St. Louis Review expands coverage of Consistory

The Archdiocese of St. Louis, and it's official publication, the St. Louis Review, have begun their comprehensive coverage of this year's Consistory of Cardinals, during which Cardinal-designates Burke and Wuerl (Archbishop-emeritus of St. Louis and Archbishop of Washington, respectively) will become Cardinals.
Check out the St. Louis Review's coverage of the Consistory, which also includes a ton of background information, such as the following articles, slideshows, and galleries:

• Crowning Glory in Red
• St. Louis Cardinals: Leaving a Legacy
• College of Cardinals: Committed to the Faith
• Cardinal-designate Burke's Biography

HT Saint Louis Catholic

Nice work Jeff!

Shrine hosting Celebration Feast with Cardinal Burke

CELEBRATE WITH OUR NEW CARDINAL!
Celebration Feast
December 8, 2010
Cocktails: 5:30 PM
Dinner: 6:00 PM
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TO RESERVE A SEAT
Call 608-782-5440 and state that you are interested in the Cardinal’s Dinner.
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Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke's friends are not surprised by elevation

MADISON -- His friends in the Diocese of Madison were not surprised to hear that Pope Benedict XVI is elevating Archbishop Raymond L. Burke to the status of cardinal on November 20.

They knew he was destined for great things in the Church.

He stood out

Father Smith recalls that Cardinal-designate Burke stood out even as a freshman in high school in 1962. He said, “Seminarian Raymond Burke had the audacity to stand up before an entire house meeting and complain about the Riki Tiki Laundry — the student-run laundry at Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse. Even then I should have known that he would never be afraid and never be deterred from speaking his mind about issues.”

Even as a grade school student, Cardinal-designate Burke knew that he wanted to be a priest. But Father Smith said he never aspired to the hierarchy.

“He once told me that his happiest days were when he was the associate pastor at the Cathedral Parish in La Crosse and teaching at Aquinas High School. And he also told me that anyone who wanted to be a bishop was stupid!”

Devotion to Mary

Monsignor Oehrlein is very impressed with the wide range of reading the cardinal-designate does, as well as his devotion to Mary, the mother of God.

When he was bishop of La Crosse, Bishop Burke drove Monsignor Oehrlein up to a peak in the La Crosse bluffs. “He said he would build a church dedicated to Mary.”
That was a foreshadowing of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which Bishop Burke built there.

Catholic education

Monsignor Oehrlein is also impressed by Cardinal-designate Burke’s great concern for Catholic education.

Archbishop Burke is proud of his own Catholic education. He was born in 1948 in Richland Center, Wis. After his father died, 11-year-old Raymond moved with his mother and five siblings to Stratford, Wis., a village of about 1,600 people located 11 miles northeast of Marshfield.

The Burkes became members of St. Joseph Parish in Stratford and the children attended St. Joseph School.

“It’s astonishing that of all the bishops around the world, someone, a student from St. Joe’s School and from the Diocese of La Crosse, is a designate to be a cardinal,” St. Joseph School’s current principal, Debbie Johnston, told the Catholic Times, newspaper of the Diocese of La Crosse.

“It is kind of heart-warming to think that he still refers to Stratford as his home base,” she said.

There have been signs on the Stratford city limits saying, “Home of Archbishop Raymond Burke.” Those signs will soon be changed to “Home of Cardinal Raymond Burke.”

Read the whole thing at Madison Catholic Herald

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A liberal's take on "Ray" getting appointed to the College of Cardinals

As reported today in the La Crosse Tribune, former Bishop of La Crosse Raymond Burke has been named one of 24 new cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI. The move has been expected ever since Burke was named to his post in Rome, a post traditionally held by a cardinal.

Early one Sunday afternoon, a June in 1993, I think, Therese and I with our three little boys stayed after the second Mass at St. Pius X. We were asked to witness the private blessing of the marriage of a couple we met through our son Nicolaas.

You see, Nicolaas was “engaged” to Annalee Dahlheimer. They had met in kindergarten. So of course we had to meet her parents. One thing led to another.

Walking out of the diocesan center early that June afternoon, we discovered our minivan would not start because the battery had finally given up the ghost. Picture the five of us, out in the parking lot behind St. Pius, the only car in the lot, and AAA was not in our wallets. So Therese marched over to the bishop’s residence to ask for a jump start.

