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Hara Setsuko 原節子 (1920-2015), 17 years-old in Germany - 1937

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The United States Supreme Court on Monday overturned a court judgment in favor of the Obama administration which barred a Catholic university from refusing to pay for contraception for employees on religious grounds. The Supreme Court had already ruled in favor last year of a Christian-owned company, Hobby Lobby, which had sought to avoid paying for worker healthcare plans which included contraception. Monday's ruling overturned a judgment against the University of Notre Dame, a prominent Catholic college, which had also refused to fund contraception, a mandatory provision under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul. Monday's ruling reflected the position of the Supreme Court last year, when the nine justices, five of whom are conservative, ruled that freedom of religion ought to apply to businesses as well as individuals, meaning an employer should not be compelled to pay for contraception if it violated his or her religious beliefes.

The Catholic Church already provides for the possibility of new sacramental marriages in the case of the death of a spouse, thus recognizing an irreversible failure of the first marriage that does not infringe the principle of indissolubility.

Quoted in Sandro Magister, <a href="http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1350985?eng=y">Between One Synod and Another, the Battle Continues</a>

Can. 904 Remembering always that in the mystery of the eucharistic sacrifice the work of redemption is exercised continually, priests are to celebrate frequently; indeed, daily celebration is recommended earnestly since, even if the faithful cannot be present, it is the act of Christ and the Church in which priests fulfill their principal function.

Code of Canon Law, Can. 904 But also: "Can. 906 Except for a just and reasonable cause, a priest is not to celebrate the eucharistic sacrifice without the participation of at least some member of the faithful."

'That is the trouble with revolutionaries,' observed Bishop Forester, 'they have no sentiments and no nostalgia. They do not love anything and never have … they are incapable of understanding that other people do love and have loved, that the simplest souls are capable of the highest sentiments.'

Bryan Houghton, Mitre and Crook, 1979, quoted in R. Michael McGrade, Death of a Catholic Parish, 1991, p. 149.

But it was not only the priest who had lost his anonymity, so had the congregation. The faithful were meant to be up and doing, to participate, to express their personalities and be conscious of the community around them. Of old, the Mass provided almost the only time and place in all the world where one could get away from oneself, get lost. The expressions 'lost in prayer,' 'lost in wonder,' 'lost in adoration' and the like are perfectly accurate. Of old, distractions had been the problem. Now, distraction was organized and continuous. The problem had become how to get lost.

Bryan Houghton, Judith's Marriage, 1987, cited in R. Michael McGrade, Death of a Catholic Parish: The Benella Experiment, 1991, p. 121.

This was the real 'Reformation reign'; for, it was a reign of robbery and hypocrisy without any thing to be compared with them; any thing in any country or in any age. Religion, conscience, was always the pretext; but in one way or another, robbery, plunder was always the end. The People, once so united and so happy, became divided into innumerable sects, no man knowing hardly what to believe; and, indeed, no one knowing what it was lawful for him to say; for it soon became impossible for the common people to know what was heresy and what was not heresy.

William Cobbett, A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland, quoted in R. Michael McGrade, Death of a Catholic Parish: The Benalla Experiment, 1991, pp. 131 and 139.

Edmund did not answer straight away. When he did it was in a gentler voice. "Poor Father Martin, the most refined thinker the society has produced this century. They leave him alone if he keeps his mouth shut but jeer at him if he dares to open it. Dear Father Martin, his suppression is even more callous than that of Beaumont. I have not seen him since we returned from Rome." — Bryan Houghton, Judith's Marriage, 1987, p. 185.

On Father Martin D'Arcy, S.J.

'Father says it is just how Mass was celebrated in the catacombs.' 'It isn't. There were no microphones there. It might be tolerable if Father did a couple of tuns: turned off the microphone and turned his back.' 'It could help. But anyway, I cannot imagine John of the Cross saying Mass that way or St. Teresa answering up. A divine drama at which we were permitted to assist has become musical comedy in which we are the actors. We shall be able to hear what is said all right, but we can never hear what's done: the Father uttering the Word made Flesh and the Word returning to the Father as the sacrifice for our redemption.' 'Yes, Reverend Mother, and even on the human side all recollection has become impossible.' 'Too true, my dear. The microphone cannot carry our adoration and gratitude, the emptying of our being in front of the only Real Presence there is.' 'Cannot you do anything about it, Mother?' 'Nothing. I shall adore as I always have. But there will be an added note of gratitude: Jesus has allowed my heart to be broken at Mass just as His has pierced on the Cross.' And Reverend Mother said this perfectly calmly, without emotion. It was in Judith's eyes that the tears welled up.

Bryan Houghton, Judith's Marriage, 1987, pp. 135-136.

In the course of history, some forty Popes have at one time or another been expelled from Rome—nine times by Roman factions, seven times by foreign invaders. Six times the city of Rome has been held to ransom by usurpers. Twice it has been nearly destroyed. Once, it was so utterly desolate that for fifty days nothing human breathed in it, and no cry was heard but that of the foxes on the Aventine. Warfare, suffering, exile—that has been the lot of many Popes. Yet with imperishable vitality and invincible power they persist, they remain.… — Cardinal Henry Manning

From Across the Pond, entry for Anthony Richard Ewart Rhodes.

I remember that when I was studying in one country the clinics that did abortions then prepared everything to send it to cosmetic factories. Makeup made with the blood of innocents. And this was something to brag about, because it was progressive: the rights of the woman, the woman has the right over her body.

Pope Francis

Catholics have something which gives them brighter more shining eyes than other people.

Philip Trower, Why I Became a Catholic.

Dunston Thompson, quoted in From American Converts

It is only, I think, in the light of the suffering of the Son of God that we can look without dismay at the wounded man in his private world of pain.… The world in which all things are hard: man cannot explain them by word, where all is vanity and vexation of spirit, and the perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite; this same world in which hopes are stillborn and good causes are brought to nothing, so full of wastelands and crosses, is, if the Christian revelation be true, a cross on which God has stretched his arms, making a tree of life.

Russell Kirk, quoted in From American Converts

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