When will parishioners be updated regarding the new church?

Rod Snyder and his truths about St. James

The four page document (shown below), “It’s Time For The Truth”, was sent by Mr. Snyder to Belvidere aldermen prior to city council’s zoning decision in September.   The city’s decision has been made so many of Rod’s statements of little significance.  Rod Snyder is a member of the Campaign Leadership Committee. 

Your attention is drawn to the last page of Rod’s letter, the second to last paragraph:

“There are no plans to demolish the current church.  No one wants that to happen.  After the new church is finished the plans are to carefully take apart the old church and save everything we can to be used somewhere else in the parish complex.  Even the bricks of the current building will be saved.  There already have been discussions about putting light boxes behind the stained-glass windows and displaying them inside the new church.  There are plans for using some of the bricks in the construction of an adoration chapel and a memorial walkway”

Let us pray that the beautiful artifacts of historic St. James Church are saved.

 

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Charles R. O’Malley Trust donates $50,000 to Building Campaign

The following is taken from the bulletin for Sunday December 4, 2011, available on line at:  http://seekandfind.com/downloads/01/0294/20111204B.pdf

 

Building On Our Faith’s total pledges increased $46,535 from $2,217,182 to $2,263,717.  Total pledges paid increased $54,805.

 

The above picture was presented to Belvidere City Council prior to their September zoning decision.  The picture was prepared by the parish architect.  The rendering has been altered to erase the trees which will not exist if the church is built. 

Other pictures are available at:  http://boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-lower-height-design-of-st-james.html

The “school brochure”from the new St. James’ Parish website

The following is from:  http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/images/stories/St._James_Brochure.pdf

St. Mary’s (Huntley) gives weekly updates of its campaign and answers different questions each week

The following are taken from St. Mary’s weekly bulletins which are available at: 

http://seekandfind.com/directory/st.-mary-church_672.html

What is Eucharistic Adoration Chapel?

Pledging and confidentiality.

The stage and religious education building.

The degree of parish participation.

Proposed addition/adoration chapel.

This week’s “Building on Our Faith Campaign”

The photocopy below was taken from the parish’s website:  http://www.stjamesbelvidere.com/parish-life/building-on-our-faith-campaign.html

No change in Total Pledges.

Making do with a faulty translation: A National Catholic Review Editorial

In the big tent we like to believe the church is, we recognize that tensions exist, that viewpoints differ and that different groups approach the Gospel imperative from different sets of priorities. Tensions exist within any big family, and disagreements too are part of family life. In the best of circumstances disagreements can be learning experiences, chances to grow as a family….

Yet this Sunday, Nov. 27, the first Sunday in Advent, when we are gathered around the eucharistic table -- what should be the greatest sign of our unity -- many of us will feel depressed. We will feel like losers when we hear not the words that Jesus’ blood “will be shed for you and for all” but that Jesus’ blood “will be shed for you and for many.”

The scrimmages of this battle have been fought at many levels, from bishop conferences to parish halls. The official Vatican translators themselves have objected to heavy-handed edicts imposed from above. Resigning from the chairmanship of the music committee of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) in February, Benedictine Fr. Anthony Ruff wrote:

The forthcoming missal is but a part of a larger pattern of top-down impositions by a central authority that does not consider itself accountable to the larger church. When I think of how secretive the translation process was, how little consultation was done with priests or laity, how the Holy See allowed a small group to hijack the translation at the final stage, how unsatisfactory the final text is, how this text was imposed on national conferences of bishops in violation of their legitimate episcopal authority, how much deception and mischief have marked this process -- and then when I think of Our Lord’s teachings on service and love and unity ... I weep….

.ICEL completed a translation in 1998 and all the English-language bishops’ conferences of the world approved it. But the Roman Curia did not.

The Vatican issued new translation guidelines, Liturgiam authenticam, in 2001, reorganized ICEL to report not to the English-speaking bishops but to the Curia, and appointed a committee, Vox Clara, to advise it on the approval of English translations. All this was done ostensibly to ensure the authenticity of the translation, but it was clear from the beginning that a clerical, imperial ideology was being imposed on the translation. The poetry of language and beauty of prayers were secondary concerns..

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The Vatican issued new translation guidelines, Liturgiam authenticam, in 2001, reorganized ICEL to report not to the English-speaking bishops but to the Curia, and appointed a committee, Vox Clara, to advise it on the approval of English translations. All this was done ostensibly to ensure the authenticity of the translation, but it was clear from the beginning that a clerical, imperial ideology was being imposed on the translation. The poetry of language and beauty of prayers were secondary concerns….

No words of any language can ever fully express this mystery. That is some consolation. Until we have better words, we can make do with this faulty translation.