Ray appeared at the door in an undone collar. He was busy getting ready to speak at a commencement, he said, and edgy though his voice seemed, he agreed to bring his big black Pontiac out for a jump start. The van fired right up. I guess when the bishop gives you a jump start, you’re tapped into power on a bunch of levels.

When Archbishop Burke was named to his current post, a friend in St. Louis wrote to me, “Oh good, now we’ll only have to kiss his ring.” Okay. I don’t care how far he rises, or about his doctrinal strictness; for me, Ray Burke will always be a busy fellow who took time out of his plans to give our family a jump start.

Mary, Mother of the Church Parish website - La Crosse

Uhhhhh, nothing more to see here...  let's move along. 

Cardinal Burke recieving new priest's blessing

This photo is His Grace receiving the first blessing of Canon Aaron Huberfeld after his ordination in the presence of Monsignor Wach and Canon Lenhardt, among others.

Saint Louis Catholic

Congratulate Cardinal Burke online

As a cardinal, Archbishop Burke will not only be elevated as one of the princes of the Church, but will be placed among the ranks of those who could become our future pope.

Archbishop Burke deserves enthusiastic congratulations for this honor and needs our encouragement to continue to be a shining example of how a faithful bishop can boldly speak out and effectively lead in today’s world.

Please complete the form below. All the names and comments of those who wish to congratulate the archbishop will be personally delivered to him at his office in Rome.

CongratulateBurke.com

I can't even talk about the "P" word right now. 

Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, martyr, ora pro nobis!

Overall coverage of Archbishop Burke

Almost unbelievable.  Almost.

Our media had recently spent almost a year selling Thee Barack Obama as a historic election and that we should vote for him because it is historic and isn't this a historic time in history.

But now that we have a homegrown son of Wisconsin rising to the College of Cardinals and this is somehow controversial and *not* historic.

I would expect this from Lee Enteprises which runs:

Madison	Wisconsin State Journal
Beaver Dam	Daily Citizen
Baraboo	Baraboo News Republic
Portage	Portage Daily Register
Chippewa Falls	The Chippewa Herald
Racine	The Journal Times
La Crosse, WI	La Crosse Tribune
Winona, MN	Winona Daily News

This is a big corporate conglomerate, and has forsaken any sense of journalistic integrity in the name of profitability.  The uppers at Lee Enterprises now serve their own interests and agendas instead of the people's.

The only Wisconsin paper I read every day is the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and although they many times suck at religion reporting(as they did with the Burke story), at least they seem genuinely concerned about the news happening today.  They've had some very good in depth pieces.

A journalist certainly can be critical of the Church and her leaders if it's done ..... well when it's not politically motivated, when it's not manipulative, or when it's not completely ignorant. 

Several other papers in Wisconsin (Stevens Point, Green Bay, Oshkosh) actually ran the piece from the Wausau Herald I posted earlier.  Go figure, talk about the man growing up in Wisconsin, what a strange concept, who woulda ever thunk it?!?

Burke didn't get appointed to an abuse commission or spoke out about such and such a political thing that liberals don't like to hear, he was appointed to the College of Cardinals.  You may not like him, but it seems like a strange time to be critical since he didn't DO anything.  If he went golfing in Wisconsin they would write a piece about how controversial it was and how he probably cheated on his score.  Is there anything this man can do right?

Nice article on Burke in Wausau Daily Herald

The Rev. Raymond Burke in 1975

STRATFORD -- As an 8-year-old Richland Center farm boy, Raymond L. Burke was destined to enter the priesthood.

"Our mom bought him a cardboard altar because he was always playing priest," said Thomas Burke, his brother. "And I was his altar boy."

Thomas Burke, 64, of Edgar said people always ask him when his brother first decided to serve the Roman Catholic Church, but he never can give an answer.

"Being a priest has been in his heart since I can't remember," Thomas Burke said. "The Catholic faith has always been a huge part of our life, all of us. We're all strong believers. It's why we're really excited about him making cardinal."Archbishop Burke, who later was raised in Stratford as the youngest of six children, was selected Wednesday by Pope Benedict XVI to join the College of Cardinals -- the second-highest level in the Catholic leadership structure.

Continue at Wausau Daily Herald

Liberal Milwaukee priest reeling after Burke appointment

Fr Connell, SJ aka Grumpy Old Man

Tom Roberts(Fishwrap reporter) reprints something from a priest Milwaukee, Fr. James Connell, who threw a little nutty about Burke’s appointment calling it “unfortunate and disconcerting.”

