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November 30, 2004 Population to fall 100m in 50 years From Rory Watson in Brussels IN 50 years there will be almost 100 million fewer people living in Europe, according to a United Nations report. The UN’s latest study on international migration released yesterday predicts that even if Europe gains an average of 600,000 immigrants a year, its population will fall by 96 million by 2050. Without the new arrivals, the decline would be even more spectacular: 139 million. Already immigration into Europe is partly helping to offset the impact of declining birth rates. The continent’s population would have shrunk...

A Traditional Pilgrimage Right Here in America What: Ninth Annual Pilgrimage for Restoration When: September 15-18, 2004 Where: Lake George, NY to Shrine of the North American Martyrs in Auriesville, NY How: 75-miles of hiking on foot (modified pilgrimage available for young & old) Who: Sponsored by National Coalition of Clergy & Laity, with pilgrimage support by the Company of St. Rene Goupil. Up to 150 pilgrims expected for full march plus up to 600 on final day (Saturday) for 7-mile pilgrimage from Blessed Kateri Tekawitha Shrine to North American Martyrs Shrine Why: Restoration of True Devotion to Mary, Queen...

The Price Of My Soul’s Salvation By FR. JOSEPH F. WILSON Through the open door could be heard the tinkling of the sacring bell; Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament was being brought to the cell, and from his deathbed Thomas Aquinas called out joyfully, "I receive thee, Price of my soul’s salvation! All my prayer, my study, my work hath been in service of thee!" After the feast day Mass they apologized to the holy Cure d’Ars, St John Vianney; a choir anthem had been unexpectedly long, and had delayed him so that he was left standing at the altar,...

A vision of the future -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lacking a pastor, Holy Name turned to its pews By Denise Smith Amos At Mount Auburn's Holy Name Church, Sister Mary Gallagher performs many duties that traditionally fall to a priest. Holy Name is one of 43 local parishes without a resident pastor. To stay vibrant, it relies on nuns and lay people. Here, Sister Mary (center) holds hands with Nikela Owens of Fort Thomas (right) and James Hall, 12, of Mt. Auburn during a service. (Craig Ruttle photo) MOUNT AUBURN - Holy Name Church is 100 years old - a milestone it almost...

S P E C I A L R E P O R T : T H E C H A N G I N G C H U R C H Imagine no priests to celebrate MassCatholics have worried for years about the vanishing ranks of priests – and now, the impact is here. A severe priest shortage here is causing parishes to close and lay people to conduct more weddings, baptisms and funerals. By decade’s end, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati expects only 100 priests to serve more than a half million Catholics, a projection that’s spurring more change than...

Once convicted of felony hit-and-run, Bishop O'Brien faced a pre-sentencing hearing where prosecutors and defense attorneys presented factors that aggravate or mitigate the charge. This is where the county attorney intended to present Father Joe Ladensack. County Attorney Rick Romley was able to get the signed confession from the bishop because the prosecutor had a stunning witness to the pedophilia scandal. A former priest claimed O'Brien ordered him to break the law to protect Father Giandelone, a deviant, molesting cleric. It was this evidence that Romley threatened to take to the grand jury unless the bishop admitted his guilt and...

Abortion Advocates Struggle to Find Marchers, Look to Celebs for Help by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor April 13, 2004 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-abortion groups are having a tough time finding enough abortion advocates across the country to attend their national march that will be held in less than two weeks. To get more people to the event, they have enlisted the support of top Hollywood celebrities to help them. Leading groups like Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the ACLU have spent over a year touting the April 25 march, but are now relying on leading television and movie stars and...

Bishop Kenneth Untener, who led the Saginaw, Mich., diocese for 24 years... died March 27 at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Infirmary in Monroe, Mich., of a form of leukemia. He was 66. “The posture we take toward the world, toward our own people, the images we present … tend toward corporate severity rather than softness. It is like a prevailing wind always moving us in that direction, and I worry about it.” It is clear now that almost everything he did and tried to do in his 24 years as bishop of Saginaw was against that wind. “He was...

From the first moment liberal Jews and apostate Christian academics squealed in protest at the prospect of a no-holds-barred portrayal of Our Lord’s suffering and death, The Passion of the Christ was destined for great things. Baseless charges and malicious attacks against producer-director Mel Gibson and his godly project only served to light the touch paper of free publicity which finally exploded in their faces with the greatest debut in movie history by a film opening mid-week. Takings of $125.2 million edged The Passion ahead of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, even though the cinemas foolishly...

<p>"We're fighting for our church and the future of Polish heritage here in St.</p> <p>Louis," said John Baras, a board member from Eureka.</p> <p>Church, requires the parish to comply.</p> <p>John Sitek, 78, of south St. Louis.</p> <p>Polish-Americans here are at odds with some of the later Polish immigrants.</p>

During the filming of the now-famous movie, The Passion of the Christ, Mass was held at 7:30 each morning in a converted office at Cinema City at the east side of Rome (when filming was there), and presiding for much of the time was Father Stephen F. Somerville of Queensville, Ontario, near Toronto, who has detailed the fashion in which Mel Gibson prepared spiritually for the shooting -- confirming Gibson's taste for the pre-Vatican II liturgy. "I said Mass for seven weeks of the filming," Father Somerville told Spirit Daily. "It was the old Latin Mass, the traditional Latin Mass...