 

To read the entire editorial go to:  http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/making-do-faulty-translation

Bishop Finn’s history

Earlier this month Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City was in the news because of his controversial handling of a child pornographic material.  (See the article below).  Bishop Finn is of quite conservative background, becoming a bishops while still in his early 50’s. Bishop Finn’s personal history  from Wikipedia beginning in red.

Bishop Finn avoids indictment by entering diversion program

By GLENN E. RICE, JUDY L. THOMAS and MARK MORRIS

The Kansas City Star

Bishop Robert Finn on Tuesday avoided a possible criminal misdemeanor indictment in his handling of a priest facing child pornography charges by agreeing to enter into a diversion program with the Clay County prosecutor.

Authorities have pledged not to prosecute Finn, the leader of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, if he lives up to the terms of a five-year diversion agreement

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/15/3267619/bishop-finn-avoids-indictment.html#ixzz1e1ka31Ng

The agreement announced on Tuesday between Bishop Finn and the prosecuting attorney of neighboring Clay County, Daniel White, leaves the bishop open to prosecution for misdemeanor charges for five years, if he does not continue to meet with the prosecutor and report all episodes. But victims’ advocates criticized the deal as cozy and ineffectual, compared with previous agreements between bishops and prosecutors.

Click on the following for NY TImes story on the subject: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/kansas-city-bishop-makes-deal-to-avoid-more-criminal-charges.html

 

 

WIKIPEDIA:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Finn_(bishop)#Bishop

Robert William Finn (born April 2, 1953, St. Louis, Missouri) is the current bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, having succeeded Raymond James Boland on May 24, 2005.

 

[edit] Early life and ordination

Bishop Finn is the second of five children of the late Theodore (Pat) and Betty Schneider Finn. His family includes three sisters—Mrs. Kathleen Fornwalt, Chesterfield, Missouri; Mrs. Patricia Bax, St. Charles, Missouri; and Mrs. Nancy Meyer, Maryland Heights, Missouri—and one brother, Richard Finn, of Keller, Texas. Bishop Finn completed his elementary education at All Souls Catholic School in Overland, Missouri.

Bishop Finn studied for the priesthood at archdiocesan seminaries and in Rome. He is a 1971 graduate of St. Louis Preparatory Seminary North, and received a B.A. in Philosophy at Cardinal Glennon College in 1975. While a seminarian at the North American College in Rome, he earned a Master's in Theology in 1979 from the Angelicum University. He served as a deacon in 1978-79 at St. Charles Borromeo Parish, in the Archdiocese of Westminster. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Saint Louis at All Souls Parish Church on July 7, 1979.

[edit] Pastoral work

Father Finn's first assignments were as associate pastor of two parishes in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. He later was appointed to the faculty of St. Francis Borgia Regional High School in Washington, Missouri, where he taught from 1983 -1989. During those years, he lived in residence and served as part-time pastoral associate in area parishes.

In 1989, the future Bishop Finn received a Master's in Education Administration from St. Louis University and was appointed administrator of St. Dominic High School in O'Fallon, Missouri. During his tenure at St. Dominic's, he assisted the pastors of area parishes. He served the St. Dominic High School community until 1996.

In 1996, he was appointed Director of Continuing Formation of Priests and, in 1999, while continuing as CFP Director, he was named editor of The St. Louis Review, the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Then-Father Finn was named by Blessed Pope John Paul II a Chaplain to His Holiness in August 2003, upon the recommendation of the then-Archbishop of St. Louis, Justin Francis Rigali (later Cardinal and Archbishop of Philadelphia), who had named him to the posts he was then exercising (the honor was bestowed while he was still serving as CFP Director and editor of the St. Louis Review; Father Finn received the title of Reverend Monsignor). Monsignor Finn served in several other capacities including Chairman of the Archdiocesan Committee on the Diaconate.

[edit] Bishop

Having applied for membership in Opus Dei in January 2004, Monsignor Finn was named two months later as coadjutor bishop (with right of succession) of the diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph. Monsignor Finn was consecrated to the episcopate on May 3, 2004, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City. He is also now a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus. On May 24, 2005, the Vatican accepted Bishop Boland's request for retirement. As Coadjutor, Bishop Finn automatically succeeded him as sixth bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.

In April 2005, Bishop Finn became a member of Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, which is linked to the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei. In an interview with the Catholic Key, Bishop Finn told of how Opus Dei had helped open his heart to the work of the Holy Spirit. Bishop Finn is not technically a member of the Opus Dei prelature, as he is a diocesan priest, but he is able to receive spiritual formation from the prelature in a similar way as its members do.

