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Newman, Vatican II and the Imperative of Development Editorial

Magisterial Development Concerning Revelation Luiz Ruscillo

Catholic Involvement in Saving Marriage Eric Hester

Deeper Levels of Corruption at Planned Parenthood Keith Riler

Gregory Farrelly on the Higgs Boson discovery and metaphysics Dudley Plunkett on the Virtue of Faith against alternative extremes William Oddie discerns a new British evangelisation Keith Barltrop on Alain de Botton’s false promise David Mills exposes key aspects of the American culture war Joanna Bogle’s advice on dating proposals Hugh MacKenzie on indulgences

www.faith.org.uk A special series of pamphlets REASONS FOR BELIEVING Contents from Faith Movement Straightforward, up to date and well argued pamphlets on basic issues of Catholic belief, this new series will build into a single, coherent apologetic vision of the 03 Newman, Vatican II and the Imperative of Development Christian Mystery. They bring out the inner coherence Editorial of Christian doctrine and show how God’s revelation makes sense of our own nature and of our world. 06 Magisterial Development Concerning Revelation Five excellent pamphlets in the series are now in print. Canon Luiz Ruscillo

Can we be sure God exists? 10 Catholic Involvement in Saving Marriage What makes Man unique? Eric Hester The Disaster of Sin 12 Deeper Levels of Corruption at Planned Parenthood Jesus Christ Our Saviour Keith Riler Jesus Christ Our Redeemer The Church: Christ’s Voice to the World Our Regular Columns Regular Columns

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“I have yet many things to say to you” (Jn 16:12)

In this issue we introduce a new column entitled Continuity formers that Vatican II encouraged so strongly in Gaudium et “Well, you seem quite healthy…” Thus the doctor summed up most difficult work (that was another essay: A Grammar of and Development: Notes and Quotes from the Year of Spes, one of the concluding – and most controversial – this writer’s annual check-up and indicated the door. Patients Assent) but be warned! Newman himself came to see that Faith. documents of the Council. want to be told that in all likelihood there is no lingering the circumstances of the 1845 edition argued to a complete disease, and with that assurance they can carry on until the recasting of the text, and what we usually possess is the 1878 In this column we hope to chronicle some of the statements Given the interplay of knowing and loving which defines the next visit. edition, not the 1845 original (which was itself an immediate and initiatives that, by the grace of God and in accordance spiritual life, we must indeed pray for – and expect God to best-seller). Both texts, however, make the same argument. with ideas articulated by the Second Vatican Council, are provide – the “force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in Although the analogy is not exact, we need to feel that our faith The effort we are prepared to put into grasping Newman’s aimed at the “New Evangelisation” of our culture. One of the new ways”. In these times of spiritual crisis, we look to the is firmly based. To be told that we are clinging to words and thought process will help to introduce us to the three important most important of these initiatives is the Year of Faith, which Holy Spirit to lead us to that deeper truth and deeper loving ideas, to plans and false securities, instead of listening to the ingredients of our faith: worship, devotion and interrelated begins on 11 October – a date chosen by Pope Benedict as called for by Vatican II. For without such a developed vision inspirations of the Spirit is not much consolation. The Tablet dogmas, which must be joined in our minds because together it falls exactly 50 years after the opening of the Council and of the faith, our attempts to evangelise the culture around us recently put it more succinctly: “The history of the Church they provide the strong foundation for our faith. 20 years after the publication of the Catechism of the cannot bear fruit. shows repeatedly that ideas rejected by one generation can Catholic Church by Blessed John Paul II. become the orthodoxy of the next.” They continue to peddle It is interesting that the Essay was rapidly translated into Our editorial draws upon the thought of the line that there is “no method of re-evangelisation” that will French and Spanish by modernist theologians who felt that it During this Year of Faith the texts of the Cardinal Newman to outline the turn back the “rational” rejection of the Church by large chimed with their thoughts. They would argue that the Council and Catechism will be character of authentic doctrinal numbers of Catholics. This prominent British interpretation of Christian Gospel can and should be modified and adapted to central to our efforts as Catholics development. And Canon Luiz Vatican II’s call for development has been a significant cause of the cultural and intellectual attitudes and demands of to rediscover and share with Ruscillo’s piece shows how the weakening of the virtue of faith in our land. Yet we do need successive generations and indeed originates in them. This others the gift of Faith recent magisterial true development, and the failure to acknowledge this has been could be said to depend on the view that humanity is the result entrusted to the Church. development of scriptural a more long-term cause of such weakening. of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have Dudley Plunkett kicks off interpretation is leading us, God in mind, which many conceived as one aspect of the our new column with a through the Spirit who The Building up of the Body of Christ theory of evolution itself. Pius X’s Syllabus Condemning the description of the attitude guides us into all truth, to a Let us admit at the start the activity of the Holy Spirit. The Errors of the Modernists contrasts the view that human society, of supernatural trust and deeper and more unified third Person of the Trinity prompts from within – coming to our being subject to “perpetual evolution”, was linked to the same realistic engagement that understanding of the aid in prayer and inspiration; and in the outpouring of ideas in process in the organic constitution of the Church. we are called to bring to mystery of revelation. those who can be termed prophets or theologians. But at the this year. same time, he brings to mind and gradually fulfils the whole The Essay was at the time suspect in the eyes of Thomist Our new column flows out ministerial structure of the Church in an ordered way “for scholars. There was the fear both of opening a Pandora’s box Archbishop Fisichella, head of and replaces our Road building up the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of of inevitable progress uncontrolled by man – and by extension of the Pontifical Council for the from Regensburg column, the faith” (Eph. 4:12-13). The gifts of the Spirit are thus both the Church – and of the worship of any form of ineluctable New Evangelisation, recently which began in autumn 2006 hierarchic and charismatic. progress. Giovanni Perrone, the Jesuit theologian at the stated that the primary purpose of shortly after the Pope’s speech in Collegio Romano, was sympathetic to Newman’s point that the Year of Faith is that “in the face of Regensburg on the interplay of faith The author of the Ephesians is not talking about some future different views of the council fathers become the seeds from the dramatic crisis of faith which touches and reason today. That column has horizon so much as the actual and present means for edifying, which an apostolic definition arise, but felt bound to comment, many Christians, [the Church] will be able to drawn together numerous insights from the for “building up” the Church; so that she can preach the “I should not be so bold as to say that.” The prevailing reaction show once again and with renewed enthusiasm the magisterium on the need to harmonise modern fullness of Christ’s message of salvation and so serve the was that there was too little philosophical deduction (Newman true face of Christ”. intellectual and social development with the life of faith; many holiness of its members. He goes on to remind his listeners would call this “paper logic”) and too much inherent sentiment of these insights have come from Pope Benedict’s addresses that they are “no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried and broad assumption within an historical package. In this regard the Lineamenti, or outline notes, for the to cultural leaders during his international journeys. about with every wind of doctrine…” forthcoming Synod of Bishops on the theme of the New The Central Idea Evangelisation affirm that Our Lord “will give his Spirit and Keith Barltrop’s review of Alain de Botton’s new book brings We say that the Church is the body of Christ, meaning that it is Newman started from the premise of the Incarnation as the provide the force to announce and proclaim the Gospel in out the bankruptcy of an alternative, humanist approach, in a living organism and not just a concept. An organism has a central idea of Christianity. This is the very heart of the Essay. new ways which can speak to today’s cultures”. which Christian ideas, cut free from their Christian roots, are dynamic equilibrium which allows it to assimilate and respond Grasp this and the rest follows. But the very word idea had appropriated by non-believers in their pursuit of an ideal to a changing environment in order to preserve its unique different meanings for Neo-Scholastics and for Newman. The Lineamenti point out that, through recent projects such secular society. We pray that Pope Benedict’s inspiring work identity. A tomato seed will take in nutrients in order to become For Thomists, the idea was largely a logical construct, but as the Courtyard of the Gentiles, Pope Benedict has tried to may bear much fruit in the lives of all people of goodwill in a tomato plant and not a jacaranda tree. A young John Henry for Newman it was both the apprehension of the object promote that respectful engagement with secular opinion- this world and the next. Newman realised this, partly as a result of attending Professor “which may vary in the separate consciousness of individuals William Buckland’s geology lectures. He subsequently [and] no one term or proposition will serve to define it”, and preached – as early as 1825 – on the analogy between the the object itself. In the case of the Incarnation, the idea is growth of living things in the natural world and “the gradual received subjectively into the minds of individuals and then revelation of the Gospel.” becomes objective in the dogmatic expressions used by the Magisterium. A Matter of Development Newman would eventually work out his ideas in the Essay on There is obviously a place for logical deduction in the actual the Development of Christian Doctrine. It is not Newman’s formulation of dogmatic decrees, but Newman interposes a

Newman, Vatican II and the Imperative of Development I Faith 03 Newman, Vatican II and the Imperative of Development “Christianity involves interaction with the continued environment in which it operates”

kind of deep internal sense which enters the mind through the strong and vigorous, the more it is able to trust itself to throw But above all there must be consistency. Newman refers to develops, using the dreadful experience as an opportunity for grasp of faith before being formulated objectively. Continuing off corruption and exult in its strength.” He would argue that continuity of principles. The life of doctrines “may be said to reform. Subsequently the Church puts out new shoots – at the the analogy of natural growth, we could say that there is this forms, subscriptions, or articles of religion were indispensable consist in the law or principle which they embody”. There is time of the Reformation these were seen in the rise of new gradual assimilation in the embryonic stage of the seed (which when the principle of life is weak, and would add prophetically: the dogmatic principle which argues that supernatural truths religious orders and seminaries for the training of the clergy; is not obviously observable from the outside) before it puts out “We have yet to see whether the Free Kirk can keep its present committed to human language are necessary and definitive of since Vatican II, after the tide of militant atheism had passed, shoots above ground. theological ground.” their very nature. The sacramental principle is the direct they have been evident in the opening of a dialogue with the expression of the doctrine of the Incarnation, as is the principle world – and, as a direct result of the Council, in the rise of The central idea of Christianity is a burgeoning growth which It is because Catholicism has a living tradition that it can of grace. liturgy in the vernacular and the Catechism of the Catholic takes hold of the Church with all the power of Pentecostal dispense with such forms, because the organism has the Church. Together these developments provide a renewed wind and fire. The Second Vatican Council’s Dei Verbum could power to filter what it receives into itself, and the capacity to But all of these aspects of the development of doctrine depend expression of the faith, what Pope John Paul II would call “a say: “There is a growth in insight into the realities and words absorb and to reject. The precise balance is always difficult to fundamentally on making that assent to the fact that the new Advent”. This has provided the momentum to press for a that are being passed on … [coming] from the intimate sense assess but growth in nature and in Christianity involves Church was founded by Jesus Christ and perpetually guided greater commitment, and has strengthened our faith to face of spiritual realities which they experience… The Holy Spirit interaction with the environment in which it operates. Newman by the Holy Spirit into all truth. One must expect to see in the the challenges which a new, internationally connected and himself constantly perfects faith by his gifts, so that they may would argue: “As fresh and fresh duties arises, or fresh and present Church the realisation of what has gone before. culturally diverse society needs. be more and more profoundly understood.” Newman would fresh faculties are brought into action, they are at once Newman himself followed his own logic and did not add the claim that such chronic vigour or chronic continuance absorbed into the existing inward system and take their final touches to the Essay because he wanted to be received The Test of a True Development (in the 1845 edition), as one of his seven Tests or Notes, was appropriate place in it.” into the Roman Catholic Church which fulfilled all the criteria For Newman there is always the possibility that what may a lasting dynamism. he had set out beforehand. appear innovative doctrines are in fact implicit in the total In the case of Arianism, Newman said: “Certain it is that the understanding of the faith, and yet not necessarily subject to “The very word idea had different meanings true faith never could come into contact with the heathen “Dogmatic definitions arose, and precisely in some logical deduction. Into that equation must be put that philosophies without exercising its right to arbitrate between sense of the faith which comes from an anointing by the Holy for Neo-Scholastics and for Newman” them.” This is not some theological apportionment but the their long-lasting continuance contrasted with Spirit and manifests itself “from the bishops to the last of the result of an awareness of what resonates with the idea itself. the always short-lived heresies” faithful…as a universal consent in faith and morals”. But the If we consider the history of the Church and the mix of The Church, said Professor Joseph Ratzinger, is the living final touch, we might say, of what is a genuine development intellectual activity from saints and scholars, together with the presence in every age, not the petrification of what once was. Contemporary Reactions remains always the Magisterium, which possesses “the attacks of persecutors, it would be expected that the Church Since Newman’s time, and especially in the last 50 years, sure charism of truth”. As Vatican II pointed out this is not would succumb to corruption if not extinction. But in spite of But there must be an interconnection which in one sense is we have seen a development in the understanding of the a question of a bicameral juridical process. Rather, it is a all apparent failures, dogmatic definitions arose, and precisely logical, but not by a process of reasoning from premise to Church’s role in the world. Of course, there is a duty to uphold universal consent that arises from within the Church but is in their long-lasting continuance contrasted with the always conclusion. Rather it develops in the mind step by step and is the deposit of faith but also an awareness that the Church articulated by the Pope and bishops who have been mandated short-lived heresies which flourish and gain adherents for a higher than that which is logical. The Apostles knew without is uniquely placed to offer Christ as the one who unifies and by Christ to oversee the concrete articulation of the faith while but then fade into obscurity. putting into words all the truths pertaining to theology which perfects the best in humanity, because he is its Saviour. This entrusted to them. It was witnessed at the Council of Ephesus have subsequently been reduced to doctrinal formulae: the is at the heart of the continuing ecumenical debate, where when the bishops pronounced that Mary was the Mother of Development Not Change Holy Spirit would show them the things that were to come. attention is drawn to “the hierarchy of truths… which vary in God and therefore Jesus was true God and true man. The This is no licence for mere change. As Fr Edward Holloway (John 16:13) When we look back we can see what Newman their relation to the foundation of the Christian faith”. In this people outside broke into song, glorifying God and praising remarks: “Development is something other than change. It is called the logical sequence. When we look forward, it is context we can appreciate the contribution of the Ordinariate Mary as Deipara, the Mother of God. an increase of being in accordance with, and substantial to, anticipation of the future. of Our Lady of Walsingham, which is bringing into the Church the nature of a thing in its primordial condition” (unpublished the influence of the Sarum rite in the Book of Common Prayer There needs to be that joyous enthusiasm for the faith, but it manuscript). Newman would write that Christian dogmas were It is also possible to notice that what seems new illustrates and for an English Evensong now to be completed by Benediction. must not be merely a prompting of the heart. There must also in the Church from the time of the Apostles. “They were ever in corroborates the body of thought which precedes it. Newman be an appeal to the mind – one which can take in the necessity their substance what they are now; that they existed before the would cover this under the name of preservative additions But the organism which is Catholic Christianity must react of advancing in wisdom and knowledge and which at times formulas were publicly adopted.” He would provide a profile of (which became, in the 1878 edition, conservative action on the when its integrity is jeopardised. This danger has always demands the capacity for growth and change. Newman’s gift the early Church which was “a religious communion claiming past). In other words it is one process which does not destroy emerged from within rather than from without. Instead of was to explain, before Darwin put pen to paper, how the growth a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies what has gone before but draws it on to a new plane, just as regarding heterodox opinions as invasions to be repulsed, it is of new ideas does not involve jettisoning what has gone before around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its Jesus came, not to destroy but to fulfil; whereas a corruption more helpful to see them against the background of a natural but taking it on to new levels. The Church is not committed to a members together by influence and engagement, spread over tends of its nature towards decay and destruction. reflex to a pathogen. Newman would say: “Truth is wrought by process of arbitrary change – that is not how to understand the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant the indirect operation of error and sin.” It is all too easy to treat Newman’s phrase “to be perfect, is to change often”. and capable of dividing families and breaking laws. It is gross The school of Socinus maintained that belief in the Trinity went theological research as somehow isolated from that leading superstition, charged with the vilest of crimes and despised by against belief in Monotheism but in fact belief in the Trinity into all truth which the Church is consecrated to pursue, under Newman presents us with a means to comprehend any new intellectuals.” He then provides a picture of the Church in the takes into consideration the previous doctrine and enriches it. the influence of the Holy Spirit. Newman’s words in 1860 still and genuine development. He also largely explains why the first five centuries and finds a remarkable preservation of type. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception is still considered have relevance: “To unsettle the minds of a generation, when Church can reject what many believe to be a valid expression by Anglican theologians as an unwarranted addition to you give them no landmarks and no causeway across the of faith but which must be authoritatively excluded. In this way But in this development there is also the power of assimilation. Christian doctrine: unproved from Scripture and not logically morass, is to undertake a great responsibility.” he prepares us to see that there is a pattern behind the Newman would maintain that no idea could last without deduced from apostolic teaching. However, Pius IX pointed out changes taking place because the Church always possesses a making use of external sources. Such development, far from that nothing had been added or taken away from the deposit However, historically from Arianism there arose eventually the chronic vigour. It is that continually dynamic life which carries implying corruption, implies incorporation. If an idea coalesces of faith but that the Immaculate Conception “always existed in Nicene Creed and, in the case of Protestantism, the teaching us in its stride. For the Church goes boldly forward “amid the with certain other ideas it does not show undue influence or the Church as a doctrine that has been received from our on Grace and Original Sin. Of course sin and error are wounds persecutions of the world and the consolations of God”, and corruption but “an antecedent affinity to them. But if it is really ancestors” and was implicit in Scripture. inflicted on the Church, but the central idea maintains itself and so should we with her.

