The smoke of Satan has entered the church

What has become of our church? We have become a new age people who relies on colors and mantras.

Who can name what church is this poster found?

Re-evangelization of Europe begins

Vatican City, Jul 12, 2011 / 02:39 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization unveiled a new project today to re-evangelize some of Europe’s major cities.

“The goal is simple: to give a sign of unity among the diverse dioceses present in the largest European cities that have been particularly affected by secularization,” wrote Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the council’s president, in the July 12 edition of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.

Archbishop Fisichella chaired a summit of bishops from a range of European cities who met at the Vatican July 11 to discuss the proposed project.

The bishops came from Barcelona, Budapest, Brussels, Cologne, Dublin, Lisbon, Liverpool, Paris, Turin, Warsaw and Vienna. The scheme is being described as a “metropolitan project.”  [the choice of cities is really telling.]

“At the moment, the initiative is limited to some of the larger European dioceses in order to more concretely test its effectiveness,” said Archbishop Fisichella, suggesting that it could be rolled out in other cities around the globe if it is found to be successful.

The initiative will take place in Lent 2012 and will be based at each city’s cathedral, which will host a range of activities.  [Like how parish missions were done before especially after the French Revolution.]

Events planned thus far are: a continual reading of the Gospel, the local bishop teaching young people, families and those converting to Catholicism, the promotion of confession, and a charitable initiative of some form. Archbishop Fisichella also mentioned an event that will be both spiritual and cultural in character, such as reading from the Confessions of St. Augustine.  [And I hope more solemn liturgical celebration and enough of those Meal / Fellowship trash!]

“These initiatives will begin in the cathedral because of its important symbolic significance, but the intention is to extend them to the parishes of the dioceses for a more direct impact in the territory,” he said.

According to Archbishop Fisichella, the metropolitan missions will be aimed at those who live the faith but often do so in a way that “lacks an awareness of how this can infuse their lifestyle.” [like some priests and nuns I know, Ha!]  The missions also hope to engage those who are far from the faith, but are “nonetheless attracted by the person of Jesus Christ.”  [Well, fprget the atheist.  They are angier at Christ than any religious figure, like Mohammad because they are too chicken to criticize the 'prophet'. Bah!]

The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization was established in 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI. He said he wanted it to “promote a renewed evangelization” in traditionally Christian countries which are living through a “progressive secularization of society and a sort of ‘eclipse of the sense of God.’”

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We have blogged before how the liturgy can bring people closer to God and how it can even drive them afar.

We encounter the Divine through the Liturgy and if we just rediscover our Catholic heritage and most especially our Faith through the Liturgy (lex orandi, lex credendi), then we will see the rebirth dreamt of at the start of Vatican II.

Well, not the circus that followed it.

KofC gives HS for HD

I know it's a lot of acronyms but it actually stands for:

"Knights of Columbus gives to the Holy See for High Definition"

Read the details below:

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The pope is going HD -- and gearing up to go 3D.

The Vatican unveiled a new euro4.5 million ($6 million) high-definition mobile unit Tuesday to broadcast the pope's Masses, audiences and other events in high definition.

The equipment can be upgraded for eventual 3D papal productions -- the latest technological step the Holy See has taken to try to reverse the pope's communications woes and bring the 2,000-year-old institution into the 21st century. [at least they are right to write (I love this.) that the Church is 2,000 years old.  No, sit down INC!]

Officials said at a press conference that viewers won't be seeing special effects or superhero antics in solemn papal Masses anytime soon: The Vatican's 3D capabilities, once developed, will just provide higher resolution, more vivid colors and involve the audience more, said Gildas Pelliet, the head of Sony Italia.

"3-D can be done in a very discreet, subtle way," he said. "It's not like a film that we see in the movie theaters with all this spectacle."

Sony gave the Vatican a roughly euro1 million ($1.36 million) discount on the equipment, and the Knights of Columbus, which has helped subsidize the Holy See's communications investments for more than 50 years, kicked in nearly another euro1 million. The Vatican's television branch, Centro Televisivo Vaticano, paid for the rest from savings over several years, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman and head of CTV.

Lombardi said the Vatican needed to keep competitive with the rapidly changing HD technology since it's increasingly becoming the norm for broadcasters and documentary makers alike.

"If we don't maintain an adequate level of quality and capacity, we'd be standing in the way of broadcasting images and thus the pope's message," he said. [Which is the most practical reason for the change.]

He said he expected the Vatican's HD cameras and broadcasting capabilities to be ready to roll for the pope's Christmas events, and would be used then on for special events at the Vatican. He said the mobile unit could in theory be deployed for special events outside the Vatican, as well.

Pope Benedict XVI's five-year papacy has been marked by several communications breakdowns -- his rehabilitation of a Holocaust-denying bishop, the clerical sex abuse scandal among others. He has admitted such mistakes could have been avoided had Vatican officials consulted the Internet or acted more swiftly and decisively when news arrived. [Oh great.  They had to squeeze in another demolition job issue.]

At the same time, though, Benedict has presided over technological leaps to try to get his message out: The Vatican has beefed up its presence on the Internet with a YouTube channel, a Pope2You portal for young people and initiatives to bring his message to social networking sites and smartphones.

The 83-year-old Benedict, who himself still writes longhand, said in a recent document that "all means, new and old, should be used intelligently" to bring the faith to the people.


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New and Old...Just like the Mass.

But we all know how the hippie priests view the Old Mass, eh?

And I can hear the Rabid Harlots, barking mad like "The money could have been used to feed the poor!"

Well, ask them if they used their money to feed the poor.

Trump them!

The Pope in Spain

Series of videos relating to the papal visit in Spain

Arrival


Visiting Santiago de Compostela