Posted on 03/09/2007 9:39:24 PM PST by Caravaggio
In the face of modern challenges to the Faith, Catholics who have a high profile in media, culture and government have a very grave responsibility to witness it correctly; otherwise, they will be held accountable in heaven for their anti-witness which affects the faith of millions.
For example, last Friday Sean Hannity took a few moments out of his afternoon radio show to make an apology. When I heard that the rather brash Hannity was actually going to apologize for something I was interested to find out what that would be. At first he sounded very sincere in saying we have to take responsibility for our mistakes. Fine so far. Then he went on to tell his hearers that he had taken two bites of a chicken sandwich that day because he had been traveling and literally forgot it was a Friday of Lent. He stopped eating it when he realized it was a Friday, but he used the opportunity on the show to make a fairly big deal about the "eat meat on Friday and you can go to hell" issue.
Well, even though he claims to be a "good Catholic," Hannity is hardly a credible commentator on Catholic matters. The chicken sandwich scandal was fairly trivial in the overall scheme of his show, but it said much more about the depth of his faith than anything else. I suspect that a great number of Catholics live their faith in the same way—rule-bound and juvenile—but we need something better from a public "Catholic" like Hannity. We need a vibrant witness of someone who knows and embraces his Faith as deeply as he articulates his political passions.
(Excerpt) Read more at hli.org ...
CHAPTER II : DAYS OF PENANCE
Can. 1249 All Christ's faithful are obliged by divine law, each in his or her own way, to do penance. However, so that all may be joined together in a certain common practice of penance, days of penance are prescribed. On these days the faithful are in a special manner to devote themselves to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves, by fulfilling their obligations more faithfully and especially by observing the fast and abstinence which the following canons prescribe.
Can. 1250 The days and times of penance for the universal Church are each Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.
Can. 1251 Abstinence from meat, or from some other food as determined by the Episcopal Conference, is to be observed on all Fridays, unless a solemnity should fall on a Friday. Abstinence and fasting are to be observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
More attributing bad motives to other. You have the responsibility to get your facts straight.
The sex abuse problem is just one of the many manifestations of clergymen and members of the hierarchy who have been feminized and lost their courage to both speak the truth and enforce discipline. The fact that the “sins of the fathers” are now being reviewed in front of audiences of millions by lesbian-activist types like Rosie O’Donnell is in itself a real irony, but as Monsignor Ronald Knox used to say, for some people “any stick to beat the Church will do.”
Say everyone were practicing the pink-padre's natural planning nonsense. What would the outcomme be? Fertility rates like Italy and Spain, that's what. Have you read Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West"? Catholic countries are going out of existence giving way to Muslims.
Priests who are silent about the teaching on contraception also forget two very important things: first, priestly vocations generally come from large families. Failure to preach openness to life and generosity with children has a direct effect on how many men will be standing in the trenches with us later on. Contracepting this teaching has the same effect as contracepting the marital act: sterility. The persistent sterility of priestly vocations in the West is caused by priests who are silent about the plague of contraception among the laity and forget that their own vocations are the result of their parents' generosity with life. Overworked priests will be reaping the fruits of their silence on contraception for a long time.
In the meantime, Father insipid Eutenhaur is probably on the bandwagon to cannonize the apostate John Paul II, he of syncretist Assisi fame as he does his clown masses and runs around defiling the blessed sacrament with women crawling all over the sanctuary.
You assume again, and it reveals your sedevacantist position.
He is a hypocrite of the worst kind. He recommends having no children and disobeys Gods command to multiply. He is a phony and a coward.
TIme for your to head to the Confessional. You bear false witness, as the above has demonstrated. Here's a bit more evidence that you smear a good man:
From What is an exorcism?
The Catholic Church has a ritual of exorcism, revised in 1999, that is used by the priest in the performance of an exorcism. An exorcist may also use the ritual that was promulgated in 1614. In my opinion there is not even the slightest comparison of the two—the 1614 ritual is infinitely better.
Fr. Euteneur on the litury (from New Answers)
In the Church, nowhere was this confusion more evident to the average Catholic than in the liturgy. Suddenly altars were turned around to face the people and the vernacular replaced Latin. Some priests began using the Mass as their own platform or even stage, where they and their personalities were on display rather the focus being on the Lord and His Eucharistic Sacrifice. Some placed the “authority” of the so-called “New Morality” above the authority of the Church—namely God and His revealed Word—and we are suffering from that today. Catholics have a right to the Mass the Church gives us, not the improvisations of a given priest.
