Archbishop Chaput has mandated his whole Philly Archdiocese parishes to say the prayer after each Mass! We have nice sturdy cards with good size printing in all pews....if it's new to younger generations or others have simply forgotten it. I think people should also be told by their pastors that they should pray it often in their everyday lives or morning prayers as well.
Superior Orders Outspoken Priest On Scandal To ‘Cease And Desist’ EDITOR'S NOTE: Father Goring's videos were taken down after LifeSiteNews published this story. LSN managed to archive one of the videos before it was removed and is pleased to provide it to our readers. HOUSTON, Texas, January 8, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest told to stop speaking out about certain aspects of the Church’s sexual-abuse scandal issued an appeal to Pope Francis for permission to keep talking about the crisis. Father Mark Goring, a member of the Companions of the Cross priestly community and director of the Catholic Charismatic Center in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, was told by an unnamed superior to “cease and desist” last Friday. The instruction came after he had posted a YouTube video critical of embattled Cardinal Donald Wuerl, which stemmed from word that Wuerl would likely preside as normal over the archdiocese’s Youth Rally and Mass for Life during the upcoming March for Life. Goring told viewers in the January 5 video he was asked a day earlier by one of his “legitimate authorities” to “cease and desist.” His response was “immediate and unhesitant,” he said. “I am a man of obedience,” Goring stated. “You’ve asked me to cease and desist. So I will cease and desist.” Goring exhorted viewers to remember that when he was ordained he promised before God to be obedient to his superiors. He said it was never his intention to make their lives difficult. In his appeal to Pope Francis video posted January 8, Goring said again he was a man of obedience. He explained the cease and desist had come via a phone call, though not specifying from whom, and he had not been told to remove any of his videos or prohibited from commenting on Church affairs. Goring said, though, in the January 8 video, because of the cease and desist call, he made the assumption that it was time for him “to enter into the silence of St. Joseph.” The Catholic Charismatic Center in Houston, where Father Goring is the director, is a mission of the Companions of the Cross, an Ottawa, Ontario-based Society of Apostolic Life focused on Christ crucified, spiritual life and evangelization. Goring is also a host for the Canadian Food for Life television ministry and has hosted a weekly Bible teaching program for Radio Maria in the United States. As director of an apostolate operating within the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, just as with any religious community performing ministry inside a diocese, Goring is answerable to both his community superiors and the local ordinary. (cont'd below"
(cont'd from above) LifeSiteNews sent inquiries to Father Goring, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, and the Companions of the Cross but did not receive a response. Goring posted in the comment section of the January 5 cease and desist video, “I am not available for comments. Please do not give up on Jesus. And do not give up on the Church which He established. Viva Cristo Rey!” Goring said in the follow-up January 8 video that he was glad to enter into the silence of St. Joseph. “However, there’s that scripture from Jeremiah,” he said. “I feel like there’s a fire burning in my heart that I can’t contain.” He cited St. Catherine of Siena saying, “We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.” Goring recounted how he presented lots of video talks on silence, but he now found himself in a situation where he didn’t know what to do. “I honestly don’t know what to do,” Goring said in the subsequent video posted Tuesday. “What I feel like doing is appealing to the pope.” “And maybe I can do this over YouTube,” he said. “Can I do this? Can I ask, Holy Father, do I have your permission to continue to comment on the situation in the Church?” “I give you my word that I’ll do my very best to comment on the situation with love,” he added. “I’ll try to not be critical or to let anger come in. I’ll try to be honest, as honest as I possibly can be.” Pope Francis officially accepted Wuerl’s resignation amid controversy over the cardinal’s role in clergy sex-abuse cover-up in October. But Wuerl at Francis’ direction remains apostolic administrator of the archdiocese and thus would presumably preside over the archdiocese’s March for Life-related events next week, including the youth rally and Mass, along with the Vigil Mass for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Both events typically draw tens of thousands of pro-lifers, and Catholics are understandably incensed at the idea of Wuerl appearing at the pro-life events as though all is well with the sexual-abuse crisis continuing unresolved. “It communicates the utmost disrespect for the victims of sexual abuse by clergy, that these cases are no big deal and that Church leaders can get away with allowing these situations to be swept under the rug,” Father Goring had said in the initial video, titled “Cardinal Wuerl, Get Out,” and reported on by Church Militant before being taken down from YouTube. Some of the abuse situations are a mess, Goring told viewers in the most recent video appealing to the pope, with much occurring behind the scenes. He promised in the appeal to look into things as best he can before issuing comment. “But because we don’t have the full information, does that mean I have to study this thing for five