The blog of a group of Filipino Catholics and their frank commentary on anything that affects their lives as a citizen of the Philippines and as a Roman Catholics.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
New archbishop of Cebu!
Palo Archbishop Jose Palma will replace Ricardo Cardinal Vidal whose resignation was finally accepted by Pope Benedict XVI.
Vidal has submitted to the Holy Father his letter of resignation in 2006 when he turned 75 years old.
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The last two archbishops of Cebu have received the red hat. Cardinals Julio Rosales and Ricardo Vidal.
Will Archbishop Palma be elevated to the cardinalate? We will have to see that.
He is only 60 years old. Pretty young for an archbishop and a soon-to-be cardinal. He received his licentiate in Sacred Theology at the University Santo Tomas Manila, and a doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He was appointed Archbishop of Palo, Leyte, replacing the Archbishop Pedro Dean who regularly celebrates the EF Mass at the Lower Chapel of Christ the King Parish Church at Greenmeadows, Quezon City. Abp. Palma is also the Vice President of the CBCP.
I heard that he is friendly to the Traditional Latin Mass community and has even said an EF Mass!
If you notice...
with that kind of a lead paragraph, you might wonder what kind of qualifications CBCP writers have for a new archbishop.
Cardinal Vidal turned 79 in February but the Holy Father deferred his retirement until the mandatory retirement age of 80.
Actually I am more inclined to see the replacement of Cardinal Rosales of Manila, who turned 78 last August. He submitted his resignation letter when he turned 75, the required age for bishops to retire.
However, we still see no signs of a replacement soon.
Guess Chupungco and the gang can have more time, eh?
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The Galero
Here is a nice photo of Blessed Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, wearing his saturno/galero with the tassels hanging by his side. This is not the same galero given during his consistory. It is a much larger galero. This one is like for "everyday" use.
A priest's wishlist...
Usually I get request from my friend-priests like:
...a full traditional Mass set...
...a new organ for the Church...
...a set of liturgical or spiritual books...
...money for church renovation or for scholars...
Pretty normal thing, right?
But wait till you see what this Pinoy priest, Fr. Santos Castillo of the Diocese of Joliet, wrote in his Multiply Account:
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Is this a priest or what?
Can I wish for a priest less inclined to things of this world?
And I thought the Year of the Priest and the example of St. John Mary Vianney inspired them to greater simplicity, dedication to one's vocation, and holiness...
*Sigh*
...a full traditional Mass set...
...a new organ for the Church...
...a set of liturgical or spiritual books...
...money for church renovation or for scholars...
Pretty normal thing, right?
But wait till you see what this Pinoy priest, Fr. Santos Castillo of the Diocese of Joliet, wrote in his Multiply Account:
... just in case you are running out of ideas for gifts, this might help you get a better view.
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 with Digital Imaging - Windows A01-00017. (I am hoping to get one of these to orgainze my poems and journals. Available in Best Buy. Price = $199.00) [Tech savvy, not bad.]
Instant Immersion German Deluxe Edition - Windows CS-199 (I want this to improve my German before I go for the World Youth day next year. Available in Best Buy. Price = $19.95) [Rosetta Stone is better. Watch out for the rest...]
Inside a Thug's Heart Angela Ardis, With Tupac Shakur (This is a book of personal journals and poetry by Tupac Shakur, and an exchange with Angela Ardis, yeah you see it. I don't know why I want it; maybe because of its honesty. Available in Barnes and Noble. Price = $16.80)
Elk Lake Track Jacket, white color, medium size. (Good for the winter, since I think I need more casual jackets. Exclusive at Abercrombie and Fitch. Price = 79.50)
Adirondack Trail Jacket, khaki color, medium size. (I actually love this one for the winter. If I do not get it as a gift, I will definitely buy it, regardless. Exclusive at Abercrombie & Fitch. Price = $129.90)
A&F Reversible Striped Hat, red color. (I keep losing these things, so I buy a few every year. Price = $24.50)
HugOO Comfort Pillow #SR359BLK. (These are so much fun to have around in bed... especially if you're celibate like yours truly. Heheheee. Available in Sharper Image. Price = $24.95)
Sliding 8x18 Pocket Binocular with Flashlight & Leather Case AK308 (Great for any situation. No, they are not x-ray vision binoculars. I mean, like going to concerts and plays, and stuff like that. Available in Sharper Image. Price = $59.95)
Serendipity Red Bed-In-A-Bag by Wamsutta (This one I really need. I am sleeping on worn and torn bedsheets. I need the king size. It does not even have to be this brand, as long as it's nice. I think I like something dark red, you know.. maroon. Available in Bed, Bath and Beyond. Price = $299.00)
Is there any place where I can buy TIME? I need that badly too... so if anyone can hook me up, please hurry up.
