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Succinctly put: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article276817286.html What we know about the The Fort Worth Catholic Diocese’s dispute with a Carmelite nun Arlington police have begun investigating a dispute between the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese and a reverend mother who says she was wrongly accused of “sexual misconduct” with a priest. The diocese, meanwhile, told the Star-Telegram it has alerted police of “serious concerns” of marijuana and edibles inside the Arlington monastery of Carmelite nuns. The Fort Worth bishop says the nun admitted to the “transgression” of breaking her chastity vow with a priest during interviews with the vicar general of the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese and another sister from her order over several days in April. An audio recording of the interview between Bishop Olson, Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach and Sister Francis Therese was played during a hearing in the nuns’ lawsuit against the bishop and diocese on Tuesday. ... During ...

Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task. - Christopher Lasch He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. - Saint Augustine A 2016 international survey of university counselling centres revealed 50 per cent of university students sought help for feelings of anxiety and 41 per cent for depression. Suicide rates are also increasing. The number of teenage girls in the U.S. who died by suicide nearly doubled between 2000 and 2015. The mental health statistics for Canadian youth are similarly grim. In 2003, 24 per cent of Canadians aged 15-30 self-reported that their mental health was either fair or poor (compared to very good or excellent). By 2019, that number had risen to 40 per cent.” The COVID-19 pandemic worsened the mental health of Canadian youths. In 2020, 58 per cent of Canadians aged 15-24 reported fair or poor mental health and nearly one in fou...

READ TIME: 11 minutes The fruit for which we ask at the next Assembly is that the Spirit inspire the Church’s walking together as the People of God in fidelity to the mission that the Lord has entrusted to it. Indeed, the purpose of the synodal process “is not to produce documents, but to open horizons of hope for the fulfilment of the Church’s mission” (DCS, 6). - 3. Instrumentum Laboris A lot of highly intelligent people have invested a great deal of time and effort in an attempt to discern the call of the Holy Spirit in and to the contemporary Church during the past few years, the years of the Synod On Synodality, and since the 1970s, each suggesting - or rather, each of the so-called "Spirit-led" among those intelligent folk, claiming - that they possess some unique insight into the Spirit's intent. An ever growing number of contradictory positions and often sterile agendas are being promoted among believers. Diversity and inclusivity, for all their virtue, are produc...

Impremature: notification that a book was published before it was properly vetted. Bans of Marriage: matrimonial no-nos. Cardinal virtues: prelates of a feather flocking together. Minor propers: most ignored chants sung by well-behaved youths. DEI: diversity, equity and inclusivity as designed by God (Dei), not by man. Rude screen: profane behaviour blocker. Fumarole veil: large scarf that protects its wearer from clouds of incense. Pipe organ: heavy metal church style. Hoary water: what the holy water font contains when it's not cleaned on a regular basis. The Best of Fr. James Martin: see oxymoron . Communion-in-the-hand-grenade: see nay palm. Cannon laws: rules of engagement for warring Texas nun and bishop. Diocease: wilted ecclesiastical district. Krissandumb: realm of perfectly willfully woefully blissfully ignorant religionists. "Kriss" - slang for crisp, meaning perfect or ideal + "and dumb".

Bishop Michael Olson of the Diocese of Fort Worth in a statement shared on YouTube denied that he abused his authority when investigating a prioress of a Carmelite monastery and alleged that she admitted, on five separate occasions, that she had broken her vow of chastity.  The dispute between the monastery and the diocese began in April when Olson launched a canonical investigation into an alleged sexual affair between the monastery’s prioress, Reverend Mother Teresa Gerlach, and an unnamed priest from outside the diocese. - CNA Tyler Arnold The Bishop versus the Prioress Following the investigation, the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity and Gerlach filed a $1 million lawsuit against the bishop and the diocese. The lawsuit alleged that in the course of the diocese’s investigation into Gerlach’s conduct, the bishop demanded access to phones and computers and subjected the nuns to lengthy questioning in late April. The bishop has confiscated computers belonging to the nuns. The bis...