years before I can give a response?” Goring asked. Goring told viewers not to worry about him. “My decision to become a priest was a decision to follow Jesus, and I had no illusions,” said Goring in the appeal to Francis. “I was very much aware (of) where Jesus takes us – He takes us to the Passion, the cross and to die, so that we can resurrect to eternal life in Heaven.” “All I care about is getting to heaven and doing God’s will,” he continued. “And I want to fight for the honor of Holy Mother Church.” What grieves him most is the trouble created for his superiors, he said. Goring said he loves his superiors, listing his general superior and the bishops, and noting the local archbishop (Cardinal Daniel DiNardo). “However, I feel I need to speak,” he said. “So, my question is, Pope Francis, Holy Father, do I have your permission to continue to comment on the situation in the Church?” Goring has been frank in defense of Church principles in his video commentary in the past. In one instance right before the end of the 2016 primary election season, he laid out in no uncertain terms both the accountability and civic responsibility for Catholics regarding their backing pro-abortion candidates in an election. His appeal to Francis for permission to keep commenting on the abuse crisis came as the U.S. Bishops wrapped up a retreat they were directed to undertake by the pope to reflect on the abuse situation. And it follows months of tension between the U.S. Bishops and Francis after the pope rebuffed their leadership’s request to intervene in the matter of disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The Vatican brusquely quashed their plans to address the abuse scandal within their purview in lieu of his meeting on some aspects of the abuse crisis with the presidents of the Church’s episcopal conferences next month. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/s...iest-on-sex-abuse-scandal-to-cease-and-desist
Thanks MC! I haven't been posting for some time (just been reading posts), so I wasn't sure anyone would even notice I had changed my avatar. Good eye MC!
Not sure if this was posted yet but if not it really is worth a listen. Mr Grein is post interview with the representative of the Holy See and speaks out a bit about that experience as well as other things pertaining to the current crisis.
Here is the World Over episode from today, another great job by Raymond Arroyo, his guests and the EWTN staff.
The PA Grand-Jury Report: Not What It Seems It’s Inaccurate, Unfair & Misleading https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/pa-grand-jury-report-not-what-it-seems
Mary is the daughter of a good friend from PA, and I used to treat her sister. She is a very good and holy pro life Catholic. Please treat her as such.
Do they really think this is going to help their cause? The more they cover-up, the more people are going to suspect they have something to hide. If they want to shut someone up, why don't they start with James Martin? Oh no. One finds oneself wondering is there such a thing as a non-homosexual senior cleric.
Brian, I was aware of what you have stated except for the part about you having a personal connection to Ms. Forr. That letter was addressed to her because she is responsible for at least some of the coordination of the Mass for Life in DC on 1/18. In addition, she is very much appreciated for all that she does. The letter's purpose is to request that Cardinal Wuerl is not involved with the mass in anyway, shape or form. I don't believe that this is an unreasonable request in light of the fact that he appears to be involved in the McCarrick sexual abuse cover-up. Even if only allegedly at this point, his involvement in this mass will only create more upset for faithful Catholics and could take away from the focus of the mass itself. The letter is meant to protect those like Ms. Forr and others who are working diligently to promote a pro-life message for the Church and for the world. This is one of the latest headlines/articles in regard to Cardinal Wuerl and the McCarrick cover-up, I don't think that we need to see a headline next week questioning why Cardinal Wuerl was a celebrant at the Mass for Life, for instance. Wuerl knew McCarrick abuse allegations in 2004 1/10/2019 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/wuerl-knew-mccarrick-abuse-allegations-in-2004-91213 EarthtoAngels, Thank you for posting this, I am still in the process of reading it but so far it appears to be very well done. It appears to help explain why this crisis is so very, very difficult.
Oh certainly! I was just making a general caution about how we might write our letters, and any assumptions about who might read them. In this case, Mary is a sweetheart, my kids’ age, and her parents used to attend our TLM. I’ve known her parents for decades through pro life work.
According to the statistics I have seen, the number of homosexual clerics (at least in America) lies between 16% and 60%. That is a wide swath, but even if the most minimal number is taken that is 16 times the general population! Most likely it is somewhere in the middle of the two numbers. Maybe 1/3. That is astronomical and cannot be the result of randomness. It reminds one of the quote from the Book of the Apocalypse which speaks of 1/3 of the stars being swept down by the tail of the dragon. Many biblical scholars have likened that number not only as an allusion to the rebel angels, but in reference to the clergy during the End Times as well.
I think there was a deliberate effort to discourage hetrtosexual men from the seminaries. I kno w of two in the 70's who were either turned away or pressured out. The bo ok k Goodbye Good Men references this too I believe . Sinister.
