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Examination of Conscience

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This should be expanded to include other issues that affecting Catholic consciences,
such as fair justice, feeding hungry, caring for the sick, clothing the naked, etc.
Unless the Church gets tough on all the issues, we’ll look like an organization
of hypocrites.

I have a weird deja vu feeling right now, as if I blogged about this kind of thing
a looooong time ago. I tried looking back in the archives, but I couldn’t find a
match. *shrug*

Defiant
Catholic Voters Shouldn’t Receive Communion, Say 2 Bishops
Prelates in Colorado and Oregon Extend Warnings Beyond Politicians

“COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, MAY 14, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Bishop Michael Sheridan says
that Catholics should not receive Communion if they vote for politicians who defy
Church teaching by supporting abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia or stem-cell
research.”

Billy Boy

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Catholic priest preaches first sermon at splinter church
JUDY LIN, Associated Press

&quotSEWICKLEY, Pa. – Celebrating Mass for the first time at his unsanctioned splinter church, the Rev. Bill Hausen on Sunday urged some 300 people to stop procrastinating before they ‘;die without really having lived.’"

Breakaway priest is excommunicated
Diocese issues warning to parishioners
Friday, May 07, 2004
By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The Rev. William Hausen ‘has incurred an automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church’ for forming an independent church and conducting a religious service last weekend, officials for the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh said yesterday."

Notification Concerning Father C. William Hausen
Contact: Rev. Ronald P. Lengwin, 412.456.3021 (office) 412.261.2113 (home)
FOR RELEASE: May 6, 2004

" PITTSBURGH – According to an official Notification published in the May 7, 2004 Pittsburgh Catholic, Father C. William Hausen ‘has incurred an automatic excommunication from the Catholic Church.’"

Text of Notification
May 6, 2004

The Vicar for Canonical Services, the Very Reverend Lawrence A. DiNardo, VE, JCL, has issued the following Notification regarding the canonical status of the Reverend C. William Hausen and the Christ Hope Ecumenical Catholic Church.

 

Not in My Backyard

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Bishop Wuerl had better do something about this.

Kerry Takes Communion on Mother’s Day
May 9, 4:59 PM (ET)
By MIKE GLOVER

"PITTSBURGH (AP) – Democrat John Kerry attended Mother’s Day Mass on Sunday and took communion although some Roman Catholic leaders say he should not receive it because his abortion-rights stance violates church teachings."

Just How Liberal Are Those Arts?

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As a frequenter of the Ryan
Catholic Newman Center, I’m always happy to pass along information about his
ministry and its continuation. This, however, would warrant posting anyhow. The
sad fact is that some of the abuses reported can be found in Newman Clubs at such
schools as Colorado School of Mines (a non-Catholic school and thus left out of
the study). [It has been brought to my attention that the specific ills mentioned
on the site are not found in the Mines Newman Club. However, my source assured me
that there’s plenty of cafeteria Catholicism to worry a loyal Newmanite.]

Watchdog
group exposes Catholic campus scandals

“Washington, Apr. 30 (CWNews.com) – An independent Catholic group has released a
report of scandals at Catholic colleges in the US, noting that the detailed information
‘is certain to reignite concerns about the colleges’ religious character.'”

Critical Mass

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Translation is not the appropriate forum for progressive theological revision of the Mass. If anti-traditionalists want to butcher the liturgy and fill it with nonsense, they’ll have to work toward amending the official Latin version of the Novus Ordo. The only faults that should be pointed out in the new translation are those of grammar, style, and semantics, not theology.

Former ICEL official faults new Mass translation

"Sydney, Apr. 29 (CWNews.com) – Speaking on an Australian radio program, the former executive secretary of the International Committee for English in the Liturgy (ICEL) sharply criticized new procedures for liturgical translations, charging that the Vatican has endorsed ‘a more secretive process and definitely a process that seems to be less open to the wider Church.’"