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Friday, April 20, 2007
Did Cardinal Kasper manipulate Jewish opinion?
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Just where did the initiative come from for these concerns?
Claims that for over a thousand years that Catholicism was Marcionist are simply fantastic. Have they never heard of a breviary? About 30 psalms and old testament canticles a day. Rather fewer in modern breviaries but still.
The liturgy according to the father of modern liturgy, Odo Casel did not originate in the service of the Temple but in a Greek mystery cult. If you are looking for anti-semitism, he is a big candidate, especially as he was influenced by the arch anti-semite and father of modern biblical scholarship, Ernest Renan who denied Christ was Jewish.
Spot on comments from Rorate Caeli.
Further decoupling salvation and baptism
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In contrast among the Errors of the Synod of Pistoia condemned by Pope Pius VI in the Constitution, "Auctorem fidei," Aug. 28, 1794

The Punishment of Those Who Die with Original Sin Only
26. The doctrine which rejects as a Pelagian fable, that place of the lower regions (which the faithful generally designate by the name of the limbo of children) in which the souls of those departing with the sole guilt of original sin are punished with the punishment of the condemned, exclusive of the punishment of fire, just as if, by this very fact, that these who remove the punishment of fire introduced that middle place and state free of guilt and of punishment between the kingdom of God and eternal damnation, such as that about which the Pelagians idly talk,—false, rash, injurious to Catholic schools.
And Questiones atttibuted to St Thomas Aquinas after his death.
Mixed Charismatic Community
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No good ever came of mixed or double monasteries throughout history. Most common cause of break-up, the female side thought that they knew better.
Strange that Cardinal Danneels encourages these ersatz forms of religious life but is hostile to the Latin Mass.
Cardinal Danneels creating a more human city.
Cardinal Meisner interculturates
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Source.
First he presided over a Carnival Mass in his Cathedral, now this. He is a a Conservative. He probably is when measured by the standards of the other German bishops.
Thanks to angelqueen.
Alien Invasion!
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