Upon his arrival in the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in 2005, Bishop Finn said that vocations to the priesthood and religious life would be seen as a 'super-priority' for his diocese. Under his guidance, the diocese has continued to pour considerable spiritual, human, and financial resources into efforts to encourage vocations. Before Finn's arrival, in the 2003/2004 seminary school year, the diocese reported to have nine seminarians. For 2007/2008, the diocese reported that there were 24 men studying for diocesan priesthood. In March of 2006, Bishop Finn invited to his diocese a small order of Benedictine nuns, now titled 'Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles'. With a contemplative charism of praying and sacrificing for the sanctification of priests, in addition to operating a vestment design company called "House of Ephesus", these nuns have also seen their numbers rise very quickly in recent years.

Bishop Finn currently serves on the Administrative and the Priorities and Plans Committees for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is Chairman of the Bishop's Task Force on the Life and Dignity of the Human Person.

The Board of Directors of the Institute on Religious Life (IRL) at their September annual meeting elected the Most Rev. Robert W. Finn, Bishop of Kansas City–St. Joseph as the organization’s new president. Bishop Finn succeeds the Most Rev. Thomas G. Doran, Bishop of Rockford, who served as IRL president since 1998.

Shawn Ratigan affair

Apology for lack of intervention

In May 2011, Bishop Finn apologized for his failure to act in a more timely manner in the case of a priest accused of engaging in inappropriate behavior with children. Bishop Finn told reporters that he failed to read a letter sent to the diocese a year earlier (May 2010) by a Catholic elementary school principal who was reporting numerous instances of inappropriate behavior. Bishop Finn's admission came five months after the diocese discovered questionable pictures of children on the priest's computer, and a week after the priest was arrested on child pornography charges.^[1][2]

Independent investigation

On June 9, 2011, Bishop Finn appointed former U.S. Attorney Todd P. Graves to conduct an independent investigation of diocesan policies and procedures used to address sexual misconduct by church personnel including the case of Father Shawn Ratigan, a pastor who faces charges of possession of child pornography. Graves was the national co-chairman of the U.S. Justice Department's Child Exploitation Working Group. Finn also announced the appointment of an independent public liaison and ombudsman.^[3]

In the report issued in September 2011, Graves said the key finding of the investigation was "that Diocesan leaders failed to follow their own policies and procedures for responding to reports" of sexual abuse by clergy.^[4]

Indictment

On October 14, 2011 Finn was charged with not telling police about child pornography found on a priest's computer. According to the indictment, the diocese was made aware of the incident in December 16, 2010 but did not report it to the authorities until May 11, 2011 in violation of a new state law making it mandatory for everyone, without distinction, to report any possible abuse of minors, if there is a suspicion.^[5] He pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count of failing to report suspected child abuse.^[6] Finn is among the first bishops to be indicted in the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal in the United States.^[7]

Views

Tridentine Mass

In August 2005, he encouraged use of the traditional Tridentine Mass in his diocese in accord with Indult provisions established during Pope John Paul II's tenure, and welcomed the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to the diocese to celebrate Mass at St. Patrick's Oratory, the city's oldest church.^[8][9]

Statements on the 2008 election

In the October 24, 2008 issue of the diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Key, Bishop Finn wrote: "Our Catholic moral principles teach that a candidate’s promise of economic prosperity is insufficient to justify their constant support of abortion laws, including partial-birth abortion, and infanticide for born-alive infants. Promotion of the Freedom of Choice Act is a pledge to eliminate every single limit on abortions achieved over the last thirty-five years. The real freedom that is ours in Jesus Christ compels us, not to take life, but to defend it...Join me in calling upon Mary in this month of the rosary. In 1571, in the midst of the Battle of Lepanto, when the future of Christian Europe was in the balance and the odds against them were overwhelming, prayer to Our Lady of the Rosary brought the decisive victory. We ask her now to watch over our country and bring us the victory of life."^[10]

New St. James Parish website names parish advisors and leaders of organizations

As additions are made to the parish website they will annotated so you may keep abreast of the added information that is now available.

Pastoral Council:  http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/parish-life/parish-organizations/pastoral-council.html

Finance Council:    http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/parish-life/parish-organizations/finance-council.html

Education Commission:  http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/parish-life/parish-organizations/education-commission.html

Council of Women: http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/parish-life/parish-organizations/council-of-catholic-women.html

Knights of Columbus:  http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/parish-life/parish-organizations/knights-of-columbus.html

The Building Our Faith Campaign’s website chart

The following is taken from the parish’s website at:  http://www.stjamesbelvidere.org/parish-life/building-on-our-faith-campaign.html

New Translation of Catholic Mass Makes Its Debut

But behind the scenes, the debate over the new translation has been angry and bitter, exposing rifts between a Vatican-led church hierarchy that has promoted the new translation as more reverential and accurate, and critics, among them hundreds of priests, who fear it is a retreat from the commitment of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s to allowing people to pray in a simple, clear vernacular as they participate in the church’s sacred rites. …..

