The above is beautiful and true. Alas, I was unable to home school my children for a number of reasons, and even though we said the family rosary daily and I took them out of school most Fridays of the school year for Mass and confession, the inevitable has happened and my children are secularised. This is one cross, I carry. However, I have the hope of the Canaanite woman, who bowed low to Jesus and pleaded with him for her childs health! She compared herself to a dog who is happy to recieve the crumbs that fall from the table. So too am I, Lord Have Mercy! Matthew 15: 21-28 21 Jesus left that place and withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And suddenly out came a Canaanite woman from that district and started shouting, 'Lord, Son of David, take pity on me. My daughter is tormented by a devil.' 23 But he said not a word in answer to her. And his disciples went and pleaded with him, saying, 'Give her what she wants, because she keeps shouting after us.' 24 He said in reply, 'I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.' 25 But the woman had come up and was bowing low before him. 'Lord,' she said, 'help me.' 26 He replied, 'It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to little dogs.' 27 She retorted, 'Ah yes, Lord; but even little dogs eat the scraps that fall from their masters' table.' 28 Then Jesus answered her, 'Woman, you have great faith. Let your desire be granted.' And from that moment her daughter was well again.
So sad that my husband will not allow me to homeschool. My fault for marrying a moderately liberal man.
He has been invited to speak at a conference in the Vatican co-sponsored by the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=30467 According to this article in "The Catholic Thing", John Bongaarts of the Population Council has also been invited https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/01/24/population-controllers-to-pontificate-at-the-vatican/ Here's some background on John Bongaarts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bongaarts And here's Dr. Bongaarts giving his solution to the political and economic situation in Pakistan in 2012:
This is incredible. These people are satanic in their thinking and being invited into the heart of Vatican.
Thanks Mac. The SSPX could well be an option for me if this collegiality or synodality or whatever it's called materialises, which is looking ever more likely. Do you think that the Vatican might make an extra effort to bring the SSPX back into the fold to take the bad look off Communion with the Lutherans? I couldn't switch to any Church not in union with Rome. Perhaps I'll have to move to Portugal. Our Lady of Fatima said that the Dogma of the Faith will be preserved in Portugal. I wish she had specified which Diocese in Portugal because the way things are going neighbouring Catholic dioceses could hold to very different versions of the Truth depending on the whims of the resident Bishop.
From what I understand the sspx has the deal/agreement in hand. It just needs to be stamped. And understandably Bp Fellay wants assurance the Society can operate as it has been. When I think of how the FFI has been treated just for being judged Crypto-Lefebvrians it makes me nervous.
I'm worried now that this a schismatic website. Our Blessed Mother desires that we be in total obedience to the Pope and the Magisterium. Pope Francis is St Peter's successor, what he binds on earth will be bound also in Heaven.
This is NOT Catholic teaching/belief. Even a pope can personally hold erroneous beliefs, which is the teaching of the Church; in such cases the Church teaches it is our duty and right to oppose error. No authority in the Church, even the pope, is to be given obedience when they teach against faith or morals. Even a pope canNOT bind error. It is NOT schismatic to oppose error. It is proof of poor catechesis and lack of knowledge of the real teaching of the Church - and proof of the diabolical disorientation of our time - to assert otherwise.
The discussion is about which branch of the Catholic Church is most faithful to church teaching and accessible. No one is defecting anywhere. I have always believed that however bad the local circumstances, however awful the bishop, no one goes to hell for staying with Peter. In this sense I am a 'remainer' rather than a 'chexiteer'. No pope lasts forever.
I stand by what I say...and I never said they are not a strong traditional order. But their spirituality is based on Our Holy Mother and obedience to the Holy Father. No member of Orange County Premontre would agree or condone what you are doing.
What pride and arrogance? Had you lived during the Arian heresy, would you have sided with the Pope and the majority of Bishops? There's plenty of talk of schism here but nobody questioning what the Pope is doing (or not doing in the case of the Maltese interpretation of AL) is suggesting that anyone leave the Church. There have been suggestions that anyone not in lockstep with the Pope and Cardinal Kasper should leave. I would urge Brian to be careful lest his son's order be subjected to an impartial investigation. The eyes of mercy are everywhere nowadays.
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/02/01/cardinal-muller-communion-for-the-remarried-is-against-gods-law/ Cardinal Müller: Communion for the remarried is against God’s law Staff Reporter•Wednesday, 1 Feb 2017 Cardinal Gerhard Müller at St Peter's Basilica (Getty) The cardinal said that nobody, not even a pope, could change the teaching reaffirmed by St John Paul II Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the Vatican’s doctrinal chief, has made one of his strongest statements yet on the controversial question of Communion for the divorced and remarried. In an interview with the Italian magazine Il Timone, Cardinal Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was asked whether the teaching reaffirmed by Pope St John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio is still valid. St John Paul said that the divorced and remarried cannot take Communion, except possibly when they try to live “in complete continence”. Cardinal Müller said of this condition: “Of course, it is not dispensable, because it is not only a positive law of John Paul II, but he expressed an essential element of Christian moral theology and the theology of the sacraments.” In Familiaris Consortio, St John Paul said that the prohibition was based on Scripture and the intrinsic link between the Eucharist and marriage: to live in a sexual relationship “objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist”. The cardinal told Il Timone that this made Communion for the remarried impossible: “For us marriage is the expression of participation in the unity between Christ the bridegroom and the Church his bride. This is not, as some said during the Synod, a simple vague analogy. No! This is the substance of the sacrament, and no power in heaven or on earth, neither an angel, nor the pope, nor a council, nor a law of the bishops, has the faculty to change it.” Parts of the interview have been translated into English by Matthew Sherry for the newspaper L’Espresso. In it, Cardinal Müller also says the Pope’s apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia must be read “in the light of the whole doctrine of the Church”. St John Paul was one of several popes, including Benedict XVI, to reaffirm the doctrine on Communion for the remarried. It has also been taught by theologians, Church fathers, early councils, and in recent decades by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Recently, the two bishops of Malta said that, instead, the remarried should receive Communion if they discerned that they were “at peace with God”. They claimed that their advice was based on Amoris Laetitia. The bishops of Germany have today approved Communion for the remarried in some cases, in their document on Amoris Laetitia. In the new interview, Cardinal Müller says: “Amoris Laetitia must clearly be interpreted in the light of the whole doctrine of the Church.” He added: “I don’t like it, it is not right that so many bishops are interpreting Amoris Laetitia according to their way of understanding the Pope’s teaching. This does not keep to the line of Catholic doctrine.” He said that many people needed to study more doctrine on the office of the bishop, which was not to offer novel accounts of papal teaching. “The bishop, as teacher of the Word, must himself be the first to be well-formed so as not to fall into the risk of the blind leading the blind,” the cardinal said. He also warned against “sophistries” and “casuistry” which would diminish Church teaching on marriage.
Interpretation: Cardinal Gerhard Müller knows he is now going to be replaced, so he is free to speak the truth while he still can while still as head of the CDF.
Nonsense...that order creates saints. They might be the only reason we won't fall into the ocean. Brian is the luckiest man on earth. His son (if he accepts calling) will save more souls then all of us combined. Opus Dei and Norbinetines follow a basic spirituality. We are all called to be saints. With the intercession of Our Blessed Mother and Obedience to the Holy See. They might not appreciate many things in the church but they would NEVER say the things that are stated here. Brian is a very blessed man. May his son bless all of us.
