Vox Populi

http://www.pewsitter.com/view_news_id_197741.php

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https://anticattocomunismo.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/intervista-a-david-domet-il-blogger-di-vox-cantoris-che-si-e-opposto-a-padre-rosica/

http://southernorderspage.blogspot.ca/2015/03/when-laity-shall-lead-clergy-and-name.html

https://sacerdotus.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/fr-rosica-sues-blogger-vox-cantoris/

http://catholicsacristan.blogspot.ca/2015/03/fr-rosica-withdraws-threat-of-legal.html

http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.ca/2015/03/fr-rosica-backs-down-he-was-only.html

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http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/06/vatican-spokesman-backs-off-lawsuit-against-catholic-blogger/

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http://www.lisagraas.com/?p=573

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http://edinburghhousewife.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/jeremiads.html

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Dawg+licks+wounds+Court+rules+that+defamation+Ottawa+blogger/10858397/story.html

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http://kwtraditionalcatholic.blogspot.ca/2015/03/i-did-not-threaten-to-sue-that-blogger.html

http://www.catholic-legate.com/fr-rosica-withdraws-his-legal-action-against-vox-cantoris/

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.ca/2015/03/vatican-official-retreats-on-lawsuit.html

http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/03/05/rosica-retreats/#more-58170

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2015/03/fr-rosica-it-was-never-my-intention-to-sue/

http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/03/04/priest-who-does-vatican-pr-says-he-wont-sue-conservative-blogger/

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http://gazetawarszawska.com/antykosciol/1173-zydowskiej-opetanie-na-watykanie

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http://marklambert.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/fr-thomas-rosica-can-doctrine-change.html?m=1

http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.ca/2015/02/the-church-sends-us-into-desert-that.html?m=1 

http://lesfemmes-thetruth.blogspot.ca/2015/02/colleague-of-fr-rosica-tweets-cardinal.html?m=1

http://brotherlapin.com/2015/02/23/open-letter-to-bishop-athanasius-schneider/

http://consolamini.org/2015/02/23/fr-rosica-and-fear-of-the-truth/

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http://www.geistbraus.de/2015/02/sue-me-father-rosica/

http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2015/02/22/a-voice-from-the-chorus/

http://thetheologyofdad.blogspot.ca/2015/02/priest-dont-teach-sue.html

http://pblosser.blogspot.ca/2015/02/fr-rosica-brings-lawsuit-against.html

http://pblosser.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/fr-rosicas-spokesman-tweets-advice-to.html

http://kavlaanderen.blogspot.be/2015/02/vox-cantoris-is-not-alone.html

http://kreuzknappe.blogspot.de/2015/02/aufregung-in-bloggerkreisen-geht-der.html

http://derkatholikunddiewelt.blogspot.de/2015/02/kanadischer-blogger-wird-von.html

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/otoole/150222

http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.ca/2015/02/making-mess-and-medicinal-rebuke.html?m=0

http://www.gloria.tv/media/cJxwtiqzg6b

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3260234/posts?page=1

http://ecclesandbosco.blogspot.no/2015/02/dont-forget-to-say-your-rosica.html?m=1

http://hector1088.blogspot.ca/2015/02/a-quick-note-of-support-for-vox-cantoris.html

https://catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/fellow-blogger-vox-cantoris-threatened-with-lawsuit-by-vatican-official-fr-thomas-rosica-csb/

http://catholicvs.blogspot.fr/2015/02/nuevo-escandalo-portavoz-de-la-santa.html

http://brotherlapin.com/2015/02/22/first-sunday-in-lent-is-now-renamed-litigation-sunday/

http://marklambert.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/high-profile-priest-sues-blogger-over.html?utm_content=buffer59178&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2015/02/Silencing-Conservatives.html

http://www.lepantoinstitute.org/uncategorized/fr-rosicas-ironic-lawsuit/

http://lasalettejourney.blogspot.ca/2015/02/making-mess-and-medicinal-rebuke.html

http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/02/21/vox-cantoris-is-not-alone/

http://heresy-hunter.blogspot.ca/2015/02/rosica-v-vox.html

http://www.wopular.com/comment/reply/29712047

http://www.novusordowatch.org/wire/blog-of-war-rosica-domet.htm

http://thyselfolord.blogspot.ca/2015/02/porta-vox-do-vaticano-processa-blogger.html

