miércoles, 2 de enero de 2013
"A lo que os unís no es a algo ajeno o extraño, sino a vuestra propia partida de nacimiento"
Según informa The Tablet, en la mañana del 1 de enero once religiosas de la Comunidad de Santa María Virgen en Wantage (Oxfordshire), incluida la madre superiora, se han unido al Ordinariato Personal Nuestra Señora de Walsingham establecido por el Papa Benedicto XVI el 15 de enero de 2011 para acoger a antiguos anglicanos ingleses que desean ingresar en la Iglesia.
Se da la circunstancia de que dicha comunidad, fundada en 1848, es una de las primeras que se crearon en la Iglesia de Inglaterra tras la supresión de los monasterios por Enrique VIII entre 1536 y 1541. Fue al calor del movimiento de Oxford, uno de cuyos más prominente miembros fue el futuro cardenal y beato John Henry Newman (1801-1890).
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Leer en: www.religionenlibertad.com
martes, 1 de enero de 2013
A recent book exemplifies the erosion of moral judgment in Britain.
THEODORE DALRYMPLE
The most notorious murderer whom I ever met during my time as a prison doctor was Frederick West. In a small house in Gloucester, he and his wife, Rosemary, had sexually tortured, murdered, dismembered, and buried 12 people, including two of their own children. Their crimes came to light in 1994, more than 20 years after they had committed the first of them; their depravity shocked even an age rich in criminal sensation. When I first encountered West, he seemed affable, spending much of his time playing pool with the prison officers (later, unexpectedly, he hanged himself, to the unanimous rejoicing of the other prisoners). Still, I found something sinister and lycanthropic about him, even when he tried to be deferential and charming.
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Marian Partington has recently published a book, If You Sit Very Still, about the murder. ...
A comparison of ’s book withObsessive Poisoner—written 40 years earlier by Winifred Young, the sister of an earlier serial murderer—is instructive in tracing a change in our cultural sensibility: from a robust and truthful common sense to a sickly and canting sentimentality.
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Read more: www.city-journal.org
It is in this universe that we are given the powers to know what we are and why we exist.
The Universe We Know In
by Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
Socrates was fond of repeating the advice of the Oracle: “Know thyself.” He probably said, “Know thyself,” rather than, “Know the world,” because it is more difficult to know oneself than to know the world. Self-introspection yields not ourselves, but something approaching infinity beyond ourselves. The first thing we know about ourselves is that we have a faculty whereby we know. Yet, we did not give this strange knowing power to ourselves. We wonder perhaps why we have it.
Plato, in fact, thought that the universe was not complete unless within it something existed that could understand it. To him, it was almost as if the universe, being spoken, needed to be spoken back, rearticulated for what it was. Such a view presupposes that within the universe itself is found an intelligibility that makes this specific universe to be what it is rather than some other one that may be possible. This intelligibility is not put there by the human mind but is found there already and is coherent, however long and laborious the process of discovery may be.
Plato, in fact, thought that the universe was not complete unless within it something existed that could understand it. To him, it was almost as if the universe, being spoken, needed to be spoken back, rearticulated for what it was. Such a view presupposes that within the universe itself is found an intelligibility that makes this specific universe to be what it is rather than some other one that may be possible. This intelligibility is not put there by the human mind but is found there already and is coherent, however long and laborious the process of discovery may be.
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Benedicto XVI - No podemos detenernos sólo en las noticias, si queremos comprender el mundo y la vida
Benedicto XVI: «El bien vencerá en el mundo, aunque el mal hace más ruido»
El Evangelio está destinado a todos los hombres
Te Deum año 2012
El Te Deum que elevamos al Señor esta tarde, al final de un año solar, es un himno de acción de gracias que se abre con la alabanza - "Te alabamos, oh Dios, te proclamamos Señor" - y termina con una profesión de confianza - " Tú eres nuestra esperanza, no quedaremos confundidos para siempre. "
Cualquiera que haya sido el camino del año, fácil o difícil, estéril o fecundo, damos gracias a Dios. El Te Deum, de hecho, contiene una profunda sabiduría, aquella sabiduría que nos hace decir que, a pesar de todo, existe el bien en el mundo, y este bien está destinado a ganar, gracias a Dios, el Dios de Jesucristo, encarnado, muerto y resucitado.