The new translation, phased in throughout the English-speaking world over the past year, was officially introduced over the weekend in every English-language Mass in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India.

Because the form of the Mass was not changed — just the details of the translation — many Catholics reacted mildly.

The new translation, phased in throughout the English-speaking world over the past year, was officially introduced over the weekend in every English-language Mass in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and India.

Because the form of the Mass was not changed — just the details of the translation — many Catholics reacted mildly. ….

The mixed emotions in the pews broadly mirrored the reception that the new translation has received from clergy and liturgical scholars. More than 22,000 people, including many priests, endorsed a petition, on the Web site whatifwejustsaidwait.org, to postpone the introduction of the new Mass. An association of hundreds of Irish priests called for the translation to be scrapped. …

The Rev. Anthony Ruff, a scholar of Latin and Gregorian chant at St. John’s University and seminary in Collegeville, Minn., worked on parts of the latest translation with the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, but he left after he became “increasingly critical of the clunky text and the top-down secretive process” with which it was being created, he said.

“The syntax is too Latinate — it’s not good English that will help people pray,” he said in an interview. “Rome got its way in forcing this on us, but it is a Pyrrhic victory because it is not bringing the whole church together around a high quality product.”

Click on the following for more details of this interesting NY Times story:   http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/nyregion/for-catholics-the-word-was-a-bit-different-amen.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

 

Check out whatifwejustsaidwait.org. Its home page is shown below.  Or click on the address:  http://whatifwejustsaidwait.org/

See some of the comments against the new translation:  http://whatifwejustsaidwait.org/readcomments.htm

I do not see any reason for the changes being implemented. The new words make me feel less a part of the liturgy. I am old enough to remember the liturgy BEFORE Vatican II, and i welcomed the changes to the liturgy at that time that made it easier to understand. Why are we taking a step back? Do not think that you can mandate this change, and have passive compliance.
Lauren Mittermann | Lay Person | Green Bay | United States

I am a convert to Catholicism of 20 years standing. Reared in a negative, judgmental Evangelical environment, I was drawn back to faith after many years by what I experienced as the welcoming, nurturing nature of the Catholic Church, the feeling that in Catholic churches, I was truly in the presence of God. Now I find myself very unhappy and feeling very unwelcome by this batch of wordy, pompous and utterly unnecessary changes that are being shoved down peoples' throats. I recognize the Church's authority, but I will not be bullied by anyone.
Anonymous | Lay Person | New York | USA

I am very angry. I am starting an "ADD YOUR TWO CENTS" campaign at my church. Add two pennies to your weekly donation in the basket, to let the pastor know that you are opposed to the changes in the Creed, Gloria, etc. I am printing up business cards that say "ADD YOUR TWO CENTS" To the Basket. I am hot gluing two pennies to the front. On the back it says KEEP THE TRADITIONAL MASS.. GLORIA... CREED. Add your two cents to the basket weekly if you agree.
Thomas Holmes | Lay Person | Boston | USA

It is extremely sad to see the changes of Vatican II slowly and systematically being sidetracked, undermined, reversed. The particularly irritating thing about the new missal is the banality of much of its English. Having taught graduate courses in medieval Latin for many years, I found the directive of a Latinate -style translation to be senseless. How many of us remember how difficult it was to read the old Latin-style Douay Rheims translation? And how eye opening it was to read the English of the Jerusalem bible, among other fine modern translations, or the splendid King James translation? A literal translation of a French sentence about my name and age would read: "I call myself Bill and I have 69 years." This would merit a professor's directive to re-do the translation into idiomatic English -- which is something that the (mis)translators of the soon to be released missal should be required to do.
Dr. William Coleman | Lay Person | Brooklyn | USA

With Mrs. Maggie Daley’s funeral at old St. Pat’s, it is interesting to take a look at this wonderful old church

The following is taken from WIKIPEDIA:  https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1128_Rinfo/en/US&utm_source=B11_1128_branGbr&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1128_whyshortvlong_US&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FOld_St._Patrick%2527s_Church_%28Chicago%2C_Illinois%29

 

Old St. Patrick's Church, also known as St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and commonly known as Old St. Pat's, is a Roman Catholic parish in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 700 West Adams Street, it has been described as the "cornerstone of Irish culture" in Chicago.^[2] The main church building is one of a handful of structures remaining in the city that predate the 1871 Great Chicago Fire.