04 Faith I Newman, Vatican II and the Imperative of Development Newman, Vatican II and the Imperative of Development I Faith 05 “It is in calling to mind these mysteries of our Magisterial Development Concerning faith, expressed as Symphony, Solo and Silence, that we see the unity between creation, the new Revelation By Canon Luiz Ruscillo creation and salvation history in Christ”

In the last issue we published Canon Ruscillo’s synthesising of Pope Benedict’s post-Synodal history of Jesus as “the definitive word which God speaks Benedict quotes Maximus the Confessor who attributes to exhortation Verbum Domini with aspects of Fr Edward Holloway’s New Synthesis concerning the to humanity”. He says that the “constant renewal of this Mary the phrase: “Wordless is the Word of the Father, who Incarnation. Here he does something similar with the Pope’s symphonic analogy, where the encounter and this awareness fills the hearts of believers with made every creature which speaks; lifeless are the eyes Pope continues to develop the magisterial development of scriptural theology of the last 150 amazement at God’s initiative, which human beings, with of the One at whose Word and whose nod all living things our own reason and imagination, could never have dreamt move.”19 years and to encourage “further thought” and development. of. We are speaking of an unprecedented and humanly inconceivable novelty.”13 Since God’s revelation and relationship with creation is put in This is a developed extract of the first part of a talk given to the Faith Theological Symposium terms of the dialogue of and with the Word, sin is aptly 2012. Canon Ruscillo is director of education in Lancaster diocese and parish priest of Hornby Looking at the very “structure” of creation, not only at the defined as the refusal to hear the Word,20 to listen and engage and Kirby Lonsdale. “present economy”, Holloway is bolder. The Incarnation is in the dialogue. The “Word of the Cross” is the culmination of “expected” in Holloway’s synthesis. He writes: “Man could not how Jesus in his perfect humanity does the will of the Father The Symphony of the Word The idea of the “polyphonic hymn”, at once one and many, receive from God his adequate determination in the nature of at all times. In a perfect way he hears, embodies and The Synod Fathers referred to a “symphony of the word, resonates with Holloway’s insistence on the one Wisdom of his being unless Revelation were part of the natural scheme of communicates to us the Word of God. to a single word expressed in multiple ways: ‘a polyphonic God at work in creation and salvation. It is the single Word man’s creation, but here a word of warning must be given.”14 If hymn’.”1 Benedict says of the liber naturae, “Creation is born which is spoken in eternity, in creation, in humanity, in history revelation is part of the natural scheme, the Incarnation is also. The paschal mystery can be described as an eternally valid of the Logos and indelibly bears the mark of the creative and, through Mary, in time. In Verbum Domini the Pope The word of warning Holloway makes is that, although compact: “divine freedom and human freedom have Reason which orders and directs it”.2 This idea is not drawn suggests that “there is a need for further study of how the revelation is part of the “natural scheme” of man, this does not definitively met in his crucified flesh, in an indissoluble and out in much further detail. The Pope quotes Psalms 19 and different meanings of this expression [‘the word of God’ mean that man’s (created) essence is of one order with the eternally valid compact.”21 In this mystery Jesus is revealed 33 to illustrate the work of the Word in creation and then cites expressed analogically] are interrelated, so that the unity of being of God. Nor does it imply that God and the creature are as the Word of the new and everlasting covenant. “In the Dei Verbum, but the further implications of this idea are not God’s plan and, within it, the centrality of the person of related in the same order of mutual relationship. The created most luminous mystery of the resurrection, this silence of the developed. Even so, he does say that sacred Scripture itself Christ, may shine forth more clearly.”8 spirit has no claims, rights or debts to collect, as Holloway Word is shown in its authentic and definitive meaning. Christ, invites us to acknowledge the Creator by contemplating his expresses it, upon the nature of God. The intelligibility of man the incarnate, crucified and risen Word of God, is Lord of all creation.3 Continuing in a reflection on the creation of man Holloway’s “new synthesis” enables this centrality of the is “related not to the Divine Essence as a claim, but only to the things.”22 we read, “Reality, then, is born of the word, as creatura verbi, person of Christ to shine forth more clearly. The unity of Divine Wisdom, as the principle of meaning for the whole of and everything is called to serve the word.”4 Further on we God’s plan is expressed time and again in Verbum Domini, creation.”15 Divine Wisdom is true to itself. In this way of understanding revelation as an encounter, a read, “The word of God makes us change our concept of and in many forms. From the realism which has the Word at dialogue with the Word, sin is described as the “refusal to hear realism: the realist is the one who recognises in the word its foundation, the document moves to the history of Moreover in answer to questions concerning the “natural end the Word”. It breaks the covenant and results in being closed of God the foundation of all things.”5 In a rather lengthier salvation as found in the Old Testament. Heb 1:1-2 describes of man” Holloway tended to hold back from claiming for to God who calls to us. The radical obedience of Jesus sentence Fr Edward Holloway, a true realist, expresses it in the “handiwork of the Blessed Trinity through the divine Divinisation what he claimed for the Incarnation, saying that “unmasks sin”, “brings about the New Covenant” and “grants this way: Word”.9 It is the Word which gives this history its unity. Indeed the former is an astounding scriptural revelation, and that us the possibility of reconciliation”.23 While it is easy to the entire Old Testament appears to us as a history in which God could intelligibly have given us a lesser end in understand how Jesus’ obedience “unmasks” sin, and “All the laws of all the elements, every nature synthesised God communicates his word. It is according to the plan of relationship with Him. establishes the New Covenant, it is not fully explained why this upon them, and the scientific expression, or formula, when God that Israel might learn by experience, listen to the voice should bring about reconciliation for all other human beings. attainable, of the law of its being, all this and the of God and make God’s ways known to the nations. Pope Benedict raises a similar point to Holloway’s warning. In conjunction that events have to each other in space and in our response to the God who speaks and calls into dialogue, Holloway indicates that it is the unity of the material order, time, are only aspects of this overall Law of Control and For Catholicism: A New Synthesis this is “the line of promise” the mystery of the Covenant is established. But this is not a and God’s entering into it in the Incarnation, that provides the Direction within which, and through which, all things found in Israel as the custodian for mankind.10 “It will not be covenant of equals, it is not a “meeting of two peers”.16 The “vehicle” for the “connection” with others. In this connection subsist.”6 enough if God work to raise up religious truth, now here and Synod Fathers expressed it in this way: “Dialogue, when we all human beings can share in the reconciliation achieved by now there, without any line of sure direction to fulfilment. This are speaking of revelation, entails the primacy of the Word of Christ. It is in calling to mind these mysteries of our faith, Holloway evokes a “law of control and direction” across the would not suffice to implement the basic principle of that God addressed to man.”17 expressed as Symphony, Solo and Silence, that we see the whole of creation and salvation history. Pope Benedict Unity-Law of Control and Direction to fulfilment through unity between creation, the new creation and salvation history describes the activity of the Logos as one which “orders and which God has from the beginning worked in the processes This is an essential aspect of the biblical notion of covenant. in Christ. Here Pope Benedict uses an example which is used directs”. The Logos is the architect of creation who also gives of creation.”11 This idea is expressed as an integral and In the Old Testament we often read of human covenants by Galileo. “We can compare the cosmos to a ‘book’” and and reveals the purpose of creation. This purpose is union necessary part of the plan of God for man and creation. In between equal parties (eg two kings) or between unequal consider it as, with God the Father and, the Pope suggests, only comes Verbum Domini it is described as a real part of the present parties (a king and a vassal). Either party could initiate or about through the Incarnation. “In the Prologue of his Gospel, economy of God. It is an essential of God’s plan now, in this invite the covenant, whether it be the “inferior” or “superior” “the work of an author who expresses himself through the John thus contemplates the Word from his being with God to dispensation. Yet the impression is given, just through his party. But any covenant with God is always and only initiated ‘symphony’ of creation. In this symphony one finds … what his becoming flesh and his return to the Father with our Christocentric ontology and anthropology if not explicitly, that by God and is always clearly “unequal”. would be called in musical terms a ‘solo’, a theme entrusted humanity, which he has assumed for ever. In this coming forth Pope Benedict is suggesting the same. By basing his whole to a single instrument or voice which is so important that the from God and returning to him (cf Jn 13:3; 16:28; 17:8-10), approach on the Logos of the Prologue he inevitably tends, Taking on board the words of warning, Holloway insists that meaning of the entire work depends on it. The ‘solo’ is Jesus Christ is presented as the one who “tells us” about God (cf Jn for the sake of coherence and fullness, to this position. the Incarnation is expected. Pope Benedict expresses it as … The Son of Man recapitulates in himself earth and 1:18)… Jesus Christ is the definitive and effective word which an “inconceivable novelty”. heaven, creation and the Creator, flesh and Spirit. He is the came forth from the Father and returned to him, perfectly The Solo centre of the cosmos and of history, for in him converge accomplishing his will in the world.”7 As the culmination of the “polyphonic hymn”, “the eternal The Cross – Silence without confusion the author and his work.”24 Word, expressed in creation and communicated in salvation Verbum Domini now touches briefly on the paschal mystery, In the passage of Verbum Domini quoted above, it is not only history, in Christ became a man, “born of a woman” in which we find ourselves before the “Word of the Cross”, The inspiration of the same Fathers of the Church lie at the the phrase “orders and directs” that catches our attention. (Gal 4:4).”12 Pope Benedict describes the unique and singular which has spoken exhaustively and becomes silence.18 Pope heart of Pope Benedict’s and Holloway’s thought:

06 Faith I Magisterial Developing Concerning Revelation Magisterial Developing Concerning Revelation I Faith 07 “Pullout” Magisterial Developing Concerning Revelation continued