The attack on soon-to-be-CARDINAL Burke has to do with the Dallas Charter.

The Milwaukee priest thinks Burke did something wrong regarding those provisions, that Burke disregarded the Church’s laws. Most people will simply scoff at that. I will go so far as to suggest that Archbp. Burke probably understood the parameters of the Dallas Charter and his own role as diocesan bishop pretty well.

Listecki's thinkin he needs to put his boot
on someones ass

The Milwaukee priest also thinks that Burke was unreasonable in requiring that people who make an accusation against a priest should have to offer proof.

Furthermore, the Milwaukee priest notes that the laws Burke set down for the Diocese of La Crosse way back when are still on the diocesan website today. We might point out that Burke hasn’t been bishop there for a long time now.

We might also point out that this Milwaukee priest is actually criticizing his own ordinary in Milwaukee. The present Archbishop of Milwaukee H.E. Most Rev. Jerome Listecki, was Burke’s successor in LaCrosse. Listecki chose to keep Burke’s norms. Thus, Fr. James Connell is also attacking Archbp. Listecki.

The priest in Milwaukee didn’t think this through very well before sending his attack on Burke to the NCR. NCR was nevertheless happy to use it to attack Archbp. Burke, thus instrumentalizing that priest in his naivete.

Story from National Catholic Fishwrap

Full post at WDTPRS 

You may remember that I posted on Fr. Connell's cowardly attack on Archbishops Burke and Listecki back in June.  Connell is a Liberal Jesuit and Vice-Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.  It must be getting lonely over there with Bishop Sklba now in retirement.  Just because Fr Connell disagrees with the Church's teaching on contraception(I'm just guessing, he is a Jesuit) he demonizes those who uphold the time tested Moral Law.  And instead of meeting with the archbishops to discuss the matter of abuse handling, he shamelessly headlines himself in dissident publications.  His grandstanding has made him counter-productive to his supposed cause.

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Consistory Pilgrimage sponsored by Diocese of La Crosse

November 16-23, 2010
November 18-24, 2010
Cost: estimated $2,500/person*

Itinerary
Pilgrims will have the option of choosing one of two itineraries.

The ITALY TOUR will depart on Tuesday, November 16 and arrive back on Tuesday, November 23, 2010.  The pilgrimage includes a brief overnight stay in Assisi; and a day trip to Genazzano.

The ROME TOUR will depart on Thursday, November 18 and arrive back on Wednesday, November 24, 2010.  This pilgrimage will be based in Rome and have scheduled leisure time.

*Room and Board
The estimated cost includes airfare, room and board.  However, those preferring single rooms will incur an extra cost.

Limited Availability
This pilgrimage is limited to the first 200 pilgrims who register with passport information and deposit.  At this time, we are still confirming details with Pentecost Tours.  Interested pilgrims will be notified when registration is available.

Contact
To receive notification of when registration is available, please contact Emily Dawson, Pilgrimage Coordinator at 608-791-2679 or edawson@dioceseoflacrosse.com

If anyone wants to sponsor sending the Badger Catholic (hey, I could do live blogging even), please let me know. ;-)  LOL!  Well I'm sure EWTN will broadcast this also for those of us playing at home.

Note to folks who want details of their event posted; please to not save something as an image and expect the word to get out.  Neither I or anyone else can copy the text and repost it.  I had to manually transcript what I see visually into a text document and paste that into the post.  Not only can no one search(via Google) to find the details(no search engine will do optical character recognition to do the work for you) but it is not handicap accessible to someone who is blind(or browsing on a cell phone).  It's the internet so don't handcuff important information to one file that cannot communicate to the outside world.

Full statement from Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke

I am deeply humbled and honored by the announcement that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI intends to name me to the College of Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church at the Consistory which he has convoked for this coming November 20th. Having received the news of the Holy Father’s intention, I express my deepest gratitude to His Holiness for the great confidence which he has placed in me, and I renew my commitment to serve Him, as Shepherd of the universal Church, in total fidelity and with all my being.

Considering the weighty responsibilities of the members of the College of Cardinals in assisting the Holy Father as his closest co-workers, even “to the shedding of blood,” I am more than ever conscious of my own weakness and of my total dependence upon the help of divine grace, in order that I may fulfill worthily and generously the responsibilities which will be mine, God willing, as a Cardinal of the Church.