Old St. Patrick's Church was founded on Easter Sunday, April 12, 1846. The parish was originally housed in a wooden building at Randolph Street and DesPlaines Street. In the 1850s, the present church building was constructed out of brick.^[2] Two octagonal spires, said to represent the Eastern Church and the Western Church, were added in 1885. By the 1880s, most of the parish was composed of Irish-Americans, and in the 1910s, the interior was redecorated by Thomas A. O'Shaughnessy and others in the Celtic Revival style. O'Shaugnessy modeled some of the ornamentation after the illuminations found in the Book of Kells.^[3] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

Did St. James really take its architect's advise on planning a new church?

This was originally posted on this website on July 4, 2011;   see:  http://boonecountycatholics.blogspot.com/2011/07/did-st-james-really-take-its-architect.html

Did St. James really take its architect's advise on planning a new church?

Quite obviously it is difficult (if not impossible) to know what the “renowned Classical architect”, Duncan G. Stroik, told the parish officials on how to plan for its new church. However Mr. Stroik has written extensively on church architecture and in this 2002 article (listed on his website), Mr. Stroiks advises priests on the many phases of the process. Did St. James follow this advise?

See Page 1: As expected, Column 2 : “The most important decision you will make is on the choice of the architect”.

Page 2: Column 2 “an architect’s fee can run anywhere from eight to 14 percent of the construction cost of the church”

Page 3: Columns 2 & 3 “I suggest that priest try to involve the parish in the project early on”

“Consider creative ways for your parish to have imput on the project early on, whether this is with public discussion, filling out questionnaires or more casual discussion amongst the community. One priest I know spent a couple of years holding lectures, prayer services and putting inserts in the bulletin to prepare the faithful for their new church.”

“Listen to all reasonable requests whether they are calling for a specific heating system, architectural style, flooring material or a shrine to a particular saint.

Page 4: 1st Paragraph, Column 3 “ …it is in-style to build churches that are too large.” ….”pastors are being encouraged by their bishops to build parishes of 1,000 seats or more. I ask if they are aware that this is larger than most of the seating capacity of our Cathedrals in this country. “

“I ask pastors to try to determine what is the smallest seating capacity they could live with so they can use the limited budget to its best ability”

Page 5: Column 2 “One of the nicest American traditions is the ethnic parish with the parish hall in the basement which can even be finished later.”

The article is available on the internet at: http://www.stroik.com/pdf/publications/advice_to_priests.pdf The article is from the July 2002, Our Sunday Visitor’s The Priest.

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Rites and Liturgy

The following is taken from Wikipedia: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Catholic_rites_and_churches

 

Rite

The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches defines "rite" as follows: "Rite is the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary heritage, distinguished according to peoples' culture and historical circumstances, that finds expression in each autonomous church's way of living the faith."^[11]

As thus defined, "rite" concerns not only a people's liturgy (manner of worship), but also its theology (understanding of doctrine), spirituality (prayer and devotion), discipline (canon law).

In this sense of the word "rite", the list of rites within the Catholic Church is identical with that of the autonomous churches, each of which has its own heritage, which distinguishes that church from others, and membership of a church involves participation in its liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary heritage. However, "church" refers to the people, and "rite" to their heritage.^[12]

The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches states that the rites with which it is concerned (but which it does not list) spring from the following five traditions: Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, Chaldean, and Constantinopolitan.^[13] Since it covers only Eastern Catholic churches and rites, it does not mention those of Western (Latin) tradition.

The word "rite" is sometimes used with reference only to liturgy, ignoring the theological, spiritual and disciplinary elements in the heritage of the churches. In this sense, "rite" has been defined as "the whole complex of the (liturgical) services of any Church or group of Churches".^[14]

Between "rites" in this exclusively liturgical sense and the autonomous churches there is no strict correspondence, such as there is when "rite" is understood as in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. The 14 autonomous churches of Byzantine tradition have a single liturgical rite, while on the contrary the single Latin Church has several distinct liturgical rites.