“They [the Fathers] use the Word [recapitulation] to denote the source of revelation, reveals himself as Father and co-operation with God in human beings in sexual Notes that all the force and meaning of the material universe, and brings to completion the divine pedagogy which had intercourse.”35 1Verbum Domini, 7. 2 the spiritual personality of man, works up to a climax in previously been carried out through the words of the Verbum Domini, 8. 3Verbum Domini, 8; Ps 33:6-9; Ps 19:1; Wis 13:5; Rom 1:19-20; Dei Verbum, 3 Christ, the King and the Heir of the Ages, who as God in prophets and the wondrous deeds accomplished in Mary is the model of the perfect response of faith to the (and Dei Filius, Chap 2). Person, brings all things to a head, and to a consummation of creation and in the history of his people and all mankind. invitation to dialogue inherent in revelation. In this she is truly 4Verbum Domini, 9. 5 fulfilment in his own Being, in the Incarnation of God.”25 The revelation of God the Father culminates in the Son’s “Mother of faith”. She is also “Mother of God’s Word” Verbum Domini, 10. 6 36 E Holloway, Catholicism: A New Synthesis, p40. gift of the Paraclete (Jn 14:6), the Spirit of the Father and because she is necessary as the “world-place”, freely 7Verbum Domini, 90. The Holy Spirit the Son, who guides us ‘into all the truth’ (Jn 16:13).”29 cooperating in God’s plan, where the Word can take flesh. 8Verbum Domini, 7. In Verbum Domini Pope Benedict explains that there can 9Verbum Domini, 11. 10 be no authentic understanding of revelation apart from The Church is central to God’s plan as the place where the It is Holloway’s insistence on the Incarnation, as absolutely Catholicism, p130. 11Catholicism, p122. the mission of the Holy Spirit. This is because God’s self- Holy Spirit is received. “Indeed, the Word of God is given to necessary according to the wisdom of God in his plan, which 12Verbum Domini, 11. communication always involves the relationship of the us in sacred Scripture as an inspired testimony to revelation; brings out Mary’s role to the full. 13Verbum Domini, 11. Son and the Holy Spirit. “The missions of the Son and the together with the Church’s living tradition, it constitutes the 14Catholicism, p108. 15Catholicism, p109. Spirit are inseparable and constitute a single economy of supreme rule of faith.”30 In the dialogue of revelation the Conclusion 16Verbum Domini, 22. 26 salvation.” It is the same Spirit who acts in the Incarnation, proper human response to the God who speaks is faith. “It is Verbum Domini is a significant moment in the Catholic 17Verbum Domini, 22. who guides Jesus through His mission, who is promised the preaching of the divine Word, in fact, which gives rise to Church’s approach to the word of God in sacred Scripture 18Verbum Domini, 12. 19 to the disciples; the same Spirit spoke in the prophets and faith, whereby we give our heartfelt assent to the truth which and in the Church. Catholic scripture scholarship must Maximus the Confessor, Life of Mary, 89. 20Verbum Domini, 26. continues to inspire the Church; it is the Spirit who inspires has been revealed to us and we commit ourselves entirely to discover anew the Trinity-centric orientation of the Gospels, 21Verbum Domini, 12. the authors of Scripture. Christ: ‘faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard the essential place of the Church, the unity of scripture, 22Verbum Domini, 12. comes from the word of Christ’ (Rom 10:17) … Christ Jesus the true meaning of hermeneutics and exegesis and that 23Verbum Domini, 26. 24 This is the point of unity between Scripture and Tradition. remains present today in history, in his body which is the the Bible is the Church’s book. As Pope Benedict writes: Verbum Domini, 13; Benedict XVI, Homily on the Feast of the Epiphany, 2009. 25Catholicism, p205. Benedict writes: Church; for this reason our act of faith is at once both “Consequently, ‘since sacred Scripture must be read and 26Verbum Domini, 15. personal and ecclesial.”31 interpreted in the light of the same Spirit through whom it 27Verbum Domini, 17. “Ultimately , it is the living Tradition of the Church which was written’,37 exegetes, theologians and the whole people 28E Holloway, Perspectives in Theology, Vol. I, pp38-39, Oxford 2005. 29 makes us adequately understand the sacred Scripture as The Church, then, is the essential location of the human of God must approach it as what it really is, the word of God Verbum Domini, 20. 30Verbum Domini, 18. the Word of God. Although the Word of God precedes and response. Holloway, in a similar but more poetic and earthy conveyed to us through human words (cf 1 Thess 2:13)”. 31Verbum Domini, 25. exceeds sacred Scripture, nonetheless Scripture, as manner, places the Church in Eden: “All Earth is Eden, God’s 32E Holloway, Perspectives in Theology, Vol. I, p37, Oxford 2005. inspired by God, contains the divine word in an altogether Garden of Delights. And the friendship of loving recognition In as much as it tries to reflect all the voices of the many 33Verbum Domini, 27. 34 27 Verbum Domini, 27-28. singular way.” and contemplative love, however simple, marks the primal bishops present at the Synod, this document is, however, a 35Catholicism, p216. revelation of God to His people. This surely must be the wordy mishmash in much of the latter parts. This is a great 36Catholicism, p215. Catholicism: A New Synthesis draws further conclusions from moment of the Church.”32 pity because its significance goes further than giving a sure 37Dei Verbum, 2. 38 the principle of the inseparable missions of the Son and the foundation to our approach to reading, studying and praying Verbum Domin, 29. 39E Holloway, Perspectives in Theology, Vol. I, p31-32, Oxford 2005. Spirit and the single economy of salvation: Mary the Bible. Pope Benedict’s constant reference to the Prologue In Verbum Domini, Mary’s role is described in terms of the of John gives to the understanding of revelation a particular “T radition, God’s word of teaching, has priority over the “Mother of God’s Word” and the “Mother of Faith”. She is synthesis which cannot be ignored. The union of the plan of word written down. For long ages there could be no Holy the one in whom the interplay between the Word of God and creation and revelation, of wisdom and Word, of ordering and Writ, but there was a teaching Church… The Bible is hers faith was brought to perfection. “By her ‘yes’ to the word of directing, is firmly established. In so doing, he comes [the Catholic Church]. Unless the teaching ministry the covenant and her mission [Mary] perfectly fulfils the divine tantalisingly close to asserting the necessity, within God’s precedes, there will be no written word. The authority of vocation of humanity.”33 Mary is presented as the perfect plan, of the Incarnation. But if we are expecting it to be the written word is one principle with the solemn authority image of the human reality. She is the one who is completely declared explicitly, we remain on the threshold. It is of the teaching word… Tradition and Holy Writ are one open to God’s will, made full of grace, unconditionally docile continually suggested and insinuated but never quite stated. principle, not two. The written word was, and remains, the to the word, obedient, attentive and attuned to the word. In one divine teaching. The teacher is teaching to a climax, to this way Mary is the image of the Church, actively listening, It is Holloway who is the bolder: His coming in the flesh as Emmanuel. After He has interiorising and assimilating the word. She is the model and ascended to the Father He teaches still, with divinity, with archetype of the Church’s faith.34 “We must therefore expect and presume the union and God’s authority on earth as the Environer of man. ‘I have communion of God with men through space and time, yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them Holloway expresses Mary’s role further since he is more through history and society, through priest and prophet. now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into explicit on the necessity of the Incarnation in the plan of And what a majestic theme this is! It is the surge of God’s all the truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but God’s revelation and the very meaning of the created order. communion with men until it is crowned in the Incarnation whatever He hears He will speak…for He will take what is “It is necessary that the Heir to the Ages come into his own of the Eternal Word, our God in Person, who fulfils all in all mine and declare it to you’ (Jn 16:12-14).”28 through the womb of woman, so that the human nature of – from the foetus in the womb to the entire People of God man may be the perfect means of the action … of God in as Church and as community in heaven and upon earth.” The understanding of the single economy is summed up in Person upon ‘his own’ and upon the material order itself, this passage of Verbum Domini: through mankind… In this magnificent consummation of the created order by God in himself, it cannot happen that the “In the Son, ‘Logos made flesh’ (Jn 1:14), who came to divine Being be subjected to the intrinsic relativism of a accomplish the will of the one who sent him (Jn 4:34), God, coming to be, also in personality, which is involved in the

08 Faith I Magisterial Developing Concerning Revelation Magisterial Developing Concerning Revelation I Faith 09 “Leading Anglican bishops have spoken against Catholic Involvement in Saving Marriage “thePullout” coming Bill and there is strong grass-roots By Eric Hester opposition, especially from the admirable evangelical Christian Institute in the North East”

Eric Hester is a retired headmaster of Catholic grammar and comprehensive schools and in London that we attended. The BBC played down the people to vote Yes. But it is very unlikely that the Government currently a lead inspector of independent schools. He writes about the practical response that numbers and the politicians ignored what was being said. would permit a referendum on this matter – or on any other. Catholics could make to the current attack on marriage. First, it is quite likely that it would lose heavily and suffer a This time we can be more optimistic because, for once, we great deal of bad publicity. More importantly, the Government are showing an ecumenical dimension that is useful: we is worried that the British people might warm to the concept The Catholic Church in England has a poor record in the reader of one fact: none of the political parties as much should work with the Church of England. Leading bishops of of referendums and push for one on the EU. opposing governments in the area of sexual morality. There is as mentioned the “gay marriage” measure in their manifestos. that Church have spoken against the coming Bill and, more a consistent pattern here which may perhaps have raised importantly, there is very strong grass-roots opposition, Finally, please do not decide to leave it to other people to eyebrows in Rome. Despite some resistance to redefining So the British people are having something thrust upon them, especially from the admirable evangelical Christian Institute resist this evil. I know it is a cliché, but it is a true one that for marriage, it is not clear that our tactics are the best – nor is it a huge change, on which they have never had the chance to based in the North East. This institute is pursuing a hard fight evil to triumph it is sufficient for good people to do nothing. clear what our angle is. I propose to raise a couple of vote. This is wrong. This is not an emergency measure and and its website has daily news of that battle. Among other campaigning issues in this regard. there is no need for haste. As it is the Prime Minister who is things, the Institute has fruitfully called for a Christian boycott introducing this measure, why was it not in the Conservative of Tesco, which has been giving money to the Gay Pride We have seen every Catholic adoption society in effect Party manifesto? march. One would hardly expect this to be a festive family closed down because, apparently, the leaders of the Church occasion, at least in the traditional sense of family; indeed, it thought they had a deal with politicians over “gay” adoption. The reason is obvious: the proposal is massively unpopular. is a highly sexualised pageant. The Catholic authorities were completely out-manoeuvred. As The Tories might well have lost the election had they included this magazine has chronicled, they largely surrendered in the this measure in their manifesto. So what can we do? If one has a Conservative MP then write fight against compulsory sex education (of a profoundly to him or her but even better go and see the MP, or ask the corrupting kind), most especially concerning non-Catholic They now say that they are having a consultation but that MP to meet a deputation of a dozen or so people. If you do schools. We were saved only from the worst excesses whatever the consultation finds they will still pass the not mind writing to newspapers, then do that: political parties because the Labour government lost the last election. In measure. Will it, in fact, go through Parliament? Easily. The want bad news to be kept quiet and the Conservative Party is schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to Tories say they are giving their MPs a free vote, which is nice certainly hoping that the fuss will subside. Use websites. the politicians control over the curriculum, over the for them. But those Tories who are part of the Government Write to the Prime Minister at Downing Street and ask admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment will in effect be pressurised to vote Yes, and the Labour and specific questions to which you want answers. In particular, of teachers. Liberal Democrats are keeping quiet. It is marvellous for the one could ask the Prime Minister to put in writing his personal Labour Party: something which they desire is being proposed guarantee that no Church or individual will be forced to Despite the above our politicians do not seem to feel they and the Tories are taking all the odium for it. Even if Labour perform “gay marriages”; and that it will not be illegal for that they owe us any favours but are pushing ahead towards gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour Christians to teach the traditional and biblical view that altering the whole basis of marriage as it has been known in constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most homosexual acts are sinful; and that Christians who refuse to England since the time of King St Ethelbert. It will be a Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of perform “gay” marriages will still be able to be registrars. difficult fight against a government-funded campaign (ie one principle will hold out. Much the same goes for the Liberal backed by our money), which has daily access to the media, Democrats, whose leader has said that he has no intention of Parish priests could consider asking any local Conservative especially to the BBC – which has clearly shown that it allowing MPs to have a free vote. MP to attend a meeting with him and a group of parishioners. intends to push for “gay marriage”. My advice would be that such a meeting should not be a When objective histories are written of this era, surely the public one but that about a dozen good people should meet I am not here discussing the morality of homosexuality. The virtual silence of the Catholic Church in Britain concerning the the MP. The meeting should be a private one, but the MP Catholic Church has always condemned homosexual acts as widening gap between sex and procreation will figure could be told quite clearly that afterwards a clear statement “intrinsically evil”, as well as of course distinguishing clearly prominently. In this piece I will focus on the tactics of the will be issued giving his, or her, views about homosexual between wounded tendencies, sin, and sinner. I want to focus Catholic Church in England. The Catholic Times of 12 June marriage with the MP’s voting intentions. upon what should be done politically to stop this proposal reported that a prominent bishop has called upon the Labour from becoming law. Party and Liberal Democrats to allow a free vote. But though I have spoken about Conservative MPs because at the time I there is nothing wrong with this, per se, it concedes that the am writing no Bill has been produced and only the leader of The power of the “gay” lobby can further be gauged by the politicians should make the decision and not the people. The the Conservative Party has raised the issue directly. Once the fact that, on one level, we need to remind ourselves that, in bishop quoted in the report made no reference to the rights matter becomes a definite proposal, and there is a terms of health considerations, homosexual acts are not at all of the people of Britain. As stated above, a “free” vote of MPs parliamentary timetable, then MPs of all parties should be on the level of holding hands and a peck on the cheek. It is would almost certainly result in the Bill’s being passed. contacted. Those who live in marginal constituencies are in a just the tip of a health-risk iceberg to recognise that sexually very good position to help. They can contact MPs and active gay men, and even their female sexual partners, are The Catholic Bishops sent a good letter to be read at all candidates of all parties. A Conservative MP with a small not allowed to donate blood. Given the amount of rewriting of parishes (though interestingly it did not directly mention majority will feel under pressure especially if, say, a candidate basic biology going on in this area it is interesting to see the homosexuality, and some priests have kept this secret from for UKIP strongly opposes this measure. NHS “Who can’t give blood” website page. their parishioners). But the letter, though good on moral arguments, was weak on tactics. It did recommend that There are different views about political tactics but I feel that In considering the practicalities of fighting this frenzied rush Catholics should sign the petition against the new form of we should ask for a referendum. How are the people to formally to separate sex from any specific meaning written marriage. There is certainly no harm in this, but politicians express their views on an important and fairly straightforward into the nature of the human person, in which the Catholic tend to ignore petitions. How many petitions did we all sign issue missing from manifestos? Of course, the Government Church seems little more than a bystander, I should remind against abortion, all to no avail – as were the demonstrations would control the wording and the BBC would push for

