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The Angelus June 2006
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Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 02:26 PM CST |
A Catechism of Catholic Social Teaching Part 7
Amintore Fanfani
(1908-99) Former Prime Minister of Italy and a professor of Economic History
at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.
With another installment, The Angelus continues the serialization of the book Catechism of Catholic Social Teaching by Amintore Fanfani (translated by Fr. Henry J. Yannone, The Newman Press, 1960), which will run monthly until its conclusion. He was the author of articles and books on economics, including Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism, available from Angelus Press for $14.95.
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Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 01:56 PM CST |
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An exclusive interview with Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (April 1, 2006) given to DICI, the official press agency of the Society of Saint Pius X.
Your Excellency, from the very beginning of your discussions with Rome, five years ago, you set two preliminary conditions to any doctrinal discussion. They were: freedom for every Catholic priest to celebrate the Latin Mass and the withdrawal of the decree of excommunication against the bishops of the Society. What are the reasons for these preliminary conditions? Aren’t they just a dilatory maneuver which would enable you to gain time in order to reassure priests and faithful uneasy about a possible rapprochement? Are you not thus running the risk of missing an unhoped-for opportunity of reconciliation?
All such political considerations, I would even say such politicking calculations, are foreign to the spirit of the conversations that the SSPX has been having with Rome ever since Archbishop Lefebvre instigated them. The preliminary conditions I set have for their purpose to create a new atmosphere in the official Church. It would be a first step towards making traditional Catholic life possible again. The present situation has pushed the faithful, confronted with the post-conciliar disasters, to flee their parishes and join the SSPX in spite of the opprobrium attached to traditional priests. No Roman sanction, no bishop’s warning, could deter these families from choosing Tradition. That’s a fact. So I asked the pope for public acts in favor of Tradition because our faithful cannot be satisfied with mere words of encouragement. These acts are namely freedom for the traditional Mass and withdrawal of the decree of excommunication. If the news presently rumored in the papers about the withdrawal of the excommunication proves to be true, then we will say that the Sovereign Pontiff took into account one of these two preliminary conditions.
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Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 01:47 PM CST |
As a mother, it is good, once in a while, to stop for a short time and imitate the man of the parable who, before building a tower, sits down, takes the time to think, to clarify his goal and the means to obtain it. Because of the constant demands on our time, the multiple preoccupations that assail us, we run the risk, in the heat of battle, of losing track of the supreme goal of our mission: educate our children so that they become saints! If we are indeed ready to do everything in our power to insure the physical, moral, and intellectual development of our children, how much more enthusiasm must we have to help them become saints? How can we do it? There are several means. Some are indispensable, others can vary from one family to the next, from one situation to another. All these means, however, rest on a few solid principles: the importance of good example, family prayer, an atmosphere of charity and selflessness, the need for sane distractions. Here are a few means that I put to the test of experience while raising my children. May they help other mothers in their noble task of educator.
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Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 01:43 PM CST |
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Few reproaches fall more often on the Western world than that of overconsumption. We are too rich, too fat, too endlessly diverted by the world of gadgetry and entertainment. We clutter every activity, piling detail upon detail until the joy of work is lost, the refreshment of leisure cancelled out, the very heart of things buried beneath the fat of overindulgence.
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Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 01:40 PM CST |
In the days of Romulus or in the era of Attila, children were exactly the same as those who stroll along Rue Royale or play in the Luxembourg Gardens. Both were the young of the race of man, endowed with a nature pre-existing the barbarian or civilized surroundings which welcomed them as a promise or as a menace for the tomorrows of which history is written. The children were integrated into a specific era, destined to bring to it their share of human initiatives in the form of progress more or less technical and scientific. In addition, they disposed of mental qualities responsible for governing that progress with spiritual values which were, themselves, the determining factor for civilization properly so-called.
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Posted on Monday, November 06, 2006 - 01:34 PM CST |
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Fr. Emmanuel Du Chalard
Many say that although Archbishop Lefebvre was a man of great faith, he nevertheless lacked “know-how,” particularly in his relations with Rome. It is an unfortunate error of perspective. If the Archbishop firmly maintained his convictions on the crisis in the Church, he also had a knowledge of the Roman Curia and of Vatican diplomacy which few men can claim.
As early as 1947 (not counting his years in the French Seminary), Archbishop Lefebvre frequented the Roman Curia assiduously. As Archbishop of Dakar, but especially as Apostolic Delegate (1948-59), every year in October he came “to give an account of his administration.” For whatever concerned the Apostolic Delegation (a political and diplomatic position), he mainly dealt with the Secretariat of State, and for other matters of the missionary apostolate, he met with prelates of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 05:14 PM CST |
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Fr. James Doran
Peter Maurin
The first idea which must be accepted is this notion of the tension that a Catholic has to live in at all times. When you read the history of the Church, there’s a continual conflict between what we call the Church and State, or the temporal order and the things of God. There will always be this tension. It’s not because of either the Church or the State; it’s because of the reality of the Redemption as such. By the fact of grace having entered the world, we have been transformed interiorly and elevated to a divine level here and now. All the same, we live in time. We await the Day of Judgment in which that order of grace will be fulfilled and we will come to its perfection.
Thus it is that in some places, St. Paul, especially in writing to the Ephesians, speaks of the fact that God has raised us up with His Son and placed us in heavenly places with Him. This is a reality in which there’s a stability and a point of perfection which already exists. Our Divine Lord sits at the right side of the Father. By grace, we are incorporated into that same reality.
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