[edit] List of Catholic liturgical rites

Alexandrian liturgical tradition; 2 liturgical rites

• Coptic Rite
• Ethiopic Rite

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition; 3 liturgical rites

• Maronite Rite
• (West) Syrian Rite
• Syro-Malankara Rite

Armenian Rite; 1 liturgical rite

• Armenian Rite

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition; 2 liturgical rites

• Chaldean Rite
• Syro-Malabar Rite

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition; 1 liturgical rite

• Byzantine Rite

Latin (Western) liturgical rites

Actively celebrated:

• Roman Rite, whose historical forms are usually classified as follows
  • Pre-Tridentine Mass (the various pre-1570 forms)
  • Tridentine Mass (1570-1970 and still authorized in circumstances indicated in the document Summorum Pontificum as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite)
  • Mass of Paul VI (1970–present)
  • Anglican Use (restricted to formerly Anglican congregations)
• Ambrosian Rite (Milan, Italy and neighbouring areas)
• Aquileian Rite (defunct: northeastern Italy)
• Bracarensis Rite (Braga, Portugal)
• Mozarabic Rite (Toledo and Salamanca, Spain)

Defunct or rarely celebrated:

• Durham Rite (defunct: Durham, England)
• Gallican Rite (defunct: Gaul, i.e., France)
• Celtic Rite (defunct: British Isles)
• Sarum Rite (defunct: England)
• Catholic Order Rites (generally defunct)
  • Benedictine Rite
  • Carmelite Rite
  • Carthusian Rite
  • Cistercian Rite
  • Dominican Rite
  • Franciscan Rite
  • Friars Minor Capuchin Rite
  • Premonstratensian Rite
  • Servite Rite

The following is taken from:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches

Clerical celibacy

Eastern and Western Christian churches have different traditions concerning clerical celibacy and the resulting controversies have played a role in the relationship between the two groups in some Western countries.

Most Eastern Churches distinguish between "monastic" and "non-monastic" clergy. Monastics do not necessarily live as monks or in monasteries, but have spent at least part of their period of training in such a context. Their monastic vows include a vow of celibate chastity.

Bishops are normally selected from the monastic clergy, and in most Eastern Catholic Churches a large percentage of priests and deacons also are celibate, while a portion of the clergy (typically, parish priests) may be married. If someone preparing for the diaconate or priesthood wishes to marry, this must happen before ordination.

In countries where Eastern traditions prevail, a married clergy caused little controversy; but it aroused opposition in other countries to which Eastern Catholics migrated; this was particularly so in the United States. In response to requests from the Latin bishops of those countries, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith set out rules in a letter of 2 May 1890 to François-Marie-Benjamin Richard, the Archbishop of Paris,^[69] which the Congregation applied on 1 May 1897 to the United States,^[70] stating that only celibates or widowed priests coming without their children should be permitted in the United States. This rule was restated with special reference to Catholics of Ruthenian Rite by the 1 March 1929 decree Cum data fuerit, which was renewed for a further ten years in 1939. Dissatisfaction by many Ruthenian Catholics in the United States gave rise to the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese. This rule was abolished with the promulgation of the Decree on the Catholic churches of the Eastern Rite; since then, married men have been ordained to the priesthood in the United States, and numerous married priests have come from eastern countries to serve parishes in the Americas.^[71]

Three Eastern Catholic Churches have decided to adopt mandatory clerical celibacy, as in the Latin Church: the India-based Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, and the Ethiopian Catholic Church, which has a long widespread tradition of monasticism

Bishop Doran and the “traditionalist”

The following is taken from WIKIPEDIA:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Doran

Views

Bishop Doran was one of the earliest proponents of the Tridentine Mass. Before Summorum Pontificum, Bishop Doran was singled out in an article in The Wanderer as one of the few U.S. bishops "...who have been generous in the Ecclesia Dei indult application, as requested and emphasized repeatedly by the late Pope John Paul II."^[3][4] The others being Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis, Bishop Álvaro Corrada del Rio of Tyler, Texas; and Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska.

In August 2006, Bishop Doran denounced the rate of abortions in the United States, saying, "We shall soon outstrip the Nazis in doing human beings to death."^[5]

In late March 2009, Doran expressed his "dismay and outrage" at the decision of the University of Notre Dame to have President Barack Obama deliver its commencement speech and receive an honorary degree.^[6] He even suggested that Notre Dame change its name to "The Fighting Irish College" or "Northwestern Indiana Humanist University."^[6]

 

Indult Catholic  See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indult_Catholic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Indult Catholic was a term used to denote a traditionalist Catholic who preferred to attend the older Tridentine form of Mass instead of the ordinary present-day form of the Roman-rite liturgy, the Mass of Paul VI, but who attended only those celebrations that had the explicit approval of the Church authorities. The term was pejorative, typically being used by traditionalists who saw no legal necessity for an indult for the Tridentine rite.

"Indult" is a term in Catholic canon law referring to a permission to do something that would otherwise be unlawful. While more than one indult was issued by the Holy See in respect of the Tridentine Mass, the particular "indult" referred to in this phrase was the general permission granted to the world's bishops by Pope John Paul II in 1984 to authorise celebrations of the Tridentine Mass in their dioceses. In 2007, this permission was superseded with Benedict XVI's promulgation of a papal motu proprio entitled Summorum Pontificum.

