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Marycast #126 ( 10min) Play – On March 25th, 2010, Feast of the Annunciation, a Day of Dialogue will be held in Rome on the timeliness of a papal declaration of the 5th Marian Dogma, Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate. The event will be sponsored and moderated by the Vatican Forum of Inside the Vatican magazine and and St. Thomas More College.  It will include discussions from an international group of several major Marian theologians, bishops and cardinals.

Dr. Miravalle addresses the many reasons why it is an appropriate time to proclaim the dogma and addresses  some objections. He also asks us to pray for the success of this historic event.

ZENIT – Is the Time Ripe for a 5th Marian Dogma?.

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Marycast #114 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle discusses the term Co-redemptrix and why it was not used explicitly in the Second Vatican Council 1962-’65 and answers the objection that the non use of this term by the Council invalidates it.

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Marycast #105 ( 10min) Play – Concluding the theme of controversies during the Second Vatican Council as chronicled in the book , The Rhine Flows into the Tiber by Rev. Ralph Wiltgen, Dr. Miravalle discusses how a certain Bishop Karol Wojtyla (the future Pope John Paul II) argued against Fr. Karl Rahner, S.J. who wanted to minimalize Mary by hiding the council’s Marian teaching  in Lumen Gentium, a document about the Church. Although the final vote of where the section would be placed was narrowly in favor of Rahner and the Rhineland theologians, the content in the section was very pro Mary.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #104 ( 10min) Play – Continuing on the theme of controversies during the Second Vatican Council, as chronicled in the book The Rhine Flows into the Tiber by Rev. Ralph Wiltgen, Dr. Miravalle discusses how fortunate it was that the suggestions of Fr. Karl Rahner, S.J. were not fully followed.

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Marycast #103 ( 11min) Play – Continuing on the theme of controversies during the Second Vatican Council Dr. Miravalle discusses the Council debate of whether or not to put the section on Mary in a separate document or included it in the document on the Church, Lumen Gentium. Referring to the book , The Rhine Flows into the Tiber by Rev. Ralph Wiltgen, he demonstrates that this involved a rather dubious attempt by Karl Rahner and other Rhineland theologians to water down the strength of the pro-marian teachings of the Council.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #102 ( 10min) Play – In this episode within the sub-series on the Second Vatican Council, Dr. Mark Miravalle covers some of the controversies that surrounded some of the Marian doctrinal and devotional issues at the time of the Council.  He discusses the book on this subject, The Rhine Flows into the Tiber by Rev. Ralph Wiltgen. He points out that we need to focus on Mary’s relation to Christ to understand her exalted relation to the Church.

To ask questions regarding Mary, email Dr Mark Miravalle: marycast@airmaria.com

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Marycast #101 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle continues with his discourse on the Second Vatican Council’s teaching on Mary. Here he covers Lumen Gentium 66-68 on the two extremes of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, of attributing divinity to Mary or, on the other extreme, not acknowledging her prerogatives, especially in regard to accepting her as our mother.

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Marycast #100 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle explains how the Second Vatican Council calls Mary the model of the Church in that she is both a virgin and a mother referring to the Church’s need to be totally commitment to Christ and how the Church should be fruitful in giving birth to new brothers of Church. Also, he explains how it is the other way around, the Church is a type of Mary.

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Marycast #99 ( 10min) Play – Dr. Mark Miravalle  explains how Our Lady is described as Mediatrix of all Graces referring to Lumen Gentium 61 & 62. She is Mediatrix because she is Coredeemer when she suffered at the foot of the Cross of Christ her Son.

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Ave Maria! Found this on Gloria.tv from our Mass in the Lateran Basilica on April 16, 2009, 800th anniversary of the approbation of the Rule of St Francis which took place at … this very basilica. Enjoy!