More weird signals. Um, what about a starving population? How much you wanna bet he dislikes Brazil's new President! Brazil also only recognizes Maduro's opponent as the President!! It would appear that the only leaders truly grateful to this Pontiff are tyrannical ones.....China too, anyone? Where's all that "co-equal" collegiality among brother Bishops here? Pope Sends Representative to Attend ‘Illegitimate’ Maduro Inauguration Pope Francis sent a Vatican representative to attend the inauguration ceremony of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro this week, just one day after the nation’s bishops declared the presidency “illegitimate.” While many countries — including the U.S. and most nations from Latin America and Europe — boycotted the inauguration of the Venezuelan dictator, the Vatican sent Polish Monsignor George Koovakod to attend the event. The act did not escape Maduro’s attention, and he thanked the prelate for his “courageous” presence at the event. Dictator Nicolás Maduro declared himself the winner of last May’s anticipated election against a fellow socialist after having banned opposition parties from taking place in the election and imprisoning or exiling his strongest adversaries. The election was widely dismissed as fraudulent and marred by record low turnout. On Wednesday, the Venezuelan bishops issued a strong statement denouncing Maduro’s new term in office as “illegitimate” and warning it ushers in an era of arbitrary rule in violation of the nation’s constitution. In their statement, the bishops declared that the convocation to elect the President of the Republic last May 20 was illegitimate as was the Constituent National Assembly established by the executive authority. “We are faced with arbitrary rule, without respect for the guarantees laid down in the Constitution or the highest principles of the dignity of the people,” they said. As a result, “the claim to be initiating a new presidential term of office on 10 January 2019 is illegitimate in its origin and opens the door to the non-recognition of the government, since it lacks democratic support in justice and law,” they said. The bishops declared that in the present crisis, “the National Assembly, elected by the free and democratic vote of the Venezuelan people, is currently the sole organ of public authority with the legitimacy to exercise its powers with sovereignty.” In this year’s Christmas speech, Pope Francis touched on the situation of Venezuela as well as that of Nicaragua, but the blandness of his remarks provoked consternation among many observers. “May this blessed season allow Venezuela once more to recover social harmony and enable all the members of society to work fraternally for the country’s development and to aid the most vulnerable sectors of the population,” the pontiff said. Shortly afterward, twenty former Latin America heads of state and government, including Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias, wrote a letter to the pope complaining of the wording of his address, saying that it minimized the oppression of Venezuelans and Nicaraguans at the hands of their governments. “We are concerned about the call of your Holiness to social harmony,” the letter stated, “because in the present context it can be understood as asking the countries who are victims to be in concord with their oppressors, in particular, in the case of Venezuela, with a government that has produced 3 million refugees.” https://www.breitbart.com/latin-ame...e-to-attend-illegitimate-maduro-inauguration/
"If she has resisted twenty centuries of calumnies and persecutions, she must be a divine institution, and if she is divine, can we fear men will destroy her? ...with all Catholic hearts, we must be saddened at seeing our Holy Church persecuted and betrayed; at seeing gifted minds employing their intellectual strength against her; at seeing men whose duty it is to defend the truth, imprudently sowing the seeds of discord and error and with culpable levity, lending their aid to the enterprises of dangerous innovators. But we know that the Church will triumph over her enemies; we know that sustained by her Divine Chief, she will preserve in her bosom the deposit of truth. We know that after the days of tears, there will come for her days of triumph and joy. That is why we ought to pray for the Church, for its Pontiffs and its priests, not through fear that she may fail- this holy Church founded on the rock; nor because we tremble for her existence, but in order that her triumph may be more prompt and her earthly glory more complete." Mother Louse Margaret Charet de la Touche, "The Book of Infinite Love" (From the Office of Secretary for State of His Holiness: "The Holy Father Pius XI has deigned to accept the new collection of writings of Mother Louise Margaret Claret de la Touche united under the title The Book of Infinite Love. Signed: P. Cardinal Gasparri, July 11, 1928 - Pope Pius XII has given a special blessing for the introduction of her writings to Ireland, England and America)
The new representative of the Anglican 'Archbishop of Canterbury' in the Vatican and also Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, Dr. John Shepherd (an Australian) says that mankind must be 'liberated' from the notion that the Resurrection was a 'physical' event and that Jesus was bodily resurrected. Some Anglicans (bless them) have queried the appointment of a man who does not subscribe to the Creeds but the appointment has been confirmed by the Anglican 'church' who say that Shepherd is a 'priest in good standing' . I wonder how he spends Easter? Dr. Shepherd replaces 'Archbishop' Bernard Ntahoturi, who was removed following allegations of sexual misconduct. If the Vatican doesn't send this guy home and fast, it is yet another scandal but I would imagine that he will find many men who privately agree with him among the Catholic clergy in the 'capital' of world Catholicism.
I fear that you are right, Steve, and that more than a few Catholic clergy, especially in the Vatican, share Dr. Shepherd's belief. It's enough these days to believe that Jesus was a nice guy who was unfairly executed.
