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When Cardinal Rigali called out the Teleprompter Messiah (thanks, kshaidle) about his decision to fund baby-killing organizations overseas, he got this response impugning pro-lifers’ motives as being purely partisan, and they should shut up about it:

President Barack Obama on Saturday issued a statement criticizing debate on the policy as divisive and fruitless. “For too long, international family planning assistance has been used as a political wedge issue, the subject of a back and forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate,” he said. “It is time that we end the politicization of this issue.”

Well, there’s the new tone in Washington for you: your concerns are stale and fruitless and we don’t want to hear about your disagreement.

At the passing of moral theologian and Dunwoodie professor Msgr. William Smith, John Mallon posts some recollections along with a 1995 interview.

“…if we are to be ministers of the gospel, and witnesses of the gospel, then we have to preach the gospel, and the gospel is both the call to conversion and the call to compassion. And the same revealed word of God insists–it is not an option, it is an obligation–that we do the truth in love.”

Pope Benedict is to Pope John Paul II,
as Bp. Williamson is to… Abp. Milingo.
For a long time, Abp. Milingo’s problems, in the eyes of Church authorities, were mostly behavioral rather than doctrinal, but there was something the Vatican could do to deal with him: imposing a forced retirement.
If the erratic Bp. Williamson of the SSPX ever does accept some regularized status in full communion with the Church, the best that Pope Benedict will be able to do with him is the same approach: to insist that Williamson retire and spend the rest of his life doing good for the Church and for his soul in some modest way. And, for G-d’s sake, shutting up.

Here’s an event for readers in DC and the Arlington diocese; thanks to the schola member who sent the information.
For the feast of the Epiphany, there will be a Solemn High Mass at Holy Trinity parish in Gainesville, VA. Several local seminarians from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King, and St. Charles Borromeo, as well as diocesan priests, will be serving or singing at the Mass. The parish priests are Fr. Peffley and Fr. Wooton, to whom we are greatly indebted for affording us this extraordinary opportunity to offer this very solemn form of the Traditional Mass.
All are invited and encouraged to witness this magnificent liturgical form of the immemorial Roman Rite.
In Epiphania Domini
Solemn High Mass
Tuesday, January 6th at 7:00 PM
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
8213 Linton Hall Rd
Bristow, VA 20136
www.holytrinityparish.net

Let us seek with the shepherds
The Word incarnate;
Let us sing with all mankind
For the King of the age. Noel.
What do you see in the stable?
Jesus, born of the Virgin.
What do you hear in the manger?
Angels with a song
And shepherds saying: Noel.
Where do you eat, where do you lie?
Say, whether you weep or laugh:
We ask you, Christ the King. Noel.
My food is milk of the Virgin
My bed is a hard manger,
My songs are tears. Noel.
Quaeramus cum pastoribus, Jean Mouton