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Sheen's show shut down after his rants

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Sheen's show shut down after his rants

By TIMOTHY MANGAN
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

For awhile Thursday, things seemed unusually tranquil in the world of Charlie Sheen. CBS announced that the actor would be returning to work next week on the top-rated TV comedy “Two and a Half Men.” The show had suspended production last month after Sheen’s hard-partying, which reportedly involved cocaine and porn stars, landed him in the hospital and then rehab.


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Charlie Sheen was supposed to return to work on "Two and a Half Men" next week. Then he opened his mouth.
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Then he gave an interview on the radio and a second to TMZ and we were back to normal Charlie Sheen mode.

Sheen referred to those who’ve questioned his recent escapades as “fools and trolls.” “I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee,” he said. “They lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, 'I can't process it.' Well, no, and you never will! Stop trying! Just sit back and enjoy the show."

Then Sheen moved on to his boss, “Two and a Half Men” co-creator Chuck Lorre, whom he referred to as Chaim Levine. “Last I checked, Chaim, I spent close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold,” he said.

Along the way, he tossed out gems such as “I've got magic – I've got poetry in my fingertips” and claimed to have an army of assassins. “We work for the Pope, we murder people. We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?”

Lest you wonder whether Sheen might still be abusing mind-altering chemicals, he assured that “it’s all good, guys.” “I have a disease? (Expletive) I cured it … with my mind … I can’t use the word ‘sober’ because that’s a term from those people, and I have cleansed myself. I have closed my eyes and in a nanosecond I cured myself.”

At the end of the day (no, really, it happened at the end of the day), CBS and Warner Bros. Television issued a joint statement that production of “Two and a Half Men” would be shut down for the rest of the current TV season “based on the totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition.”

The royal couple hosts a christening

When you’re second in line to the British throne, not all of your public events are glamorous.

 


But Prince William made the best of it. With his fiancée Kate Middleton at his side, the prince visited Anglesey, Wales, Thursday to dedicate a boat. A lifeboat. An inflatable lifeboat.


The prince made a short statement asking that all those who used the boat be blessed, and then Middleton, with a big smile, poured champagne over the lifeboat. "I do the talking, she does the fun bit," William joked.

The champagne bottle was not broken over the boat, as is traditional, because how do you break a bottle of champagne on an inflatable lifeboat? And even if you did it might not be a lifeboat anymore.

Middleton looked elegant and comfortable in her new role as a princess-to-be. She wore a three-quarter length tailored beige coat designed by British designer Katherine Hooker, and had her long hair swept back and topped by a chic feathery hat.

The hat was adorned with a badge of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Prince William named the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station's new boat the "Hereford Endeavour" at the ceremony 300 miles northwest of London.

Prince William and Middleton joined the crowd in singing "God Save the Queen," followed by the Welsh national anthem.

Zeta-Jones honored

While we’re across the pond, we might as well tell you that Catherine Zeta-Jones received a royal honor from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

The Swansea, Wales-born actress became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at a ceremony Thursday, where she was accompanied by husband Michael Douglas and their two children Carys and Dylan. That makes her a “CBE” but not a “Dame.”

Zeta-Jones, 41, said she was "very emotional and rather nervous" to receive the honor, which was given for her services to the film industry and her charity efforts.She said "it was worth (it) to have Michael in good health to be able to enjoy it with me."Douglas has been fighting throat cancer.

Zeta-Jones said Prince Charles had expressed his sympathy and was "happy to hear" that Douglas was recovering.

Bieber’s locks for sale

It was the clip heard round the world, the Bieberbuzz earlier this week.Now, the leftovers are going to a good cause. Justin Bieber’s locks – well, former locks -- are being auctioned off on e-Bay.

Apparently, Ellen DeGeneres asked for a lock of the Bieber’s hair on Twitter for her birthday. During his appearance on her talk show the other day, Bieber obliged.

The bid page on e-Bay describes the package as one lock of Justin Bieber’s hair enclosed in Plexiglas. Herr Bieber signed the box on air during DeGeneres’ show. The bidding had gone to $6,900 as of Thursday afternoon, with more than five days left for the auction.DeGeneres is donating the money raised to The Gentle Barn, a nonprofit organization that serves as a safe haven and place of recovery for abused farm animals and children.

If you don’t manage to nab this lock of Bieber’s hair, there’s hope.

