[My2Cents]

Why did this student last beyond January 12th?

[My2Cents]

I note that every lecture contains a discussion of sex. I see a pattern here.

However, this is a pretty good gig -- being able to stand up before a class in a seminar, spout one's personal beliefs and convictions regardless of how heretical they may be, and get paid for it.

[onyx]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

[Mark in the Old South]

Catholic University Ping

[Mark in the Old South]

My top picks for offensiveness.

1. The Eucharist is essentially a meal shared by an assembly.

2. Marriage is out of fashion: "It has never survived the Industrial Revolution and won't". The Church should have nothing to do with marriage.

3. "We are the Body of Christ" is how the Eucharist becomes the Body of Christ.

4. The lecturer has "lots of reservations" regarding church counseling pregnant women considering abortion.

5. "Confession is not about telling sins" and "It's about personal growth" counseling.


This student should never fear. He can always apply at Holy Cross, the SSPX Seminary in Australia.

[nickcarraway]

The concept of original sin was influenced by St Augustine's "dislike of sex".

Obviously this person never read the Confessions. Obviously, St. Augustine overcame the opposite problem. Of course, I see people around here say the same thing.

[GrannyML]

How disheartening! Prayers offered up...

[gbcdoj]

Posts like this need a barf alert.

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is apparently nothing new in Australian 'Catholic' education.

Let me conclude with a personal testimony. One of my professors in the seminary in Sydney, Australia, taught year after year—in the classroom and in published articles—that the Resurrection of Jesus was a spiritual, non-miraculous event that left his mortal remains somewhere to decay. This meant that the Gospel accounts of his subsequent physical appearances were mere mythologized descriptions of internal, intangible "experiences of grace" in the hearts and minds of the disciples. Archbishop Edward B. Clancy of Sydney, who had been a Scripture professor in the same seminary, was aware that this was being taught to his future priests, but showed no outward signs of concern.

The Vatican’s doctrinal congregation was concerned. When its prefect, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, learned of this scandal in 1986 and instructed Archbishop Clancy to correct the false doctrine being taught in Australia’s major seminary, the latter demonstrated his confidence in this priest’s orthodoxy by naming him a diocesan censor of books for the archdiocese of Sydney—a judge of other people’s orthodoxy!

[OpusatFR]

Just read something posted on another site that hit me squarely between the eyes, ""There is no Eucharist without priesthood, just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist"."

http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2005/jun2005p20_1985.html

"A priest's job is to help people become whole selves and grow in maturity, not to get them to attend Mass or go to confession."

and the most revealing:

""Eucharist has nothing to do with transubstantiation"; it becomes the Body of Christ because we are taking it and we are the Body of Christ.""

I may be really slow, but Satan's game plan is certainly out there. Baring not being able to destroy people's faith, I suppose the next 3rd and down will be to kill the priests.

[veritate]

But that is why Cardinal Pell has fostered Notre Dame Catholic University of Perth to establish a campus in Sydney in opposition to ACU; and why he has placed pressure on ACU land; and why he had appointed an orthodox bishop in charge of seminarians in Sydney.

Results: a marked increase in seminarians being trained in an orthodox manner, despite ACU's heterdoxy.