We propose that the word for what has been done to the Roman Rite since Vatican Council II is truncation. Assault on the Roman Rite by Fr. John W. Mole, OMI Hardly had the Second Vatican Council come to an end in 1965 than the Roman Rite was set upon with fulgurating radicality by hordes of liturgical experts who, throwing off all restraint imposed by the Constitution on the Liturgy, rampaged like Red Guards in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Aroused by articles 37-40 headed "Norms for Adapting the Liturgy to the Temperament and Traditions of People," they made into a...

THE ROMAN RITE Voice of the Traditional Mass Movement in Canada Facit mutos loqui (Cf Mk 7:37) Issue No.7 November 1994 Wild MassesOur first item under this heading (Issue 2) gave an example of this phenomenon which has plagued the postconciliar church from the beginning. This item will describe how it began. By "wild" is meant out of control of the Holy See or the Bishops. This wildness can be said to have begun in the late 1960's with an agitation to set aside the Roman Canon (main part of the Roman Rite) in favour of alternative Eucharistic Prayers. Paul...

About the Author FR. JOHN WITHERSPOON MOLE O.M.I. Presently resides in Ottawa, Canada, and in this work attempts to carry out the recommendation of the 1977 Synod of Bishops that there be religious instruction for adults based on the Liturgy of the Word, which Pope John Paul II emphatically endorsed in his Catechesi Tradendae. John Witherspoon Mole was born in England on February 10th, 1911 (Feast of Saint Scholastica). He emigrated with his family to Canada in 1912 (providentially missing passage on the doomed Titanic), but later returned to Britain for his formal education. Some years later, back on...

  Saturday, February 21, 2004 Pilarczyk: Article XII unjust Archbishop supports repeal, opposes gay 'behavior' By Gregory Korte The Cincinnati Enquirer A Cincinnati charter amendment that prohibits City Council from passing anti-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation is morally wrong and should be repealed, Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk said Friday. LETTER EXCERPTS Excerpts from Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk's letter urging repeal of Article XII of the city charter: "It is not right to mistreat persons or to be legally able to mistreat persons on the basis of their homosexual orientation. All human beings have certain basic human rights. To provide...

ORGAN OF THE ROMAN THEOLOGICAL FORUM Editor: Msgr. John F. McCarthy, J.C.D., S.T.D. Associate Editor: Rev. Brian W. Harrison, O.S., M.A., S.T.D. Please address all correspondence to:          Pro manuscripto LIVING TRADITION Oblates of Wisdom P.O. Box 8027 Ponce, Puerto Rico 00732 U.S.A. Distributed several times a year to interested members. Not to be republished without permission. No. 89 Roman Theological Forum | Article Index | Study Program September 2000 THE SACRAMENTAL VALIDITY OF "FOR YOU AND FOR ALL" by John F. McCarthy1. The scope of this presentation. Since arguments against the validity of the transubstantiation of the wine when using...

Code: ZE04013020 Date: 2004-01-30 Cases of Marital Nullity Should Be Guided by Truth, Pope Stresses Calls for Renewed Confidence in Reason VATICAN CITY, JAN. 30, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The tendency to extend declarations of marital nullity while disregarding the objective truth is a distortion of the whole process, John Paul II warned when receiving members of the Roman Rota in audience. The Catholic Church considers marriage indissoluble for life, but, following a rigorous process, it may establish that at times there are marriages that were never valid for reasons established in canon law. This could include reasons of age, violence...

28 January 2004Deal Hudson's "Minor Kerfuffel"Cruxnews.com Note: Each week we will be bringing you a "New Oxford Note" straight from the venerable New Oxford Review. This week's originally appeared in the December 2003 issue.On Friday, July 11, 2003, the Boston Globe printed a story called "Bishops Seek Out Opinions, in Private: Conference Focus Is Church Future." On the very same day, we got a Crisis magazine e-Letter from Deal Hudson, saying: "You’re about to get angry. Very angry…. Let me tell you the news that’ll send your blood boiling…. This morning, the Boston Globe dropped a bombshell of a...

Vol. 3 No. 4: May/June 1999 Ideology and Patterns in Translation Error by William J. Sullivan 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 DEFINING TRANSLATION Translation1 involves the production of a text in one language that was inspired by an existing text in another language, such that the two texts are in some sense 'the same.' Exactly how this is accomplished is open to question. In Sullivan 1984, I show the relationship between proper translation and paraphrase. It involves decoding the message from an existing text and re-encoding the message in a new text. This results in two texts different in form with...

Pope's blunt talk confronts "alarming" decline in French priestly vocationsVatican, Jan. 26 (CWNews.com) In the latest in a series of blunt messages to visiting bishops from France, Pope John Paul II spoke of the "alarming" decline in the number of priests serving the Church in that country. With the French bishops making their ad limina visits to Rome, in groups arranged by ecclesiastical province, the Holy Father has delivered unusually strong and candid addresses about the health of the Church there. As he met with bishops from the provinces of Toulouse and Montpellier on January 25, he continued his unsparing...