“I’m giving pieces of it to different people,” Bieber told Degeneres.
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Opinion: Catholic Church has another concern

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Catholic Church has another concern

I was reminded of this La Rochefoucauld Maxim when a Vatican spokesman criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo for living with his lady friend. In light of the rife sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy, this holier-than-thou posture of the Vatican is laughable. There's nothing illegal about unmarried couples living together, however, the sexual molestation of children is a despicable criminal offense. The fact that the Vatican has done so little to address this problem makes its position on unmarried cohabitation all the more hypocritical.
Tony Siciliano

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Relishing Relics: Pope to visit site where Nazis executed hundreds of Italians

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By Alan Holdren



Vatican City, Feb 25, 2011 / 03:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Next month Pope Benedict XVI will mark the anniversary of a brutal massacre that took the lives of 335 Italians during World War II.



On March 24, 1944, Nazi soldiers slaughtered the hundreds of individuals to exact revenge for a surprise bomb attack in the heart of Rome that killed 33 of their colleagues.



When he heard of the attack, Adolf Hitler ordered that 10 Romans be rounded up for each Nazi casualty.



The Nazi commander in Rome took all those on death row in a military prison, but they did not equal the number Hitler had ordered. He added 75 Jews, political prisoners, individuals in jail for petty crimes and civilians present at the attack to the group to reach the figure. The final count proved to be higher than 330.



The 335 victims were led into the caves of a quarry by soldiers who were driven by commanding officers to kill each of them, one-by-one, with a shot to the back of the head.



Following the massacre, the Nazis covered their tracks by blowing up the caves. The bodies were recovered and properly buried a year later, when the war had finished.



A mausoleum that looks similar to a military bunker was later erected on the site to house the tombs of the dead.



The Pope will go to the site, called the “Fosse Ardeatine,” on March 27 to observe the 67th anniversary of the executions. It is very near the Catacombs of St. Callistus on the outskirts of Rome.



He follows in the footsteps of Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, who also paid their respects to the dead.



During his visit to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland in May 2006, Pope Benedict said, “In silence, then, we bow our heads before the endless line of those who suffered and were put to death here; yet our silence becomes in turn a plea for forgiveness and reconciliation, a plea to the living God never to let this happen again.”

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Dismemberment: Body Parts: Morbid: Relishing Relics: Pontiff can't be organ donor

Catholic Church strives to keep cadavers intact

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Pontiff can't be organ donor


Catholic Church strives to keep cadavers intact


By Francis X. Rocca



RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

VATICAN CITY - When Vatican officials announced recently that Pope Benedict XVI's 2005 election
rendered his organ-donor card null and void, they offered no reason for the change. The curious
history of papal body parts, however, offers some clues.

"A decision of a personal character made when (Benedict) was a private citizen is no longer
operative now that he is the head of the Catholic Church," said the Vatican's top spokesman, the
Rev. Federico Lombardi.

Lombardi also called the idea of transplanting the organs of a man who is already almost 84 "a
little surreal."

Lombardi dismissed reports that the church preserves a dead pope's body in order to supply holy
relics in case he's declared a saint. But Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, head of the Vatican's
health-care office, told an Italian newspaper that one reason to keep papal remains intact would be
for "possible future veneration."

Because Benedict's five predecessors are now under formal consideration for sainthood, it's not
a huge stretch to see Benedict - still alive and kicking - as a possible saint-in-waiting.

And where there's a saint, there are often bodily relics to be venerated by the faithful.
Generally speaking - at least in modern times - the church prefers that the relics all be in one
place.

Pope John Paul II, who will be beatified May 1, is drawing as much attention in death as he did
in life. A vial of his blood, taken during a medical examination during his last days, will be
placed in the altar of a church near Krakow, Poland, this year.

The body of Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963 and, like John Paul, is one step away from
sainthood, was placed in a glass coffin and moved upstairs in St. Peter's Basilica in 2001; his
(intact) embalmed body was found to be "incorrupt," or free from decay.

The burial place of the martyred St. Peter, traditionally considered the first pope, determined
the site of the basilica that bears his name.

The most-perverse tribute to the importance of papal remains came in the ninth century, when a
successor of Pope Formosus (891-896) exhumed his nine-months-dead body and put it on trial for
perjury and other crimes.

As Notre Dame scholar Richard P. McBrien recounts in
Lives of the Popes, Formosus' cadaver was "propped up on a throne in full pontifical
vestments" for the trial and, after his conviction, "Three fingers of his right hand (by which he
swore oaths and gave blessings) were cut off."

His body was thrown into the Tiber River, but recovered by a hermit and eventually reburied with
honors by a later pope.

