Posted on 03/05/2015 6:03:37 AM PST by marshmallow
ROME — Despite a frenzy in the conservative Catholic blogosphere, a high-profile priest who volunteers as an English-language assistant to the Vatican press office says he’s not planning to take legal action against a Canadian blogger who had criticized him, and considers the matter closed.
The Rev. Thomas Rosica, also a Canadian, said Wednesday he never planned to sue the blogger, and also insisted that he’s not a “high-ranking Vatican official” and hence there was never any prospect of the Vatican taking action.
On Feb. 17, Rosica sent David Domet, a musician who runs a blog called “Vox Cantoris,” a letter through the Toronto-based law firm Fogler, Rubinoff demanding the removal of nine statements that Domet had posted about Rosica. The letter said the statements were “false and defamatory for suggesting that the priest is dishonest, untrustworthy, and willing to act unethically to further his own agenda.”
When Domet posted the letter, it generated a mini-tempest among some Catholic commentators, often based on the impression that the Vatican was cracking down on conservative voices.
On Wednesday, Rosica released a statement saying he had only responded “as an individual and in no institutional capacity to the Vatican or to my place of work, to the continuous false, [and] slanderous statements of the blogger.”
“It was never my intention to sue, but rather to issue a letter to ‘cease and desist’ the frivolous calumny,” the statement said.
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I know nothing about this matter. Were the statements true or false?
I recommend every to rethink staying with a Marxist Pope.
You really need to find a better source than cruxnow.com for Catholic news.
I love the Eucharist too much to ever leave. Throughout the history of the Catholic church there have been popes bot great and not great, but Christ always remains and to be with Him I will stay.
It's been all over the blogosphere. Both Fr. Z and Voris, to name but two, have pieces about it on their respective web sites.
Were the statements true or false? Debatable. HERE they are.
Go Lutheran and get a proper Eucharist.
I appreciate the invitation. For me, the proper Eucharist belongs to the Catholic and Apostolic Church that Christ himself began where the host truly becomes the body and blood of Christ in substance through transubstantiation. He is not merely present in the bread, but the bread itself is His body and blood.
He never planned to sue the blogger? Of course not. That’s why he had a law firm send him a threatening letter.
LOL.
As I pointed out in an earlier post on another thread. I’m a lollardy Consubstantiationist with a strong streak of memorialism. But I wasn’t referring to which miracle one believes in.
My understanding and experience from years ago was that the Catholics soak their wafers in wine while the priestly order takes the wafer and the wine separately. This reinforces the notion that the Clergy holds special privilege. This is reminiscent of paganism with high priests, their acolyte and then the unwashed masses. A patriarchal-oligarchy, much like we have the gap between politician and voter.
This is because Catholics believe it would be sacrilegious to let a few drops of wine spill or splatter. So to mitigate that ordinary parishioners don’t get the actual Eucharist proper during normal service.
Has this changed? Or did I happen upon a freak Catholic Parish?
I am a cradle Catholic that has been to many churches and I have never seen intinction ( the soaking of wine into the wafers) that you describe in a Catholic Church. My father’s episcopalian church I saw do this, but never a Catholic Church. It is not permitted. You must have found a rogue parish.
Any law firm that threatens litigation and doesn’t follow through, is worthless.
My sense tells me that the Vatican intervened and instructed them to drop the matter.
Self intinction is prohibited but a priest may offer Holy Communion by intinction. This is a post VatII thing. Many (if not all?) of the eastern rites normally distribute Holy Communion in this manner.
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