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Oct 2 06 1:52 AM
Quote:So Lets see. The BBC a British News Corp in a Country that set up their own protestant religion denying the true scriptures and since has hated Catholics and the Church is airing an anti Catholic Docudrama.
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Oct 2 06 3:27 AM
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Oct 2 06 3:32 AM
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Quote:I believe the conclave of Cardinals has made a very big mistake in choosing this man as pope to lead us. In the picture of him here he looks like something evil. I beleive he will lead the church downhill as long as he is pope. There will never be another John Paul II but I beleive they should have chose the Cardinal from Africa to be our pope.The church will steadly decline with the pope we now have now.- Bill Hutchinson, Paramount USALINK
Oct 2 06 4:22 AM
Quote:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------And why did B send his lawyers into action to successfully claim "head of state" privilege?
Oct 2 06 5:09 AM
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Oct 2 06 5:26 AM
Quote:Of coure, the FACT that they are using Papal Documents...
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Oct 2 06 6:32 AM
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Oct 2 06 7:06 AM
Oct 2 06 7:19 AM
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Oct 2 06 8:59 AM
Quote:LETTER TO ALL BISHOPS, ORDINARIES AND HIERARCHS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCHCONCERNING THE GRAVE DELICTS RESERVED TO THE CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITHIn order to fulfill the ecclesiastical law, which states in Article 52 of the apostolic constitution on the Roman Curia, "[The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith] examines delicts against faith and more grave delicts both against morals and committed in the celebration of the sacraments which have been reported to it and, if necessary, proceeds to declare or impose canonical sanctions according to the norm of common or proper law,"(1) it was necessary first to define the method of proceeding in delicts against the faith: This was accomplished through the norms titled Agendi Ratio in Doctrinarum Examine, ratified and confirmed by the supreme pontiff, Pope John Paul II, together with Articles 28-29 approved in forma specifica.(2)At approximately the same time, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, through an ad hoc commission established, devoted itself to a diligent study of the canons on delicts both of the Code of Canon Law and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches in order to determine "more grave delicts both against morals and in the celebration of the sacraments" and in order to make special procedural norms "to declare or impose canonical sanctions," because the instruction Crimen Sollicitationis, issued by the supreme sacred Congregation of the Holy Office on March 16, 1962,(3) in force until now, was to be reviewed when the new canonical codes were promulgated.Having carefully considered opinions and having made the appropriate consultations, the work of the commission finally was completed. The fathers of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith examined the commission's work carefully and submitted to the supreme pontiff conclusions on the determination of more grave delicts and the manner of proceeding to declare or impose sanctions, with the exclusive competence in this of the apostolic tribunal of this congregation remaining firm. All these things, approved by the supreme pontiff himself, were confirmed and promulgated by the apostolic letter given motu proprio beginning with the words Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela.The more grave delicts both in the celebration of the sacraments and against morals reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith are:-Delicts against the sanctity of the most august eucharistic sacrifice and the sacraments, namely:1. Taking or retaining the consecrated species for a sacrilegious purpose or throwing them away.(4)2. Attempting the liturgical action of the eucharistic sacrifice or simulating the same.(5)3. Forbidden concelebration of the eucharistic sacrifice with ministers of ecclesial communities which do not have apostolic succession and do not recognize the sacramental dignity of priestly ordination.(6)4. Consecrating for a sacrilegious purpose one matter without the other in the eucharistic celebration or even both outside a eucharistic celebration.(7)-Delicts against the sanctity of the sacrament of penance, namely:1. Absolution of an accomplice in sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue.( 2. Solicitation in the act, on the occasion or under the pretext of confession, to sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue, if it is directed to sin with the confessor himself.(9)3. Direct violation of the sacramental seal.(10)-A delict against morals, namely: the delict committed by a cleric against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue with a minor below the age of 18 years.Only these delicts, which are indicated above with their definition, are reserved to the apostolic tribunal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.As often as an ordinary or hierarch has at least probable knowledge of a reserved delict, after he has carried out the preliminary investigation he is to indicate it to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which unless it calls the case to itself because of special circumstances of things, after transmitting appropriate norms, orders the ordinary or hierarch to proceed ahead through his own tribunal. The right of appealing against a sentence of the first instance, whether on the part of the party or the party's legal representative, or on the part of the promoter of justice, solely remains valid only to the supreme tribunal of this congregation.It must be noted that the criminal action on delicts reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is extinguished by a pre*****ion of 10 years.