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http://throwthebumsoutin2010.blogspot.ca/2015/02/pope-francis-spokesperson-fr-rosica.html

http://pewsitter.com/view_news_id_196707.php

http://thyselfolord.blogspot.ca/2015/02/porta-vox-do-vaticano-processa-blogger.html

http://theradicalcatholic.blogspot.ca/2015/02/fr-thomas-rosica-threatens-catholic.html

http://edinburghhousewife.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/davids-trouble.html

http://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/tag/fr-thomas-rosica/

http://kreuzknappe.blogspot.de/2015/02/aufregung-in-bloggerkreisen-geht-der.html

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http://www.katholieknieuwsblad.nl/nieuws/7026-woordvoerder-vaticaan-dreigt-blogger-met-advocaat

http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/02/20/patheos-crickets-chirp/

http://www.sacerdotus.com/2015/02/fr-rosica-sues-blogger-vox-cantoris.html

http://kavlaanderen.blogspot.be/2015/02/de-canadese-fr-thomas-rosica-van-het.html

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/20/vatican-spokesman-threatens-to-sue-catholic-blogger/

http://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.ca/2015/02/wheres-humility-mercy-and-forgiveness.html 

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/father-rosica-tries-to-silence-a-canadian-blogger/
  
http://www.fightingirishthomas.com/2015/02/voris-vox-cantoris-and-vatican-suit-for.html?spref=tw

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/self-castration-to-spite-the-wife-reflections-on-father-rosica-and-the-blogosphere-m/

https://sacerdotus.wordpress.com/tag/vox-cantoris/

http://catholicanuck.blogspot.ca/2015/02/this-little-bit-of-weirdness-crossed-my.html

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?

http://www.gloria.tv/media/Qp2hCDB9hNB

http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.ca/2015/02/more-on-father-rosica-spouting.html

http://trilobitedisidente.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/miserere-mei-deus-allegri-kings-college.html

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.ca/2015/02/vatican-suing-bloggers.html

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/pray-for-david-domet-vox-cantoris/

http://www.lepantoinstitute.org/uncategorized/fr-rosicas-ironic-lawsuit/

http://trilobitedisidente.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/miserere-mei-deus-allegri-kings-college.html

https://exmagnasilentium.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/vox-cantoris-is-right-about-father-rosica-fathers-take-on-the-temptation-of-jesus/

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/rosicagate-look-at-the-waves/

https://exmagnasilentium.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/vatican-spokesman-father-rosica-threatens-to-sue-vox-cantoris-blog/

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/tag/father-rosica/

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http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.ca/2015/02/more-on-father-rosica-spouting.html

http://theradicalcatholic.blogspot.ca/2015/02/fr-thomas-rosica-threatens-catholic.html

http://trilobitedisidente.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/miserere-mei-deus-allegri-kings-college.html

http://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/blogging/vatican-priest-threatens-to-sue-catholic-blogger/

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http://www.canadiancatechist.com/?p=556

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http://wdtprs.com/blog/tag/vox-cantoris/

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http://www.canadiancatechist.com/?p=556

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http://eponymousflower.blogspot.ca/2015/02/vatican-suing-bloggers.html

https://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/vatican-spokesman-fr-tom-rosica-calls-cardinal-burke-a-dissenter/

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http://pblosser.blogspot.ca/2015/02/fr-rosica-brings-lawsuit-against.html

