Please, please, beam me up.
The site (http://www.savior.org/) seems to have a laudable reason for being, by the way.
On another page, this photo appears.
Aaaaah, now isn’t that better?
Author: Bryan Baldwin
Gloria
My wife and I were forced by circumstance to attend Holy Mass in a small parish in southwestern Virginia a couple of weeks ago. This was our first, and, until there is an administrative change there, our last trip to this parish. After the collect, the celebrant said (paraphrased), “The text for our Gloria can be found in the front cover of the hymnal.” Before we had a chance to even wonder what that could possibly mean, he began to intone the following, to the tune of Beethoven’s Hymn to Joy:
Glory be to God the Father,
To our God who reigns above.
May he send his peace upon us
And his everlasting love.
Songs of praise and songs of blessing
To our God who reigns on high.
Let us raise our loud hosannas,
Let us raise our joyful cry.
Grit
Bishop Sheridan takes his office and the faith seriously, to wit:
“Any Catholic politicians who advocate for abortion, for illicit stem cell research or for any form of euthanasia ipso facto place themselves outside full communion with the church and so jeopardize their salvation,”
See the full article here .
Parental Rights
From the Associated Press
A woman has no parental rights over the twins she was raising with her lesbian partner – even though she is the childrens’ genetic mother, an appeals court ruled.
and
The court said though the genetic mother was a loving, at-home parent, “functioning as a parent does not bestow legal status as a parent.”
Whose responsibility?
Our attention was recently brought to the following, which we found to be most informative.
“The discernment of cases in which the faithful […] are to be excluded from Eucharistic Communion is the responsibility of the Priest who is responsible for the community. [The priest is] to give precise instructions to the deacon or to any extraordinary minister regarding the mode of acting in concrete situations.”
See the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts for the complete text.
While the document concerns itself specifically with cases of “remarriage” after divorce, the above would seem to apply to other cases, such as politicians with pro-abortion voting records, &c.
Surely Cardinal McCarrick and Archbishop O’Malley have read this document? Surely they will make their priests abundantly aware of it (with a promise of defense and support in the application of this policy, of course)?