10 Faith I Catholic Involvement in Saving Marriage Catholic Involvement in Saving Marriage I Faith 11 “It is hard to imagine that a 99% correlation Deeper Levels of Corruption at between Planned Parenthood’s abortions and its government funding could reflect anything but a Planned Parenthood By Keith Riler sustained, concerted – and illegal – effort”

In his popular paper in our March issue, Keith Riler demonstrated a very close correlation over and suggest that Planned Parenthood is no charity, just funding could reflect anything but a sustained and concerted many years between Planned Parenthood’s US government funding and the abortions it another profit-seeking entity, offering a lethal product and effort. Such an effort would be illegal in many ways. performs. In addition he demonstrated a tight correlation between Planned Parenthood’s fraudulently billing for it. Paragraph 93 explains: contraceptive distribution and its abortions, in direct contravention of the oft-heard comment Fraud = 99% Correlation = $1,522 per Life? Planned Parenthood…presented false, fraudulent and These lawsuits describe just such a widespread and that contraception reduces abortions. He suggested that deceptive marketing, particularly aimed ineligible claims to the United States, the State of Texas … concerted effort. Allegedly, Planned Parenthood sought at young teens, and the known link between contraception and increased sexual activity were key by making an additional false notation reflecting a family government funding for abortion by creating and billing factors in understanding Planned Parenthood’s abortion-driven revenue growth. In this paper he planning purpose … for fraudulent services – which billing would substantially offers a deeper understanding of the funding–abortion correlation, involving alleged frauds now increase Planned Parenthood’s revenue per head aborted. In 4 7 brought to light by several whistleblower lawsuits. An earlier case, brought in California by a former chief ACLJ’s words, Planned Parenthood: financial officer, made comparable claims: knowingly engaged in continued violations of both federal Often the simplest answer is the true one. If recent claims1 Although the earlier work highlighted the unusually high 99% Planned Parenthood (PP) affiliates in California, including and state law by adopting and implementing company-wide made against Planned Parenthood by the Alliance Defense correlation (social scientists get excited over mere 60-70% the one for which relator worked (PP of Los Angeles), billing policies intended to maximise revenue received from Fund (“ADF”) and the American Center for Law and Justice correlations), it deferred offering an explanation: knowingly overbilled the state government, and through it government health care programmes … by expressly (“ACLJ”) are accurate, a simple answer solves a prior the federal government, to the tune of tens of millions of requiring PPGC’s clinics … to bill the federal and state mystery. There is an apparent inconsistency between (i) a 99% dollars, for birth control drugs and devices provided to governments for reimbursement for (i) medical services that correlation and (ii) Planned Parenthood’s strong assertions clients. were never actually rendered; (ii) medical services that, Strong Taxpayer-Abortion Link that no connection exists between taxpayer support and although rendered, were known by Defendant to be A startlingly high correlation between Planned Parenthood’s abortions. The assertions don’t square with the numbers…. And a more recent case brought in Iowa by a Planned medically unnecessary; and (iii) abortion-related services abortions and its government funding was documented this It is also possible there is a more explicit connection Parenthood centre manager echoed the California claims:5 that PPGC knew were not properly reimbursable through year:2 between abortion and Planned Parenthood’s grants, given these government programmes. the strength of the correlation; however, such an analysis is Planned Parenthood clinic director Sue Thayer filed the Planned Parenthood’s abortions are very highly positively beyond the scope of this paper. lawsuit against the abortion giant’s Iowa affiliate accusing it When the 99% correlation is properly considered, Planned correlated with the amount of government funds received of submitting “repeated false, fraudulent, and/or ineligible Parenthood’s per-head abortion realisations increase to by the company, at 99% correlation. … These results Now, an Explanation? claims for reimbursements” to Medicaid … $1,522 per life, or $501.4m in 2010. contradict the oft-heard wisdom that Planned Parenthood’s We may now have an answer that is both obvious and simple. government support is unrelated to its abortion business. At A recent lawsuit,3 brought by a former Planned Parenthood Finally, detailed allegations (paragraphs 22-35) are made in a Taxpayer Funding – More Correlated With Abortion 99% correlation, Planned Parenthood’s government funding manager and the ADF, alleges that Planned Parenthood Gulf third case, also brought by a former employee:6 Than With Contraception and abortions are statistically one and the same. Coast (PPGC): The earlier analysis also observed that Planned Parenthood’s PPGC also trained its employees to create fraudulent and government funding correlated more strongly with its The charts below confirm that Planned Parenthood’s filed at least 87,075 false, fraudulent, or ineligible claims misleading patient chart entries so as to obtain abortions (at R=99%) than with its contraception activities abortion business is highly related to its government with the Texas Women’s Health Program. As a result, reimbursement for services for which WHP and Medicaid (although still strong, at R=77%-83%). Given that funding. The scatter plot demonstrates a near-linear Planned Parenthood wrongfully received and retained would otherwise not allow payment. One notable example government payments are supposedly contraception-related, relationship and the bar graph shows that for every $1m reimbursements totalling more than $5.7m. of this practice relates to PPGC policies for obtaining one would expect the contraception-funding correlation to [£640,000] of taxpayer dollars, a consistent average of 949 payment for abortion-related services. WHP, Medicaid, and have been higher. Not so. abortions results: Paragraphs 80-106 of the lawsuit are particularly informative some other government programmes do not allow payment for abortion-related services including “follow-up visits” The information alleged in the lawsuits could explain the after an elective abortion procedure. The following is a shortfall. If Planned Parenthood was distributing direct quote from a staff meeting memorandum given to contraception services legitimately and fraudulently claiming clinic employees on 22 January 2009: for abortion services (really just dollars for abortion follow- ups), then the inflated billing would weaken the correlation POST AB[ORTION] VISITS: between contraception and government funding. Government Funding and Abortions PP Abortions for Every $1MM of Govt. Funding We must work these clients in! This visit is self-pay. Quote y = 769.52x + 51221 PP Annual Abortions 1,000 the self-pay price then ask if she needs any other services Overstated Contraception Reporting? R² = 0.9887 340,000 such as birth control. If she is interested, screen for WHP or By plotting reported Planned Parenthood contraception

320,000 800 Title XX and offer the WWE [Well Woman Exam]. If the client services (y-axis) and government funding (x-axis, in millions) is getting on birth control make this the focus of the visit for 2002-2009,8 we see a linear trend line indicating a 1.38 300,000 600 and put a note in the chief complaints that the client had a million y-axis intersection. This means the best linear model 280,000 surgical or medical abortion “x” weeks ago. of Planned Parenthood’s contraception activities calls for

260,000 Planned Parenthood to “distribute” 1.38 million contraception 400 If Planned Parenthood in fact defrauded taxpayers using units even while receiving no government funds (a y-axis 240,000 “Post AB Visits,” then the correlation between Planned intercept means a zero value for the x variable, being 220,000 200 Parenthood’s abortions and government payments should be government payments).

200,000 high because “post AB visits” must follow ABs (abortions). $225.0 $275.0 $325.0 0 Statistically, it is hard to imagine that a 99% correlation Although Planned Parenthood might distribute contraception 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 PP Govt Grants ($MM) between Planned Parenthood’s abortions and its government to private-pay clients, that distribution is unlikely to be

12 Faith I Deeper Levels of Corruption at Planned Parenthood Deeper Levels of Corruption at Planned Parenthood I Faith 13 The Truth Will Set You Free Deeper Levels of Corruption at Planned Parenthood Catholic Doctrine in the Pastoral Context continued

9 meaningful. Therefore, if the lawsuit claims are valid, these Notes Through indulgences the Church makes a close link between 1.38 million uncompensated contraception services might be 1http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/15/former-employees-expose-planned- SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT PENANCE “the merits” of the saints and the needs of a particular better viewed as the annual contraception services fraudulently parenthoods-medicaid-fraud/ repentant sinner. The healing work of Christ, which, building 2http://www.faith.org.uk/Publications/Magazines/Mar12/ recorded under the alleged schemes described above. Mar12PlannedParenthoodAndTheDemandForAbortion.html Christopher Keefe from West Harrow has posed us the upon his forgiveness, is the necessary preparation for heaven, Between the lure of taxpayer cash and the predictable 3http://www.adfmedia.org/files/JohnsonComplaint.pdf? following questions. He seems to be requesting a little is enabled through his sacrificial life, death and resurrection. Democrat accolades about “healthcare” (even more cash 4http://media.aclj.org/pdf/gonzalez_brief_for_appellants_no_09-55010.pdf development of some traditional answers. As such his queries Suffering, when it is linked with Christ and his suffering shares later), Planned Parenthood must be sorely tempted to 5http://www.adfmedia.org/files/ThayerComplaint.pdf are very apposite to the charism of Faith movement and this the latter’s redemptive effects. overstate contraception activity. 6http://c0391070.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/pdf/reynolds-v-planned- pastorally oriented column in particular. parenthood-complaint-texas-planned-parenthood-lawsuit.pdf The sufferings of the martyrs and saints are the most obvious 7http://aclj.org/planned-parenthood/challenging-planned-parenthood-court-again- Conclusion this-time-texas 1. What are the effects of personal mortal sin? Does it cut me and powerful examples of this fruitful solidarity with Christ in In summary, earlier analysis highlighted the very unusual 82010 excluded: PP changed its Medicaid accounting in 2010 and ceased reporting off from God, and run the risk of my going to hell if not the Church. Through the Church we all therefore benefit from 99% positive correlation between government funding condom distribution, making results non-comparable without further adjustment. confessed? them. Indulgences, where we do particular acts of devotion 9The Title X government programme covers customers at or below 250% of the and Planned Parenthood’s abortions. This correlation is poverty line. Planned Parenthood has indicated that 75% of its customers are at or and charity as set by the Church, focus and personalise a little statistically rare, but the fraud described in the numerous below the 150% mark, indicating PP is receiving taxpayer money for most of its Yes. Mortal sin, the committing of a gravely wrong act, bit more these saving effects. lawsuits could explain it. The mystery may be solved, making customers. deliberately and with full knowledge of its seriously wrong 10http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/15/former-employees-expose-planned- a simple explanation the true one – “Planned Parenthood parenthoods-medicaid-fraud/ character, incurs the loss of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Furthermore the loving offerings and sufferings of holy men improperly sought reimbursement from the government for 11http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/12/obama-admin-finalizes-rules-1-abortions- and women across the ages can, through the Church, bear abortion-related services.”10 in-obamacare/ 2. If a priest absolves the mortal sin why should I have to do fruit in particular ways and can be applied for particular needs 12 http://www.bdfund.org/ObamacareinCourt penance as the sin has been forgiven? I understand that that may not have been explicitly known about by those who 13http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/294500/what-rules-us-dorinda-c- Although unproven, the multitude and consistency of bordlee through confession my sin is forgiven, and that I have to actually made those Christocentric sacrifices. The “gaining” employee whistleblowing is eye opening. The old adage 14http://civilliberty.about.com/od/abortion/f/Average-Cost-of-an-Abortion.htm make reparation to God for my sin, but why do I need to of an indulgence by particular people can bring them special there’s no honour among thieves is a reflection of the broader 15http://thehill.com/video/campaign/229979-planned-parenthood-endorses-obama- make this reparation as God is all loving? healing, to the extent that they are open to this. truth that you can’t practice vice virtuously. Don’t be launches-14m-ad-buy surprised if those who permanently render babies lifeless Because we have to cooperate with this loving work of God. might also lie, cheat and steal. Sin breaks, or at least wounds, relationships with God and each other. Forgiveness restarts and strengthens these On a final note, by implementing $1/month abortions,11 friendships. It is the base and beginning of healing. Penance Obamacare has upended longstanding law prohibiting the enacts our sincere sorrow and bases our cooperation with use of taxpayer money for abortions,12 by requiring that God’s healing, loving work. taxpayers fund abortions through private pay insurance.13 Now we and aborting mothers pay $1, with insurance 3. If I have a mortal sin and it has been pardoned in companies paying the balance (about $50014), all of which confession why would one need to go to purgatory to be Planned Parenthood receives for each abortion. If mobile made perfect in preparation for heaven as one has had phones became ubiquitous once made cheaper, imagine one’s sins forgiven? I know I need to make the reparation what will happen with $1-abortions. Obamacare thus moves as per 2 above, but why? Planned Parenthood into the legitimate unfettered flow of taxpayer money by replacing one middleman, the US Because, as mentioned in the previous answer, healing still government, with another, private pay insurance companies. has to happen. Is it any wonder Planned Parenthood just purchased $1.4m15 in Barack Obama re-election ads? 4. How do indulgences work? I understand that they remit temporal punishment due to my forgiven sins, if I die without performing the acts of penance a priest has imposed. But again why does a loving God need this reparation? I understand that nothing unclean can go to heaven, and that, like a dry dock, we need the barnacles PP Funding and Contraception y = 7,476.31x + 1,381,162.66 chipped off. R² = 0.69 4,300,000 4,100,000 The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “An indulgence 3,900,000 is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to 3,700,000 sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful 3,500,000 Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed 3,300,000 conditions through the action of the Church which, as the 3,100,000 minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority 2,900,000 the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.” 2,700,000 2,500,000 (CCC 1471) $200.0 $250.0 $300.0 $350.0 $400.0

