It is especially in times of crisis that new forms of cooperation and open communication become essential. We request that lawmakers carefully consider the implications of this proposal and evaluate it in terms of its impact on the common good. We also appeal to everyone lawmakers, citizens, workers, and labor unions to move beyond divisive words and actions and work together, so that Wisconsin can recover in a humane way from the current fiscal crisis.
It’s the archbishop of Milwaukeein a valiant attempt to find guidance in encyclicals.
Fairfax County Circuit Judge Michael Devine sentenced Felix Owino on Friday to five years, but suspended all but nine months of the sentence, according to the court clerk’s office. Owino already has served seven months. Owino pleaded guilty in September NECN · 35 minutes ago
W.Va. priest sentenced on molestation conviction
Fairfax County Circuit Judge Michael Devine sentenced Felix Owino on Friday to five years, but suspended all but nine months of the sentence, according to the court clerk’s office. Owino already has served seven months. Owino pleaded guilty in September NECN · 53 minutes ago
Priest Who Sexually Abused Girl Gets Suspended Sentence; Will Serve 1 1/2 Months
A former local priest will serve less than two more months in jail for sexual assaulting a child in Virginia. Rev. Felix Owino pleaded guilty in September to inappropriately touching an 11-year-old girl last year in Fairfax. WTOV 9 · 2 hours ago
Former Ohio Valley Priest Sentenced for Sexual Assault Against Child
FAIRFAX, Va. — A local priest is sentenced for sexual assault in a Fairfax, Va. courtroom. Father Felix Owino was sentenced Friday to five years, with all but nine months suspended. Owino was credited for the seven The State Journal · 1 hour ago
Former WV Priest Sentenced For Virginia Crime
Fr. Felix C. Owino was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison after a previous guilty to plea to aggravated sexual battery involving an 11-year-old girl. The judge suspended five years of the sentence and ordered Owino to jail for nine months.Metro News · 2 hours ago
Blacks . . . have much higher rates of abortions than whites or other minority groups. In 2000, while blacks made up 17 percent of live births, they made up more than twice that share of abortions (36 percent). . . . . The comparison with whites and other minorities is striking. Whites made up 78 percent of live births, but only 57 percent of abortions. Non-black minorities had 7 percent of live births and 5 percent of abortions.
In other words, there are fewer blacks in general, especially in big cities:
Monsignor William Lynn, who served as the secretary for clergy [vicar for priests] . . . under then-Philadelphia Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua, was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection with . . . alleged assaults, Williams said.
From 1992 until 2004, Lynn was responsible for investigating reports that priests had sexually abused children, the district attorney’s office said.
The grand jury found that Lynn, 60, endangered children, including the alleged victims of those charged last week, by knowingly allowing dangerous priests to continue in the ministry in roles in which they had access to kids.
Allen explains:
“This is apparently the first time that a Catholic leader has been charged criminally for the cover-up as opposed to the abuse itself,” he said. “It sends a shot across the bow for bishops and other diocesan officials in other parts of the country, who have to wonder now if they’ve got criminal exposure, too.”
The Archdiocese of Omaha announced Friday it is closing St. Peter Claver Cristo Rey High School at the end of the academic year due to the schools $7 million debt, large operating deficits, an ongoing need for outside financial support and a soft economy.
It’s a first, I think. Chicago area has three Cristo Rey-model schools, all doing fine. Would be a shame if that marvelous experiment failed. In fact, experiment is not right. The schools have been around long enough to be considered settled programs. But hard times lie ahead, and as profits decline, non-profits are sure to suffer.
Folklore grinds out the grains of truth that are found in such notions [as]: If an Irishman is given a choice of water or whisky, the water will go untouched.
With Pope Benedict XVIs latest plans for time traveling the church back to another era, we recall another claim: If a German is offered a choice between justice and good order, hell take the good order any day.
That may not apply to all Germans, but it certainly does to the present pope who is currently devoting a lot of time to battling what he terms relativism and to bolstering his Reform of the Reform, a.k.a., turning Vatican II back into Vatican I.
He’s maybe been “listening to too much Wagner,” says K, who is having a little ethnic fun here, I would like to think. But it fails from several standpoints, one of which occurs right off.
The Rahner brothers, especially Karl, both SJ, might have found folkloric grains of truth in the above — which admittedly may not apply to all Germans (really?) — after, say, a stein or two of Bavaria’s best. But my guess is they stir uncomfortably in their graves when they hear it helps to be German if you intend to reform, i.e. reverse, reform.
There’s more. The pope is or appears “willing to turn worship into a well planned war game by deploying believers as if they were charged to march, salute, and, of course, pray and obey,” says Kennedy, warming to his task.
The pope’s heritage makes him feel more comfortable if you remove all of the doubt, mistakes, and spontaneity from life as if that would remove sin. He apparently wants to do the same with worship that, as a human activity, is bound to express the incompleteness, the ever unfinished edges, the heartbreak and the unfulfilled hopes, that, along with their simple joy and gratitude, human beings express in their prayer lives.
Heritage, shmeritage. Spend too much time in the mists of Glocca Mora, and the fairies will get you if you don’t watch out.
This pope intends to find mystery in “phrases minted like coins of Bismarck’s empire, each one perfect, each one the same, and not one of them worth anything today.”
(POSTED: 2/10/11) Like the TV detective Monk, I have a gift that is also a curse: I pay very close attention at Mass. So when the priest veers away from the approved text, I hear it and fume. Used to fume. Now I go into my free-fly zone. Frequently.
In this zone, I woolgather, daydream, write columns for Chicago Catholic News dot calm, etc. This means that one minute I’m saying “Lord hear our prayer” with the other faithful, next minute that I know about, I am rising for the Our Father. Awful, I know. Can only say I’m working on it.
The paying close attention thing is a bigger problem. The priest subs out “His” for “God’s,” “disciples” for “friends,” “Almighty God” for “Almighty Father,” etc. Two of these reduce masculine references, sparing feminist sensibilities. The other is apparently meant to de-emphasize levels of authority in favor of intimacy. Irritating, . . . . more more more at Chicago Catholic News . . .
According to Catholic tradition, lex orandi, lex credendi [means] the law of prayer is the law of belief. What this means is that how a person worship[s] not only shows what the person really believes, but that how a person worships can ultimately decide what that person really believes.
Hence the importance of liturgical nuance:
As people’s patterns of actual worship change, so will their underlying beliefs – even without their realizing it. It is because of this that the Catholic Church can be so strict in maintaining what many might regard as superficial practices, causing them to be seen by many as old-fashioned and tyrannical.
The hierarchy realizes that allowing even minor changes in the practice of worship could lead to unforseen and unintended changes in beliefs, and the Church is one organization which understands how to think about how things will turn out over very long spans of time.
The author’s intent may be to show how we sheep are manipulated by our shepherds, but it’s an honest statement and quite accurate as taken to show how bishops fulfill their mandate and the deposit of faith is preserved.
I am reminded of one of the late Ralph McInerny’s novel about the Soviet mole who after years in a monastery was converted by the daily chanting of the divine office. (Anybody out there know the name of that book?) Prayerful repetition has its effect, as in J.D. Salinger’s Jesus prayer in Franny and Zooey.
I think today’s priests who insert subtle changes into the words of the mass have this in mind. They have their theology and want to promote it.
Blithe Spirit 