(11) The pre*****ion runs according to the universal and common law;(12) however, in the delict perpetrated with a minor by a cleric, the pre*****ion begins to run from the day when the minor has completed the 18th year of age.In tribunals established by ordinaries or hierarchs, the functions of judge, promoter of justice, notary and legal representative can validly be performed for these cases only by priests. When the trial in the tribunal is finished in any fashion, all the acts of the case are to be transmitted ex officio as soon as possible to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.All tribunals of the Latin church and the Eastern Catholic churches are bound to observe the canons on delicts and penalties, and also on the penal process of both codes respectively, together with the special norms which are transmitted by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for an individual case and which are to be executed entirely.Cases of this kind are subject to the pontifical secret.Through this letter, sent by mandate of the supreme pontiff to all the bishops of the Catholic Church, to superiors general of clerical religious institutes of pontifical right and clerical societies of apostolic life of pontifical right, and to other interested ordinaries and hierarchs, it is hoped not only that more grave delicts will be entirely avoided, but especially that ordinaries and hierarchs have solicitous pastoral care to look after the holiness of the clergy and the faithful even through necessary sanctions.Rome, from the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, May 18, 2001.Cardinal Joseph RatzingerPrefectArchbishop Tarcisio Bertone, SDBSecretary
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Oct 2 06 9:22 AM
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Oct 3 06 9:36 AM
Quote:I MAY jumstart some brains there...
Oct 3 06 4:21 PM
Quote:BBC has Tried to Inflict Grave Damage on Pope says CardinalLifeSiteNews ^ | 10/3/06 | Hilary WhitePosted on 10/03/2006 4:12:13 PM PDT by wagglebeeLONDON, October 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) News sources around the world are featuring headlines today such as Pope linked to child abuse cover-up and Pope protects pedophile clerics after this weekends airing of a BBC film claiming that Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was personally complicit in a massive cover-up of the abuse of children by homosexual and pedophile priests.The BBC has come under severe criticism for its Panorama program which relied exclusively on the interpretation of the evidence of two men, Colm OGorman, a crusader on sexual abuse by priests, and Fr. Tom Doyle, an American priest well known for his voluble dissent from Catholic teaching.In a letter of protest to the BBC, Englands Catholic primate, Cormac Cardinal Murphy OConnor, said the BBCs program deliberately tried to inflict grave damage on the Pope.It is quite clear to me that the main focus of the program is to seek to connect Benedict XVI with cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church. This is malicious and untrue and based on a false presentation of Church documents, the Cardinal said.Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor said he could not understand why the BBC made no attempt to allow the Church a response to Doyles and OGormans accusations.I must ask if within the BBC there is a persistent bias against the Catholic Church. There will be many, not only Catholics, who will wonder if the BBC is any longer willing to be truly objective in some of its presentations," he said.Beginning and ending with lurid videos of convicted pedophile former priests outlining their crimes and emotional interviews with victims and their families, the program focused on claims made by Doyle that two documents issued by the Vatican constituted a plot by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to cover up crimes by priests.Colm O'Gorman is the founder and director of One in Four, an Irish organization that supports victims of sex abuse but which also has openly anti-Catholic and and liberal biases. OGorman, who was himself abused as a teenager, was responsible for exposing the complicity of Irish bishops in the homosexal abuse scandals in that country. His case against the Catholic bishop and diocese of Ferns was settled in 2003 with an admission of negligence and payment of damages.Doyle is well known in the US as an unapologetic opponent of Catholic teaching, and is a leader among those US dissident Catholics who have used the homosexual abuse scandal to further their decades-long campaign against the Church. Doyle is a favorite with left-leaning publications in the US and Canada including the Boston Globe, the Catholic New Times and the National Catholic Reporter.In 2002, Doyle was honoured at a meeting of Voice of the Faithful in Boston where he said that the sex abuse crisis is the beginning death throes of the medieval, monarchical model that was based on the belief that a small, select minority of the educated, privileged, and power-invested was called forth by God to manage the temporal and spiritual lives of the faceless masses. This is not the first time the BBC has come under fire from Catholics for their anti-Catholic biases. Three years ago, the BBC produced another Panorama program, titled, Sex and the Holy City, that Archbishop Nichols called an example of the BBCs hostility to the Church.At that time, after meetings with BBC officials, Nichols said, I was able to express the deep disquiet felt by so many Catholics and others at some aspects of BBC programmes with regard to religious belief in general and the Catholic Church in particular. Nichols said then that he was assured the BBC had given his concerns due consideration. Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:BBC Takes Sensational, Misleading Shot at Pope Benedict
Oct 3 06 4:26 PM
Quote:The BBC has come under severe criticism for its Panorama program which relied exclusively on the interpretation of the evidence of two men, Colm OGorman, a crusader on sexual abuse by priests, and Fr. Tom Doyle, an American priest well known for his voluble dissent from Catholic teaching.
