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LifeSiteNews.com reported on October 20, 2010:
The Catholic Archbishop of St. Paul-Minneapolis has exhorted Catholics to stick close to Church teaching as the archdiocese catches flak for its aggressive campaign to reaffirm the Catholic Church's teaching on marriage.
The archdiocese sent out over 400,000 DVDs to area Catholics last month explaining the Catholic Church's position and rationale on same-sex "marriage" - a move decried by some Catholics as too "political." Media have been covering instances where the DVDs have been met with outrage or mockery, including the reaction of one artisan, an artist-in-residence at the Basilica of Saint Mary, who has collected about 1,300 DVDs to cut and "recycle" into art.
Archbishop John Nienstedt, however, refuses to back out of the debate.
"We're part and parcel of the culture, so it's important for us to be involved with those discussions and have our say," Nienstedt told the Associated Press Monday. He counseled Catholics to "either be hot or cold" but not lukewarm on their loyalty to the faith.
"I believe that it's important that if you're going to be Catholic, that you have to be 100 percent Catholic," Nienstedt told the Associated Press on Monday. "That you stand by the church, you believe what the church believes and you pass that on to your sons and daughters and your grandsons and granddaughters."
Nienstedt also caused a stir last month for denying Communion to a group, including nuns and a priest, who wore rainbow sashes signifying their opposition to the Church's teaching on homosexuality. The protesters, who said the archbishop "made it political" by denying the sacrament, were later given Communion by a priest of the diocese.
In the DVDs, Archbishop Nienstedt issues a personal message warning Catholics against current efforts "to change the definition of marriage from being an institution of one man and one woman for the benefit of children and society, to an institution without gender roles, where the desires of individual adults are the primary focus."
Nienstedt compares the potential negative effects of same-sex "marriage" to the chaos inflicted by no-fault divorce laws 40 years ago, and warned that instituting same-sex "marriage" would invariably lead to children in public schools being taught that such "marriage" is equivalent to true marriage.
The archbishop also notes that, "The Church's teaching on marriage is not a condemnation of homosexual persons as human beings, it is simply a reflection, not only of the Scriptures, but of the unique procreative nature of the male and female body." He ends his message with a call for a voter referendum to preserve marriage in the state constitution.
The DVDs also include a documentary produced by the Knights of Columbus explaining further the Church's position on same-sex "marriage," as well as the threat to both society and Christian churches posed by such a change.
A local group of lay Catholics have launched a website to help educate Catholic voters on the candidates' position on the issue. For more information, visit www.MinnesotaCatholicVote.org
The marriage issue is a central issue for the state's upcoming election to fill the seat of outgoing Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty: Democrat candidate Mark Dayton and Independent Tom Horner's support for same-sex "marriage" stands in contrast to Republican candidate Tom Emmer's position in favor of traditional marriage.
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Encourages
Christians to reinforce faith as foundation for culture
Pope: Church Must Reject All 'Alternative Models of Family Life'
"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified in your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My children." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 18, 1980
LifeSiteNews.com reported on September 13, 2010:
All legal recognition of "alternative" means of pursuing a family life, such as homosexual "marriage" and civil union laws, threatens to undermine the true model of marriage as the permanent bond of one man and one woman for the procreation of children, said Pope Benedict XVI on Monday.
The pontiff said that “the Church sees with concern the growing attempt to eliminate the Christian concept of marriage and family from the consciousness of society."
"The Church can not approve legislative initiatives involving a reappraisal of alternative models of married life and family. They contribute to the weakening of the principles of natural law and so the relativization of all legislation and also the confusion about values in society," said the pontiff in an address to the new German ambassador to the Holy See.
The pope said that, "Marriage is manifested as a lasting union of love between a man and a woman, which is also always oriented toward the transmission of human life," noting that such a bond "requires a certain maturity of the person and a fundamental social and existential attitude."
Benedict also took the occasion to exalt the centrality of human life, particularly frail and dependent human life, as something that "always has priority over anything else." "When once we begin to distinguish - and often this happens already in the womb - between life worthy and unworthy to live, any other stage of life will not be spared, much less the elderly and the infirm," he said.