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Is this a priest or what?
Can I wish for a priest less inclined to things of this world?
And I thought the Year of the Priest and the example of St. John Mary Vianney inspired them to greater simplicity, dedication to one's vocation, and holiness...
*Sigh*
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Something new but old in the Papal Crest
Here is the text of what was said in the video. From Rome Reports
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October 12, 2010. The papal crest that hangs from Benedict XVI window is sporting a new design this week. That was before and this is now. We still don't know if the changes are definitive or if it's just one version of the papal coat of arms.
The exterior is inspired by Pope Barberini's crest, which is found on the canopy or baldacchino of Saint Peter's main altar.
The main difference compared to the prior is the comeback of the papal triple crown, which highlights governmental function of the Pope. [Huh?! Is that just it? Or does the tiara mean his UNIVERSAL SOVEREIGN POWERS TO GOVERN THE CHURCH? That term "governmental function" would send shivers down the spine of anti-hierarchical modernists. Right MST?]
A symbol present in all the papal crests of the last century, including that of Pope John Paul the second.
No longer visible in this version is the bishop's miter that represents the brotherhood between all bishops and the mission to teach Christians. [See the play there? The tiara is more "governmental" while the miter shows more "brotherhood" and "teaching" function? So...some of our Eastern Catholic eparchs and separated Orthodox eparch brethren who use a crown like looking miter is more...should we say...kingly...governmental...not pastoral? Is an MST alum in Rome Reports now?]
Since they're compatible, [What is compatible? This is giving me migraines.] which one he decides to use will probably depend on the type of ceremony. [Huh? So the tiara on the crest is for the less formal, non-liturgical functions that the Pope presides and the miter on the crest is for liturgical and more formal ones. Am I missing something here or has the world gone mad that a heavily bejeweled tiara will appear in the papal crest is for less formal occasions and a less bejeweled miter is for more formal occasions?]
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"I am the Liturgical Reform"
Those were not my words. Those are the EXACT words of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini(above), architect of the Liturgical Revolution, as recalled by his "admirer" or "student" Fr. Anscar Chupungco, Master of the Liturgical Establishment in the Philippines.
I know more excerpts will come from my good friend Carlos Palad of Rorate Caeli.
Go over there to read the excerpt and be prepared to be shocked.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A famous Filipino singer-songwriter's view on contraception
Render unto Caesar.
HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE By Jim Paredes
What a weekend it was. In just a few hours, cyberspace was abuzz with comments on the issue of Reproductive Health. The President’s expressed support for family planning, which he affirmed at a town hall meeting in the US, put the Philippine bishops on DEFCON 3. They were angry, armed and ready for war.
Government’s desire to curb population growth has always been met with outright hostility from the Catholic Church. [Now I think this is not fair. CBCP's hostility is TOWARDS Artificial birth control and NOT population control.] Each time the issue has been brought up, the entire cabal of Church spokesmen from the CBCP and the clergy are ordered to read pastoral letters spewing threats and imagined dire consequences about the Filipinos’ impending moral decline if any method of birth control, apart from the natural, is encouraged. [This is irresponsible. What the CBCP is mentioning is not only moral decline but the violation of the natural law.]
P-Noy’s insistence on challenging the stand of the Philippine church and doing the practical thing is the proverbial straw that has broken the camel’s back. [Why? Has the former senator and now sitting president advocating artificial birth control even before he became president? I don't think so.] And they have attacked him with everything they’ve got. [Not yet. Don't be too presumptuous.]
How dare he support something so unconscionable and despicable? Doesn’t he know it is against the law of God? [He knows it?!] Why doesn’t government give our people jobs instead of condoms? Besides, do we really have a population problem? [Do we? Prof. Bernie Villegas wrote an interesting article about this.] They even delved into conspiracy theory. This, they said, clearly has something to do with the CIA and the $400 million Millennium Development Fund he received from the US government, which supports its own pharmaceutical companies that make all these evil birth control devices to control the fertility of third world countries.
In short, they threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at P-Noy. They also threatened mass actions and a civil disobedience campaign against the government. And finally, the head of the CBCP casually dropped what must have been intended to stop the President in his tracks: the grave threat of excommunication. [Oh my goodness! This has already been clarified. It was taken out of context with Bishop Odchimar being asked a loaded question. And here we have it, folks. The media is partying.]
Almost simultaneously, as the chatter built up in cyberspace, rising like the floods of Ondoy, tour guide and artist Carlos Celdran pulled his stunning “Damaso” [that is probably the least of the adjectives I would use to describe that stunt] caper right before the CBCP hierarchy during an ecumenical service at the Manila Cathedral.