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https://sarmaticusblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/t-224-a-grand-ole-time-had-by-all/

http://restore-dc-catholicism.blogspot.ca/2015/02/more-on-father-rosica-spouting.html

https://mundabor.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/rosicagate-comedy-gold-and-even-more-nonsense-from-the-mouth-of-the-man-himself/

http://theradicalcatholic.blogspot.ca/2015/02/fr-thomas-rosica-threatens-catholic.html

http://everydayforlifecanada.blogspot.ca/2015/02/careful-what-you-say-about-clergy-you.html

http://jonahintheheartofnineveh.blogspot.ca/2015/02/vatican-spokesman-fr-thomas-rosica.html

http://canadiancatholicbloggers.blogspot.ca/2015/02/editorial.html

http://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/blogging/vatican-priest-threatens-to-sue-catholic-blogger/

http://the-american-catholic.com/2015/02/19/sue-em/ 

https://exmagnasilentium.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/vatican-spokesman-father-rosica-threatens-to-sue-vox-cantoris-blog/

http://kwtraditionalcatholic.blogspot.ca/2015/02/really-rev-rosica.html 

YOUR BLOGGER VOX CANTORIS IS THREATENED WITH A LAWSUIT BY VATICAN OFFICIAL AND PAPAL ADVISER - FATHER THOMAS ROSICA, CSB

On Shrove Tuesday, February 17, 2015, I received a letter from Nina Perfetto, a Litigation Solicitor with one of Toronto's most expensive law firms, Fogler Rubinoff. The threat of a lawsuit was from Father Thomas J. Rosica, a Basilian priest, Executive Producer of Salt + Light Television, Consultor to the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, English-language Synod spokesman for the Holy See and member of various academic institutional Boards.

A few weeks later, after incredible international pressure and bad publicity, intervention by Cardinals of the Holy Catholic Church, letters and other pressures, he dropped the lawsuit saying, "it was never intended" and that the lawyer was working "pro-bono."

This post shall remain through this front page link permanently as a matter of public record.

The rest of this story can be read at the following links:

My thanks to Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke and Bishop Athanasius Schneider.
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/thank-you-your-eminence-and-your.html

My thanks to Michael Voris
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/success-has-many-fathers-and-michael.html

Father Rosica's statement
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/03/father-thomas-j-rosica-csb-on-threat-of.html

Support and commentary from other blogs and media
http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/2015/02/vox-populi.html

Entire file:

http://voxcantor.blogspot.ca/search/label/Rosicagate

Letter from Fogler Rubinoff, Barristers & Solicitors (online at ChurchMiliant.com)

Let us pray for one another and our suffering brethren

As our Lent begins, let us dedicate ourselves to praying for one another and for the suffering of our Christian brothers and sisters who suffer at this time.

May we carry the crosses of daily life with patience and joy. For those crosses which we have that are bearing us down, may we be granted the grace to bear it. For those who suffer illness and sorrow let us bear them in mind.

For all of these let us be united and offer up to the Father in the name of Our Blessed Lord Jesus Christ for His glorious use.

May we beg for mercy for our grievous sins that have offended our good God.

God bless you all and let us pray for one another.

Vox, Fox and Rox

Father Tom Rosica: Are you calling Cardinal Burke, a "dissenter?"

Father Tom Rosica is a spokesman for the Vatican. One would presume that someone in such an important and sensitive and influential position would be prudent with his personal opinions and the use of social media. It leaves one to ask an honest question; Is this his own opinion? Is it that of Father Lombardi's and the Office of Social Communication? Is it the Holy Father's? 

In the post one below, I wrote that if one sends a "Re-Tweet" it would imply that one would agree with the original.

Cardinal Wuerl is interviewed by Andrea Tornielli in Vatican Insider. While Wuerl does not single out Cardinal Burke directly he does allude to "an interview" and "an article." It seems to have left no doubt in Tornielli; mind since he lead with a headline linking Cardinal Burke within "dissenters." This no doubt refers to a recent interview with Cardinal Burke where he stated that he would "resist" hypothetically an attempt by the pope to change the law on Holy Communion for the divorced and remarried without an annulment.

