The Final Destination of Modernist Catholicism: Humanism

Where do we end up after years and years of downplaying and making theology deliberately more vague and humanist? Well, eventually the state just recognizes what everyone else already does....the schools that aren't Catholic anymore. Who cares what the Church has to say about it's schools, they aren't under control anyways.

In Holland the Catholic schools have finally reached the point where they are comfortable removing Catholic from their description. From Epononnmou Flower:

School Federation:  "The connection to the Church is already minimal at present" -- Auxiliary Bishop:  This enables the foundation of  "truly Catholic" grade schools, which the state had frequently suspended many in existence with disapproval.
Amsterdam (kath.net/KNA)  A large part of the Catholic grade schools in the Dutch diocese of s'Hertogenbosch will remove the description Catholic during the foreseeable year of 2013.

As the newspaper >>Trouw<< online (Monday) reports, that according to the determination of the scholastic board Signum, a large number of the 24 schools will eliminate the word "Catholic" from its self-description. 

"The connection to the Church is already minimal now", stressed the Signum president Jan Timmers.  Of a break with the Church one could not say.  "We have been disengaging from the Church for years", says Timmers.  So, the schools will also celebrate the Islamic Ramadan at some time between Easter and Christmas.  Also the description of the scholastic mission statement will no longer be relegated directly to the Catholic Church, but to the "individuality of each child".

The Auxiliary Bishop in s'Hertogenbosch, Rob Mutsaerts, informed the report the following that it is better to 
remove the designation "Catholic", because it doesn't correspond any more to the school's concept and moderating content.

This may enable the foundation of "truly Catholic" grade schools.  Till now the state has denied such new foundations and it has suspended numerous existing Catholic grade schools.

Another way of phrasing the situation is 100 years of: hijacking (often times allowed highjacking).

It is a good thing that we are starting from the ground up in Holland at this point. It is better to have very few who are faithful to the identity than many who confuse it.

It started with the inordinate fascination with modern science which lead people to the conclusion that it is the only way to know.

Cardinal Brandmüller on "Vatican II" Liturgy

"I must emphasise that the form of the post-conciliar liturgy with all its distortions, is not attributable to the Council or to the Liturgy Constitution established during Vatican II which by the way has not really been implemented even to this day. The indiscriminate removal of Latin and Gregorian Chants from liturgical celebrations and the erection of numerous altars were absolutely not acts prescribed by the Council." 

-Cardinal Brandmüller, Vatican Insider Interview 27 August 2012

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/08/brandmuller-mass-of-paul-vi-is-not-mass.html

Priests Still Trying to Mix Humanism and Catholicism

Via Rorate this morning we find that the attempts to blend Catholicism, religious indifferentism and humanism have not died out. So much so that priests remain unhindered and pursuant of public expressions of this in the Mass. What was once the Church's greatest enemy, is now invited in as her best friend. How cute.... 

What makes this mass noteworthy, therefore, is the occasion: it is a memorial new mass for the "Day of the Freemason", celebrated by Father Geraldo de Magela Silva, of the Diocese of Pesqueira (state of Pernambuco, Brazil), on August 20, 2012. Its images were actually posted on the Facebook page of a Masonic organization.

When contacted about it, the local bishop, José Luiz Ferreira Salles, CSsR, "excused himself and simply said that he ... had just arrived from a trip." [Source and tip: Fratres in Unum]

Contact the CDF to make sure an example is made: 

BISPO DIOCESANO DE PESQUEIRA

Dom José Luiz Ferreira Salles, CSsR: domjosesales@gmail.com; curia@diocesedepesqueira.org;

NUNCIATURA APOSTÓLICA

Excelência Reverendíssima Dom Giovanni D’Aniello, Núncio ApostólicoAv. das Nações, Quadra 801 Lt. 01/ CEP 70401-900 Brasília – DF
Cx. Postal 0153 Cep 70359-916 Brasília – DF
Fones: (61) 3223 – 0794 ou 3223-0916
Fax: (61) 3224 – 9365
E-mail: nunapost@solar.com.br

SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DA SANTA SÉ:

Eminência Reverendíssima Dom Tarcisio Cardeal Bertone
Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano
00120 Città Del Vaticano – ROMA
Tel. 06.6988-3438 Fax: 06.6988-5088
1ª Seção Tel. 06.6988-3014
2ª Seção Tel. 06.6988-5364
e-mail: vati026@relstat-segstat.va; vati023@genaff-segstat.va ; vati032@relstat-segstat.va

CONGREGAZIONE PER IL CULTO DIVINO E LA DISCIPLINA DEI SACRAMENTI

Eminência Reverendíssima Dom Antonio Cardeal Cañizares Llovera, Prefeito desta egrégia Congregação, Palazzo delle Congregazioni
Piazza Pio XII, 10
00120 CITTÀ DEL VATICANO – Santa Sede – Tel. 06-6988-4316 Fax: 06-6969-3499
e-mail: cultidiv@ccdds.va; vpr-sacramenti@ccdds.va

CONGREGAÇÃO PARA A DOUTRINA DA FÉ

Excelência Reverendíssima Dom Gerhard Ludwig Müller
Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, 00120 Città del Vaticano
E-mail: cdf@cfaith.va – Tel. 06.6988-3438 Fax: 06.6988-5088

CONGREGAÇÃO PARA A EDUCAÇÃO CATÓLICA - DOS SEMINÁRIOS E DOS INSTITUTOS DE ESTUDO:

Eminência Reverendíssima Dom Zenon Cardeal Grocholewski:
Piazza Pio XII, 3 00193 – Città del Vaticano – ROMA
Tel. 06.6988-3438 Fax: 06.6988-5088

CONGREGAÇÃO PARA OS INSTITUTOS DE VIDA CONSAGRADA E SOCIEDADES DE VIDA APOSTÓLICA 

Excelência Reverendíssima Dom João Braz de Aviz:
Piazza Pio XII, 3 00193 – Città del Vaticano – ROMA
Tel. 06.6988-3438 Fax: 06.6988-5088
Senhor Prefeito: +39. 06. 69884121
Senhor Arcebispo Secretário Joseph William Tobin, C.SS.R.: +39. 06. 69884584
E-mail: civcsva.pref@ccscrlife.va (Prefeito)
civcsva.segr@ccscrlife.va (Secretário)
vati059@ccscrlife.va (informação)

CONGREGAÇÃO PARA O CLERO

Eminência Reverendíssima Dom Mauro Cardeal Piacenza:
Piazza Pio XII, 3 00193 – Città del Vaticano – ROMA
Tel: (003906) 69884151, fax: (003906) 69884845
Email: clero@cclergy.va (Secretário)

SUPREMO TRIBUNAL DA ASSINATURA APOSTÓLICA

Eminência Reverendíssima Dom Raymond Cardeal Leo Burke.
Piazza della Cancelleria, 1 – 00186 ROMA
Tel. 06.6988-7520 Fax: 06.6988-7553

Tip of the Iceberg CNA Article on Science and Faith

How do we know there is no contradiction between biology and belief in God? Certainly not by the methods of science. Its called logic...

Scientists: No Contradiction Between Evolutionary Biology And Belief In God

RIMINI, ITALY, August 24 (CNA) .- Evolutionary biology and faith in God are not incompatible, two professors asserted at the international Rimini Meeting, an event that brings hundreds of thousands of people to Italy.

"A proper understanding of creation, especially an understanding set forth by a thinker such as Thomas Aquinas, [I'm pleasantly surprised that the Aristotelian perspective was put forth rather than the same old lame Christian scientistic view] helps us to see that there is no conflict between evolutionary biology or any of the natural sciences and a fundamental understanding that all that 'is', is caused by God," Professor William E. Carroll of Oxford University's theology faculty told CNA Aug. 22.

"Evolutionary biology is that area of science which helps us to understand better the origin and development of human beings, but whatever those arguments are in evolutionary biology they, in principle, do not conflict with the fundamental understanding that all that 'is' is created by God," Carroll said. ["Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a much more pointed way of putting it.]