At this point, cyberspace, TV news, and everyone’s conversation became riveted completely on the topic and the conversation reached fever pitch.
The series of events that transpired last weekend was a deadly brew boiling in a piping-hot cauldron with three of the most potently explosive ingredients one can think of — politics, sex and religion thrown in together. What could possibly come out of this toxic mix that would provide nourishment? At best, it produced the most painful and acrimonious discussions among the faithful, many of whom expressed disappointment at the simplistic argumentation of the men of their Church. [Hey! Don't count out faithful lay men and women who are in support and who are even engaging in this debate! Our priests and bishops are not alone on this.]
People throughout history have gone to war many times over politics, religion and sex. [Huh? Does anybody know a story about a country going to war because of...sex?] From the Crusades to the World Wars, civilizations have clashed over these issues. Which is not surprising at all since these topics which can be reduced, at their basic essence, to one word: power. It is life’s greatest obsession.
In this case, P-Noy is exercising the power granted him by the people to create measures that will ease aspects of our lives, specifically outcomes relating to our sexual activities, and their relation to poverty and environmental ruin.
The Church, on the other hand, is using its power by flexing its muscles and threatening P-Noy to make sure he toes the Church line so government does not offer the people any choice with regard to their own fertility control, except the natural method that the Church propagates — albeit half-heartedly. For as long as family planning has been debated here, I have yet to see a full campaign by the Church to disseminate information on natural methods in the scale that it is well capable of doing. [Now this one I am most surely to agree with. This is where the CBCP failed miserably.]
The people, whom government and the Church claim to help, protect and nurture, are also exercising their power. At this juncture in our history, they are clearly appreciative of government finally standing up to the Church on the issue of family planning. If you don’t believe me, look up the results of the surveys, both scientific and anecdotal, that have been conducted in the past five years. [Here comes the numbers game. Sounds like Obama, eh?]
In the age of people power, greater democratization, and unbridled, open information, it is patently dictatorial, even fascistic, to deny people the right to judge for themselves what is best for their own individual life situations. [Now hold on for a second. When does the Church send you to the Inquisition for being adulterous or for using condoms? Huh? The Church reminds us of the sinful consequences of one's choice. IT DOES NOT COERCE YOU! We have to draw the line properly. Christ WILL NEVER force you to go to Heaven if you want to stay in Hell.] It also smacks of a medieval mindset [Now here comes the medieval thing. As if the Church did not support the work of scientific men, eh? No wonder we have modern genetics, thanks to Fr. Gregor Mendel and we have the Gregorian calendar. Geez, where do we get our history books?] to deny the science and effectiveness of, say, condoms in preventing pregnancies and protecting people from HIV. [Talk to Africans and they'll tell you why. I have blogged about this before. Remember the issue wherein Pope Benedict XVI said during his flight to Africa?]
I really wonder how the Pope could proclaim that condoms are porous and thus ineffective, in effect using his moral authority to propagate misinformation [You think a learned scholar like the pope would make rash pronouncements? Don't you think the Vatican is big enough to have scientists carrying dockets of papers about the topic?] and thereby condemning the populations of HIV-infected poor countries to the risk of infection. [Risk of infection?! How do you get them in the first place?] It is not rocket science to see that there is something factually wrong with this statement. It also doesn’t take a psychiatrist to recognize the unbridled exercise of moral power at work here to instill guilt and fear among unthinking and unquestioning people. [There you have it folks! The evils of Modernism. Let no one tell you what to do or let no one instill fear or guilt in you. Just do it! Remember that?]
While I respect people who follow the Church line on natural family planning, I have a problem when they cannot respect the rights of those who disagree with them, [Why? Do we result to insults and name calling? Or is it because we are well-informed of what to say or do in this issue?] and then seek to deny those people the right to choice. [Are we pointing a gun at those who are potentially going to use artificial contraceptives? Geez. You get the feeling that we are living in Nazi-era Germany or Martial Law days.]
There is so much breast-beating in the Church about being “pro-life.” [We haven't beat our breasts yet.] But I sometimes wonder if they are really “pro-life” or just “pro-birth”? [Wrong. Just pro-life. Period.] Aside from the charity work the Church does, [Which was completely thrown out of the window after pro-RH people started vilifying the Church. How good is that, eh? Out of the million good things you did, one thing you say that they do not like and you become Hitler incarnate.] there is hardly any talk coming from them about real solutions to national problems relating to hunger, homelessness, malnutrition, lack of educational opportunities, joblessness and environmental degradation that a runaway population has wrought on us and continues to do so. [Poor Jim. He does not even know that the Catholic Church is the biggest charitable organization in the world...feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, providing education to places that even the government has not reached, providing job opportunities to those who need them and some bishops have even more time fighting for the protection of the environment than taking care of the spiritual needs of their flock. And it is still not enough. Ok, got it. Very balanced indeed.]