14 Faith I Deeper Levels of Corruption at Planned Parenthood The Truth Will Set You Free I Faith 15 Letters to the Editor “If it is accepted that homo sapiens evolved from The Editor, The Parish House, Moorhouse Road, non-rational animal precursors, was there a progression Bayswater, London W2 5DJ, [email protected] from animal souls to human souls?”

course, I am referring to the hoped-for teachers, musicians, and singers, risen, glorious Body of Our Lord with It is precisely because His Body is now sapiens had evolved from non-rational rapprochement with the SSPX and the seems to me to stretch the title a bit. all the properties of that state, an in a glorified state that He is able to animal precursors. Was there a birth of the Ordinariate, the latter which aspect too rarely discussed. Our Lord give Himself in the Eucharist. This is all progression from animal souls to is the lasting legacy of our current That Blessed John Paul II was a Pope did show His transfigured Body to a profound mystery but this line of human souls? Pope, and the former which may for the time is undoubtedly true, but I Peter, James and John. The splendour thought helps many to deepen their become so for us traditional Catholics. would not have stood in St Peter’s shown then was the normal quality of understanding of the jewel in the Mgr Loftus (Catholic Times, 3 June Square shouting “Santo subito”. If and Christ’s Body. His human soul, as it crown of the Catholic Church. 2012) insists that the doctrine of Summorum Pontificum, still not fully when I get to heaven, I can happily be was hypostatically united to the original sin should not be denied, but implemented in the Church in Great proven wrong. Eternal Word, enjoyed the Beatific Yours faithfully, agrees with Fr McMullin that the JOHN PAUL THE GREAT? Britain, is another step towards the Vision. He normally suppressed this Christopher Bull present interpretation is too rigid. revitalisation, or renewal, of the Yours faithfully, splendour, presumably to convince us Reed Avenue Dear Father Editor, Catholic Church, as it encourages a Marie Miller Dean of the reality of His humanity. After His Canterbury The great Russian philosopher Vladimir I greatly enjoyed Joanna Bogle’s article depth of prayer, reflection, true Artesian Rd resurrection His glorified body Soloviev, who died in 1900, produced on Blessed John Paul II and far be it worship and reverence that the many Bayswater possessed the properties of a thesis about creation, which is from me to argue with the masses of outdoor Masses of Blessed John Paul immortality, incorruptibility, clarity, IDEALISTIC EVOLUTION almost completely ignored in the West, people in the Church, especially the II lacked almost to a fault. In addition, subtlety and agility. even though it is a key to a solution of “John Paul II Generation” in America, a although his writings were clear in OUR LORD’S GLORIFIED BODY Dear Father Editor, all of the above problems. phenomenon not seen in Britain, about some respects, at least to those of us These properties can be glimpsed from Fr Hugh MacKenzie, in the May/June the greatness of the man. As a person who have studied phenomenology, Dear Father Editor, the Gospel accounts of the issue of Faith magazine, castigates He argued that while each human with Eastern European background, I Blessed John Paul II did very little to The brief article on the Eucharist in the appearances to the disciples after the Jack Mahoney SJ for expressing views being has a very tiny life span, or finite think his call to greatness could be his directly contradict or correct the awful last issue of Faith (Truth Will Set You Resurrection. Although he had a (The Tablet, Jan 2012) that the doctrine appearance in the whole of space-time amazing stand and success against aberrational practices in the Liturgy Free, July/Aug 2012) brought out some wound in His side which Thomas put of original sin and the primordial fall of the universe, humanity is also an Communism, or at least the Soviet that so many of us suffered from in the interesting points. Whole books have his hand in, there was no blood, and of our first parents should simply be eternal intelligible essence. Therefore it Bloc, which is not quite the same 1980s and 1990s, and, sadly, even been written on the subject and it is blood did not flow from His hands or ditched. is logical to admit that a person exists thing. today. The present Pope has done difficult to cover all the points when feet. The physical properties not only after death (immortal soul and much more in this regard. space is limited. appertaining to this glorified body are Fr MacKenzie accepts all the ultimately immortal body at the However, I do have theological quite different from those that we now Catechism says on the topic, but General Resurrection), but also before reservations regarding Blessed John There are several other points I could The Catholic explanation called possess. It is precisely because His agrees that evolution of all life forms birth – as an idea in God. Paul II’s “greatness”. Part of his appeal cover, but I want to highlight only one Transubstantiation comes directly from Body is glorified that He is able to give occurred. Thus he maintains that God was his ability to use the media in a more. We have a leadership crisis in St Thomas Aquinas and was Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist. breathed human immortal souls into a We can then think of humanity way previous popes did not. In his day, the Church at the level of bishops and promulgated as the official Church The condition of a glorified body is male and female pair of hominoids, beginning as a great transcendental media coverage of the Church brought archbishops, most of whom were teaching at the Council of Trent to further clouded by the enigmatic when they had emerged with a design, which is a living reality and a the attention back to the universality of consecrated under Blessed John Paul counteract such heterodox ideas as remark to Mary Magdalene by Our sufficient level of consciousness. This unity in God. The divine intention was, Catholicism in a way not seen in II. No one can deny that many, many consubstantiation and impanation. Lord on the morning of His pair, Adam and Eve, then committed and is, that we would all be actualised modern times. However, I believe one bishops are not as orthodox Resurrection when she tried to the original sin and fell, as described in as distinct, but perfectly sharing the must be cautious in labelling any Pope concerning the Faith as the laity and But any discussion must include John embrace Him: “Do not cling to me, Genesis, and in the Catechism, as a whole universe as one immortal living great. world needs at this time. Now, I realise Chapter 6 where the words of Our Lord because I have not yet ascended to historical event. body. Creation would then be many-in- that his decision was not based on his are unequivocal. He Himself said he the Father.” He entered the room one in the direct image of the Trinity. I still have serious concerns regarding own discernment, but that of the local was going to give us His Body and where the disciples were even though However, the late Fr Ernan McMullin the World Day of Prayer for Peace in churches. However, his legacy of Blood (and, by extension, His Soul and the room was locked (Jn 20:19) and argued that evolution calls for a This design, with full knowledge of the Assisi in 1986, both in its reality and in choices, at least in the States, and Divinity – cf. his use of “Me”) which His the two disciples on the way to dramatic reinterpretation of the divine will for the being of creation, the media myth, which struck me at perhaps in Great Britain, leaves audience found to be an intolerable Emmaus did not recognise Him and Genesis story of human origins (The and in perfect freedom, rebelled as a the time, and today, as a movement something to be desired. A great man idea and started to leave. Our Lord did He was able suddenly to vanish from Tablet, Jan 2008). The evolutionary unity, except the higher unity of the away from the message of Catholicism is known by those whom he chooses not call them back and say they had their sight (Lk 24:31). process is flawed throughout, with Alpha Christ, the idea of the Word as a Church called to convert the to work under him as well as his own misunderstood, in fact He turned to natural evil and death, from the Big becoming incarnate, and the idea of world and to be the “sign of accomplishments. Part of Blessed the disciples and said, “Will you also The most remarkable occasion when Bang onwards. As Fr McMullin stated, Mary, the Immaculate Conception. contradiction” in the world. False John Paul II’s legacy is his bishops. go?” Peter came up with that the Eucharist was given was at the it is difficult to justify God as direct ecumenism must be seen as one of sustaining and vivifying reply, “Lord to Last Supper for Christ was there creator of such an imperfect process. Everything, matter and spirit, within the the weaknesses of the Post-Conciliar Now, I realise a person does not have whom shall we go? You have the standing in front of His Apostles, yet great design, generated within and one Church. to be absolutely perfect in order to be message of eternal life!” All the His body remained intact in front of The same problem of theodicy was with the Alpha Christ, and in the fallen seen as a saint, or even canonised. theological explanations return in the them. We are certainly in the realm of a also stressed at the international finite universe that is actualised, is The other reason I question the label However, to compare Blessed John end to faith and the truth of Our Lord’s very profound mystery. He still stands conference on Darwin’s theory, in blemished by original sin. Jesus and “great” is that the Pope did not Paul II with St Gregory the Great, the words. Truth Himself talks truly or in front of us at Mass in the person of Rome in 2009. The direct creation of Mary were also actualised in the fallen reconcile many differences in the reformer of the Liturgy, the great there’s nothing true. (Adorote devote). the celebrant who as Alter Christus each human soul at the moment of state according to the divine decree of Church, which our current Pope apostle to the Anglo-Saxons, a Doctor says the words exactly as Christ did at conception was also regarded as a original unity, but unlike us, are always Benedict XVI, who has been labelled of the Church, a Latin Father, writer, I am grateful for your emphasis upon the Last Supper using the first person theological difficulty – since the immaculate in the totality of their the Pope of Unity, has done. Of and the patron saint of students, the fact that the Body we receive is the singular. conference accepted that homo bodies and souls.

16 Faith I Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor I Faith 17 “This fundamental discovery would seem to be further Letters confirmation of the coherence of all physical reality and continued its interrelation in a Unity-Law of Being”

This thesis not only answers the after week. They also come from along on the absurdity curve, merrily 1970s. This describes the three However, it is not merely a stunning these, in turn, combine with electrons to problems described above, but also further afield. I did this even when I redefining reality at will. Your readers “generations” of matter and antimatter result for physicists. For those who form atoms, many of which are stable greatly illuminates many important was with a big community. might be interested in a recent piece of particles (cf. the first three columns in recognise the relevance of physics to and enable the formation of complex aspects of doctrine and dogma, mine highlighting the radical difference the diagram below), and the so-called metaphysics this fundamental discovery molecules such as DNA. This ascent of especially transubstantiation. The children helped me to this practice between the marriage covenant gauge bosons, the force-carrier would seem to be further confirmation of complexity can be linked directly to the when I was a young curate because ontologically ordered towards the particles. The rows and columns are the coherence of all physical reality and unity and increasing independence of Yours faithfully, they listed the most difficult thing formation of family and two adults based on fundamental symmetry its interrelation in a Unity-Law of Being. material objects using a reworking of the Professor John Rooney about Confession as “getting there”. autonomously contracting for “loving” properties, described by equations. Fr Edward Holloway used discoveries concept of the “analogy of being”. Stranmillis Road The solution takes a while to catch on purposes chosen by themselves. such as the periodic table and the Belfast but it develops and grows all the time. The piece can be found at http:// balance of ecosystems to develop the Much work still needs to be done by After all, we can cancel other things of www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/ Unity Law concept. physicists to determine the precise lesser importance in favour of this vital modern_gnosticism_and_the_family_ nature of the Higgs particle and its INCREASING PARISH CONFESSIONS apostolate. as_contract.html The Standard Model, as noted above, significance for our physical uses mathematical symmetries to link understanding of the material universe. Dear Father Editor, Yours faithfully, Yours faithfully, the properties of particles and predict The Standard Model describes the Thank you so much for a good and Fr Bryan Storey Keith Riler other particles (successfully). This is not fundamental particles from which we, thorough coverage of the Sacrament Tintagel Peachtree St an approach that regards all things as and every visible thing in the universe, of Penance, especially in your Jan/Feb Cornwall Atlanta having equal probabilities of occurring. are made, and the forces acting issue. Our Catholic community here in Georgia There is, of course, an intrinsic between them. However, astrophysics Tintagel is quite small and for decades indefiniteness in nature, described in indicates that the matter that we can see I have had no official time which is WHY MARRIAGE IS A CONTRACT EDITORIAL COMMENT: We would indeed physics by the Heisenberg Uncertainty or detect appears to be no more than just for Confessions as so few were recommend this fine piece. Also Principle, but this is no arbitrary about 4 per cent of the total matter in coming. I regularly advertise that I am Dear Father Editor, thought provoking concerning the uncertainty; it is a precise limit the universe. It may be that a more available at any time for Confessions I noted with interest the comments ideologically inspired redefinition of The brilliance of this model was that it concerning the relationship between exotic version of the Higgs particle could especially before and after Mass. As a by William Oddie and Niall Gooch on words is Mr Riler’s parody: http://www. used mathematical symmetries, momentum and position for each help us understand the remaining 96 per result there is a really high percentage gay marriage in the Jan/Feb issue. americanthinker.com/2012/05/the_ enabling the prediction of new particles particle. In fact, the mathematical cent of matter, the so-called “dark of penitents throughout the year, week Unfortunately, we over here are further right_to_be_asian.html with definite predicted properties (since formulation of the electric force matter”. verified) such as charge and spin. It (Coulomb’s law) can be derived from it. unifies three of the four fundamental The very notion of a “field”, such as the However, even if the results turn out not forces, leaving only the gravitational Higgs field, is a mathematical and to be significant enough to indicate the force to be accounted for. The Higgs physical model describing the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mechanism, named after the Edinburgh interrelationship of matter at the intellectual and technological work physicist Peter Higgs, and its related subatomic level, what Holloway would involved in looking for it are a testament particle, the Higgs boson, form an have called an “equational” relationship to the unique brilliance of the human integral part of the Standard Model, since in this vision (that espoused by mind, which is itself a reflection, we Cutting Edge explaining how the elementary particles Faith movement) the cosmos is a vast, believe, of the Mind of God in whose have the masses that they do. John Ellis, ordered equation. image we are made. Science and Religion News a British theoretical physicist who works at CERN as well as at King’s College, One has to be careful here, however, not London, explains the Higgs boson as to invoke the beauty of the mathematical the fundamental quantum of the Higgs symmetries involved as a “proof” of the The Higgs-Boson Discovery: “ We have reached a milestone in our highest energies ever achieved on field, a sort of “snow” (http://cdsweb. existence of a creator. The philosophical Science and Metaphysics understanding of nature,” said CERN earth. This happens in tubes with the cern.ch/record/1458922) through which work required is more complex and Director General Rolf Heuer. “The lowest vacuum pressures ever various particles either ski (if massless, more fundamental. What is necessary is By Dr Gregory Farrelly discovery of a particle consistent with produced and using superconducting like the photon) or sink (if with non-zero a philosophical analysis of nature in the Higgs boson opens the way to magnets at the lowest temperatures rest mass, like the quarks). which the very existence of equational In a recent press release (http://press. more detailed studies, requiring larger ever obtained. By detecting the fields of force in the material universe is web.cern.ch), the ATLAS and CMS statistics, which will pin down the new showers of particles produced by these If the published results do verify the linked to a metaphysical view of what an experiments at CERN in Switzerland- particle’s properties, and is likely to collisions some of their properties can existence of the Higgs boson, this will object is and how it is related to other France presented their latest preliminary shed light on other mysteries of our be determined. be a milestone in fundamental physics objects. The full working out of such a results concerning the search for the universe.” and a towering achievement of both metaphysics is at the heart of the elusive Higgs particle, sometimes called Past experiments at CERN and theoretical and experimental physics. intellectual work of the Faith movement. the “God particle”. Both experiments This discovery (if so it proves to be) is elsewhere (but using lower energies) The physical and technological observe a new particle in the mass the result of recent experiments at together with theoretical work linking problems encountered during this The sorts of particles studied at CERN in region around 125-126 GeV/c2, which CERN’s LHC (Large Hadron Collider) the electromagnetic, weak and strong experiment are astounding, involving the these experiments are short-lived may or may not be the sought-after involving the acceleration and collision forces led to the “Standard Model” of analysis of unprecedented amounts of because they are unstable, but quarks Higgs boson. of protons in opposing beams with the particle physics, formulated in the data in very short periods. combine to form protons and neutrons;