How disingenuous is it of Cardinal Wuerl to suggest that Cardinal Burke is a dissenter, which would include your writer and probably you as well. There was a time when the word meant someone that dissented from the truth of the faith. Now it seems to mean that it is someone who upholds it.

Father Rosica "Tweeted" the article with the headline "Cardinal Wuerl's response to Cardinal Burke (and dissenters)" and a link to the article. His followers cannot be faulted if they just read the headline and take up the believe that Cardinal Burke is one bad guy, after all, he is a "dissenter."

It seems to it is time for Father Lombardi to make a decision as to whether this Vatican employee needs to be either reigned in on social media or sent packing to preside over the winding down of Salt + Light.

Nota Bene: My colleague Barona at Toronto Catholic Witness and I are resolute. We will not fail in our countering of the assault on the faith and tradition that these men continue to undertake against Holy Mother Church and the Catholic faithful.

Make no mistake Wuerl, Marx, Madriaga, Kasper and Rosica, we will not rest.

Please pray for us.

Really Father Rosica?

Does Father Tom Rosica support Holy Communion for the civilly divorced and remarried without benefit of a Decree of Nullity in accord with Canon Law and the Holy Scriptures?

I mean, if you "Re-Tweet" something, that would generally mean that you agree with it, right?

Please Father Tom, tell us what you really think? (P.S. you barred Vox from your Twitter, not my dog!)

We report. You decide.

NOTA BENE: See also, "Does Father Rosica think that Cardinal Burke is a "dissenter?"

Ya Yassou'a

This is a still from the video put out by the Islamic butchers who did this in the name of the false prophet and antichrist Mahomet. Note the translation: "The people of the cross, the followers of the hostile Egyptian Church." That's rich. The Coptic Church was founded by St. Mark the Evangelist. Egypt was Christian before Rome!

A contact in Syria watched the whole video.

It will comfort you to know that as they were being slaughered they could be heard praying the Lords Prayer and shouting out "Ya  Yassou'a" -- Oh Jesus!

Pope Francis has issued a statement:

Speaking in Spanish to an ecumenical delegation from the Church of Scotland, the Holy Father noted those killed only said “Jesus help me.”

“They were murdered just for the fact they were Christians,” Pope Francis said.

“The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out,” said the Pope.  “If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important: They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.''

Pope Francis said that in remembering “these brothers who have been killed simply for confessing Christ,” Christians should encourage one another in the ecumenical goal, noting the “ecumenism of blood.”

“The martyrs are from all the Christians,” he said.

There names are now written in the Book.

They are:

1- Samuel Ilham Wilson

2- Izzat Boshry Nassif

3- Luqa Nagati

4- Issam Badar Samir

5- Malak Farag Ibrahim

6- Sameh Salah Farouq Manqrowis

7- Gaber Munir Adli

8- Maged Slaiman Shihata

9- Abanub Ayad Attiya

10- Youssef Shokry Younan

11- Hany Abdel Massih Salib

12- Kerollos Boshry Fawzy

13- Milad Makin Zaki

14- Makram Youssef Tawadros

15- Samuel Estefanos Kamel

16- Bishoy Estefanos Kamel

17- Mina Fayez Aziz

18- Malak Ibrahim Tanyut

19- Guirguis Milad Tanyut

20- Bishoy Adel

21- An African Christian brother

Source: Maspero Youth Union

Preach to all Our Lord Jesus Christ and Him Crucified

Courtesy of Traditional Catholic Priest, this is something we should all reflect on.

A sculpture of Our Lord Jesus Christ based upon the image on the Shroud of Turin.

"All you who pass this way, look and see if there be any sorrow like unto His sorrow!"

Pope's Persecutor of FF guilty of defamation! Will the Pope correct the injustice?

BREAKING at RORATE: Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate Commissioner Volpi admits guilt of defamation and lies

Must pay 20,000 euros, make public apology

Will Pope Francis allow what's left of the FFI to survive?