The pontiff also criticized Christians who, rather than becoming "guarantors" of the faith "without compromise," "tend to show an overriding inclination towards more permissive religious convictions." For example, those who replace the personal, moral Christian God with a mysterious "supreme being" render null the conflict between good and evil, and so rob society of the impetus to constantly pursue the good: "If God does not have His own will, then good and bad end up being indistinguishable. ... Man thus loses the moral and spiritual energy necessary for the overall development of the person," he said.
As new relationships are developing in recent times between church and state, said Benedict, it is incumbent upon Christians to "follow this development in a positive and critical way, as well as to refine men's senses for the fundamental and continuing importance of Christianity in laying the groundwork to form the structures of our culture."
Click here for the original text (in Italian).
"The Eternal
Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the
lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has
the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He
will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you
who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a
plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1971
FAMILY CIRCLE
"The strength for souls will be found in the family circle." - Our Lady,
December 31, 1972
INSTITUTE FAMILY PRAYER
"Confusion, confusion! All about Us We see confusion and the conditioning of
errors. Family prayer must be instituted in the home. If you do not ask for the
guidance of the Holy Spirit, you, too, will walk the road of error." - Our
Lady, December 25, 1971
ONE GLORIOUS FAMILY
"In Our Heaven, there is but one glorious family. In Heaven all are brothers
and sisters. Why, then, must you fight over body color, body dressing, body
wealth? What does it avail you to squabble and fight for something you will
leave behind when you come before Us? Work now, My children, not to dress your
body but to feed your soul. And many are starving.
"Yes, you are all brothers and sisters, and as such, you have one bond in
common with your God: that is love. And if you know the true meaning of love,
you will reach out and save your brothers and your sisters." - Our Lady,
December 25, 1971
FIRMNESS IS NEEDED
"I am a man of few words, preferring to stand behind my Son. But I do feel
great sorrow for the state of man on earth and his family life. The family that
does not pray together can not stay together, for prayer chases the demons from
the household. Why has man no longer chosen to bless his home with sacramentals
and the waters?
"I wish that all fathers of households stand forth and practice their role.
They will use the rod and not permit their children to go astray. Firmness is
needed in your world that is filled with laxity, permissiveness, and
degradation.
"Your children have been misled by many who shall answer to the Father. As
teachers they have failed in their role. Therefore, as parents you must succeed
in yours.
"The greatest detrimental factor in the family and home is the desire for
the material. Better that you live in the gardens and fields with the
nourishment of manna from Heaven, than to be filled with the abominations of the
world." - St. Joseph, March 18, 1973
RECOVER THE PEACE
"In your world today that has been caught in the snare of the wiles of satan,
many families are heading to oblivion, disintegration, and destruction. The
forces of evil, the agents of 666, have now infiltrated into the very heart of
mankind: the home, the family.
"O My children, if you could only recover the peace and quiet of spirit
that was once much evident in your homes and now has been replaced by all manner
of creations of satan, creations that distract the minds of the innocent,
creations that have taken the knowledge of their God from the children, while
fathers and mothers are lost as they run to and fro gathering all the material
wealth upon earth, seeking pleasures that are soul destroyers, and setting an
example that can be and lead to an abomination within the family circle.
"The parents, the mother and the father, My children, must set a firm
example to their children. When these children leave the family's home, they are
subjected to all trials of error, deception, delusion, and lies." - Our Lady,
July 24, 1976
THE GREAT FOUNDATION
"Pray constantly your Rosary, your beads of prayer to Heaven. Remain unified
in your family lives. The institution of your country--the great foundation is
based on family life. Destroy the family and you destroy your country. The
enemies--the enemy is already within your country. Watch and pray well, My
children." - Our Lady, June 18, 1980
DEDICATION TO ETERNAL FATHER
"The foundation for a young life is found in the family. We find much
lacking in the example of many parents. They have forgotten their role as
parents, and they are feeding their children well with the contaminating
abundance of your nation and the world; however, their souls are being starved
for the light.
