martin…it is unfortunate that we adhere to the letter of canon law while ignoring the spirit of it…have all the lustful thoughts I want as long as I don,t commit adultery…fortunately Jesus saw through that justification..
Similarly you’re likely not to hear a Francis repeat of the words, ‘Forgive them, [in the confessional] whether or not they’re repentant. Always forgive!’ Rather we’re most likely to hear variations. Similar to Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini.
The blatantly pro-abortion Cardinal Martini not only never received a rebuke; he did receive bear hugs and endless praise about how great he was to the very end of his life by JPII “the great” and Benedict, the “great and generous scholar.” Martini who should have been laicized and excommunicated for aiding and abetting the mass slaughter of babies by publicly weakening the Church’s moral voice, even got a building named after him. How many lives were snuffed out as a result of cold blooded moral indifference by high prelates sending a confused message to the far corners of the world. Is the Church just playing one big game? Do we really care about the crushed skulls from this greatest holocaust in history?
Yes, there’s an apparent special club relationship among hierarchy that glosses over differences, serious ones as you indicate. It’s an anomaly belonging to a self assured elite class.
Card Martini was the author of the synodal Church concept designed to accelerate the Church’s identification with the world. He instituted and chaired the St Gallen Group that canvassed cardinals to elect Buenos Aires Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio. Jorge was his disciple, Martini overjoyed when he was elected the second time around, the first attempt Ratzinger unexpectedly elected.
All this doesn’t bode well for a Church suffering this profound corruption of moral integrity. Our best option is deepen, stand fast in the faith. We may be in for worse. Our faith is being tested. Our commitment to Christ will save us, as well as others.
Even in my youthful atheistic years I postulated many things about what the nature of God would have to be if He actually did exist. I knew such things that He would have to favor those of weak native intelligence as much as the gifted. A high IQ man like myself enjoyed the gift of teaching swimming to “retarded” children in those years, whom many said shouldn’t have been allowed to be born. A good God would have to have divine anger towards vanity.
We should be happy within the creative limitations God has given us. But it boggles the mind how it cannot be self-evident to anyone of mustard seed faith that God is the exclusive source of truth and that His creatures create no truth at all. There is tremendous room for creativity in articulating and giving witness to truth, and to discover new implications coherent with received understanding, and this should be enough. Our Church is blessed to have your voice. Any theologian who thinks he creates anything wholly new is treading on heresy, and he should know it, and everyone of faith should know it from the laity to the highest episcopate.
And there in lies the crux of the matter, the erroneous claim that Vatican II did not change any Dogma even though we can know through both Faith and reason, that Vatican II did away with The Charitable Anathema as instituted by Christ, “You cannot be My disciples if you do not abide in My Word”, allowing heresy to take root and creating a counterfeit church that is attempting to subsist in The Body Of Christ, which we can know through Faith and reason, is not possible, due to The Unity Of The Holy Ghost, (Filioque).
Therein lies the Great Deception which led to placing pachamama in The Holy Place.
Overlooked by many casual readers of Vatican II, are the “interventions” inserted into the Documents to prevent draft wording from misleading or undermining the legitimacy of the Council.
A few remnant Tielhardian phrases do remain, but here are some offsetting examples:
The most problematic Constitution GAUDIUM ET SPES does provide: “Contemplating this melancholy state of humanity, the Council wishes to recall first of all [!] the permanent binding force of universal natural law [!] and the all-embracing principles, Man’s conscience itself gives ever more emphatic voice to these principles. Therefore, actions which deliberately conflict with these principles, as well as orders commanding such actions, are criminal [!]” (n. 79).
The Constitution LUMEN GENTIUM (Chapter 3, n. 22, and the three-page Prefatory Note as an integral part of the voted document) defines “hierarchical communion.” It restrains “local Church authorities” by holding, instead, that local bishops and all bishops are to act collegially, that is, “Together with its head, the Roman Pontiff, and never without this head, the episcopal order is the subject of supreme and full power over the universal Church.” Not the papacy versus the bishops, but the papacy by himself or the papacy with his bishops.