While it is true that corruption in high places has and continues to ravage our poor, it is intellectual dishonesty, and a militant denial of reality, to be dismissive and say it is all the government’s fault that so many people are poor and live wretched lives, and then condemn government when it explores solutions that will empower people to ease their lives through family planning. [He condemned government when Gloria Arroyo was in power. But not now that Noynoy Aquino is in place. Nah-ah. Noynoy is HIS guy. So, don't you dare say anything against him.]
The “Damaso” incident at the Manila Cathedral sheds a lot of light on what has been going on since the time of Rizal to the present. [Oh brother. A fan.] There is something Damasonic about how the bishops are handling this issue of reproductive health. [How about other issues? Very quick to demonize the bishops.] And we, the Filipino people, are caught in a religion which on one hand manifests as oppressive, medieval and superstitious, but also open, and humanly liberating on the other — depending on the issue. [Maybe depending on what you choose!] Many of my younger priest friends are pained by the pronouncements of the bishops [I am sure they are Jesuits or educated at MST.] and have quietly expressed this through texts and veiled and cryptic Facebook and Twitter messages. I can only wish that more of them were handling Church policies. [Thank God they are not.]
I have often wondered why the Church can be so open and enlightened on many social issues but so irrational when it comes to sex. [What's irrational at keeping sex within the context of marriage? What is irrational at viewing sex in marriage as sharing in the power of God of bringing life into the world? Did I miss something here?] I do not want to open a can of worms here, [Who's can?] but the pitched Internet chatter over the weekend makes one thing clear — that there is great wisdom in the principle of the separation of Church and State. [Espoused by the Masons. Now that is "wisdom" he calls "great".] As someone wise and compassionate once said: “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and render to God what is God’s.” [Now he is even implying that the Wise and Compassionate One will agree to artificial birth control. Maybe he missed the point of the biblical passage. Try reading this and this, Jim. Wikipedia is free by the way.]
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I am a die hard fan of Jim Paredes' songs. After reading this article, it is STILL his songs. Just his songs...
By the way, he is Jesuit educated.
Now you know why.
HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE By Jim Paredes
What a weekend it was. In just a few hours, cyberspace was abuzz with comments on the issue of Reproductive Health. The President’s expressed support for family planning, which he affirmed at a town hall meeting in the US, put the Philippine bishops on DEFCON 3. They were angry, armed and ready for war.
Government’s desire to curb population growth has always been met with outright hostility from the Catholic Church. [Now I think this is not fair. CBCP's hostility is TOWARDS Artificial birth control and NOT population control.] Each time the issue has been brought up, the entire cabal of Church spokesmen from the CBCP and the clergy are ordered to read pastoral letters spewing threats and imagined dire consequences about the Filipinos’ impending moral decline if any method of birth control, apart from the natural, is encouraged. [This is irresponsible. What the CBCP is mentioning is not only moral decline but the violation of the natural law.]
P-Noy’s insistence on challenging the stand of the Philippine church and doing the practical thing is the proverbial straw that has broken the camel’s back. [Why? Has the former senator and now sitting president advocating artificial birth control even before he became president? I don't think so.] And they have attacked him with everything they’ve got. [Not yet. Don't be too presumptuous.]
How dare he support something so unconscionable and despicable? Doesn’t he know it is against the law of God? [He knows it?!] Why doesn’t government give our people jobs instead of condoms? Besides, do we really have a population problem? [Do we? Prof. Bernie Villegas wrote an interesting article about this.] They even delved into conspiracy theory. This, they said, clearly has something to do with the CIA and the $400 million Millennium Development Fund he received from the US government, which supports its own pharmaceutical companies that make all these evil birth control devices to control the fertility of third world countries.
In short, they threw everything, including the kitchen sink, at P-Noy. They also threatened mass actions and a civil disobedience campaign against the government. And finally, the head of the CBCP casually dropped what must have been intended to stop the President in his tracks: the grave threat of excommunication. [Oh my goodness! This has already been clarified. It was taken out of context with Bishop Odchimar being asked a loaded question. And here we have it, folks. The media is partying.]
Almost simultaneously, as the chatter built up in cyberspace, rising like the floods of Ondoy, tour guide and artist Carlos Celdran pulled his stunning “Damaso” [that is probably the least of the adjectives I would use to describe that stunt] caper right before the CBCP hierarchy during an ecumenical service at the Manila Cathedral.