18 Faith I Letters to the Editor Cutting Edge I Faith 19 “ The Year of Faith is not to be a year simply of assertion of Continuity and Development doctrines, but of faith in the message and mystery of Jesus Notes and Quotes from the Year of Faith Christ and a response to its practical implications”

Christian faith and mystery, and to becomes a new criterion of Church to be a goodwill agency of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops in now considering how to form leaders ignore that this is happening only understanding and action that changes spending its energies on social and October 2012 dedicated to The New for the Keeping in Touch (KIT) exacerbates the crisis of faith. the whole of man’s life (cf. Rom 12:2; compassionate action while ignoring Evangelisation for the Transmission of programme which reaches out to Col 3:9-10; Eph 4:20-29; 2 Cor 5:17).” the other three pillars of the faith the Christian Faith. Other major events inactive Catholics. How Can This Conflict be Resolved? (Porta Fidei, 6) affirmed in Acts 2:42, and adopted by are the World Youth Day in Brazil, in In the first place it is inconceivable that the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2013, and initiatives intended to foster However, it must be admitted that such Doubt or Believe! a resolution will come from arguments Catholics who read Porta Fidei in the as its basic, cohesive structure: ecumenism and Christian unity. Further, work often suffers from a lack of about who is right or wrong, because light of the documents of Vatican II can doctrinal truth, sacramental reality and a Secretariat is being established coordination and continuity, and indeed To begin our new column, which in such arguments there is already an see how consistent it is with Council the postulate of a deeply personal within the Pontifical Council for the wider inspiration. Church activities develops from and replaces our “Road implicit acknowledgement by both teaching, and also with the Catechism relationship between each human being Promotion of the New Evangelisation depending upon volunteers tend to be from Regensburg” column, Dudley parties that secular reason is the arbiter. and with the project of a faith-filled and his Creator. to coordinate all new evangelisation spasmodic and often dependent on Plunkett explores some implications Theology has to insist upon its own pastoral and evangelising programme, initiatives. However, the CDF Note is a self-formed leadership, so that parishes and contrary forces in undertaking to perspective, prescinding from the rules these being the three main criteria that “Authoritarian imposition broadly conceived document that offers are increasingly seeking to appoint spread the virtue of Faith during the of the game set by rationalists who, in Pope Benedict proposes for the Year of little to guide a specific parish or church people to full-time pastoral roles to Year of Faith. He concludes with some their own act of faith, disbelieve in the Faith. Then they will be in a position to of doctrines that is being group setting out its own Year of Faith coordinate catechetical and practical experiences and observations mystery of Christian faith. Secondly, decide whether to lend their energies to alleged by progressive voices programme beyond recommending evangelising initiatives and to form which we hope to develop upon in this however, the authoritarian imposition a coalition of secular reasoning and is not an acceptable option, such general categories as prayer, volunteer leaders and teams. Also, column. Mr Plunkett is senior academic of doctrines that is being alleged by “progressive” thinking in the Church, or catechetical events, opportunities while there is increasing support for tutor at the Maryvale Institute in progressive voices is not an acceptable to rally instead to the prophetic vision and the despotic imposition for reflection on the Catechism and parish-level catechetical programmes Birmingham. option, and the despotic imposition of being put forward by Benedict XVI. And of secular ideologies Vatican II documents, relevant homilies, on the internet, local online interactive secular ideologies dressed up as “spirit if the latter, they must ensure that they dressed up as ‘spirit of focus upon the liturgy, especially the approaches are much rarer, and yet can Discordant voices are being raised of Vatican II” theology is an even worse do not minimise the vision and risk Eucharist, and evangelising activities. be very effective in gaining the interest about the Year of Faith announced by prospect. The third scenario would jettisoning its spiritual power. Vatican II’ theology is an The Working Document for the Synod6 especially of young seekers. And, Pope Benedict.1 The Pope sees his seem to be where the two tendencies even worse prospect” offers a diagnosis of the “silent finally, parishioners engaging in such proposal in the context of his whole continue, each on its own path, in a A Prophetic Vision apostasy” of many Church members evangelising initiatives depend upon pontificate as a commitment by the dynamic but not necessarily destructive It surely cannot be denied that the Holy The error of endorsing the social and (Instrumentum Laboris, 69) and a much the encouragement of their priests and Church to “lead people out of the tension, with secular rationalists Spirit is at work in these times, in which moral action of Christianity almost fuller statement of principles to guide bishops and their own openness to the desert”2 of “a profound crisis of faith” seeking to discredit the motives and the western world at least has fallen exclusively, as engaging most directly the new evangelisation, but any more Holy Spirit who is the main resource for (Porta Fidei, 2), but there is also a actions of the Church leadership in the into atheism, a real spiritual darkness, with secular world agendas, is fatal for practical pastoral recommendations the Church’s new evangelisation sceptical challenge from those who post-Vatican II era, while those who and that He is guiding the Church in faith, only deepening the crisis and from the Bishops and the Pope will only mission. As Porta Fidei affirms: “It is the perceive an intent to impose a affirm a hermeneutic of continuity urge its response to humanity’s real needs. abandoning the challenge to the faithful be forthcoming later. gift of the Holy Spirit that makes us fit backward-looking theology, a that the Good News be understood as This is a vision that offers the prospect to believe Jesus’s words: “I am the way, for mission and strengthens our “hermeneutic of retrenchment”.3 By primarily concerned with eternal life of unity and spiritual renewal for the the truth and the life.” Porta Fidei leaves It may therefore help enflesh the witness, making it frank and identifying, as Fr John Sivalon alleges, rather than secular interests. Church. Moreover, it impels the Church us in no doubt on this point: “The Year essentially pastoral concern of this courageous.” (Porta Fidei, 10). a “trilogy of the demonic: secularism, towards the new evangelisation of of Faith… is a summons to an authentic article to reflect on how one church relativism and pluralism” Pope Benedict The Pope’s striking effort to evangelise people and cultures that the last two and renewed conversion to the Lord, group is seeking in the meantime to “dreams of a re-established, secular culture in Westminster Hall can popes have so strongly advocated, the one Saviour of the world.” It is engage in the new evangelisation and

romanticised culture of Mediaeval be seen in this context as a basic text, and that Pope Benedict now re- therefore not to be a year simply of respond to Porta Fidei. The Faith Alive Notes Europe”. The former Provincial of the since it seeks the same resolution. affirms: “Today too, there is a need for assertion of doctrines, and certainly not group in Southampton has in the past 1Benedict XVI, Apostolic Letter Porta Fidei, (vatican. Maryknoll Missionaries continues to his Reason, or more properly “secular stronger ecclesial commitment to new of ideologies, but of faith in the decade initiated Alpha courses, an va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/ documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20111011_ egregious punch-line: “While it is said reason”, needs faith, because it is faith evangelisation in order to rediscover the message and mystery of Jesus Christ ecumenical programme sharing ideas porta-fidei_en.html). to be a time of renewal, the ‘Year of that will save the values and joy of believing and the enthusiasm for and a response to its practical about leadership, formation and 2Homily for the beginning of the Petrine Ministry of Faith’ is really dedicated to the idolatry convictions of civilised western society communicating the faith.” (Porta Fidei, 7) implications: “By faith [author’s outreach methods with other the Bishop of Rome (24 April 2005): AAS 97 (2005), of doctrine, power and hierarchy.” from being trodden under foot by emphasis], countless Christians have denominations, a city guildhall event 710. 3I take as an example a recent article of a kind that is These assertions could perhaps be ahistorical pragmatism, relativism and To nullify the authority claims of the promoted action for justice so as to put with a Catholic inspirational speaker likely to become commonplace: John C Sivalon, dismissed as a fanciful tantrum if they totalitarianism. Secular reason is the Church that stem from Jesus’s into practice the word of the Lord, who and prayer teams, a city mission, an “Vatican declares ‘Year of assault’” (National Catholic did not manifest a problem notably agent of political power; faith is the commission and the Spirit’s came to proclaim deliverance from introductory programme for “new Reporter (http://ncronline.org, 4 June 2012). 4Benedict XVI, Westminster Hall Address, 17 cited by Pope Benedict, namely that agent of transcendental values. Pentecostal anointing is to buy into oppression and a year of favour for all seekers”, that is people interested in September 2010 (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/ reason “manipulated by ideology” Consistent with these arguments, the secular reasoning. Even if it is (cf. Lk 4:18-19).” (Porta Fidei, 13) the Church and who might wish to benedict_xvi/speeches/2010/september/documents/ tends to the “marginalisation of religion” Year of Faith is aimed at truth, justice inconceivable to the secularist that the continue with the RCIA, displays hf_ben-xvi_spe_20100917_societa-civile_en.html). 5Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Note with and its relegation to the purely private and goodness, not centralising power. Church should be allowed to claim its The Pastoral Challenge outside a church on a main road and a Pastoral Recommendations for the Year of Faith (2012) sphere.4 Such secular reasoning has It is not offering a strategy of political own authority, outside as it were of all A CDF Note summarises the practical manned gazebo to provide information (vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/ documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20120106_nota-anno- found its way into the Church, and influence, but of conversion. It is more a rational proofs and empirical evidence, challenges of the Year of Faith as and resources to passers-by during the fede_en.html). Catholics are divided as to what matter of living the faith than proving it, the Church has nevertheless to insist concerning the universal Church, the papal visit, and the Anchor catechetics 6Synod of Bishops, XIII Ordinary General Assembly, constitutes the essence of religion. as the document clearly states that its authority comes from God, that dioceses, parishes and other church course making use of the “way of The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian 5 Faith, Instrumentum Laboris, Vatican City, 2012 Deference to secular thinking becomes repeatedly with full scriptural authority: humanity must render unto God what is bodies. At the global level, the key beauty” for evangelising parishioners, (vatican.va/roman_curia/synod/documents/rc_ an obstacle to the reaffirmation of “‘Faith working through love’ (Gal 5:6) God’s, and that it is not enough for the event is to be the XIII General Assembly seen as a primary target. The group is synod_doc_20120619_instrumentum-xiii_en.html).