Professor Carroll was a keynote speaker at the Rimini Meeting, an international gathering organized by the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation. From August 19 to 25 the event in the Italian seaside town of Rimini is exploring a range of contemporary cultural issues, including the relationship between faith, reason and science.

"God causes the world to be the kind of world which it is and the natural sciences help to disclose what kind of a world we have," Carroll explained. [Why vs. How]

Sharing a platform with him was Professor Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Both men expressed a particular appreciation for Pope Benedict XVI's ongoing efforts to encourage greater dialogue between faith and science.

"There is a spectrum of intransigence in the religious community and in the scientific community," Tattersall remarked, explaining, "that is why the dialogue is useful because maybe it will broaden flexibility on both sides." [Unlikely. Secular humanism is a 'religion' of its own which at its core takes the utility of technology as a core value for mankind. Technology only grows by modern sciences...and the 'old' sciences of philosophy and particularly theology...ought to be committed to the flames...they are fairy tales.]

In January 2012, Pope Benedict established a new Science and Faith Foundation, which will be headquartered at the Vatican. He said that his aim in doing so is to build a "philosophical bridge" between science and theology.

"One of the great insights of the Pope, which he continually emphasizes, is an enlargement of reason, a recognition that rationality is not limited to what the natural sciences do but that there's a larger sense of rationality that includes both philosophy and theology," Carroll said. [Exactly. The science before science... However, I'd be interested to know what Pope Benedict has specifically written on the topic...I haven't heard much. Do any readers know?]

He suggested that the recent debate has occasionally become confused by the interventions of high-profile scientists like Richard Dawkins or Lawrence Krauss. [Obviously. They are promoters of scientism.]

Both, he claimed, "are really ignorant of philosophy and theology, and so they make all sorts of goofy philosophical and theological claims."

"Science is a different way of knowing than spiritual faith [and even different still from philosophical or first principles type knowing], both answer to a need that humans have 'to know,' but they are answering different parts of the question," added Tattersall.

In fact, Tattersall pointed out, "many scientists are believers, so there's certainly no incompatibility in principle between the two." [And that my friends was the worst way you could ever end this article. If the context in which he said this is true....Tattersall is just as bad as the rest... Where is the logic in that? Many scientists believe in God therefore there is no incompatibility. Ad hominem anyone?]

 On the whole this article summarizes very well the issues at hand. I would be interested to hear/read Pope Benedict's deepest thoughts on metaphysics and this bridge he is talking about building. Or rebuilding that is. 

Fulton Sheen on Tolerance

The modern world's most treasured virtue....tolerance as it is explained today

...Turns out not to be a virtue but flip flopping and indifference. 

March For Life Founder Passes, Funeral in Extraordinary Form

From Rorate we hear ththe details of Nellie Gray's funeral. Nellie started the largest annual Catholic event/gathering in the United States where nearly about 300,000 gather in DC.

The following notice is from the website of the parish of St. Mary, Mother of God, the home of the Traditional Latin Mass in Washington DC. Emphases are by Rorate.

NELLIE GRAY'S FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

Nellie Gray's Funeral mass will be a Traditional Requiem.

The choir will sing Tomas Luis de Victoria: Missa Pro Defunctis.

It will take place at St. Mary, Mother of God Parish in Washington, D.C., on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 11:00am.

Cardinal O' Malley will be present for the Mass in choir.

St. Mary's is located in Chinatown at 727 5th Street NW, Washington, DC.

There is limited seating in the church so please plan accordingly.

Friends may call at the church to pay their respects on Thursday August 23, from 6:00 to 9:00pm.

There will be a Vigil Service at 7:30pm on Thursday, presided over by Fr. Alfred Harris, Nellie's pastor, followed by a eulogy delivered by Pastor Luke Robinson of the Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick, Maryland.

Pastor Robinson is a long-standing supporter of the March for Life and a devoted friend to Nellie. There will also be a visitation period on Friday morning from 10:00-11:00am, just prior to the funeral mass.