At this point, cyberspace, TV news, and everyone’s conversation became riveted completely on the topic and the conversation reached fever pitch.
The series of events that transpired last weekend was a deadly brew boiling in a piping-hot cauldron with three of the most potently explosive ingredients one can think of — politics, sex and religion thrown in together. What could possibly come out of this toxic mix that would provide nourishment? At best, it produced the most painful and acrimonious discussions among the faithful, many of whom expressed disappointment at the simplistic argumentation of the men of their Church. [Hey! Don't count out faithful lay men and women who are in support and who are even engaging in this debate! Our priests and bishops are not alone on this.]
People throughout history have gone to war many times over politics, religion and sex. [Huh? Does anybody know a story about a country going to war because of...sex?] From the Crusades to the World Wars, civilizations have clashed over these issues. Which is not surprising at all since these topics which can be reduced, at their basic essence, to one word: power. It is life’s greatest obsession.
In this case, P-Noy is exercising the power granted him by the people to create measures that will ease aspects of our lives, specifically outcomes relating to our sexual activities, and their relation to poverty and environmental ruin.
The Church, on the other hand, is using its power by flexing its muscles and threatening P-Noy to make sure he toes the Church line so government does not offer the people any choice with regard to their own fertility control, except the natural method that the Church propagates — albeit half-heartedly. For as long as family planning has been debated here, I have yet to see a full campaign by the Church to disseminate information on natural methods in the scale that it is well capable of doing. [Now this one I am most surely to agree with. This is where the CBCP failed miserably.]
The people, whom government and the Church claim to help, protect and nurture, are also exercising their power. At this juncture in our history, they are clearly appreciative of government finally standing up to the Church on the issue of family planning. If you don’t believe me, look up the results of the surveys, both scientific and anecdotal, that have been conducted in the past five years. [Here comes the numbers game. Sounds like Obama, eh?]
In the age of people power, greater democratization, and unbridled, open information, it is patently dictatorial, even fascistic, to deny people the right to judge for themselves what is best for their own individual life situations. [Now hold on for a second. When does the Church send you to the Inquisition for being adulterous or for using condoms? Huh? The Church reminds us of the sinful consequences of one's choice. IT DOES NOT COERCE YOU! We have to draw the line properly. Christ WILL NEVER force you to go to Heaven if you want to stay in Hell.] It also smacks of a medieval mindset [Now here comes the medieval thing. As if the Church did not support the work of scientific men, eh? No wonder we have modern genetics, thanks to Fr. Gregor Mendel and we have the Gregorian calendar. Geez, where do we get our history books?] to deny the science and effectiveness of, say, condoms in preventing pregnancies and protecting people from HIV. [Talk to Africans and they'll tell you why. I have blogged about this before. Remember the issue wherein Pope Benedict XVI said during his flight to Africa?]
I really wonder how the Pope could proclaim that condoms are porous and thus ineffective, in effect using his moral authority to propagate misinformation [You think a learned scholar like the pope would make rash pronouncements? Don't you think the Vatican is big enough to have scientists carrying dockets of papers about the topic?] and thereby condemning the populations of HIV-infected poor countries to the risk of infection. [Risk of infection?! How do you get them in the first place?] It is not rocket science to see that there is something factually wrong with this statement. It also doesn’t take a psychiatrist to recognize the unbridled exercise of moral power at work here to instill guilt and fear among unthinking and unquestioning people. [There you have it folks! The evils of Modernism. Let no one tell you what to do or let no one instill fear or guilt in you. Just do it! Remember that?]
While I respect people who follow the Church line on natural family planning, I have a problem when they cannot respect the rights of those who disagree with them, [Why? Do we result to insults and name calling? Or is it because we are well-informed of what to say or do in this issue?] and then seek to deny those people the right to choice. [Are we pointing a gun at those who are potentially going to use artificial contraceptives? Geez. You get the feeling that we are living in Nazi-era Germany or Martial Law days.]
There is so much breast-beating in the Church about being “pro-life.” [We haven't beat our breasts yet.] But I sometimes wonder if they are really “pro-life” or just “pro-birth”? [Wrong. Just pro-life. Period.] Aside from the charity work the Church does, [Which was completely thrown out of the window after pro-RH people started vilifying the Church. How good is that, eh? Out of the million good things you did, one thing you say that they do not like and you become Hitler incarnate.] there is hardly any talk coming from them about real solutions to national problems relating to hunger, homelessness, malnutrition, lack of educational opportunities, joblessness and environmental degradation that a runaway population has wrought on us and continues to do so. [Poor Jim. He does not even know that the Catholic Church is the biggest charitable organization in the world...feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, providing education to places that even the government has not reached, providing job opportunities to those who need them and some bishops have even more time fighting for the protection of the environment than taking care of the spiritual needs of their flock. And it is still not enough. Ok, got it. Very balanced indeed.]