20 Faith I Continuity and Development Continuity and Development I Faith 21 “Archbishop Mennini seems to have a clear agenda, and it is Comment on the Comments that of the Holy Father … it could be that in 10 years’ time by William Oddie our Bishops’ Conference will have a very different look ”

And he will be the only English Catholic source”, he went on, “the previous in a particular nation? Canada is now bishop with a PhD – a real one, as Nuncio, Archbishop Sainz, did not the model for the Church universal on Towards The New Evangelisation? opposed to the Dolly Parton/Richard impress everyone with his nominations how it can be done. Chartres honorary variety.” for bishops. This Nuncio seems to have When Archbishop Antonio Mennini was striking demonstration that that is nuncio…” “This is, I hope and assume”, a very clear agenda, and it is that of the “The dramatic appointment of Christian appointed as papal nuncio in London, precisely what Archbishop Mennini I continued, “the way things are now “I wonder”, he continued, “how the new Holy Father, which makes a nice Lépine as the new archbishop of observers of the affairs of the English does intend. To Portsmouth, the going.” bishop will get on with Paul Inwood, change.” Montreal, only six months after he was Church had a good look at his record, diocese in England where more than in Portsmouth’s venerable but groovy ordained an auxiliary bishop of the for clues to what his policy would any other the subversion of everything Well, it seems, fingers crossed, that I ‘director of liturgy’. Inwood is a Things are now moving on. The same diocese, has drawn attention to be in one of the most important Pope John Paul stood for has was right. The choice of Monsignor composer belonging to the Congregation for Bishops (which in Canada as the exemplar of how an areas of a nuncio’s work: making proceeded unchecked ever since the Philip Egan to succeed Bishop Crispian Birkenstock school of aural torture. He Cardinal Marc Ouellet has a firmly episcopate can be reconfigured for the recommendations to the Congregation appointment of its present bishop in Hollis at Portsmouth is Archbishop once wrote a piece called Alleluia Ratzingerian prefect, who may well with challenges of the new evangelisation. for Bishops and the Holy Father on 1989, the Holy Father has appointed Mennini’s first real appointment (it is Ch-Ch, the ‘Ch-Ch’ representing the appointment of Mgr Egan be who to appoint to dioceses which the right-hand man of Bishop Mark generally thought that the appointment clapping. Mgr Egan, you have been confirming that England’s problems “….The safe way to appoint bishops is become vacant. Davies, probably the most passionately of Mgr Peter Brignall as the new Bishop warned.” have at last been noticed in Rome) will to select archbishops from long- orthodox bishop in England today. You of Wrexham was probably already in soon be making a good number of serving bishops, and bishops from We were all well aware what the will remember, perhaps, The Tablet’s the pipeline), and it is a cracker. If you Well, we may be fairly sure that the other episcopal appointments in long-serving auxiliaries, and auxiliaries explanation was of the great speculation (http://protectthepope. want an idea of Mgr Egan’s theology, message on the liturgy in Portsmouth England, and they will be relying on from long-serving officials in chancery conundrum, for the English Church, com/?p=5133) about Cardinal you might like to look at the following diocese will now be very different. But Archbishop Mennini’s advice; it has offices. Ouellet, sensing that a new about the reign of John Paul II: why was Cormac’s dismay at Bishop Davies’ video http://www.esnips.com/ the appointment of Mgr Egan has a been surmised (though as far as I know, direction was needed for the Church in it, when he had appointed most of our appointment to Shrewsbury: “Bishop displayimage.php?pid=19884633 of a relevance well beyond that diocese. unsupported speculation is all it is) that Quebec, did not advise the Holy bishops, that nearly all of them went Davies’ appointment has certainly talk he gave in 2009, on the authority of From it, we can deduce a number of Cardinal Ouellet is waiting for the Father to take the safe option….. out of their way to undermine his vision delighted conservatives”, said the Humanae Vitae (in which he argued that things. First, that Archbishop Mennini retirement of Cardinal Murphy [Instead he appointed] young bishops, for the Church? The answer, of course, Tablet blog; “he recently handed the its teaching was infallible); a delighted has considerable respect for Bishop O’Connor from his Congregation before novice bishops, bishops from outside was that a succession of nuncios had running of a parish to a traditionalist John Smeaton, on the SPUC website Davies, whom he clearly sees as the he moves ahead with these of Quebec – all this is a significant “gone native”, and had advised the group, who exclusively celebrate the welcomed the appointment and quoted kind of bishop we need more of in this appointments, though he wasn’t departure from the norm. Ouellet Holy Father to appoint the men old rite. It would appear that Cardinal Mgr Egan: country: he almost certainly found out deterred from appointing Mgr Egan evidently decided that the norm in suggested to him by our own existing Murphy-O’Connor was absent when about Mgr Egan, who has so far before this event. East Anglia and Quebec needed changing, and so has bishops, and especially by Cardinal the congregation [of bishops] settled on “It seems to me that there is a maintained a fairly low profile, from Leeds (Bishop Roche, lucky old thing, advised the Holy Father to change it Hume and then Cardinal Murphy Bishop Davies for Shrewsbury. ‘That’ll persuasive case for believing that the Bishop Davies: the fact that he has is off to Rome to become Secretary of – emphatically.” O’Connor: in other words, nuncios had teach me to miss the plane,’ he is said doctrine of Humanae Vitae, regardless followed his advice shows what kind of the Congregation of Divine Worship and been agents for the continuing project to have quipped.” However, as Fr John of the pastoral difficulty it causes, bishop he is now looking to appoint. Fr Discipline of the Sacraments) are One swallow, they say, doesn’t make a of the English bishops endlessly to Zuhlsdorf commented in his welcome regardless of the philosophical and Zuhlsdorf (“Father Z” [pronounced Zee]) waiting for new bishops. The bishops of summer. All the same, there seems to perpetuate themselves and their for Mgr Egan’s appointment, theological arguments thrown against commented that “since the Nuncio … is Plymouth, Hallam and Brentwood are be a reasonable hope that Cardinal de-Romanising, even secularising, speculating on the implications for the it, regardless of the historical still pretty young he is not likely to ‘go over 75; the Bishop of Salford and the Ouellet will now, having noticed vision for the English Church. future, “Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor … conditioning of its neo-scholastic native’. He surely doesn’t want this to Archbishop of Liverpool are nearly 74 (probably with the Holy Father’s direct turns 80 on 24 August and will no framework, has been, and is being be his last job.” This is a point worth (already there is speculation that in this involvement) this country’s needs, set On Archbishop Mennini’s appointment, longer have a voice in the Congregation taught infallibly, that is, irreversibly and making: we have been used to being new dispensation Bishop Davies will be himself to showing “how an episcopate I hopefully speculated that an interview as a member.” without error, by the Church’s ordinary given Nuncios who have been sent here the obvious appointment for Liverpool). can be reconfigured for the challenges he had given in Russia (where he had universal magisterium.” as their last appointment before their There are two other diocesans in their of the new evangelisation” here, too; so previously been nuncio) might indicate When I reported, in my Catholic Herald retirement; they had nothing to lose by seventies: Lancaster and Hexham & it could be that in 10 years’ time our that he was firmly behind the Pope’s blog, that Bishop Davies had agreed to His appointment inspired Damian comfortably fitting in with the local Newcastle. Quite a few other dioceses Bishops’ Conference will have a very agenda on the fight against the establishment of a foundation of the Thompson to one of his splendidly bishops: this one does. will soon likewise be sede vacante; a different look about it. secularisation. It was, I said, “good and Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign irreverent Hollis-teasing posts on the good third of the dioceses of England hopeful stuff, which encourages one to Priest at the threatened landmark Telegraph website (Mr Thompson is Damian Thompson had already will over the next year or two have new We all know (and most of us could hope that he will be using his obvious Church of Ss Peter and Paul, New going to miss Bishop Hollis now he has perceptively noted, from the text of an bishops. come up with a longish list) of good, capacity to work out what’s going on in Brighton, as a centre for the celebration retired). Under the headline “The new address given to the Bishops of faithful priests worthy to be appointed a particular secularised culture to help of Holy Mass and the other Sacraments bishop is in for a treat”, he reported that England and Wales by Archbishop An interesting piece, by Father bishop, who in the bad old days would the Church here to begin the fightback, in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman there was “excitement in traditional Mennini soon after his arrival in Raymond J de Souza, on the way never even have been considered for in the most effective way open to him Rite and as a centre for Eucharistic Catholic circles at the appointment of England, that there seemed to have Cardinal Ouellet, since arriving in Rome, “promotion” to episcopal rank, – that is, by helping the Pope to appoint devotion and adoration, I noted that Mgr Philip Egan as bishop of the been “a shift of authority back in the has already “reconfigured” the Church precisely because of their known fidelity bishops who will do everything they can this represented another very hippy-dippy diocese of Portsmouth. direction of Rome” – and, he added, in his native Quebec was published on to the authority of the Magisterium. to implement rather than to undermine considerable episcopal surge in a Mgr Egan is a Ratzinger loyalist who “not before time”. Like others, he The Catholic Register (“Canada’s Now, it seems, there has been a most the Holy Father’s agenda.” generally Ratzingerian direction, and takes a firm line on dissent. He doesn’t surmised that this could have Catholic News source”) in March: wondrous change; things as I write are expressed the hope that “We may now waffle in the ‘bishopese’ favoured by implications for the way in which looking more hopeful for the mission of Well, the raising to the episcopate of …. look forward to a series of such other prelates (eg, ‘today we cherish bishops would now be appointed: “How do you reform an episcopate and the English Church than they have for Mgr Philip Egan could hardly be a more [episcopal] appointments from the new our gathered-ness as a community’). “According to a highly placed Vatican provide new leadership for the Church many years.

22 Faith I Comment on the Comments Comment on the Comments I Faith 23 “De Botton opines that many of the ideas which religions have Book Reviews spawned are ‘sporadically useful, interesting and consoling’”

– and sometimes are – actually used to alleviate them.” Sensitive readers The Catholic Girls’ Survival Guide beauty (in nature, in music, in people’s charity. Many a happy marriage has against the Church which was their are advised not to look too closely at for the Single Years kindnesses) and encouraging it in begun with a girl thinking: “Oh, he isn’t matrix. what the couple in the foreground of oneself. The book emphasises that my type at all.” And if things don’t one photograph are doing to celebrate by Emily Stimpson. Emmaus Road God loves us – He loves his daughters, move in that direction – well, you might The process by which this happened the “yearly moment of release at the Publishing, USA, available on He wants them to be happy, He has find he has nice friends, or he might – by which concepts such as personal Agape Restaurant”, which is Amazon. Paperback 140 pages. given them gifts and He values their turn out to be right for one of your freedom, human rights and equality apparently a secular version of Easter appearance and their laughter and friends, or you might just have a have been slowly distorted to mean High Mass at Westminster Cathedral. This book is wise, practical, useful their desire to do good things. pleasant evening, or he might something quite other than they did and, alas, necessary. Whenever I go to introduce you to some new ideas, when Christian Europe gave birth to De Botton’s argument is easily Catholic events these days, I seem to Now, back to marriage. Here are some books, music or interests. Be gracious. them – has been laboriously traced by summarised, and, sadly, just as easily see so many bright, attractive, of my own thoughts on the subject. Be charming. Be wise. Religion for Atheists – a Non- historians of ideas such as Charles dismissed. Of course religion is not delightful girls who would love to be First, there’s not enough of it, Believer’s Guide to the Uses Taylor and Alastair MacIntyre. The true and there is no God, he opines, married and aren’t. They have good especially among Catholics. And it’s And buy this book. It is a good read, of Religion interest of such writers is usually to yet many of the ideas religions have jobs and often own property: they are men who have to do the proposing – it’s uplifting and funny and full of illuminate the contemporary world for spawned are “sporadically useful, fun and good company and virtuous yes, even in the 21st century, that’s the common sense. It is an overdue book: by Alain de Botton, Hamish Hamilton Christians, and so to begin the process interesting and consoling” and should and hard-working. Why aren’t they reality. It begins with the first date: the we need it, and its message. 2012. 320pp, hardback, £18.99. by which the Church might creatively be deliberately adapted by atheists. married? chap has to ask. “They are afraid of respond to this unprecedented and Each chapter of the book takes a being hurt, if a girl turns them down,” I Joanna Bogle “New Evangelisation” is one of those complex challenge. different aspect of these ideas and Back to that in a moment. Meanwhile, was told. Well, be a man. It’s not New Malden ideas that are in constant danger of suggests how that could be done, for here’s a survival guide. It is centred on exactly like storming the Normandy being hijacked by bishops and Alain de Botton, however, attempts example within the categories of a recognition of the great goodness of beaches, is it? Of course it’s true that diocesan bureaucrats as a way of something quite different, which might communion, forgiveness, education God, and it is cheering and uplifting. in the maelstrom that is today’s John Paul II – The Road to carrying on with the same old things be seen as turning this enterprise on and art. It’s not written by a smug married lady, general social scene, a virtuous young Sainthood but disguising the fact with a shiny its head. His desire is to extend this but by a woman who knows about the Catholic feels alone and confused and new gloss. For its originator, Blessed process of appropriation of religious There is really no need to indulge in a single life. It has an upbeat message isolated – it may seem impossible to by Jim Gallagher, CTS booklet, £2.95. John Paul II, it was precisely the ideas by a secular world more or less lengthy refutation of this thesis, and sees life as a gift. It takes seriously find a mate. But that is not true at a opposite: a call to do absolutely indefinitely. If William Booth could ask because it has been done in advance the many challenges to chastity that Catholic event, a FAITH Movement Year of Faith with John Paul II everything differently. why the devil should have all the best with his usual brilliance by Chesterton surround us all today. It tackles the real gathering, a pro-life conference, a tunes, de Botton asks, in effect, why in The Thing: issues faced by women in the modern get-together at a major Catholic venue by Jim Gallagher, CTS booklet, £2.50. For Pope John Paul, the evangelising should religion have all the best ideas West, and looks at things realistically. known for its orthodoxy and devotion. task of the Church today must not only and practices? Before we call either Culture or It offers inspiration, and is centred on The girls are there. So are the chaps. John Paul II use new methods and means of Humanism a substitute for religion, deep faith in a loving and all-wise God. But the latter won’t get on and do expression, but be suffused with a new In some ways this is not a new idea, of there is a very plain question that can anything! They hover, they ponder from by Jim Gallagher, CTS Children’s ardour. He saw two main ways of course. Machiavelli, Voltaire, Matthew be asked in the form of a very homely Some bits are rather too American: in a distance, they may even fantasise. “I Books, paperback, 24 pages, £2.95. kindling this ardour: one, as expressed Arnold and some of our own politicians metaphor. Humanism may try to pick the clothes section I at first wondered often think about a particular girl, when eloquently in his Novo Millennio are among those who have argued that up the pieces; but can it stick them what “jeggings” were (latest fashion: a I get home, and wish I had got talking As we begin to grasp the fullness of Ineunte, was through that a religion they would scorn to believe together? Where is the cement which mix of jeans and leggings – rather ugly, to her,” one said bleakly. Oh, for the legacy of Blessed John Paul, so contemplation of the face of Christ in themselves has many social uses made religion corporate and popular, actually, and the author of the book goodness’ sake. Get on with it! Go the books and pamphlets are arriving. which the whole Church engaged in and that its benefits should not be which can prevent it falling to pieces thinks so too) and talk of “dates” made over to the girl during coffee-after- It feels strange to realise that it is more during the Millennium Jubilee. The discarded lightly. That is not exactly de in a debris of individualistic tastes me think at first of dried fruit rather Mass, and say “Hallo! I’m James.” And than seven years since his death – other could be called contemplating Botton’s position, however, even and degrees? The problem of an than of young men. But don’t worry get talking. soon it will be a decade. Already much the face of the (post)modern world. though it is hard to say exactly what enduring ethic and culture consists in about that: the content of the book of what he achieved has become part his position is. The one thinker he finding an arrangement of the pieces soars above any transatlantic “ A virtuous young Catholic of our Catholic culture, and somehow That world, as he and numerous explicitly comes closest to is Auguste by which they remain related, as do differences. now just seems normal – World Youth commentators have attempted to Comte, with his religion of humanity, the stones arranged in an arch. And I feels alone and confused Days, vast open-air Masses, informal describe, presents a completely new even though he mocks Comte’s grasp know only one scheme that has thus Advice includes: managing finances, and isolated” Papal question-and-answer sessions challenge to the Church: hence the of reality and admits the word religion proved its solidity, bestriding lands coping with heartbreak (massive with the media, and an understanding need for a new evangelisation. must be thrown out altogether. and ages with its gigantic arches, redecoration of your house / loud And girls: if a decent man, in a of the Petrine task as something Hitherto, the Church has faced the and carrying everywhere the high singalongs with the radio / shopping Catholic environment, gets chatting, vigorously missionary that involves task either of converting pagans (ie Indeed it is hard not to mock de river of baptism upon an aqueduct of for a well-deserved new outfit / baking and it’s clear that he’s not a sex- preaching to vast crowds on every worshippers of other gods), or of Botton’s own thesis, or indeed the Rome. a delicious cake and sharing it with hound, and is open and pleasant, and continent. constantly renewing the vigour of numerous photographs which illustrate friends – and those are just a few of things move forward to an honourable Christendom. Today our world is it, such as one of an imaginary Mgr Keith Barltrop the ideas listed), and solving domestic date, say YES. If he isn’t love’s young The CTS has done a competent job instead a post-Christendom world, in “Department for Relationships” or of a Bayswater, London challenges when alone (water pipes, dream, if he has crooked teeth, if he with Jim Gallagher’s simple booklet which many vestiges of Christianity “Psychotherapeutic Travel Agency windows that stick, machines that seems a bit of a bore – still, say YES. telling the story of John Paul’s life – the remain but have taken on an alien [which] would align mental disorders won’t work). There is a very good You owe it to him in decency and in childhood marked by his mother’s identity, to the extent that they can be with the parts of the planet best able section on beauty – appreciating courtesy, in commonsense and in early death along with that of his

