Posted on 08/17/2005 4:27:19 PM PDT by Frank Sheed
Confraternity of Catholic Clergy 2005 Resolutions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Members of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy at their 30th annual Convocation (August 1st – 5th, 2005) in Alhambra, CA, issued the following resolutions:
1. As loyal sons of the Church we pledge our total obedience, support and respect for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI as he begins his pontificate. We honor the memory and legacy of his predecessor, Pope John Paul the Great and we pray that God will grant our new Holy Father good health and long life as the Vicar of Christ on earth.
2. We pray for the success of the upcoming Synod of Bishops and we urge each and every diocesan bishop around the world to fully implement and norms and rubrics of the Revised Roman Missal of 2000 as contained in the Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani. We commit ourselves and ask all our brothers in Holy Orders (bishops, priests and deacons) to celebrate the Sacraments reverently, prayerfully and faithfully according to the universal and legitimate local liturgical laws. As we continue the Year of the Holy Eucharist, we remind our brethren of the centrality of the Sacred Liturgy as the source and summit of Christian life and we urge a complete adherence to roper celebration while denouncing and all abuses or illicit innovations.
3. Since the Second Vatican Council (Presbyterorum Ordinis # 4) teaches that the first and primary duty of the priest is to preach the Gospel and due to the fact that most of the faithful learn about Christ from what they hear at weekly Mass, we promise to prepare and to preach orthodox homilies to the best of our abilities and urge our brother priests and deacons to do likewise. In order to be effective and convincing preachers of the Word, the Church asks all clergy to foster ongoing spiritual and theological formation through prayer, study and fraternal support.
4. In the aftermath of the unjust killing and subsequent autopsy report on Terri Schiavo, we pledge our unequivocal support for the moral obligation to always provide normal care and ordinary means of medical treatment for all patients, especially the terminally ill and the physically and mentally disabled. We reiterate the recent official papal teaching that nutrition and hydration (food and water), regardless of the method they are delivered to the patient, are to be given to everyone, even those in a persistent vegetative state and to withhold or withdraw them while still effective is completely immoral.
5. We urge scientists to direct their efforts in finding treatments, cures and preventions for those afflicted with disease to use methods which are morally acceptable such as adult stem cell and umbilical cord research which do not involve the killing of innocent unborn life. We affirm the recent statement of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference of Bishops and remind all our Catholic voters and politicians, judges and legislators, that embryonic stem cell research is intrinsically evil since it requires the destruction of innocent human life. Anything which directly kills the human embryo or fetus is forbidden by divine and moral law.
Given on 5 August 2005
Orthodox priests and deacons PING!!!!!!!!!
Orthodoxy in LA no less!
How is it that I haven't heard of these guys? They have some great names on their Board--Fr. Levis, for example. I wish they'd publicize a list of members but I guess that would only invite repercussions.
Frank
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Back in the day, Fr. Levis used to talk about this group with Mother Angelica from time to time. It is a tremendously gifted and faithful group of priests.
BTTT!
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