I count upon the continued intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Communion of Saints, and the prayers of the many faithful whom I have been blessed to serve as priest and Bishop, especially in my home diocese, the Diocese of La Crosse, and in the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, and of those with whom I have been, in the past, and am now privileged to serve in the Roman Curia, especially my co-workers at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. Only the knowledge of God’s immeasurable and unceasing outpouring of mercy and love from the glorious pierced Heart of Jesus gives me the confidence to accept the great honor and burden which His Holiness intends to confer upon me.

Today’s announcement turns my thoughts with deepest affection and gratitude to my late parents and all my family, living and deceased; and to the priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful who have assisted me to know my vocation to the Holy Priesthood and to respond to it with an undivided heart over the more than thirty-five years of my priestly life and ministry. Today, with all my heart, I humbly thank God for the gifts of life, of the Catholic faith, and of my vocation.

At the same time, my thoughts naturally turn to the many challenges which the Church faces in our day in carrying out her divine mission for the salvation of the world. In particular, I am deeply conscious of the critical importance of the loving witness of the Church to the truth, revealed to us by God through both faith and reason, which alone is our salvation. It is a witness which Our Holy Father tirelessly gives with remarkable wisdom and courage. I pledge myself anew to assist Pope Benedict XVI in this critical witness and in the many works of his pastoral charity on behalf of all our brothers and sisters in the Church and in the world.

I ask for prayers that I may be able to assist our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the best of my ability and with every ounce of my strength. I, once again, place my whole heart, together with the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, into the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the glorious pierced Heart of Jesus, I am confident that I will find the purification, courage and strength which I will need to carry out the new responsibilities to be confided into my hands. I thank, in advance, all who will pray for me, and ask God to bless them abundantly.

(Most Rev.) Raymond L. Burke
Archbishop Emeritus of Saint Louis
Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
October 20, 2010

Diocese of St Louis

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Farm boy from Richland Center to become Cardinal Nov 20

As you may have heard, His Excellency Archbishop Raymond Burke was named as one of 24 newly appointed Cardinals(as expected).  He is not the first Wisconsinite to be named a Cardinal(thank you for the correction Rick!).

Rick's comment: Cardinal Alois Meunch of Fargo, North Dakota was born in Milwaukee. He spoke at Aquinas HS(La Crosse) in the 1930s. He was probably the first native Wisconsinite to be created cardinal in 1959 by Pope John XXIII. He was papal nuncio of Germany immediate after World War II. Milwaukee Archbishops Samuel Stritch and Albert Mayer were made cardinals when they were Archbishops of Chicago. Stritch was born in Tennessee. Mayer may had been from Milwaukee originally. BC: Mayer was born in Milwaukee to German immigrants.  

Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that he will elevate former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke to be a cardinal. The announcement was streamed live on the Vatican's website at a little after 5 a.m. St. Louis time.

Burke was one of 24 bishops named a so-called "prince of the church," and one of two Americans on the list. After the official ceremony - called a consistory - next month, Burke will be part of a small group of bishops who elect future popes. Twenty of the 24 new cardinals-elect will be able to vote for a new pope. At 62, Burke will be one of the world's youngest cardinals, with 18 voting years in his future before aging out of the conclave at 80.

Burke left St. Louis after a relatively short 4 1/2 year tenure. In 2008, Benedict appointed him prefect, or head, of the Vatican's apostolic signatura, often called its supreme court, though the pope allowed Burke to retain the title "St. Louis Archbishop emeritus."

The signatura is the highest judicial authority in the Catholic church, and Burke is the church's second-highest legal authority after the pope himself. Each of Burke's 18 predecessors who led the signatura over the last century were cardinals.

Benedict also named Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl a cardinal Wednesday. Other new cardinals willl come from Poland, Brazil and Congo, among other countries.

The pope named cardinals most recently three years ago. The ceremony, November 20, will be the third consistory Benedict has called since he was elected pope in 2005.

When Benedict appointed Burke to Rome in 2008, he allowed the archbishop to keep the title of St. Louis Archbishop emeritus. On Wednesday morning, the St. Louis archdiocese release a statement from Burke saying he was "deeply humbled and honored" to be named a cardinal.