While it is true that corruption in high places has and continues to ravage our poor, it is intellectual dishonesty, and a militant denial of reality, to be dismissive and say it is all the government’s fault that so many people are poor and live wretched lives, and then condemn government when it explores solutions that will empower people to ease their lives through family planning. [He condemned government when Gloria Arroyo was in power. But not now that Noynoy Aquino is in place. Nah-ah. Noynoy is HIS guy. So, don't you dare say anything against him.]
The “Damaso” incident at the Manila Cathedral sheds a lot of light on what has been going on since the time of Rizal to the present. [Oh brother. A fan.] There is something Damasonic about how the bishops are handling this issue of reproductive health. [How about other issues? Very quick to demonize the bishops.] And we, the Filipino people, are caught in a religion which on one hand manifests as oppressive, medieval and superstitious, but also open, and humanly liberating on the other — depending on the issue. [Maybe depending on what you choose!] Many of my younger priest friends are pained by the pronouncements of the bishops [I am sure they are Jesuits or educated at MST.] and have quietly expressed this through texts and veiled and cryptic Facebook and Twitter messages. I can only wish that more of them were handling Church policies. [Thank God they are not.]
I have often wondered why the Church can be so open and enlightened on many social issues but so irrational when it comes to sex. [What's irrational at keeping sex within the context of marriage? What is irrational at viewing sex in marriage as sharing in the power of God of bringing life into the world? Did I miss something here?] I do not want to open a can of worms here, [Who's can?] but the pitched Internet chatter over the weekend makes one thing clear — that there is great wisdom in the principle of the separation of Church and State. [Espoused by the Masons. Now that is "wisdom" he calls "great".] As someone wise and compassionate once said: “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and render to God what is God’s.” [Now he is even implying that the Wise and Compassionate One will agree to artificial birth control. Maybe he missed the point of the biblical passage. Try reading this and this, Jim. Wikipedia is free by the way.]
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I am a die hard fan of Jim Paredes' songs. After reading this article, it is STILL his songs. Just his songs...
By the way, he is Jesuit educated.
Now you know why.
Media twists facts again...this time againt Bl. Mary McKillop
ABC Online and Fairfax newspapers in Australia last month said that she was excommunicated from the Church in 1871 because she had exposed a Kapunda priest’s abuse of children in South Australia. The claims were based on remarks made by Fr. Paul Gardiner in a documentary made for ABC TV’s “Compass” program.
Both Fr. Gardiner and Rose Hesp, the executive producer of “Compass,” deny they made such an inference in the program, which airs on Sunday. [And they call it "freedom of the press".]
Fr. Gardiner, chaplain of the Mary MacKillop Penola Centre, said the claims were false. According to The Australian, he [Fr. Gardiner] is considered Australia’s foremost authority on the history of the saint-to-be and was postulator for her canonization cause.
"Early in 1870, the scandal occurred and the Sisters of Saint Joseph reported it to Father Tenison Woods, but Mary was in Queensland and no one was worried about her," Fr. Gardiner told The Australian.
"There was a long chain of causation. Somehow or other, somebody typed it up as if to say I said Mary MacKillop was the one to report the sex abuse," he continued. "I never said it -- it's just false -- it's the ill will of people who are anxious to see something negative about the Catholic Church. There's already enough mud to throw, though." [Maybe they need their own kind of Rational Heroes down there, eh?]
Bl. Mary MacKillop was excommunicated in late 1871 during a dispute with a local bishop concerning the governance of her order. [The bishop used the reason of "insubordination" to excommunicate the saint.] The excommunication was lifted in early 1872. [The same bishop lifted it after the excommunication was deemed uncanonical. Indeed, you cannot excommunicate someone based on insubordination. There are processes to follow.]
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See the connection?
A fiesty woman (Feminist) .....CHECK!
Abusive priest....CHECK!
A bishop who tries to hide the crime....CHECK!
...and who excommunicates the woman who reported the crime...CHECK!
Calling Carlos Celdran!
Where's Ron Howard and Dan Brown when you need them?
Monday, October 11, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
HERETIC ALERT: A Philippine senator begs not to be excommunicated
Here is the full letter of Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, author of the Senate Bill for a Reproductive Health Bill.