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brother; the deep, strong bond with his also manages to introduce a spiritual reader is her awareness of the reality of its day, namely the 19th century. characteristics of the Eucharistic The Last Supper was not merely the father; the grim years of the German message. In describing John Paul’s of heaven. She lived in this world This comes across, for example, in the sacrifice we have today, tracing its new Passover, but the new bread occupation and his tough job in a achievements it is odd that it does not aware that our true homeland lies book’s attempt to locate the physical origins back to the time of Christ. and wine of the Presence, showing stone quarry; the mysticism and mention the collapse of Communism beyond. For example, when she first place where hell must be and its God’s love for us. Instead of the prayer-life; the youth drama groups; or indeed his visits to his native Poland realised that she was dying of TB she conclusion that it must be at the centre Jesus is the Messiah, the new Moses, twelve cakes, there are twelve the ordination in a Poland coming to – surely central events of his Papacy responded to this illness not with of the earth. A reader immersed in our who changes water into wine at Cana, disciples, there is the bread and grips with what was to be a decades- and of recent world history. There is a despair but with joy; joy because she contemporary scientific viewpoint is as Moses changed water into blood for wine, and the new and everlasting long imposition of Communism. The definite, if gentle, Italian bias to the recognised it as the “call of the likely to think that any location that we Pharaoh. He ushers in a new Exodus, covenant offered by Jesus our booklet is readable, informative and book: the Assisi gathering, the huge Beloved” to come and be with her in can conceivably dig down to can foretold in the Transfiguration when he Priest, and eaten not at the golden well-produced. Jim Gallagher has youth event at Tor Vergata in 2000, heaven. Such a perspective is only surely not be the location of hell, was discussing this with Moses and table, but at Jesus’ Table in the grasped something fundamental – that John Paul’s denouncing of the Mafia. possible if one is firmly and easily otherwise we could get the damned Elijah (in St Luke’s gospel). Kingdom of His Father (Luke 22:30). Pope John Paul sought to give people This book would be a good rooted in the awareness of eternity. out! This may seem like a pedantic back their own identity, so often introduction to the story of John Paul II When reading the book it is not difficult criticism but it surfaces as an issue a In the manna, we have a miraculous Many will have read Rabbi robbed from them by materialism, by – but an intelligent child will ask for to see how the topics it covers number of times. bread, not some secretion of the Edersheim on the Passover, but he political oppression or by poverty. This more. Which, on reflection, is rather a managed to fill her with this tamarisk tree (as I was taught for was of course unable to draw out is a profound insight, and is well good thing and is perhaps the purpose awareness. The book treats of the The second issue concerns a number years). This was the ‘bread of angels,’ its development as our Eucharist. explored in this booklet, along with an of the book. Meanwhile it would be a signs that will accompany the end of of then-contemporary issues that do which was placed in the tabernacle Here, the author deepens our understanding of John Paul’s own useful addition to the library of any the world, the Anti-Christ, the not have the same relevance for us with the tablets of the Ten awareness of how Jesus takes the courage and inner strength, his deep Catholic primary school, and indeed of resurrection of the dead, the judgment, today. For example, the focus on the Commandments and Aaron’s staff. It worship which He inspired, and was immersion in prayer and his any young Catholic family. the state of our glorified bodies, French Revolution and the form of was thought by some rabbis that the meant to fulfil and perfect. confidence in God and in the motherly eternal beatitude, as well as more secular ideologies that followed lacks Messiah would bring the new manna protection of Mary. The booklet has Joanna Bogle stern topics such as the pains of the immediate relevance that it would to strengthen his people. This is really Fr James Tolhurst some good photographs, and could New Malden purgatory and the fate of the damned. have had for St Therese. Finally, it what we mean when we say “Give us Chislehurst perhaps usefully have had more. The might be noted that the French-ness of this day our daily bread”: Give us this style sometimes lapses into an Of the topics that will be familiar to the book’s author is also occasionally day our bread from heaven – Jesus, over-use of exclamation marks – but The End of the Present World and devotees of The Little Flower, perhaps apparent: could any other nation our Bread of Life. then John Paul’s life really was one the Mysteries of the Future Life particular note should be made of its produce a book in which Napoleon marked by extraordinary drama, signs treatment of sacrifice and “the mystery gets referred to as a hero? At the time of the Exodus the of Providence, astonishing by Fr Charles Arminjon (1881), trans. of suffering in its relationship with the Nonetheless, despite these criticisms, tabernacle contained, along with the achievements and even miracles. So by Susan Conroy and Peter McEnerny future life”. Two of the nine this is an exceptional book and one Ark of the Covenant, the Menorah and perhaps the exclamation marks are (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia conferences are devoted to this topic. that deserves to be read by every the golden table of the Bread of the justified after all. Institute Press, 2008), 311 pages, from The Christian must suffer, on his road follower of St Therese and by many Presence. In some translations it is Amazon UK at £11.56. to heaven, because Christ suffered on others too. called the “Shewbread”. I have always A Year of Faith begins in October, and His royal road: “It cannot be granted thought that this was part of Jewish the CTS has produced an attractive “Reading this book was one of the that Jesus Christ wanted to open up One final comment: This is a book for rubrics, but Pitre highlights its much pocket-sized set of meditations by greatest graces of my life.” So said St two differing paths leading to Heaven” adults even though St Therese read it greater significance. John Paul II to link with this. The Therese of Lisieux in what must rank (p.289). In this context the book as a young teenager. My only serious sections cover topics ranging from as one of the most powerful books elaborates that suffering is not to be regret in reading this book is that I did The Bread of the Presence consisted Christ and Mary to the priesthood, the recommendations of all time. Readers feared but rather embraced as “a sure not read it when my mind was as fresh of twelve cakes (rods) set on a table of consecrated life, peace, the saints, of St Therese’s autobiography may pledge of His tenderness… This and formable as St Therese’s was pure gold. It was offered every mission and vocation. It’s a good read, recall that she read this book before guarantee, this real testimony of the when she read it in her youth. Sabbath as an everlasting covenant. and well illustrated with pictures of entering the Carmel and before even Beatific Vision, which made the souls As long as the Bread was inside the Blessed John Paul greeting young recognising her vocation to enter. The of the saints sigh with joy, is not the Fr Dylan James tabernacle, the Menorah had to be people, celebrating Mass, talking to book is filled with the spirituality that brilliant successes of this world, or Shaftesbury kept burning (note the parallel with the Mother Teresa, praying the Rosary, and she followed in her years in the temporal glory or happiness, but trials sanctuary lamp). It was also a more. A useful carry-around booklet Carmel. More than one reader of her and suffering” (p.294). It was because thanksgiving sacrifice as well as a for everyday use. autobiography must have read her St Therese was confident in this truth Jesus & the Jewish Roots of the meal for the priests who offered it. On reference to this collection of that she was able to see in her father’s Eucharist the great feasts in Jesus’ time, the A new generation is emerging for conferences and wondered if this book sufferings a sign that God loved her priests in Jerusalem would remove the whom John Paul is something of a is available – now it is. As the father. It is surely only strong faith that by Brant Pitre, Doubleday 2011, 240pp. bread and raise the golden table of the legendary figure. The CTS children’s introduction explains, it seems that is able to see such a thing. Available from Amazon at £13.31. Bread of the Presence saying, book, delightfully illustrated, was this book has lain forgotten for many “Behold, God’s love for you!” This was originally produced in Italian and has a years and never previously been While the book has much to commend Readers of Volume 2 of Pope because it was a sign of the covenant charming and vivid feel to it. It is easy translated into English. it, there are two particular issues that a Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth will know between God and His holy people, to read and a delight to handle, and modern reader may find distracting. that he supports the view that the which also expressed the desire of the tells the story of a remarkable life with One of the aspects of St Therese’s The first relates to the fact that the fourth chalice was at the Cross. Brant people to see God and live, and to a sense of pace and adventure that spirituality that strikes even the casual book assumes the scientific opinions Pitre explains this and four other know that He loved them.

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Volume 1: Volume 3: A Critique of an Abstract Scholasticism Noumenon and Phenomenon: ABORTION AND an ardent advocate of abortion “rights.” a lot of money making this movie, and, and Principles Towards Replacement Rethinking the Greeks in the HEDONISTIC CULTURE I Yoffe is the “Dear Prudence” advice you know, that makes us happy. Age of Science columnist for the liberal website Slate Volume 2: “There are people here who, everything and someone whose report you’d think DISOBEYING THE LAW OF THE LAND they do in public life, they gauge how would be noticed. Rethinking the Existential The New York Times will react,” says an In the heat of current controversies Price per volume: £5.00 +p&p unidentified New York City councilman, But not when she turns in a liberal icon. over religious freedom, it is rarely noted talking to The New York Observer in a The story appeared on Slate.com on that the churches, and particularly story on political candidates’ energetic June 21, and as we write six days later, the Catholic Church, have been the pursuit of The Times’ endorsement. The no report has appeared in the pages or guardians of social order and even of Times, the story explains, “is still seen websites of The New York Times, The pluralism. The churches have been Available from: as an unbiased arbiter”. Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, reticent to impose their views on others Sr Roseann Reddy, Faith-Keyway Trust Publications Office, 104 Albert Road, Glasgow G42 8DR The San Francisco Chronicle, – the Catholic bishops have not even Our eyebrows went up, too, but this is Newsweek, Time, or The New Republic. suggested making contraception illegal New York. The newspaper’s kind of The Washington Post simply reprinted – and quick to extend their services to candidate is “somebody who is David Gibson’s Religious News Service anyone who needs them. well-spoken, physically put together, story on its website, as did The has a sense of humour”. Ideologically, Christian Century and The National But there are limits. And not just when he should be an on-the-one-hand-and- Catholic Reporter. the state tries to make the churches do erspectives on-the-other kind of guy. “Be in favour things they can’t do. Sometimes it tells P ST PHILIP’S of good government and the SOME MODERN ANTI-CATHOLICISM them not to do things they have to do. environment, but anti-development in Theology absolutists should run for community Anti-Catholicism lives. In a glowing Alabama’s immigration law, still Vol. One BOOKS board president. Ideas for closing the review of a movie called A Perfect unsettled, “makes it illegal for a Christ the Sacrament of Creation Rare and secondhand Catholic books income gap are encouraged, but so is Family, Rex Reed writes that the main Catholic priest to baptise, hear the Edward Holloway bought and sold. Distributor for responsible budgeting.” character Eileen is “a devout, self- confession of, celebrate the anointing obsessed Catholic so enslaved by of the sick with, or preach the word of Newman’s Letters and Diaries. 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Faith Movement offers a perspective upon Our understanding of the role of Mary, the unity of the cosmos by which we can the Virgin Mother through whom the Divine show clearly the transcendent existence of Word comes into his own things in the flesh God and the essential distinction between (cf. John 1:10-14), is greatly deepened and matter and spirit. We offer a vision of God enhanced through this perspective. So too as the true Environment of men in whom the dignity of Man, made male and female “we live and move and have our being” as the sacrament of Christ and his Church (Acts 17:28), and of his unfolding purpose in (cf. Ephesians 5:32), is strikingly reaffirmed, the relationship of word and grace through and from this many of the Church’s moral the prophets which is brought to its true head and social teachings can be beautifully in Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of explained and underlined. Man, Lord of Creation, centre of history and fulfilment of our humanity. Our redemption through the death and resurrection of the Lord, following the tragedy of original sin, is also thereby seen in its crucial and central focus. Our life in his Holy Spirit through the Church and the Sacraments and the necessity of an infallible Magisterium likewise flow naturally from this presentation of Christ and his work through the ages.

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