Linz Dean casts out the devil
From kreuz.net (link long dead)
Linz Catholics rejoice over the recent appointment of a parish priest. Eventually someone again warns them about their adversary and his pitfalls. Will the paleo-liberal Linz clergy go off the deep end?
On 1 September, Revd Father Dietmar Neubauer will become Administrator of the Sacred Heart Parish in Linz.
The priest belongs to the neo-conservative community of the Neo-Catechumenal Way.
This afternoon the 'Österreichische Rundfunk', which is hostile to the church expressed hatred in opposition to the appointment.
Bishop Ludwig Schwarz of Linz has acted "against the will of the parish leadership" –the broadcaster distorted the legitimate responsibility of the man responsible for Diocesan personnel.
The new parish administrator was "arch-conservative" - the (Cathcon state run) broadcaster moaned. In truth the Neo-Catechumenal Way depends in liturgical matters on countless paleo-liberal myths. The community was therefore censured by the Pope several times.
The broadcaster also claims that Fr Neubauer puts out the noses of lay colleagues and supposedly parishioners out of joint.
But still the anti-church broadcaster could only get hold of a regular visitor to Mass who was delighted by the appointment: "Wonderful, it is excellent."
The criticism comes from the church hostile Linz Dean Franz Peter Handlechner. He "feels" that he has not been taken seriously.
He had tried, to thwart the appointment with "very intensive discussions". The failure of his intrigues Father Handlechner considered as "just not a good way of dealing with important colleagues."
The devil leads to hell
Finally, Father Handlechner gave the disturbing signal that his fellow priest would allegedly unsettle children.
In reality, Fr Neubauer had elucidated to the First Communicants the danger of the devil and eternal damnation which are referred to in countless places in the Gospels.
But for the enemy of the faith, Dean Handlechner, these warnings were unbearable. They would allegedly frighten the children – was the conclusion of his comments about his colleague.
Finally the Dean unexpectedly summarised correctly the concern about the Neo-Catechumenal Way:
"The Catholics baptized by them are not fully Catholic and really need further Catechesis."
Cathcon
Father Handlechner himself perhaps needs a bit more catechism to explain that consecrating stones at an art event has never been part of Catholic ritual. When going to a meeting of the local socialist party to discuss clerical celibacy, he looked more like a worker than a cleric.
Mass in his Church of St Michael in Bindermichl.
It is no coincidence that in 2007, Margit Hauft, enemy of Father Wagner and of Catholic teaching on the ordination of women gave a long guest lecture in his parish
Whatever the enormous defects of the Neo-Catechumenal Way Father Niebauer does, it seems, know how to dress.
Our Lady Immaculate and Patroness of Upper Austria, return the Diocese to the road of orthodoxy.
Linz Catholics rejoice over the recent appointment of a parish priest. Eventually someone again warns them about their adversary and his pitfalls. Will the paleo-liberal Linz clergy go off the deep end?
On 1 September, Revd Father Dietmar Neubauer will become Administrator of the Sacred Heart Parish in Linz.
The priest belongs to the neo-conservative community of the Neo-Catechumenal Way.
This afternoon the 'Österreichische Rundfunk', which is hostile to the church expressed hatred in opposition to the appointment.
Bishop Ludwig Schwarz of Linz has acted "against the will of the parish leadership" –the broadcaster distorted the legitimate responsibility of the man responsible for Diocesan personnel.
The new parish administrator was "arch-conservative" - the (Cathcon state run) broadcaster moaned. In truth the Neo-Catechumenal Way depends in liturgical matters on countless paleo-liberal myths. The community was therefore censured by the Pope several times.
The broadcaster also claims that Fr Neubauer puts out the noses of lay colleagues and supposedly parishioners out of joint.
But still the anti-church broadcaster could only get hold of a regular visitor to Mass who was delighted by the appointment: "Wonderful, it is excellent."
The criticism comes from the church hostile Linz Dean Franz Peter Handlechner. He "feels" that he has not been taken seriously.
He had tried, to thwart the appointment with "very intensive discussions". The failure of his intrigues Father Handlechner considered as "just not a good way of dealing with important colleagues."
The devil leads to hell
Finally, Father Handlechner gave the disturbing signal that his fellow priest would allegedly unsettle children.
In reality, Fr Neubauer had elucidated to the First Communicants the danger of the devil and eternal damnation which are referred to in countless places in the Gospels.
But for the enemy of the faith, Dean Handlechner, these warnings were unbearable. They would allegedly frighten the children – was the conclusion of his comments about his colleague.
Finally the Dean unexpectedly summarised correctly the concern about the Neo-Catechumenal Way:
"The Catholics baptized by them are not fully Catholic and really need further Catechesis."
Cathcon
Father Handlechner himself perhaps needs a bit more catechism to explain that consecrating stones at an art event has never been part of Catholic ritual. When going to a meeting of the local socialist party to discuss clerical celibacy, he looked more like a worker than a cleric.
Mass in his Church of St Michael in Bindermichl.
It is no coincidence that in 2007, Margit Hauft, enemy of Father Wagner and of Catholic teaching on the ordination of women gave a long guest lecture in his parish
Whatever the enormous defects of the Neo-Catechumenal Way Father Niebauer does, it seems, know how to dress.
Our Lady Immaculate and Patroness of Upper Austria, return the Diocese to the road of orthodoxy.
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