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Sunday, January 07, 2007

WHEN THE CARDS COME TUMBLING DOWN!

An Archbishop just resigned, as his conscience dictated to him! I guess that Oscar Wilde did not consider the religious standpoint when he declared, 'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it'. This is the rather embarrassing tale:

[Warsaw archbishop resigns over secret police connection

Last Updated: Sunday, January 7, 2007 | 10:04 AM ET
CBC News

The newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw resigned on Sunday, less than an hour before his scheduled installation, after admitting he had co-operated with Poland's communist-era secret police.

Stanislaw Wielgus announced his decision at Warsaw's St. John's Cathedral, packed with worshippers gathered for a mass that was to have marked his formal installation. The congregation included President Lech Kaczynski.

Though some in the congregation, including Kaczynski, applauded the announcement, others shouted that Wielgus was welcome to stay.

In his resignation letter to Pope Benedict XVI, he said his past actions had "gravely compromised his authority" in the Roman Catholic homeland of the late Pope John Paul II.

The admission that he collaborated with the former communist regime, which ended in 1989, is a major embarrassment for the Vatican and the powerful Polish Catholic Church.

His resignation reportedly came at the request of Pope Benedict, who appointed him just a month ago.

Wielgus, 67, is believed to have informed on fellow clerics for around 20 years, from the late 1960s, according to allegations raised in a Dec. 20 article by the weekly Gazeta Polska newspaper.

He initially denied any collaboration, but the scandal widened when church officials on Friday said that documents at a historical institute showed Wielgus had willingly co-operated with the secret services, and the Polish media intensified calls for his resignation.

Wielgus has since issued statements acknowledging that he signed an agreement in 1978 promising to co-operate with the security force in exchange for permission to leave Poland to study in West Germany.

However, he stressed that he did not inform on anyone or try to hurt anyone, and he expressed remorse for both his contacts with the secret police and his failure to be forthcoming from the beginning.

With files from the Associated Press ]


SOURCE: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/01/07/wielgus-resignation.html

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Greenville, Rhode Island bakery owned by the Cavanagh family, which uses the plant to produce church communion bread from just water and bread. That business is known to produce about 850 million sacramental wafers annually and to supply 80% of the Holy Communion bread used in American, Australian, Canadian, and British churches. The only middlemen in the supply chain are nuns living in convents! Now they want to expand to West Africa with their Christian sacramental ware for Pentecostal, Catholic, 'New Wave', and Orthodox church offerings. I make reference to the so-called New Wave churches - my term for those churches that broke away from the orthodoxy of the Protestant fold, just as the latter roke off from the Catholic church by virtue of the exploits of Martin Luther centuries ago. Many new-wave and other church goers in the generally undeveloped West African subregion of Africa pay more to religious organizations in monthly tithes and offerings than they do to their government in personal income and value added taxes. Now, that last fact is quite interesting because it is an admission that a bakery in Rhode Island has seen a huge market in the center of Black Africa for small white perfectly laminated and non-crumbly holy wheat bread, reportedly costing "less than a penny" apiece, for the use of both the bible-reading and the bible-believing religious organizations. However, the picture from the Cavanagh's factory floor speaks volumes, in my own opinion, about the need for the company to watch its business ethics and to treat all customers equally irrespective of location, creed, or other discriminatory demographic information or criteria. So, I just hope and pray that the wafers falling off the conveyor belt and by the way side are not destined for West Africa and that the actual wafers delivered will be wheat bread and water, and not just glutamate-free bread and 'pure' water, if you get my point, even if so requested by some shady, greedy, and unethical businessmen over in West Africa. Posted by Okonkwo O. Awa on Sunday, December 28, 2008.

In the summer of 2007, Pope Benedict XVI (BXVI) encouraged The Church to reach out to young people using new technologies, as he himself learned to send out cellphone text messages to the faithful. So in obedience, a tech savvy evangelizing Catholic priest got some help from a Web designer in order to write all the daily books of prayers into a low-cost computer software application downloadable onto the iPhone. Rev. Paolo Padrini's iTunes prayer book was officially approved by The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications in December 2008. Of course, all proceeds from the electronic prayer book venture will go to charity. Speaking of charitable behavior, The Holy See has seen it fit after 400 years to honor Galileo Galilei in 2009 as the "patron" of the non-mutual exclusivity of the faith versus reason dichotomy. That is very appropriate in this age of new technology, even though The Church still smarts from its error of judgment in calling the famous astronomer a heretic after he publicly embarrassed The Church by reporting that his scientific observations in Astronomy with his unique telescope had led him inexorably to believe that the Earth actually revolved around the sun, in direct opposition to the teaching of The Church at the time that Planet Earth was the center of the universe. In seeking to paint the Church in a new light of worldly knowledge by distancing itself from a past of imbibing pure dogma, The Vatican may have ventured to cross the final frontier and boundary between Science and Christianity by acknowledging recently that there could be life on planets other than the Earth! Posted by O. O. Awa on Wednesday, December 24, 2008.
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