That the Mass be celebrated properly is vitally important because of the truth of the Latin phrase, "lex orandi, lex credere" — as the Church prays, so it believes. Distortions in the liturgy have created distortions and errors in the beliefs of many Catholics, which we see every day with Catholics who use contraception, Catholic politicians who support abortion and Catholics who vote for them. These Catholics are in grave error, yet defend themselves according to a faulty understanding of what the Church teaches or the error that one can pick and choose what teachings they will follow.
How do you know this man is "good"?
He attacked a very good man publically. He is a phony...and sure, the Holy See is vacant.
Too bad you are too blind to recognize it. Why would anyone go to confession to one of these pretenders?
How is a man who sees nothing wrong with contraception "very good?" If you want to talk hypocrisy, look in the mirror first.
Well, I was on Sean's side in that argument. Sean was talking about non-Catholics when he said that birth control is the lesser of two evils for them.
The priest was a bit rigid and cold. Sean was right to point out that men who boff little boys (as per the HUGE sex scandal in the Catholic Church) have lost a bit of their moral edge when speaking about sexual ethics.
Here in our Diocese the Bishop is closing Catholic schools left and right, and selling the properties, to pay an enormous sum--in the millions--to victims of priestly sexual abuse.
And, despite all the handwringing and all the promises, the abuses are still going on at an unprecedented rate.
You are either with the children or with the priest/ pedophiles.
Sean is with the children. God Bless him and his family.
That is exactly what you need to do....Eutenhaur is good but Hannity is bad?
I take it you're sinless, right?
and by the way, anyone who thinks this crowd of feminized philistines from Vatican II are the true church is deluded. Stevie Wonder can see they aren't. Sedevacantism is the only logical position.
Eutenhaur is a radical contraceptionist...he's using full blown science to recommend it to others including man made devices (thermometers), analytics....think the catholics of the middle ages had the same advantage this science-worshipping faker has? Hardly.
I have never stated such a prideful position. You continue to attack Fr. Euteneuer's supposed contraceptive stance, but fail to condemn Hannity's support for artificial contraception. You are the one looking through the blinders of a flawed philosophy.
So all priests are pedophiles? Is that what I'm hearing from you?
No. I did not say that. I said that the sex scandal in the modern Church involving the molestation and rape of young boys is unprecedented in width and breadth. It has caused many to turn away from the Church. It has caused untold chaos in untold numbers of lives-- the victims, their parents, their children, their spouses. And it goes all the way to the top. Because of it, many churches and schools are being closed to pay for the sins of the vile perverts involved.
Billions, not just millions, have been paid by the universal church to defend the perverts; to facilitate them in transferring from one area of the country to another, or from one country to another; and to pay for the cushy retirement of the perverts, taking care of them for the rest of their rotten lives.
This cannot be denied. I have a thousand links for you if you doubt me and my word.
First of all, it's nice to read and see some good, practicing Catholics on this thread. I suppose the liberals and fallen away Catholics I talk to on another board have discouraged me a bit.
I'm discouraged that Sean Hannity disapproves of CINOs such as Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, and John Kerry because they don't follow all the teachings of the faith, but he in turn doesn't follow all the teachings of the faith. I'm also surprised a conservative such as himself as decided to back Rudi for President. Of course he's not nearly as bad as them, but he still is encouraging a method that the Church is opposed to. I think that birth control can allow a couple to view the other as more of sexual objects and pregnancy as a defect. It can lead some to the abortion mentality but not all. I realize those outside the Church will probably continue to use it, but personally, I plan to use NFP.
Go to his website www.hli.org (he's the President of Human Life International) and you can read some of his writings and what the organisation's doing to further the pro-life movement.
I've seen him on EWTN a few times and he's a great advocate to have in our battle against the Culture of Death.
Great post Pyro.
Tribemike, do you realise you are guilty of CALUMNY when you call the good Fr Euteneuer "a likely homosexual" and "pink padre"? Do you realise calumny is a serious sin? It's bearing false witness.
All your other arguments are lost on me because the vile things you say reveal you're not interested in genuine debate but just trying to find mud to sling on a Church you despise.
. Sedevacantism is the only logical position.
I was gathering that you were a sedevac or at least an SSPX from the tone of your posts and your vehement attacks on all Vatican II.
Now you have confirmed it.
That allows me to disregard all your posts as rubbish.
Where did you post that?
SSPX is more like it...but your posts are rubbish as well...
You are probably one of those cafeteria types that are aghast at someone like Hannity being pro-contraception but would vote for a sodomite like Barney Frank or look the other way with queer priests....
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