"I pledge myself anew to assist Pope Benedict XVI in this critical witness and in the many works of his pastoral charity on behalf of all our brothers and sisters in the Church and in the world," Burke said in the statement. "I ask for prayers that I may be able to assist our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the best of my ability and with every ounce of my strength."
In a statement, St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson said the archdiocese was "very proud" that Burke has been named a cardinal.

"Cardinal-designate Burke's faithfulness and service to the Church have served the people of St. Louis well, and we proudly extend to him our congratulations, best wishes, and promise of prayerful support," Carlson said.

St Louis Today

Archbishop Burke: Public Repentance is Required for Pro-Abort Politicians

ROME, October 12, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Speaking at the Human Life International World Prayer Congress Saturday, Archbishop Raymond Burke received sustained applause when he noted that Catholic politicians who support abortion are required to repent publicly. 
Speaking to pro-life leaders from 45 nations, the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (the highest Vatican court) also noted that those who recognize the scandal caused by such public, dissident Catholics assist the Church in repairing a serious breach, but are nevertheless often ridiculed for it.
(Read the complete talk - in PDF format - here)
Archbishop Burke stressed that “both bishops and the faithful” must be obedient to the Magisterium – which he described as the teaching of Christ as handed down through the successor of Peter and the bishops in union with him. “When the shepherds of the flock are obedient to the Magisterium, entrusted to their exercise, then surely the members of the flock grow in obedience and proceed with Christ along the way of salvation,” he said.  “If the shepherd is not obedient the flock easily gives way to confusion and error.”
Burke, who is also a member of the Congregation for Bishops added: “A most tragic example of the lack of obedience of faith, also on the part of certain Bishops, was the response of many to the Encyclical Letter Humanae vitae of Pope Paul VI, published on July 25, 1968.  The confusion which resulted has led many Catholics into habits of sin in what pertains to the procreation and education of human life.”
Humanae Vitae reiterated age-old Christian teaching on the immorality of the use of artificial contraception. However, after its publication the encyclical was repudiated by many within the Catholic Church, including priests and bishops, who had believed that the Church would changes its views on contraception.
Turning to the issue of scandal within the Church, the archbishop said, “We find self-professed Catholics, for example, who sustain and support the right of a woman to procure the death of the infant in her womb, or the right of two persons of the same sex to the recognition which the State gives to a man and a woman who have entered into marriage.  It is not possible to be a practicing Catholic and to conduct oneself publicly in this manner.”
To resounding applause Burke said, “When a person has publicly espoused and cooperated in gravely sinful acts, leading many into confusion and error about fundamental questions of respect for human life and the integrity of marriage and the family, his repentance of such actions must also be public.”
The Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura then voiced a concern that struck a deep chord with many of the Catholic pro-life activists present at the conference.  “One of the ironies of the present situation is that the person who experiences scandal at the gravely sinful public actions of a fellow Catholic is accused of a lack of charity and of causing division within the unity of the Church,” he said.  “One sees the hand of the Father of Lies at work in the disregard for the situation of scandal or in the ridicule and even censure of those who experience scandal.”
The Vatican prelate concluded the point stating:

Lying or failing to tell the truth, however, is never a sign of charity.  A unity which is not founded on the truth of the moral law is not the unity of the Church.  The Church’s unity is founded on speaking the truth with love.  The person who experiences scandal at public actions of Catholics, which are gravely contrary to the moral law, not only does not destroy unity but invites the Church to repair what is clearly a serious breach in Her life.  Were he not to experience scandal at the public support of attacks on human life and the family, his conscience would be uninformed or dulled about the most sacred realities.

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Hmmm A few politicians in Wisconsin that I think will opt out of the sackcloth and ashes.

Bishop Conferences versus 2010 elections

You've seen me complain recently on some of the documents released by regional bishop conferences in regard to Faithful Citizenship.  I have said until bishops use the term "non-negotiable" and apply it to the Life issues, abortion politicians can still be justified using the bishops own documents.  Well it turns out I am not the only one that feels this way. 

ROME, January 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document of the US Catholic Bishops is partly to blame for the abandonment of pro-life teachings by voting Catholics and the election of the “most pro-abortion president” in US history, one of the Vatican’s highest officials said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com.

Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, named a document on the election produced by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that he said “led to confusion” among the faithful and led ultimately to massive support among Catholics for Barack Obama.