The Constitution DEI VERBUM was modified to re-assert the value of Tradition: “the result is that the Church draws its certainty on all things revealed not from Scripture alone,” (n. 9). It also asserts the historical nature of the Gospels: “whose historical nature it (the Council) affirms without hesitation” (n. 19).
The Declaration on ECUMENISM contain numerous subtle but clarifying “interventions” from Pope Paul VI himself:
(n. 1) Instead of “In truth, all are disciples of the Lord” with “In truth, all affirm that they are disciples of the Lord.”
(n. 4) Replace “Recognizing…the presence of the gifts of the Spirit in the lives of others” with “…recognizing the virtuous works [!] in the lives of others.”
(n. 14) Replace “not a few of these have apostolic origins” with “not a few of these glory in having been founded by the Apostles themselves.”
(n. 16) Replace “…the Sacred Council… declares that the Churches of the East have the right and the duty to govern themselves according to their discipline” with “they have the faculty [!] to govern themselves according to their discipline.”
(n. 21) Replace “…moved by the Holy Spirit they find God in the same Holy Scripture” with “Calling upon the Holy Spirit, they seek God in the same Holy Scripture.”
The oft-misrepresented and Declaration on RELIGIOUS LIBERTY affirms precisely: “that all men are to be immune from coercion [!] on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power [….],” and does not [!] even use the assumed wording “freedom of conscience.” So, not “freedom from” objective truth, but “freedom for” such truth. The institutional liberty of the Church is reiterated (n. 13). And the reality of the moral law and well-formed conscience is inserted into the higher-ranking Constitution Gaudium et Spes, above.
SUMMARY: Not perfect, but not a “counterfeit council,” and good reason why Pope Benedict distinguished the “real” Council of the Documents from the “virtual” Council pedaled by Hans Kung et al from 1965 forward.
@Marymount University
In answer to the critics, President Irma Becerra or her spokesperson clarify that financial savings are not so much the game as is a paradigm shift in overall focus and mission. Deleted Liberal Arts content would seem to involve a reallocation into more of a “diversity, equity and inclusivity” sort of flat-earth cacophony.
So, when the board of trustees votes, they should weigh two questions: (1) whether the President (a mole for possible outside agendas?) is competent to advance the university’s core mission (and core course requirements?) as a Catholic presence on a vapid national multi-versity landscape (admittedly a tough gig), and if not, then (2) the job description and qualification requirements for her possible replacement.
Given her weather vane mentality (“cognitive diversity”!), it seems like President Becerra would be more competitive elsewhere—as for any of those “meteorologist” positions on the mainstream media weather segments. But, who am I to judge?
In our Media Saturated Democracy, the discerning audience would have to contend at least with these 4 areas, I propose:
1. finding good entertainment
2. defending other authentic pastimes
3. being alert to what else happens in the media, of importance
4. perceiving the deeper nuances in what is engaged.
This web journal CWR and its lively and unflinching comboxers, are always offering bright tips on what is available for entertainment, pastime, education, updating and prayer. A rare commodity! Shared generously. Thank you CWR.
In case it gets overlooked, Dr. Fauci is still under investigation and could be on the ropes. Also, vaccine-death autopsies are turning up PROOFS, on the one hand, that gene- and protein-spike vaccines are injuring and killing; but on the other hand, TEST METHODS even for those who are alive, that could be used by those concerned about risk.
If you test and it shows you are at risk, you can detox from the vaccine. Alternatively, you can proceed and detox regardless of testing. For starters, detox information is available at the US Front Line Doctors website FLCCC.