The indult

When the Mass of Paul VI replaced the Tridentine Mass in 1969-1970, some priests continued to be granted permission by the Holy See to celebrate the old liturgy. For example, elderly priests were not required to adopt the new form when it was introduced, and in 1971 Pope Paul VI granted the "Agatha Christie indult" that allowed occasional celebrations of the older form in England and Wales.

Under Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in 1984, sent the circular letter Quattuor abhinc annos^[1] to the presidents of the Episcopal Conferences, granting diocesan bishops an "indult" (permission) to authorize, under certain conditions, celebrations of the Tridentine Mass as contained in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal by priests and laypeople who requested it.

Following the canonically illegal consecration of four bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Pope John Paul II issued on 2 July 1988 a motu proprio entitled Ecclesia Dei recommending a "wide and generous application of the directives of the 1984 indult.

Application of the indult

The main condition on which diocesan bishops could grant authorization under the Quattuor abhinc annos indult was: "That it be made publicly clear beyond all ambiguity that such priests and their respective faithful in no way share the positions of those who call in question the legitimacy and doctrinal exactitude of the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1970."

Many diocesan bishops decided not to grant certain priests or laypeople permission to use the older form of the Roman Rite. In many cases this was because, in the opinion of the bishops in question, they did not meet this condition. Other refusals of permission were arguably more difficult to explain or justify.

Traditionalist Catholics who, like the supporters of the Society of St. Pius X, questioned the legitimacy and doctrinal exactitude of the revised liturgy, and were thus in a state of separation from the Holy See, claimed that no authorization was required for celebrating Mass in the older form. They decried those who accepted the conditions attached to the Quattuor abhinc annos indult, applying to them the term "Indult Catholics", and frequently did not recognise them as fellow traditionalists.

End of the indult

On 7 July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.^[2] By this document he replaced the conditions laid down in Quattuor abhinc annos and Ecclesia Dei for use of the 1962 Missal,^[3] and decreed that, under conditions indicated in the document, recourse need no longer be had to the bishop of the diocese for permission to use that edition of the Roman Missal, even for public celebrations of Mass.

Summorum Pontificum

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  See:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summorum_Pontificum

Summorum Pontificum (English: Of the Supreme Pontiffs) is an Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, issued "motu proprio" (i.e. on his own initiative). The document specified the rules, for the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, for celebrating Mass according to the "Missal promulgated by John XXIII in 1962" (the form known as the Tridentine Mass), and for administering most of the sacraments in the form they had before the liturgical reforms following the Second Vatican Council.

The document,^[1] dated 7 July 2007 and in force since 14 September 2007, was released along with a letter in which Pope Benedict explained his reasons for issuing it.^[2]

The document replaced the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei of 1988, which allowed individual bishops to establish places where Mass could be said using the 1962 Missal. It granted greater freedom to use the Tridentine liturgy in its 1962 form, stating that all priests may freely celebrate Mass with the 1962 Missal privately, without having to ask for permission from anyone. It also provided that pastors (parish priests) and rectors of churches should willingly accept requests from stable groups who adhere to the preceding liturgical tradition ("ubi coetus fidelium traditioni liturgicae antecedenti adhaerentium continenter exsistit" - Article 5) for permission for a qualified priest to celebrate Mass for them using the 1962 Missal, and should "ensure that the welfare of these faithful harmonises with the ordinary pastoral care of the parish, under the guidance of the bishop".

In his accompanying letter, Pope Benedict explained that his action was aimed at broadly and generously providing for the rituals which nourished the faithful for centuries and at "coming to an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church" with Traditionalist Catholics in disagreement with the Holy See, such as the members of the Society of St. Pius X. He stated that, while it had first been thought that interest in the Tridentine Mass would disappear with the older generation that had grown up with it, some young persons too have "felt its attraction and found in it a form of encounter with the mystery of the Eucharist particularly suited to them." In view of fears expressed while the document was in preparation, he took pains to emphasize that his decision in no way detracts from the authority of the Second Vatican Council and that, not only for juridical reasons, but also because the requisite "degree of liturgical formation and some knowledge of the Latin language" are not found very often, the Mass of Paul VI remains the "normal" or "ordinary" form of the Roman Rite Eucharistic liturgy.^[3]

Advocates for Mass. clergy abuse victims welcome Archbishop Law’s departure from Vatican post

By Martin Finucane and Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff

Advocates for Mass. clergy abuse victims welcome Law’s departure from Vatican post…

Law resigned in disgrace as Boston’s archbishop in 2002 after the clergy sex abuse scandal erupted.