The US bishops’ document, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” stated that, under certain circumstances, a Catholic could in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports abortion because of "other grave reasons," as long as they do not intend to support that pro-abortion position.

Archbishop Burke, the former Archbishop of St. Louis Mo. and recently appointed head of the highest ecclesiastical court in the Catholic Church, told LifeSiteNews.com that although “there were a greater number of bishops who spoke up very clearly and firmly ... there was also a number who did not.”

But most damaging, he said, was the document “Faithful Citizenship” that “led to confusion” among the voting Catholic population.

“While it stated that the issue of life was the first and most important issue, it went on in some specific areas to say ‘but there are other issues’ that are of comparable importance without making necessary distinctions.”

Archbishop Burke, citing an article by a priest and ethics expert of St. Louis archdiocese, Msgr. Kevin McMahon, who analysed how the bishops’ document actually contributed to the election of Obama, called its proposal “a kind of false thinking, that says, ‘there’s the evil of taking an innocent and defenceless human life but there are other evils and they’re worthy of equal consideration.’

“But they’re not. The economic situation, or opposition to the war in Iraq, or whatever it may be, those things don’t rise to the same level as something that is always and everywhere evil, namely the killing of innocent and defenceless human life.”
Archbishop Burke also cited the work of the official news service of the US Catholic Bishops’ Conference, that many pro-life observers complained soft-pedalled the newly elected president’s opposition to traditional morality.

“The bishops need to look also at our Catholic News Service, CNS, they need to review their coverage of the whole thing and give some new direction, in my judgement,” he said.

 LifeSiteNews

Marian Symposium 2010

A great conference at last weekends Marian Symposium hosted by the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Sorry, but I didn't realize the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate were broadcasting the whole thing live on AirMaria.com. 

So what's the big deal?  Some conference on Mary.  Yeah, I pray to her, I get it.

Mary is more than just another saint.  Her pivotal and necessary role in salvation history is worth more attention.  To understand the Faithful Daughter of the Father, the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, the Mother of God, is to come to understand God more fully, and especially Jesus Christ our Crucified King.  Like St John at the foot of the Cross we must take her into our homes, as the Diocese of La Crosse and the state of Wisconsin have done with this Shrine.

If you want to "get" what it is all about I recommend Dr. Mark Miravalle's talk from this year's conference.  All the talks are recorded and DVDs of each talk can be purchased.  I'm in the process of finding out if we can get the audio in MP3 format posted online.  The only way right now to get the conference DVD would be to call the Shrine and order it over the phone.  You might have to mail a check in first.  They do have the equipment at the Shrine to produce the DVDs.

Here's some photos.

Drew Mariani leads the rosary

Cardinal Martínez

 Dr. Miravalle

 Drew Mariani

Archbishop Burke greeting after Mass

 Friars!!!

And what we are praying for...

All the photos on Flickr

Video: Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. with Abp Raymond L Burke

Thanks to EWTN's new YouTube channel, here is that excellent interview with Archbishop Raymond L Burke. It's the full show, so save it for when you have time. In it, he talks about his job as Prefect for the Signatura, and he goes indepth on Fr. John A. Hardon's cause.

Thanks to Diane @ Te Deum laudamus.  Get well soon.

Arch Burke on EWTN Live tonight

This evening, Father Mitch Pacwa, S.J., host of EWTN Live will interview His Excellency,
The Most Rev. Raymond L. Burke, on the Cause of the Servant of God, Father John A. Hardon, S.J.
The show airs on the EWTN channel at 7:00 P.M. CST. Please be sure to watch if you can.

Also remember Archbishop Burke is now a member of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.

Arch Burke on EWTN Live this Wednesday

Archbishop Raymond L. Burke will make an exclusive television appearance on “EWTN Live” with Host Fr. Mitch Pacwa at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT, Wed., Aug. 18 to discuss his role as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, which has been called the Vatican’s Supreme Court, and much more. Before being appointed to the Apostolic Signatura on June 27, 2008, Archbishop Burke served as the Archbishop of St. Louis, Mo., and as Bishop of La Crosse, Wisc. An outspoken champion for the culture of life, Archbishop Burke’s appearance is sure to be a newsmaker.

