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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
St. Kateri Tekakwitha
2012-10-22 Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) The canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha marks the first time a Native North American has been raised to the altars. Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks”, Kateri was born in what is now New York. She moved to Quebec shortly after her baptism. Pilgrims from both Canada and the United States have come to Rome to attend her canonization.
Canada’s Ambassador to the Holy See, Anne Leahy, is part of a high-level Canadian government delegation to the canonization. She spoke with Vatican Radio about Kateri’s significance today. “Kateri Tekakwitha being recognised by the Catholic Church is of importance not only to First Nations peoples or to Catholics, because the mere fact of being recognised as such means that she is really put up as a model for the universal Church, but as a model, in fact, by her life, by her beliefs, by her steadfastness—these are qualities for all individuals, and not only those associated with her immediate background or religion.”
As the first native North American saint, Ambassador Leahy says St. Kateri’s life embodies the history of the encounter of the Catholic missionaries and the First Nations peoples. Ambassador Leahy says “Her life embodies, in many ways, the convergence of the values that her people had, in terms of their spirituality, a certain convergence with the Catholic Faith that the Jesuits brought.”
Ambassador Leahy notes that Saint Kateri was proposed by Bd. John Paul II as a model for young people at World Youth Day in Toronto in 2012. And, because the First Nations peoples are so closely associated with love of creation and of the environment, Kateri is also seen as a patron of the environment and of ecology. That, she says, “still makes [Kateri] quite modern” and relevant in today’s world.
(Vatican Radio) The canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha marks the first time a Native North American has been raised to the altars. Known as the “Lily of the Mohawks”, Kateri was born in what is now New York. She moved to Quebec shortly after her baptism. Pilgrims from both Canada and the United States have come to Rome to attend her canonization. Canada’s Ambassador to the Holy See, Anne Leahy, is part of a high-level Canadian government delegation to the canonization. She spoke with Vatican Radio about Kateri’s significance today. “Kateri Tekakwitha being recognised by the Catholic Church is of importance not only to First Nations peoples or to Catholics, because the mere fact of being recognised as such means that she is really put up as a model for the universal Church, but as a model, in fact, by her life, by her beliefs, by her steadfastness—these are qualities for all individuals, and not only those associated with her immediate background or religion.”
As the first native North American saint, Ambassador Leahy says St. Kateri’s life embodies the history of the encounter of the Catholic missionaries and the First Nations peoples. Ambassador Leahy says “Her life embodies, in many ways, the convergence of the values that her people had, in terms of their spirituality, a certain convergence with the Catholic Faith that the Jesuits brought.”
Ambassador Leahy notes that Saint Kateri was proposed by Bd. John Paul II as a model for young people at World Youth Day in Toronto in 2012. And, because the First Nations peoples are so closely associated with love of creation and of the environment, Kateri is also seen as a patron of the environment and of ecology. That, she says, “still makes [Kateri] quite modern” and relevant in today’s world.
Friday, October 19, 2012
To Be a Priest
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
The Hypocrisy of Contemporary Tolerance
This work of art is not art at all but another piece of contemporary garbage made in the name of creativity. Tolerance as society defines it today allows such works as this one to be done under the notion that all have the freedom to express themselves, which they do. Just because someone has the freedom to do something does not give him the right to do so. Just because one can does not mean that one ought. When freedom is divorced from responsibility it becomes a mockery of itself. Society as they would have it allows such blatant and offensive acts against Christianity, but goes out of its way to not dare offend followers of Islam. In an age of absolute relativism, true tolerance is being abolished in the name of tolerance.
Pax et bonum,
Mike
'Piss Christ' by Andres Serrano
NEW YORK, NY (Catholic League) - Bill Donohue, the President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights comments as follows:
On September 27, the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery in mid-town Manhattan will host an exhibit, "Body and Spirit: Andres Serrano 1987-2012," that features Serrano's "Piss Christ" piece; it shows a crucifix submerged in a jar of his own urine. The exhibit ends October 26.
Serrano has said that "Piss Christ" was "meant to question the whole notion of what is acceptable and unacceptable." There is not much to question: decent people know it is unacceptable.
But in elite cultural circles, anti-Christian art is not only acceptable, it is laudatory. Just don't offend Muslims. To wit: this week a disrespectful French cartoon of Muhammad was not shown on any of the network or cable TV news shows.
In 2006, when the Danish cartoons that angered Muslims appeared, not only were they not shown on the networks or cable, newspapers all across the nation refused to do so. In fact, the leading newspapers echoed the position of the New York Times: it said it was wrong to publish "gratuitous assaults on religious grounds."
Yet this same newspaper, in the same article about the Danish cartoons, reproduced the "dung on the Virgin Mary" artwork that was shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensation" exhibition in 1999! To show how acceptable anti-Christian art is, three days after "Sensation" opened, Christie's sponsored a "Piss Christ" print exhibit.
"Piss Christ," which dates back to the late 1980s, wouldn't matter as much to Christians in 2012 if it weren't for the supine statements offered by the Obama administration in the wake of an anti-Islamic video.
Never before have Americans learned how deeply offended our elites are by anti-religious fare. If only we could believe them. When have they ever condemned anti-Christian movies or art?
Courtesy of catholic.org
Friday, October 5, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
NYC Public Schools Giving Out Plan-B
Pax et Bonum,
Mike
WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - TheAssociated Press reported that "New York City is dispensing the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14 at more than 50 public high schools, sometimes even before they have had sex." This is part of a program which bears the acronym CATCH, "Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health".
The program bypasses the primacy of parents in their indispensable role in the lives of their children way of its use of an "opt out" requirement rather than an "opt in". The presumption of the Nanny State social engineers in New York City is that these girls as young as 14 have some kind of right to get these drugs, free of charge.
Courtesy of www.catholic.org
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