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Brian Kelly :: Jun.30.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Here’s a link worth reading.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.30.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

St. Louis Today.com

Even the staunchest supporters of Archbishop Raymond Burke said he is divisive and controversial, but they also said Friday that it is his passion as a religious leader that matters most.

“I respect that the archbishop stood up for what he believed in, and I’ll miss him,” said Helen Adam of Richmond Heights. “But I won’t miss the controversy.” Full story here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.30.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

On the TFP’s web site, Michael Whitcraft has posted a brief and quite good article on the steady smear campaign against General Peter Pace. The lesson? When those who aggressively promote moral turpitude of the highest order feign the moral high ground — and get away with it — our nation is in serious jeopardy.

Normal Americans, especially servicemen, ought not to let them get away with it. Catholics, such as General Pace, should be in the forefront of defending the moral order wherever it is under assault.

Brother Andre Marie :: Jun.28.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Vatican, Jun. 23, 2008 (CWNews.com) - Fear of God is completely unlike the “existential fear” of modern man, Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) told his midday audience on Sunday, June 22.

The Holy Father observed that in the day’s Gospel, Jesus contrasts fear of God with fear of man. Those who fear God need never fear other men, he said. Read more here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.24.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

QUEBEC CITY, JUNE 19, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Many people have read about Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuân’s faith in the Eucharist through his autobiographical writings. But participants at the International Eucharistic Congress got another perspective.

Elizabeth Nguyen Thi Thu Hong, the late cardinal’s youngest sister, was one of the speakers today at the 49th International Eucharistic Congress, under way in Quebec through Sunday.

She has been translating into English and French her brother’s writings and the letters he wrote to his family during 13 years of imprisonment in Vietnam. He was arrested Aug. 15, 1975; nine of his years in prison were in solitary confinement.  Read part of her beautiful eulogy here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.20.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Guadalajara, Jun 17, 2008 / 09:07 pm (CNA).- The Archbishop of Guadalajara, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, has called on the faithful to reflect on the meaning of marriage as a sacrament in which the spouses promise before God to love each other and respect each other until death, as opposed to a social event “to show off one’s friends” or “making a show of one’s wealth.”

“For many people weddings are a social celebration, a pretext for showing off one’s friends to others or for making a show of one’s wealth.  It becomes an event that is anything but religious, when for Christians it should be a sacred act” in which God is witness to “the solemn promises to love one other, respect each other and be faithful all the days of their lives,” the cardinal said in an article published by the archdiocesan weekly Seminario.

Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.20.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

CWN Reports:

Cardinal Lubomyr Husar of Kiev, the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church– the largest of the Eastern Catholic churches– had offered the possibility that Byzantine Catholics might seek communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, without giving up their communion with the Holy See. Patriarch Bartholomew expressed distinct interest in the idea, saying that “the mother Church in Constantinople holds the doors open for the return of all her former sons and daughters.”  Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.20.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

This showman priest parades as a “Catholic” pastor with impunity. Because he fought against gangs and guns in the parish neighborhood and opposed an obscene billboard, one might think he’s OK.  But he is not OK.  He is in league with black pro-abortion fanatics (pro-infanticide in Obama’s case), and all the black radical activists (Sharpton and Farakan) that blame white America for whatever ails them.  Is Cardinal George afraid of this man?  It’s pathetic.  “O, we don’t want a schism” Why doesn’t Pfleger just start his own church? Maybe he’s afraid he will lose the security that comes with being a pastor?  He’s been at St. Sabina’s for thirty years.  O shepherd of Chicago, if his flock wants to follow him into schism, why not let them?  What kind of Catholics are they, anyway, who’ll sit and listen, from their pastor’s pulpit, to Harry Bellafonte attack President Bush for being anti-abortion?  This is one sick parish with a very sick pastor.  And nothing is done about it.

A clip from Catholic-on-line reads:

“Pfleger’s long history of inviting outspoken pro-abortion advocates into his pulpit - despite the fact that the Chicago Archdiocese has a longstanding policy explicitly forbidding the use of Church property, under any circumstances, by pro-abortion advocates - has included the pro-abortion Pentecostal pastor Rev. Al Sharpton, the anti-Semitic Muslim firebrand Louis Farrakhan, and singer Harry Belafonte.

“Belafonte attacked President Bush for being pro-life from Pfleger’s pulpit in 2003 and denounced the President for endangering what he called a “woman’s right to abortion.”

Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.19.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Clip from London Telegraph:

“Her attachment to traditional Catholic values is as fierce as it is unapologetic. On the evening of our meeting, she is due to address an audience at the Brompton Oratory, bastion of the unreformed approach to the faith in London”  Full story and interview here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.17.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Washington DC, Jun 14, 2008 / 01:07 pm (CNA).- Tim Russert, host of NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” collapsed and died yesterday in a Washington newsroom – two short days after he attended the Pope’s General Audience on a family vacation to Italy.  More here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.16.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Newsweek has an interesting article on the late Tim Russert, news host.  Everyone had been speaking about his strong Catholic Faith, so his friend, Jon Meacham, an Episcopalian, focused on that in his eulogy.  I give the link to the article not by way of extolling Russert, who was far too comfortable with pro-abort “Catholic” politicians, but just to provide information about a man who, compared to most of his generation of Catholics, seemed to take his Faith quite seriously.

The last paragraph of Meacham’s article is noteworthy.

“Just before he collapsed in the NBC News bureau in northwest Washington—he was taken to the hospital by his longtime executive producer, Betsy Fischer—he had sent Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is recuperating from surgery for brain cancer, a set of rosary beads blessed by Benedict XVI. The Hail Mary Russert recited so often ends this way: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.”  Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.16.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

From the London Telegraph

Asked whether the Latin Mass would be celebrated in many ordinary parishes in future, Cardinal Castrillon said: “Not many parishes – all parishes. The Holy Father is offering this not only for the few groups who demand it, but so that everybody knows this way of celebrating the Eucharist.”

The Cardinal, who heads the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, made his comments as he was preparing to celebrate a traditional Latin Mass at Westminster Cathedral yesterday, the first time a cardinal has done so there for 40 years.  Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.16.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Tarnow, Jun. 12, 2008 (CWNews.com) - A Polish volleyball star who was buried on June 9 is being compared by local Catholics to Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla because of her heroic sacrifice for her unborn child.

Agata Mroz, who was originally known for her athletic prowess, was buried in her hometown of Tarnow. Mroz was pregnant with her first child when doctors discovered she had a fatal case of leukemia. After consulting with her husband, Mroz delayed a bone-marrow transplant until after she gave birth to her daughter Liliana on April 4, 2008.  More of this inspiring story here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.13.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Hopefully so.  Read the inspiring article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.13.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

The American Spectator
Joseph Lawler

“In the dimming twilight of his presidency, George W. Bush finds himself with a 28 percent approval rating and few friends in high places. Today, however, he will revisit one of the most fascinating friendships of his term when he visits with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.”  Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.13.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

From Mail On Line World News

“Andrea Gemma, 77, a bishop and once the Vatican’s top exorcist, told a magazine in Italy: ‘In Medjugorje everything happens in function of money: Pilgrimages, lodging houses, sale of trinkets.

‘This whole sham is the work of the Devil. It is a scandal.’ He said the Vatican would soon crack down on the group.” Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.13.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Just when you think there might be a shift towards promoting authentic evangelization (converting people to the true religion), you read some senseless declaration from the head of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, who’s on a mission to remission.

Sorry to keep you informed but read on.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.12.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

This courageous article was written by a journalist who may have to pay drastically for it.  The US better wake up before the thought police take full control here.

Deafening Silence

By David Warren
The pen is reputed to be mightier than the sword — and probably is, over the longer stretches of history. Over the shorter stretches, the sword is definitive; or, as that great Leftist sage, Mao Tse-Tung, expressed it: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” With its monopoly on power, the State is equipped to suppress the truth. And yet the truth will not die, no matter how many people are punished for expressing it. They may die — or be imprisoned, fined, compelled to publicly recant, or otherwise silenced and humiliated — but the truth will survive. Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jun.12.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

A refuge for worshippers who love the Latin Mass, this magnificent cathedral-like church will be up for sale if chancery plans go ahead.  I hate to quote from the Boston Globe, but here’s a clip, and the full article is here.

“Parishioners say it was mostly working people who scraped together the money to turn the church, which opened in 1877 to serve thousands of German immigrants, into a place resembling the ornate cathedrals they left behind, by cramming it with paintings and statues.

But Stone and the others have just three Sundays left at Holy Trinity. The Archdiocese of Boston is closing the church June 30, partly because its congregation is too small to sustain it, officials say.

Parishioners at Holy Trinity, like those in many of the churches that have been closed, are mighty angry. They are probably going to appeal the archdiocese’s decision. But the church closing isn’t the end of the Latin Mass in these parts. In fact, the Latin Mass is having a resurgence.”

Brian Kelly :: Jun.12.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off