"The role for the prosperity within a family is simple, My child. It is one
of a dedication to the Eternal Father. What does it matter, My children, if you
gain the whole world's goods and suffer the loss of your eternal soul? Your
pilgrimage is but a short one upon earth. Have you stored your reward with Us,
or have you given yourselves to the pleasures of the flesh and satan?" - Our
Lady, March 18, 1975
HAVE YOU PREPARED?
"Have you, as parents, prepared your family? Have you set your household in
order?
"I have asked you to place in your homes the Book of life and love, your
Bible. Parents, you must read this to your children, for they shall not receive
the knowledge of their God outside of your door. The teachers have given
themselves to the world." - Our Lady, August 14, 1975
GREATEST ATTACK
"Evil creations from hell--all manner of abominations are entering into the
homes of your nation and the countries throughout the world. It will be an
absolute necessity now for all parents to act as a director, a leader in the
homes. The greatest attack from satan shall be upon family life. If you break
down the family, you will break down the nation." - St. Joseph, March 15,
1978
RETIRE AS A FAMILY UNIT
"Each family that wishes to be saved must now retire as a family unit from
the world which has now been given to satan. Guard the souls of the ones you
love. Satan sends his agents among you with cunning. You must always watch. Many
parents are leading their children on the road to damnation by their example, by
their permissiveness, and by their laxity." - Our Lady, July 15, 1972
SO MUCH DISCORD
"Children of the world, there is so much discord among families. There is so
much deterioration among families. This is not a good sign. The family unit must
be together under the true sign of the living God. Mothers and fathers have a
great responsibility for their children. You who spend your hours, so few upon
earth, giving your children their bodily delights, their materialistic wishes
and pleasures, while their souls are starving and they are being led on the path
that will take them farther from the Kingdom. Sin, the darkest of sins, are
being committed in the homes. What example as parents are you showing to your
children?" - St. Joseph, December 30, 1972
TRUTH, FAITH, TRADITION
"The children must be guided by the family. The truth, the Faith, the
Tradition must be instilled in their hearts by the mothers and fathers of a
family. Do not expect your children to go beyond your doors and be instructed in
truth, for the world has been given to satan. Many who should be showing a firm
and true example have gone the easy way of the flesh, for they care more for the
treasures and glory of this world, earth, than what the future has for them." -
Our Lady, December 6, 1975
CLEANSE YOUR HOMES
"We look into many homes and we find no close bond of unity. And why?
Because you prefer to keep a diabolical machine in your homes, those
televisions! These, my children, are all creations of satan. The family does not
pray together. The mother does not bring the knowledge of God to her children.
The father seeks his way in the world, gathering money and material things that
are all passing.
"Cleanse your homes! Start anew! Work together for your reward in the
eternal Kingdom. Your homes must be now a fortress against the evil that
surrounds you." - St. Joseph, March 18, 1976
FAMILY IS DISINTEGRATING
"Penance, atonement, and sacrifice, My children, I beg of you! The family is
disintegrating; there is no discipline. I hear the word 'love' expounded
throughout your earth in all medias. But love has been lost!
"We watch as many are selling their souls to get to the head, not caring
about the day, the night, the hour when they must come across the veil and
account for their actions upon earth: their sins of commission, their sins of
omission.
"Parents, you have a major responsibility now to save your children. The
young are the major victims now in a world that has been taken over by satan and
his agents." - Our Lady, August 14, 1979
BROKEN HOMES
"It is only because there are not enough prayers that there is discord and
broken homes." - Our Lady, December 28, 1974
PRAYER
"We are quite pleased with the words the Spirit sent unto man that the
family that prays together will stay together, My child. No truer a message was
ever coined. The family that prays together will stay together." - Our Lady,
June 18, 1974
PRAY TOGETHER
"A family that prays together will stay together! Without God in your home
there will be separation and discord. A home in this fight with Lucifer cannot
survive without prayer and dedication to your God." - Our Lady, June 18, 1979
Directives
D218 - Children, Part 1D15 - Holy Matrimony
D167 - The Family - Part 1
D168 - The Family - Part 2
D174 - Homosexuality, Part 2
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