The Vatican said today that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the 80-year-old Law’s resignation as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica and had named as Law’s replacement Spanish Monsignor Santos Abril y Castello, The Associated Press reported.

Law’s 2004 appointment as the archpriest of one of Rome’s most important basilicas had been harshly criticized by advocates for clergy sex abuse victims.

Law turned 80 earlier this month. Victims’ advocates criticized plans for a birthday party for him in Rome. Law’s successor, Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, who had to deal with the legal and financial impacts of the crisis, was in Rome on church business, but a spokesman for O’Malley said his time there was “devoted to work” and he wouldn’t be attending.

Click on the following to read the rest of the story:  http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/11/attorney-for-clergy-abuse-victims-welcomes-law-departure-from-vatican-post/0TveDX2Fx9HjRZpMzcVGfL/index.html

OTHER COVERAGE FROM BOSTON

• Lawyers and advocates for victims of Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse welcomed Monday’s news that former Boston archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law has resigned from his position in Rome.

The Vatican announced Law, 80, has stepped down as archpriest of St. Mary Major basilica.

"With all due respect, society has not lost a great protector of children, said Mitchell Garabedian, a lawyer who has represented dozens of sex abuse victims in Boston.

Law should take the opportunity to return to Boston and apologize, said Garabedian, who like many of Law’s critics, said the cardinal didn’t do enough to protect children from predatory priests, instead transferring them from parish to parish.

"Cardinal Law should return to Boston, and face the victims and answer the many questions that remain," he said, while acknowledging that that is "highly unlikely."

Read more at:  http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111121disgraced_bernard_law_resigns_vatican_post

Rocco Palmo, who covers church news and politics online, first reported Law’s move. He said Law was leaving his sinecure at a younger age than other recent holders of the seat and that the Vatican may be reacting to critics who have said Law’s appointment was a sign that the church did not “get it’’ when it came to clergy sexual abuse.

“I think they’re sending a signal that it had become a liability,’’ said Palmo, a former US correspondent for the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet. “I think it’s an acknowledgment, albeit more belated than a lot of folks would want, that that was not helping in terms of perception.’’

But John L. Allen, a senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, cautioned against reading too much into Law’s abrupt retirement, noting Law’s recent birthday.

“A cardinal at 80 technically starts powering down,’’ said Allen, speaking by phone from Rome yesterday.

Read more at:  http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/11/22/cardinal_bernard_law_retires_from_post_in_rome/

St. Vincent’s gives an accounting of its non-monetary expenses

The following is taken from the bulletin for Sunday, November 22, 2011

Weekly Collection and Pledges for week ending November 20, 2011

11-20-2011

 

There was no update for DSP this week.

11-13-2011

One additional pledge (now 609) total building pledges up $30 ($2,217,212.44 vs. $2,217,182.44)

11-6-2011 Collection

One additional pledge (now 608), total building pledges up $2,375 ($2,217,182.44 vs. $2,214,807.44)

The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, November 6, 2011. It is available at: http://content.seekandfind.com/bulletins/01/0294/20111106B.pdf

One additional pledge (now 607), total building pledges up $2,000 ($2,214,807.44 vs. $2,212,807.44)

No change in DSP.

The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, October 31, 2011. It is available at: http://content.seekandfind.com/bulletins/01/0294/20111030B.pdf

Total building pledges down $2,790 ($2,012,807 vs. $2,015,597) with two additional pledges.

No Change in DSP for the month.

The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, October 23, 2011. It is available at: http://content.seekandfind.com/bulletins/01/0294/20111023B.pdf

The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, October 16, 2011. It is available at: http://content.seekandfind.com/bulletins/01/0294/20111016B.pdf


August 28, 2011 DSP statement.

The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, October 9, 2011. It is available at: http://seekandfind.com/directory/st.-james-church_273.html

The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, October 2, 2011. It is available at: http://seekandfind.com/downloads/01/0294/20111002B.pdf


Total Pledges falls $7,845 from $2.223,437.44 to $2,215,592.44
The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, September 25, 2011. It is available at: http://seekandfind.com/downloads/01/0294/20110925B.pdf


The following is taken from the bulletin published for Sunday, September 18, 2011.


Here are some previous Campaign figures:
“The Campaign goal is $5,500,000”. “The Diocese of Rockford has generously offered to allow construction to begin once $3,000,000 is pledged for the project and the first $1,000,000 has been received in cash”



A small withdrawal of pledges for week ending August 15, 2011.


Apparently some pledges were withdrawn. See the higher amount pledged as of July 11, 2011