The chickens have come home to roost for Pope Francis' Apostolic Commissioner of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (FFI), Fr. Fidenzio Volpi, and possibly just in the nick of time. 

Volpi meets Pope Francis the day the FI seminary was closed.

Rorate Caeli contributor Francesca Romana has translated the first report from Chiesa e post concilio reporting that Fr. Volpi will pay the family of Franciscans of the Immaculate founder Fr. Manelli a large cash sum for his "defamation and lies" and make public apologies on all websites he runs and in a letter to all FI friars and nuns. 

For regular readers of this blog, you know that Fr. Volpi was brought in for just one reason: to crush one of the fastest-growing, traditional-minded religious orders in the world -- but not on his own: as he admitted in the past, he was "specifically ordered by the Vicar of Christ," Pope Francis to carry out his mission.

Our questions now are simple:

Will Pope Francis now finally rein this man in and force his boot of the throat of an order that only wants to serve God as the saints have all served Him for two millennia?

And will Pope Francis finally end this unjust commissioning and allow the poor friars who have had to flee the grip of this cruel man to return to their sworn vows and live out the remainder of their vocations in peace? We pray to hear in the affirmative soon. 

From Italian blog Chiesa e post concilio:

Is this a fruit of the Rosaries and fervent prayers at Santa Maria Maggiore?

For the moment the only source is Don Camillo (a priest blogger) whom I know is close to the Manelli family; for this reason I trust the source and thank him for the information. Original text [click] here. 

Is the justice of men more efficient than ecclesiastical justice - of the new-church that is - which seems to have just discovered Mercy only today?

I’m wondering though, why Don Camillo can attribute what happened, to Benedict XVI, seeing that the Decree of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, wherein the Commissioning of the Franciscans of the Immaculate is laid out, with the subsequent destitution of the Founder and General Minster of the religious Institute (and its Council),  is  dated 11th July 2013.

The Decree, signed by the Cardinal Prefect, João Braz de Aviz and by the Archbishop Secretary, José Carballo, OFM, deprived the Superiors of the Franciscans of the Immaculate of any authority, entrusting the government of the Institute to an "Apostolic Commissioner”, Father Fidenzio Volpi, a Capuchin. A decree, what’s more, that doesn’t mention any misdeed, nor acts expressly and directly against the good of the Religious  Institute.  And with no reference to any question or motivation that regard properly faith, morals or discipline.

And it was confirmed in writing by Pope Francis, which made any recourse to appeal not possible.

I have never involved myself too much regarding the situation of the Franciscans of the Immaculate, but a sentence emitted by the  Mediation Organism (Organismo di Mediazione forense) of the Roman Tribunal on the 12th of February is just too juicy!

The Facts:

On December 8th 2013, Father Fidenzio Volpi wrote in a letter:

“A thing which is extremely grave – and  I bring to your official knowledge only now – was the transfer of assets of moveable goods and immovable real estate, belonging to the Institute, to lay people, known as spiritual sons (or daughters) and family members of the Founder, Father Stefano M. Manelli, and also to some parents of the nuns.” Father Volpi continues: “Such maneuvers, gravely illicit from a moral and canonical point of view, with repercussions in the civil and penal sphere, occurred after the nomination of the Apostolic Commissioner, thus manifesting the will to subtract such funds from the control of the Holy See.” The Commissioner tries to conceal the measures regarding it: “Those who have done or permitted all of this have fallen into grave fault, and, if a religious,  are subject to severe canonical sanctions. Something similar has taken place also in the works of the apostolate: the publishing house, and television.”

[…] Well then, for these lies Father Volpi,  [after] negotiating with the entire Manelli Family, whose honour was damaged, and consequently having admitted his crime of defamation and lies on February 12th 2015, as fair compensation, will have to pay 20,000 Euros to the Manelli Family, plus all legal expenses, the publication of a public apology on internet sites run by him, as well as circular letters to all of the friars and nuns.  

Justice has been done!