Oct 3 06 4:30 PM
Oct 3 06 4:34 PM
Quote:Book LaunchSexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults by Catholic clergy burst onto the American scene in 1984. Revelations about such abuse since then have confirmed that this tragedy is not limited to the U.S. Catholic Church, nor is it a new phenomenon that grew out of so-called secularizing trends of the late twentieth century. Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes clearly demonstrates a deep-seated problem that spans the Churchs history. This collection of documents from official and unofficial sources begins its survey in 60 CE and concludes with the contemporary scandal. It reveals an institution that has tried to come to grips with this devastating internal problem from its earliest years. At times circumspect and at other times open and direct, Church leaders tried a variety of means to rein in the various violations of clerical celibacy.The sexual abuse crisis is not isolated from the questions of the celibate practice of all Catholic clergy and the moral questions that involve marriage and all human sexual behaviors. These are the main, yet unspoken, reasons why sexual abuse has been such an inflammatory and dangerous issue for the hierarchy.One foundation of their power and control rests on the celibacy of the clergy. That area of religious ideal and personal practice has heretofore been shrouded in secrecy and taboo, certainly for the laity. That is no longer the situation. For the first time, certainly since the Protestant Reformation, the sexual life and adjustment of bishops and priests is open for discussion by lay people. This is the task of the new century: Clergy and lay people need to talk together about sexuality and how it affects them all.
Oct 3 06 4:39 PM
Quote:On the programme Colm O'Gorman said "the man in charge of enforcing it for 20 years was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the man made Pope last year".Last night he said the central thesis of the programme was based on a conclusion of the Ferns Report, published last October and unreservedly accepted by then Apostolic Administrator of Ferns diocese, Bishop Eamonn Walsh.Page 15 of the Ferns Report observed of Crimen Sollicitationis, "it is of interest to the inquiry as it also specifically dealt with how priests who abused children were to be handled and imposed a high degree of secrecy on all church officials involved in such cases. The penalty for breach of this secrecy was automatic excommunication. Even witnesses and complainants could be excommunicated if they broke the oath of secrecy".Noting the 1962 document did not deal just with the confessional, Colm O'Gorman said other elements in it concerned "external obscene acts with minors" as well as priests and bestiality. "Animals don't go to confession. It's about time the church stopped trying to spin these issues," he said. The Vatican had also ignored three written requests from Panorama to put forward a spokesman for the programme, he said
Oct 4 06 6:09 AM
Quote:Papal Prayer Intentions for SeptemberVATICAN CITY, AUG. 31, 2006 (Zenit.org).- During the month of September, Benedict XVI will pray especially for responsible use of the means of social communication.Specifically, the Pope's general intention for September is: "That those who use the means of social communication may always do so consciously and responsibly."The Apostleship of Prayer announced the general and missionary prayer intentions chosen by the Holy Father.The Pontiff, along with thousands of faithful worldwide, offers his prayers and sacrifices for the intentions.The Pope's missionary prayer intention for the month is: "For the People of God in mission lands: may they realize their right and duty to keep up-to-date with developments in the faith and the Church."
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