False mystic Vassula Ryden sues critical web site

Wednesday, 11 January 2012 11:37
Richard Chonak
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What do false mystics do, besides peddle spiritual messages and collect money from naive followers? They sue people who try to expose them.
Last March the Patriarchate of Constantinople warned against Vassula Ryden’s claims of presenting messages from Jesus. It was an impressive statement from her own church (English translation here), which should help to diminish the bad influence of this long-exposed phony, especially when it is added to the warnings from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1995,

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Have they discovered Google yet at the Vatican?

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 18:26
Richard Chonak
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I got an e-mail today from catholic-hierarchy.org, that helpful web site that tracks the appointments, transfers, and retirements of bishops, using the announcements from the Holy See as their data source.
The news is that a coadjutor bishop has been appointed for the see of San Diego. That should be good news.
But when I looked up the name of the new bishop with a web search, this article appeared near the top of the listing:
“Cirilo Flores Rarely Pursued Discipline of Molesting Priests

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Bp. Perić defends Žanić from “collaborator” accusation in Medjugorje case

Tuesday, 03 January 2012 11:39
Richard Chonak
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A 2011 book by four pro-Medjugorje journalists accused the late Bishop Pavao Zanic of collaborating with the Communists in Yugoslavia against the claimed apparition: an outrageous charge.
The current bishop reviews the accusation and points out that Zanic’s position on the case was consistently the exact opposite of the Communists’ position. When he was favorable, they were against; when he was against, they were favorable! So they weren’t very good at getting him to collaborate, hm?
Tsk, tsk, these Communists were so incompetent!
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Incoming missal

Friday, 09 December 2011 14:09
Richard Chonak
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The attractive new edition of Daily Roman Missal
 arrived at my mailbox yesterday.
This is the seventh edition of Rev. James Socias’ hand missal which first appeared in 1993. It was issued by Midwest Theological Forum, the Opus Dei-related publishing house near Chicago, where Fr. Socias is vice president, and the book also bears the insignia of Our Sunday Visitor Press.

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