Dr. FAUCI
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dr-fauci-is-slammed-by-republican-lawmakers-after-bombshell-energy-department-report/ar-AA180ec8?cvid=bf2ff2769cf34be7a4bf573cc0b6c0ad
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/what-has-dr-fauci-said-to-congress-about-covid-19/vi-AA17ZOan?t=4
5 AUTOPSIES AND THEIR TESTS
https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/sudden-death/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_DdSMn55cA
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365782650_Autopsy-based_histopathological_characterization_of_myocarditis_after_anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination
https://freemedart.ru/autopsy-based-histopathological-characterization-of-myocarditis-after-anti-sars-cov-2-vaccination-by-constantin-schwab/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/major-autopsy-report-finds-covid-jabs-responsible-for-sudden-cardiovascular-deaths/
AUTOPSY ON 76 YEAR OLD GERMAN
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/german-autopsy-report-proves-covid-jab-caused-heart-brain-damage-to-76-year-old/?utm_source=top_news&utm_campaign=usa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZhzWzoPB3M&t=848s
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/10/1651
FLCCC
https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/
Just being a trend is not really making a Civil Rights contribution.
Politics and law are at put at odds with each other and become convulsed in strife because basic principles in civil rights are not followed. This is my view on “wokeism”, that it is a passing phenomenon to do with the drive to sustain and/or spread political reach. Somewhat like a “marketing” brand. So the next trend will have its own label and background collectivity.
Incidentally, it also explains – as I make it – how they would give charitable status to Satanists who explicitly say they do not serve or believe in God and say they are not a religion and do not do charitable work. Just because you use the word “theism” as in “egotheism”, doesn’t mean God or religion as legal qualifications etc.
Satanists will necessarily use words and image to disguise what is involved and it necessarily disqualifies from legal status without chance of review.
‘ During that investigation, the confidential F.B.I. source asked Mr. Melzer what made him think he could get away with harming the U.S. military. Mr. Melzer replied, “because I fly under the radar,” act normally around other people “and don’t talk about my personal life or beliefs with anyone,” prosecutors said. ‘
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-army-private-sentenced-to-45-years-in-neo-nazi-plot-to-kill-soldiers/ar-AA18cfOv?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=cdeb94c7e05142ad8cdbf21aede513ce&ei=13
According to the video, in 1991 total US abortions reached an all-time high of 1,608,600 but then in 1992 the number jumped to over 26,000,000.
Three questions. 1. What produced this jump between those two years 1991 and 1992?
2. What actually got said in the meeting with the Kennedys and the Jesuit priests in those days in the early Sixties?.
3. What really is the basis for the Pied Piper effect that turned the whole political spectrum to abortion and to -as I name it- Kennedy Catholicism, causing virtually everyone to run with the Kennedy Politics-With-Abortion?
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2014/01/22/powerful-video-for-the-41st-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade/
What is the source for the numbers? That large a jump from 1991 to 1992 does not seem plausible. The Guttmacher Institute reported different numbers:
“The number of abortions performed per year remained relatively stable from 1980-90, at about 1,600,000, but declined to l,557,000 in 1991 and to l,529,000 in 1992.”
Author: Henshaw Sk, Van Vort J
Publish Year: 1994
Abortion services in the United States, 1991 and 1992 – PubMed
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8070545/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8070545/
Hi Elias,
The gal in the video says that the ‘total’ number of abortions in the US reached 26 million by 1992. The stat is a cumulative number, adding the number for each year to the total number for each year prior; i.e., the number during 1973, added to the number during 1974, added…until the number during 1991. That should give some number in the vicinity of 26 million (by 1992).
Thank you Meiron, I missed that.
My second point relates to the impossibility of dialogue and witness when a certain secrecy takes hold. Those who participated in that “discussion” back then : how could they uphold Humanae Vitae?
Or, were they mixing into the opposition?
Or were they doing both?
And something comparable got imposed – again – with McCarrick when he buried the Pope’s direction on US abortion politicians.
THE TELEGRAPH has carried some intelligent reviewing of wokeness and Civil Rights. I found it through the YAHOO! page aggregator. Everyone’s noticing a problem.
‘ So the post-modern mockery of truth that underpins wokeness is now extending well beyond the humanities into areas that, until about five minutes ago, had been spared. ‘
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/humanity-doomed-let-woke-zealots-destroy-scientific-truth/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/humanity-doomed-let-woke-zealots-190000758.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/20/jacinda-ardern-has-turned-new-zealand-economy-basket-case/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/20/puberty-blockers-given-almost-children-sent-assessment-tavistock/