Entre las noticias, se destaca más un asesinato brutal, la violencia difundida, las graves injusticias. Mientras que, por el contrario, los gestos de amor y de servicio, la fatiga diaria soportada con fidelidad y paciencia, se dejan, a menudo, en la sombra, no emergen.
También por este motivo, no podemos detenernos sólo en las noticias, si queremos comprender el mundo y la vida; debemos ser capaces de detenernos en silencio, en la meditación, en la reflexión con calma y detenimiento; debemos saber detenernos para pensar.
De esta manera –dijo Benedicto XVI–, nuestro espíritu puede encontrar la curación de las heridas inevitables de la vida diaria, puede profundizar en los acontecimientos que suceden en nuestras vidas y en el mundo, y llegar a aquella sabiduría que permite evaluar las cosas con nuevos ojos.
“El cristiano es un hombre de esperanza, incluso y sobre todo ante la oscuridad, que, a menudo, existe en el mundo y que no depende del plan de Dios, sino de las decisiones equivocadas del hombre, porque sabe que el poder de la fe puede mover las montañas (cfr. Mt 17:20): el Señor puede iluminar incluso las tinieblas más profundas”.
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Venezuela: el secretismo sobre la salud del mandatario se parece mucho al que llevan adelante los hermanos Castro sobre la salud de Fidel en Cuba
Con Chávez convaleciente, Venezuela está en manos de Cuba
Mientras millones de bolivarianos rezan por la salud de Hugo Chávez, quien se encuentra en un delicado estado de salud en Cuba, se especula con la posibilidad de que el mandatario jure por su nuevo mandato en la isla y no en Caracas.
De esta manera, el carácter antidemocrático del chavismo se pone de manifiesto al ocultar a la población los verdaderos diagnósticos sobre la salud de Chávez e intentar arreglar asuntos de estado desde una pequeña cúpula de poder que no ha sido elegida por la ciudadanía.
El ex candidato opositor Henrique Capriles llamó a no expandir mensajes de odio contra el mandatario.
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Leer aquí: www.urgente24.com
The more man tries to erase mystery from the world, the more mysterious the world becomes
Faith: The Perfect Human Science
BY FATHER BRIAN MULLADY
On Oct. 11, 2012, Pope Benedict declared a Year of Faith for the Catholic world. This was in response to the growing secularism pervading nations which formerly were overwhelmingly Christian. The world of the late 20th and early 21st century suffers from two basic flaws, a loss of the sense of personal responsibility in morals and a loss of absolute truths.
Everything is seen as relative. There seems to be nothing to grasp firmly. This situation is a direct result of a Promethean acceptance of reason and progress as though these things alone can guarantee the final solution of the problem of human truth and even more of human evil. Even more, the affirmation that man can rival God through technology and be the captain of his own soul has mesmerized the human race, befogging the mind and deadening the soul to the good for which God has created man: union with him.
Coupled with this, even in the Catholic Church, there has been a great loss of catechesis caused by the theological questioning that often follows a great council such as Vatican II. This, too, has caused a general desertion of the strength and confidence once offered to so many millions through the holy Catholic faith.
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2013’s Year of Faith Badly Needed After 2012
Year of Faithlessness?
BY TOM HOOPES
Most of the Church’s Year of Faith will take place in 2013, and it comes just in time — because 2012 was the "Year of Faithlessness."
The year saw a surge in anti-religious sentiment that is beginning to look like a new atheistic ethos. It wasn’t just words either — the federal government took actions to curtail believers’ freedoms as atheists activated political operations in every state.
This year, the old stories about the "war on Christmas" seemed almost quaint. Atheists succeeded in stripping nursing homes of Christmas trees and erected billboards like the one in Times Square: "Keep the Merry — Dump the Myth."
The billboard was part of an atheist "You Know It’s a Myth" anti-God campaign.
But atheists didn’t just proselytize in 2012. They also pressed to impose their beliefs legislatively. In this election year, attacks on the very idea of God entered political debate as never before.
The Jan. 25 edition of the U.K. Guardian proved to be a prelude of things to come.
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Read more: www.ncregister.com
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