Stand Up 4 Vatican II

I posted a while back on a bunch of fruitcakes claiming to"Stand Up for Vatican II". What they actually mean, of course, is that they don't like the Benedictine renewal that is happening and want us to accept their blinkered vision of "the spirit" of VII.

Now comes a must see.

Have a look here Catholics for a Changing Church

Compare and contrast Geriatrics for a Changing Church

What a hoot!

Football

You've got to love this advert, even if the beer is blech!

@vatican_va on Twitter - or is it?

Seemingly the Vatican have launched a Twitter feed, or have they? From Catholic News Service comes this story:

VATICAN CITY — Over the weekend some media announced that the Vatican had opened a Twitter feed. Intrigued, I quickly went to @vatican_va on Twitter. At first glance, it looked like the Vatican — there was the Vatican coat of arms, the Vatican flag and a link to the Vatican Web site. And hundreds of tweets in many languages, linking to Vatican Radio stories.

Then I e-mailed Father Federico Lombardi, who heads both the Vatican press office and Vatican Radio. I got a response rather quickly, and a surprising one. He said the Twitter feed was news to him, and that neither the press office nor Vatican Radio was doing the tweeting. A call to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications elicited a similar response: it wasn’t them, and they didn’t know who it was.

Hmmm. This was beginning to look more and more like online impersonation.  Perhaps not the first, either: I knew there was already a @vaticanen Twitter feed that also identified itself as “Vatican” without, as far as I knew, any authorization.

A few more calls around the Vatican this morning elicited more surprise and some concern. I have the impression that Vatican Radio may be seriously considering a Twitter feed, and doesn’t like being hijacked like this.

At this point, no one I’ve spoken with here has any idea who’s tweeting for the Vatican. More as it develops…

 Curious indeed!

Saint Timothy and Saint Titus

Saints Timothy and Titus where early bishops and today is their memorial.

The breviary says: Timothy and Titus were disciples and helpers of the apostle Paul, the former being placed in charge of the Church at Epheus, the latter the Church at Crete. Saint Paul wrote his pastoral epistles to them, containing much useful advice for the instruction of the clergy and people.

The Conversion of St Paul

I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant; you are to tell others what you have seen of me today, amd what I will show you in the future. I will save you from the people of Israel and from the Gentiles, to whom I will send you. You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.

Acts 26: 16b-18.

Lost for words

Thought for a Tuesday

And only where God is seen does life truly begin.
Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is.
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution.
Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.
There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ.

There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with him.

Pope Benedict XVI, Homily, Sunday 24 April 2005

Abortion

Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord,
And let perpetual Light shine upon them.
May their souls
And the souls of all the faithful departed
Through the mercy of God
Rest in peace.
Amen

Not in my name!

Thanks to a post on Fr Ray Blake's blog I made a bad mistake and had a look at the Catholics for a Changing Church website.

Without wishing to be unkind and in the spirit of Christian charity - what a bunch of fruitcakes!

How can any organisation calling itself Catholic state: "[We] began as a protest movement against Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical in 1968, in which artificial means of contraception were banned"?

So, an organisation founded on dissent and disobedience is trying to mandate what should happen in the Church? Truly the words lunatics and asylum spring to mind.

I suspect their understanding of "Catholic" is somewhat different to mine.

These wallopers are now allying themselves with another bunch of bangers calling themselves "STANDUP4VATICAN2". Is that some sort of attempt at txt speak?

The best bit of the website however is the Executive Committee page which proves, beyond doubt, that "the Spirit of Vatican 2" belongs to a bygone era! Ageing hippies indeed!

The aggressive pro-homosexual agenda

Fr Tim Finigan draws attention on his great blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity to the demands of Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, that Faith Schools be required to teach that homosexuality is "normal and harmless".

As Fr Finigan says: "It is an indication of the lack of effective opposition from Churches ... in particular from the Catholic Church, that the leader of one of our mainstream parties feels that it is a politically advantageous move to threaten the persecution of "Faith Schools"..."

Have a look again at Fr Dwight's "Slippery Slope" by clicking here. Point no 10 says: "Tolerance being won, they will not stop. They now demand not only that you tolerate, but that you approve. They've moved from being 'sick' or 'wounded' or 'disabled' by their condition to tolerance, and now they proclaim their condition to be 'good'."

St Michael: Pray for us.