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WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE February 10, 2012

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Pastor's Corner: Spiritual Journey I believe I must add some words to draw the attention of our priests and our seminarians to the indisputable fact of the Roman influences on our spirituality, on our liturgy, and even on our theology... 2-10-2012   First the bad news... "U.S. Army besieges pastoral letter of military ordinariate" Now the good news... "Racketeering charge against Vatican dismissed" 2-9-2012   Priestly Holiness by Archbishop Lefebvre now available!Angelus Press is pleased to announce that Priestly Holiness, a posthumous collection of writings on the priesthood by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, is now available. This beautiful hardcover volume will make an excellent gift for priests, seminarians, and anyone interested in understanding the true and sublime dignity of the Catholic priesthood. In the words of Archbishop Lefebvre (from the back cover): The true priest loves souls, gives himself to them, sacrifices himself for them for the love of God. He gives himself to souls as he gives them the Eucharist. He gives them Jesus by teaching and by Holy Communion. All of his priestly life thereby becomes a Mass. The holy priest lives his Mass and brings all those around him to live it, as well. He leads them to understand that all of our lives ought to be a Mass, a total oblation, a continual sacrifice of ourselves, out of love of God and out of love of neighbor. That is the ideal of the true priest, an ideal which brings him a lasting joy and peace of soul. click here to purchase > 2-9-2012   Priestly Ordination at St. Mary's, KS A new priest for the Society of St. Pius X, Fr. Daniel Chavarria, was ordained in St. Mary's, KS by Bishop Bernard Fellay on Saturday, February 4th... 2-6-2012   ROSARY CRUSADE TOTALS FOR USA DISTRICT as of 2-9-2012: April-Aug 1,143,255  |  September 297,738  |  October 320,873 November 268,227  |  December 244,715 | January 63,730 Grand total: 2,338,538   SSPX seminaries receive cassock, tonsure and minor orders 3 of the SSPX's 5 seminaries held ceremonies this week wherein some seminarians received the clerical habit of the cassock, while some were tonsured and received certain minor orders... Just updated with more news and images!  2-6-2012   SSPX: Bishop Fellay’s response to Cardinal Levada being studied in Rome According to a source close to the matter, we can announce that the letter posted by Bishop Fellay in mid-January is not a “second response”; rather it clarifies the position of the Society of St. Pius X... 2-3-2012 DICI NEWS     Listen to sermon in MP3 format Extracts from Bishop Fellay's sermon given at Winona seminary on February 2 "We are not an independent group. Even if we are fighting with Rome, we are still, so to say, with Rome. We are fighting with Rome; or, if you want, against Rome, at the same time with Rome. And we claim and we continue to say, we are Catholic. We want to stay Catholic..." 2-3-2012 STAS.ORG SOURCE   “Magisterium or living tradition?”, Fr. Gleize denounces a false dilemma "Why this confusion? Why reduce the living magisterium to the magisterium of the present? Because since Vatican II they have been trying to invent a new magisterium. The magisterium is redefined, because its task [now] is to express the continuity of a subject and no longer the continuity of an object..." 2-3-2012 DICI NEWS   Switzerland: Diocesan Priests on an Inexorable Decline? Since 1970, the number of diocesan priests incardinated in the Swiss bishoprics has diminished by more than half. In 2029, according to [an] analysis, there will most likely be 37% fewer priests than today, that is, 50% fewer than in 1991... 2-3-2012 DICI NEWS     Publication of pastoral guidelines for the Year of Faith...The Year of Faith should be the occasion to rediscover the teachings of Vatican II and of the CCC. Several international conferences will be organized, and seminarians will be invited to study these documents carefully... 2-3-2012 DICI NEWS   Pastor's Corner: Marian dispositions Those whose hearts are filled with things of this world, those who are attached to things of this world, they also have their heart closed, their heart hardened by all the goods of this world... 2-2-2012   SSPX answers Roman expert L’Osservatore Romano of December 2, 2011, published a study by Msgr. Fernando Ocariz, one of the four experts who represented the Holy See during the recent doctrinal discussions with the SSPX October 2009-April 2011). The central question of the magisterial value of the Second Vatican Council is addressed straightforwardly, yet nevertheless insufficiently... 1-31-2012    Confirmations & Pontifical Mass at San Jose, CA Bishop Bernard Fellay administered the sacrament of Confirmation to a large group of confirmands on Saturday, January 21 at San Jose, CA, followed by a Pontifical Solemn Mass.. 1-26-2012   News from the Holy Land: Hebrew-language Catholic catechism ...the initial parts of a Hebrew-language Catholic catechism have been printed for youth... Dwindling numbers at Bethlehem Catholic University ...due to the Israeli West Bank wall, the number of staff and students is dwindling...... 2-1-2012   Eddystone youth join DC March for Life On January 23, the parish youth group of St. Jude's Church in Eddystone, PA took a trip to Washington, DC to join the annual March for Life... 2-1-2012   A Possible Break in Abortion Stalemate: Beginning to See the Contradictions ...these fetal homicide laws which exist in almost 40 states are a contradiction themselves. Generally they declare the killing of a pre-born baby murder unless it is an abortion. If a robber shoots a pregnant woman during a burglary and kills the baby it is murder but if the mother hires a hit man doctor it is not... 1-31-2012   Genetic Engineering in 2011 ...a Catholic molecular biologist summarizes some of the most horrifying “advances” in the domain of genetic engineering. To be informed is to understand how gross is the perversion of modern man’s viciously proud yearning to escape from the natural law, especially in that which concerns matrimony... 1-31-2012