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1 October 2010
Bishop Nereo Odchimar
President, CBCP
By fax and by hand
Dear Excellency:
This is to most respectfully appeal to the CBCP to discard excommunication as a response to reproductive health bills pending in Congress. I am the author of Senate Bill No. 2378, “An Act Providing for a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development.” My bill definitely prohibits abortion, [but it all contraceptive fails? what then? and did the senator, who is a Catholic, forget that the use of contraception is a mortal sin?] and continues to view it as a crime under the Penal Code.
If I were to be excommunicated, I would be expelled from the Church, more particularly from the Eucharist. I would thus be placed in the same category as those guilty of so-called serious sins, such as apostasy, murder, heresy, and adultery. I plead that I am not guilty of mortal sin, defined in our Church as “a fundamental rejection of God, and the reorientation of one’s whole life away from all that is good and just.” [she knows.] On the contrary, I am a strong advocate of social justice, particularly the anticorruption crusade.
As a Catholic at birth, I was taught that at the heart of Jesus’ message of salvation was his proclamation of the coming of the Kingdom of God as a reality open to everyone, including the destitute poor. Allow me to quote Prof. Richard McBrien: [Oh hell...] “God, acting as King, visits and redeems his people as a loving father – a father who rejoices over regaining his lost children (e.g., Luke 15:1-32). This is the central theme of Jesus’ preaching.” (Emphasis added.)
May I respectfully submit that the penalty of excommunication for pro-RH (reproductive health) legislators, who are merely exercising the preferential option for the poor under liberation theology, [Oh boy...] would be too extreme and disproportionate. It will raise constitutional issues about church-state relationship.
When I studied for a master’s degree at the Maryhill School of Theology, [Oh brother! Filth factory!] I was taught repeatedly to implement liberation theology, meaning the theory that for believers to achieve salvation after death, we must liberate the poor from social, political, and economic oppression. [HERESY!!!!!!! EXCOMMUNICATE THE WOMAN!!!] (Emphasis added.) This is what I am trying to do with my bill.
We all know that the public debate began with the publication in 1968 of Pope Paul VI of his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth). Paul 6 was forced to choose between the majority and minority reports of a special papal commission established by his predecessor Pope John XXIII. The majority supported contraception, while the minority condemned it. [Does it make it right, then?] Paul 6 decided in favor of the minority view, unfortunately unleashing global opposition among some Catholic clergy and among Catholic couples who simply disregard the teaching of his encyclical. [The truth does not depend on numbers.]
I have fully studied the arguments against contraception, based on the minority report of the 1966 Papal Commission for the Study of Population, the Family, and Birth. There are two main arguments. One is that opposition to contraception is the “constant and perennial” (sic) teaching of the Church. The minority report states: “It depends on the nature of human life and human sexuality, as understood theologically by the Church.” (Emphasis added.) The second argument is based on so-called natural law. [Which is the heart of the teaching of the Church on family planning.]
I am humbly but morally convinced that the arguments for contraception are superior, thus:
* The anti-RH advocates fail to recognize the evolutionary character of Church teaching. [MODERNISM!!!! HERETIC!!! Catholic dogma does not change, the same faith that comes to us from the Apostles! Where did she learn this? Maryhill School of Theology! Bedrock of HERETICS!!!] This does not undermine the moral teachings authorized by the Church. On the contrary, it allows a more mature comprehension of the whole doctrine. [Rather, a more heretical and twisted view of actual Catholic teaching.]
* The natural-law theory is already obsolete. [Huh? So the law of gravity is obsolete now just as the law of life is according to this heretic.] According to the majority report: People should be allowed to “intervene in the biological processes of nature so that we can achieve the ends of the institution of matrimony in the conditions of actual life, rather than to abandon ourselves to chance.” [This is the teaching of Modernism, God does not act on us. It is all by chance.]
* The majority report declared that the conjugal act must be viewed not as an isolated reality, but in the larger context of human love, family life, education, etc.
My RH bill has been referred to the Senate health committee. If my medical condition improves, I intend to participate freely in the Senate plenary debates. I shall be guided by the document Declaration on Religious Freedom issued by Vatican Council II, declaring that we are bound to follow our conscience faithfully in all our activity. Allow me to quote: “[No one] is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to one’s conscience. Nor, on the other hand, is one to be restrained from acting in accordance with one’s conscience.”
So please do not excommunicate President Aquino, myself, and those similarly situated. Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO
Copy to:
Chair, Senate Health Committee
Senate Media
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We must name the demon that is hiding in our seminaries and theology schools...
Stop calling it Relativism or others....
MODERNISM IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL HERESIES!
And this woman has openly declared herself as a Modernist.
maybe someone can send her a pamphlet of Pascendi dominici gregis...