Highlights from the Solemn High Mass according to the Extraordinary Form, celebrated in Saint John Lateran Basilica, by the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Immaculate. All sacred music sung by the Friars and Sisters (Polyphony and Gregorian Chant) This is the first time that the traditional Mass has been celebrated in the pope’s chair since Vatican II. Quite a magnificent sight to behold! Video from Gloria TV

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Marycast #73 ( 10min) Play – In this episode, Dr. Miravalle discusses what the Church means when She declares that a certain apparition or private revelation is “approved,” and worthy of belief, or “condemned”.  Who in the Church discerns the authenticity of an apparition?  What crucial role does the local bishop play in the process?  Listen as Dr. Miravalle concludes this important and fascinating short series.

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Pope St. Pius X

Feast day is August 21st

Pope St. Pius X was born as Giuseppe Sarto to a poor family in 1835. He was ordained to the holy priesthood in 1858 was elected Pope in 1903. One biography says this on his pontificate: He lowered the age of First Communion to the age of 7 and encouraged frequent, even daily Communion. He reformed the liturgy, promoted clear and simple homilies, and brought Gregorian chant back to services. He revised the Breviary, and the teaching of the Catechism. He fought Modernism, which he denounced as “the summation of all heresies”. He reorganized the Roman curia and initiated the codification of canon law. He promoted the reading of Sacred Scripture and the foreign missions. His will read: “I was born poor; I lived poor; I wish to die poor.” He died in August of 1914.  He is known as the Pope of the Blessed Sacrament and also as the Pope who suppressed modernism and that suppression lasted for decades until  it roared again to life in the turbulent times following the second Vatican Council.

His great encyclical addressing and condemning modernism can be found at

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius10/p10pasce.htm

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PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE MODERNISTS ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS X, SEPTEMBER 8, 1907

VENERABLE BRETHREN, HEALTH AND THE APOSTOLIC BLESSING:

1. One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord’s flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith delivered to the saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so called. There has never been a time when this watchfulness of the supreme pastor was not necessary to the Catholic body, for owing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race, there have never been lacking men speaking perverse things, vain talkers and seducers,erring and driving into error.

It must, however, be confessed that these latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most sacred duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our office.

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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Instruction “Dignitas personæ“

on some bioethical questions

Introduction

1. The dignity of a person must be recognized in every human being from conception to natural death. This fundamental principle expresses a great “yes” to human life and must be at the center of ethical reflection on biomedical research, which has an ever greater importance in today’s world. The Church’s Magisterium has frequently intervened to clarify and resolve moral questions in this area. The Instruction Donum vitae was particularly significant. And now, twenty years after its publication, it is appropriate to bring it up to date.

The teaching of Donum vitae remains completely valid, both with regard to the principles on which it is based and the moral evaluations which it expresses. However, new biomedical technologies which have been introduced in the critical area of human life and the family have given rise to further questions, in particular in the field of research on human embryos, the use of stem cells for therapeutic purposes, as well as in other areas of experimental medicine. These new questions require answers.

http://www.usccb.org/comm/Dignitaspersonae/Dignitas_Personae.pdf

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Homily #081130 ( 12min) Play – On this first Sunday of Advent, Fr. Ignatius preaches on the need to look back on the past year and then make resolutions to achieve new levels of holiness for this new liturgical year, knowing that the world, the flesh and the Devil is warring against us. To highlight this, he mentions the comments carelessly made to an Inside the Vatican reporter by Hollywood representatives.
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Standing Fast #15 – Templar Baloney(08min) >>> Play	?
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Fr. Angelo Mary Geiger returns to his regular postings of Standing Fast after a small hiatus due to numerous other commitments such as the Fall Encampment and Doug Barry Boot Camp at the friary in CT, the Coredemption Conference in Indiana, and getting involved in the fray over the Plan B controversy in CT.

The inspiration for this entry is a post he made on MaryVictrix. The popular notion of the Knights Templar is imbued with the mystique of hidden secrets and grand conspiracy. And while the Vatican has released a document that pretty much absolve the order of the many accusations made against them, modern conspiracy theorists still hang on to their pet fantasies. The real virtues of the Knights Templar are far more simple, and much more profound.

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