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General News #5 - Petition Pope Benedict to proclaim the 5th Marian Dogma ( 08min) >>> Play

Ave Maria! Participate in Marian History! Voice your desire for the Church to declare the 5th Marian Dogma, the Blessed Virgin Mary as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate, by petitioning Pope Benedict XVI to solemnly define this doctrine as dogma.

website: fifthmariandogma.com

Pope Benedict’s Mailing Address:
Pope Benedict XVI
C/o Msgr. Ganswein
Apostolic Palace
00120 Vatican City State
(Europe)

Funny how the secularists can create the most intolerant of religions:

Environmentalists are Gaia’s priests, instructing us in her proper service and casting out those who refuse to genuflect. . . And having proclaimed the ultimate commandment — carbon chastity — they are preparing the supporting canonical legislation that will tell you how much you can travel, what kind of light you will read by, and at what temperature you may set your bedroom thermostat.

Just Monday, a British parliamentary committee proposed that every citizen be required to carry a carbon card that must be presented, under penalty of law, when buying gasoline, taking an airplane, or using electricity. The card contains your yearly carbon ration to be drawn down with every purchase, every trip, every swipe.

MPs back creation of human-animal embryos

MPs vote against ban on hybrid embryos

Mps Warned Over Hybrid Embryos

Showdown Expected Over Abortion Vote

Get out the rakes and pitchforks.

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Cardinal Toppo speaks again about the 5th Marian Dogma in an interview with Zenit News.

He advocates the dogma expressed in the title “Spiritual Mother of All Humanity.” He relates how the declaration would actually help the ecumenical dialog as opposed to harm it as many detractors claim.

Zenit writes:

The archbishop of Ranchi and former president of the episcopal conference of India is one of the five cardinal co-sponsors of the 2005 International Symposium on Marian Co-redemption, held in Fatima, who are asking Benedict XVI to declare a fifth Marian dogma.

The petition urges the Pope to proclaim Mary “the Spiritual Mother of All Humanity, the co-redemptrix with Jesus the redeemer, mediatrix of all graces with Jesus the one mediator, and advocate with Jesus Christ on behalf of the human race.” (more…)

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Great resources on EWTN on the Papacy:

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Everyone must see this interview between EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo and President George Bush about the Pope’s Visit.

Personally,  I have never enjoyed watching a presidential interview so much. Great job Raymond Arroyo!!

And there are many other resources about the pope’s trip at EWTN.

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The following is a video posted on YouTube in which the Holy Father talks about his visit to the United States.

He should be stepping on the tarmac at 4pm today, so keep him in your prayers.

The pro-creationist documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, focuses not so much on the refutation of Darwinism, but on the suppression of the academic freedom of anyone who dissents from Darwinism. This is a brilliant coup de main, which uses the weapon of the enemy, and another example of how liberal bias really is not interested in diversity and pluralism at all. The Darwinist’s don’t know what to do when academic freedom is used against their secularist dogmas. This is from Jill Stanek of WorldNetDaily:

On March 20, two Darwinian defenders, who accepted payment to talk like buffoons on the film, tried to bust into a private screening in Minnesota.

“PZ” Myers, a University of Minnesota biology professor and proprietor of the popular atheist blog Pharyngula, was quickly expelled, much as he condones expelling professors who deviate from the monkey line, as he wrote on The Panda’s Thumb blog:

The only appropriate responses [to Intelligent Design proponents] should involve some form of righteous fury, much butt-kicking, and the public firing and humiliation of some teachers, many school board members, and vast numbers of sleazy far-right politicians.” ~ Comment #35130, PZ Myers, June 14, 2005

Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford who wrote the book “The God Delusion,” gained entry only by foregoing his evolved surname for the formal, Clinton.

Myers then disrupted an “Expelled” conference call with reporters the next day.

These uncivilized spectacles caused a liberal mass meltdown. According to an “Expelled” press release, the “Expelled” controversy held the No. 1 slot in the blogosphere all day March 24, as registered by Nielson’s BlogPulse, and garnered over 800 Technorati results.

If we are seeing this meltdown on the left even before “Expelled” officially opens, expect a Big Bang on April 18.

Hurray!

When dead is not really dead. We really need to think this through better.

“I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember,” he said.

Dunlap said one thing he does remember is hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.

“I’m glad I couldn’t get up and do what I wanted to do,” he said.

Not enough is taught on this subject to dispel the myths of organ donation.

Welcome The Cow-Man to the stage of life.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been (Victor Frankenstein).

The sting is coming.

Update:

Scottish Cardinal calls for the rakes and pitchforks (in a manner of speaking). God bless him.

Today Zenit News has an excellent interview with Cardinal Aponte of Puerto Rico on the 5th Marian Dogma, “Nothing new” he says.

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New York Times Travel Section has an article on Our Lady of Guadalupe and the religious festivities of Holy Week in and around Mexico City. OK … its just a secular travel article, but it is a respectful, positive peace of mainstream journalism on religion and Our Lady, no small miracle. There is even a beautiful Slide Show.

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State of Affairs. Sad. Very Sad.

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As a follow up on our previous post on this subject here is an excellent and detailed article Her Station Keeping: Immaculate Conception to CoRedemptrix on the connection between the Immaculate Conception and the Coredemptrix by Matthew Tsakanikas on Catholic Exchange. The article has many references to patristics, magisterial statements and a heavy emphasis on the strongly Marian statements of Benedict XVI before he was pope. Referring to a quote from Cardinal Ratzinger about how Our Lady loses her personhood in service to Christ and so finds it again, he sates:

Ratzinger’s comment becomes more revealing. It is Mary who loses herself (more…)