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1 October 2010
Bishop Nereo Odchimar
President, CBCP
By fax and by hand
Dear Excellency:
This is to most respectfully appeal to the CBCP to discard excommunication as a response to reproductive health bills pending in Congress. I am the author of Senate Bill No. 2378, “An Act Providing for a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development.” My bill definitely prohibits abortion, [but it all contraceptive fails? what then? and did the senator, who is a Catholic, forget that the use of contraception is a mortal sin?] and continues to view it as a crime under the Penal Code.
If I were to be excommunicated, I would be expelled from the Church, more particularly from the Eucharist. I would thus be placed in the same category as those guilty of so-called serious sins, such as apostasy, murder, heresy, and adultery. I plead that I am not guilty of mortal sin, defined in our Church as “a fundamental rejection of God, and the reorientation of one’s whole life away from all that is good and just.” [she knows.] On the contrary, I am a strong advocate of social justice, particularly the anticorruption crusade.
As a Catholic at birth, I was taught that at the heart of Jesus’ message of salvation was his proclamation of the coming of the Kingdom of God as a reality open to everyone, including the destitute poor. Allow me to quote Prof. Richard McBrien: [Oh hell...] “God, acting as King, visits and redeems his people as a loving father – a father who rejoices over regaining his lost children (e.g., Luke 15:1-32). This is the central theme of Jesus’ preaching.” (Emphasis added.)
May I respectfully submit that the penalty of excommunication for pro-RH (reproductive health) legislators, who are merely exercising the preferential option for the poor under liberation theology, [Oh boy...] would be too extreme and disproportionate. It will raise constitutional issues about church-state relationship.
When I studied for a master’s degree at the Maryhill School of Theology, [Oh brother! Filth factory!] I was taught repeatedly to implement liberation theology, meaning the theory that for believers to achieve salvation after death, we must liberate the poor from social, political, and economic oppression. [HERESY!!!!!!! EXCOMMUNICATE THE WOMAN!!!] (Emphasis added.) This is what I am trying to do with my bill.
We all know that the public debate began with the publication in 1968 of Pope Paul VI of his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth). Paul 6 was forced to choose between the majority and minority reports of a special papal commission established by his predecessor Pope John XXIII. The majority supported contraception, while the minority condemned it. [Does it make it right, then?] Paul 6 decided in favor of the minority view, unfortunately unleashing global opposition among some Catholic clergy and among Catholic couples who simply disregard the teaching of his encyclical. [The truth does not depend on numbers.]
I have fully studied the arguments against contraception, based on the minority report of the 1966 Papal Commission for the Study of Population, the Family, and Birth. There are two main arguments. One is that opposition to contraception is the “constant and perennial” (sic) teaching of the Church. The minority report states: “It depends on the nature of human life and human sexuality, as understood theologically by the Church.” (Emphasis added.) The second argument is based on so-called natural law. [Which is the heart of the teaching of the Church on family planning.]
I am humbly but morally convinced that the arguments for contraception are superior, thus:
* The anti-RH advocates fail to recognize the evolutionary character of Church teaching. [MODERNISM!!!! HERETIC!!! Catholic dogma does not change, the same faith that comes to us from the Apostles! Where did she learn this? Maryhill School of Theology! Bedrock of HERETICS!!!] This does not undermine the moral teachings authorized by the Church. On the contrary, it allows a more mature comprehension of the whole doctrine. [Rather, a more heretical and twisted view of actual Catholic teaching.]
* The natural-law theory is already obsolete. [Huh? So the law of gravity is obsolete now just as the law of life is according to this heretic.] According to the majority report: People should be allowed to “intervene in the biological processes of nature so that we can achieve the ends of the institution of matrimony in the conditions of actual life, rather than to abandon ourselves to chance.” [This is the teaching of Modernism, God does not act on us. It is all by chance.]
* The majority report declared that the conjugal act must be viewed not as an isolated reality, but in the larger context of human love, family life, education, etc.
My RH bill has been referred to the Senate health committee. If my medical condition improves, I intend to participate freely in the Senate plenary debates. I shall be guided by the document Declaration on Religious Freedom issued by Vatican Council II, declaring that we are bound to follow our conscience faithfully in all our activity. Allow me to quote: “[No one] is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to one’s conscience. Nor, on the other hand, is one to be restrained from acting in accordance with one’s conscience.”
So please do not excommunicate President Aquino, myself, and those similarly situated. Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO
Copy to:
Chair, Senate Health Committee
Senate Media
***
We must name the demon that is hiding in our seminaries and theology schools...
Stop calling it Relativism or others....
MODERNISM IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL HERESIES!
And this woman has openly declared herself as a Modernist.
maybe someone can send her a pamphlet of Pascendi dominici gregis...
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