Also, there is still time to register for the Marian Symposium on Mary, Mother of Church, this coming Saturday, August 21st, from 9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Speakers include:

HIS EMINENCE LUIS CARDINAL APONTE MARTINEZ, Archbishop Emeritus, San Juan, Puerto Rico

HIS EXCELLENCY ARCHBISHOP RAYMOND L. BURKE, Prefect, Apostolic Signatura, Rome

MSGR. ARTHUR B. CALKINS, Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Mariologist

DR. MARK I. MIRAVALLE, Franciscan University of Steubenville, President, Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici

DREW MARIANI, Journalist and Talk Show Host, Relevant Radio will MC.

Registration: $30/person
Lunch is included with Registration
For More Information,
Call 608-796-1300 or 608-782-5440 or email ffi.symposium@gmail.com

H/T: LC

Lay Eucharistic ministers not entitled to position, Archbishop Burke clarifies

The rights of girls and Catholic lay faithful to carry out certain roles on the altar are not prescribed as "rights" within the Church, according to the Church's top legal authority, Archbishop Raymond Burke. The statement came in a clarification he wrote about the consequences of the reintroduction of the Latin Rite Mass by Pope Benedict.

The Catholic Church of Germany recently printed a commentary on the application of Benedict XVI's 2007 motu proprio, "Summorum Pontificum," which made Pope St. Pius V's Latin Rite Mass more widely available. In the preface of the volume, printed for the third anniversary of the motu proprio, Archbishop Raymond Burke clarified some confusion about the legislation's practical use.

Archbishop Burke is the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, which is often described as the supreme court of the Catholic Church.

According to Vatican Radio, the archbishop explained in the preface that due to the motu proprio's papal origins, it is not just an act of legislation brought about as a "favor" to a specific group for the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, the Mass in Latin, but one that applies to the entire Church.

Archbishop Burke wrote, "it is about a law whose finality is the protection and promotion of the life of all the mystical body of Christ and the maximum expression of this life, that is to say, the Sacred Liturgy."

It implies an obligation of the Church "to preserve liturgical tradition and maintain the legitimate celebration of both forms of the Roman Rite, that preceding the Second Vatican Council and that which followed it," he said.

Archbishop Burke pointed out that the Holy Father himself explained that for the communion of the Church in the past and the future, "universally accepted uses of uninterrupted apostolic tradition" must be observed.

This, he pointed out should be done "not only to avoid errors, but also to transmit the integrity of the faith, so that the law of the prayer of the Church might correspond to her law of faith."

The American archbishop went on to point out that certain elements may need to be clarified in this regard. For example, he wrote, among the "rights" of the baptized, assistance by "persons of the feminine sex" at the altar is not included. Additionally, serving as a lector or as an extraordinary distribution of communion is not a right of the laity, he noted.

As such, out of respect for the integrity of the liturgical discipline within the Roman Missal of 1962, these more modern modifications are not observed in the extraordinary form.

This clarification comes just a week after L'Osservatore Romano writer Lucetta Scaraffia published an article on the altar server pilgrimage to the Vatican which drew thousands of boys and girls alike. She drew some attention as she proposed that the introduction of girls into the position of serving at the altar "meant the end of every attribution of impurity to their sex ... it meant a different attention to the liturgy and an approach to the faith in bringing it near to their very hearts."

Archbishop Burke clarified, however, that the reality of the matter is that neither the presence of girls at the altar, nor the participation of lay faithful "belong to the fundamental rights of the baptized."

 Catholic News Agency

A few thoughts on this by Father Z

H/T: LC

Bp Callahan installation Mass- rebroadcast video

Archbishop Dolan, Archbishop Burke, Archbishop Listecki, bishops of Wisconsin, where's the media guide.  Not sure who else until I watch the video.  Grrrrreat Music(sorry Milwaukee) but better than Listecki's installation.  I couldn't take any pictures with shrieking boys(you may have heard one at the end), so I'll point as they become available.

EWTN will rebroadcast the event at 11:00 p.m. August 11, 2010. Catholic TV will rebroadcast Bishop Callahan’s Installation Mass at 7:00 p.m. August 11, as well as make the event available on its Web site, catholictv.com. WXOW will rebroadcast the installation at 12:00 noon August 15, while WKBT has scheduled a rebroadcast, which will include an interview with Bishop Callahan, for 11:05 p.m. August 15.

Why don't I bring the coverage right to you!  .... So far this doesn't work for me, just shows the intro.  I'll leave it up there for now in case they fix the video.  UPDATE: This is now working