Saint John Henry Newman, Victoria Ordinariate, Victoria, BC, Canada - 11JUNE2023 The Ordinariate community of Saint John Henry Newman welcomed guests from Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Langford and the Victoria Latin Mass community in the procession of the Blessed Sacrament. Following Mass in the Ordinariate Form (Divine Worship) at the host parish church, the Blessed Sacrament was processed along adjacent streets through Esquimalt township, led by verger Gerald H., and accompanied by song led by the choir. The procession took place on a beautiful sunny Sunday - thanks be to God! The canopy was borne by members of the Knights of Columbus. Maidens of the community scattered rose petals before the Blessed Sacrament. Two seminarians, and the Rev. Monsignor Peter Wilkinson, joined the celebration along with a Knight of the Order of Malta. Lantern bearers were Craig W. and David McC. The Papal flag was borne by James A., and the crucifer was James S. The thurifers were Kevin K. and grandso...

  The Trinity is a communio personarum , a “communion of persons.” In God, the problem of unity and diversity is overcome in a way man will never achieve: one Godhead, yet three Persons. Amid all the sophisticated distinctions of Trinitarian and Christological theology, the mystery of “begettings” and “processions” can be summarized in a few words: God loves. God loves with the fullness of his Being. And because love necessarily involves another, God’s love gives life: the Father gives life to the Son, who is as truly and eternally and perfectly God as the Father. And the Son, the object of the Father’s love, loves eternally, so that where their loves join proceeds the Spirit, who proceeds from the love of “the Father and the Son.” - John Grondelski So there is One Father, not Three Fathers; one Son, not Three Sons; One Holy Ghost, not Three Holy Ghosts. And in this Trinity none is afore or after Other, None is greater or less than Another, but the whole Three Persons are Co-eterna...

Comfy Words: "Put your feet up and stay awhile." Hummily: mumbled sermon Surplus: extra long cotta Confession: most needed and least used sacrament Wholly Odors: thurifer common scents Altar Relics: older members of a server corps Maniple: hanky for real men Spong: the sound a heretic makes when struck by a virge Transphobia: Protestant fear of the Real Presence Sediliac: seated celebrant Alms length: distance between the wallet and the collection plate Mass: holy matter that grows on you or in you Kneeler: balance beam for antsy children; see injury site Crewsuffer: shared experience due to the irksome behaviour of another altar server Baptismal Font: Times New Roman Catholic

Ad Orientem Worship https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/man-vandalizes-altar-at-church-engulfed [ READ TIME - 6 minutes] An article at The Pillar captures the - at times - heated debate in our sister church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church. After years of debate over variations in the way that the Syro-Malabar Eucharistic liturgy was celebrated, the majority of bishops endorsed a formula known as the “uniform mode,” in which the priest faces the people during the Liturgy of the Word, turns toward the altar for the Liturgy of the Eucharist, and then faces the people again after Communion. But in the Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy, the vast majority of priests and lay people rejected the uniform mode, demanding that their preference for the Holy Qurbana facing the people be recognized as a legitimate liturgical variant. They noted that the variant has been used in the archdiocese for more than 50 years and argued that it embodied Vatican II’s liturgical priorities more faithfully than the ...

Saint Clare | 2022 The Catholic Church has always seen art as an integral part of its liturgical worship and recognized the power of Beauty to evangelize. The visual arts flow from the wellspring of the Sacred Liturgy, and both the Church and her artists flourish when this is understood and embraced. - The Catholic Art Guild/LAJ You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? - St Matthew 7:16   (I)n your hearts reverence Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence(.) - 1 Peter 3:15 Let us ask ourselves: Does our service give reason for the hope that is in us? Does the beauty we manifest give reason for the hope that is in us? Does our art (paintings, windows, music, architecture) given reason for the hope that possesses us in Christ? Liturgical blandness, architectural flaccidity (yes, that is a word...) and sterile homileti...