Papal funeral traditions have required special arrangements for the disposition of their bodies.
Because of a customary nine-day mourning period before burial, the hearts and other fast-decaying
internal organs of almost all the popes from Sixtus V (1585-1590) to Leo XIII (1878-1903) were
removed before embalming.

The hearts were placed in Rome's Church of Sts. Vincent and Anastasius, where they remain today.
The rest of those popes - their bodies, that is - are scattered across various churches in
Rome.

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Dismemberment: Body Parts: Morbid: Relishing Relics: Will John Paul Go to Pieces?

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Relishing Relics: Will John Paul Go to Pieces?

The remains of Pope John Paul II surely seem secure. They rest in a cypress case that's nestled inside a soldered, zinc casket that's, in turn, cocooned in a walnut box. Almost six years ago, that walnut box was pounded shut with nails of pure gold.

When Church officials soon hoist that triple coffin from a Vatican grotto up to St. Peter's Basilica for the late pontiff's May 1 beatification, they vow "the transportation" will not include "exhumation." His body, they say, "will not be exposed."

Yet throughout the annals of Catholicism, the corpses of would-be saints have routinely been unearthed, after which, their bones, hair or other surviving morsels have been plucked, parsed and passed around.

These shreds of the revered dead are known as relics -- an ancient concept spanning Christianity, Buddhism and other faiths. Roman Catholics rank them in three tiers: first-class relics are actual pieces of a saintly contender; second-class relics are possessions of the person (a spoon, a book); third-class relics are often swatches of cloth placed against first-class relics.

According to Catholic doctrine, such sacred scraps contain no magic, no inherent healing powers; they are merely mementos meant for veneration. And they are never supposed to be sold. But when it comes to John Paul's existing trove of relics, many Catholic faithful don't exactly follow that doctrine to the letter.

Tangible traces of John Paul -- along with his trappings, toys and fragments of his robe -- have been in rabid demand since his April 2005 death, often sought by folks aching for medical miracles.

Case in point: race driver Robert Kubica, who nearly lost his right hand during a Feb. 6 crash in Italy. Kubica will receive a drop of John Paul's blood, a gift straight from the Vatican. The Catholic News Service reports that Church officials hope to "hasten the 26-year-old Formula One star's recovery."

Weeks before John Paul succumbed to Parkinson's disease, medics at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic drew some of his blood for testing. That specimen was saved, refrigerated and wound up in the custody of Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, a friend and secretary to John Paul.

Kubica, who is Polish and Catholic, embossed John Paul's name on his racing helmet. And the late pope, Dziwisz explained in offering the blood, "loved sport as a young man."

Does this liquid gift smack of alchemy and ancient superstitions?

Polish Jesuit priest, the Rev. Krzysztof Madel, cringes at anointing a dead pope's blood as a relic. "The tradition of relics comes from medieval practices of teaching the Bible through images and symbols," he said recently. (Madel also questions a separate plan by Dziwisz to insert a vial of John Paul's blood into the altar of a Catholic church opening this May in Krakow, Poland, John Paul's home city). "In today's rationalized world, the message should rather come through teaching about someone's life."

Turns out, though, the quest to squeeze miracles from relics is very much alive among many Catholics.

In December, an exhibition of John Paul's personal effects -- including his kayak, his bike and a pair of his sunglasses -- drew hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Monterrey, Mexico.

Many were ill, some deathly so. A few visitors, however, claimed that standing near the spread of relics cured them, according to Guillermo MacLean, head of Villacero Foundation, the group behind the 150-piece display. He cited one woman with debilitating arm pain who pressed her body against a bronze replica of the late pope's hands, praying for the ache to vanish. It did, MacLean told journalists.

Early in the push for John Paul's sanctification, the campaign's Roman headquarters was swamped with global requests for prayer cards embedded with threads of the white cassock once worn by the late pontiff. Franciscan brother Chris Gaffrey (who has devoted time to the cause) told the Catholic News Service in 2007 that without an increase in donations to John Paul's campaign, the office could not afford to pay for the mailing costs. Media observers immediately accused the people behind the sainthood cause of selling relics. The Diocese of Rome abruptly issued statements reassuring all Catholics that the prayer cards were "completely free" and that "relics absolutely cannot be bought or sold because they are sacred objects."

In my new nonfiction book, The Third Miracle, I also recount how 104 years ago, some Indiana nuns quietly retrieved the brain of their dead founder, Mother Théodore Guérin, for a hopeful bit of miracle work.

When Mother Théodore's corpse was exhumed in 1907 in preparation for her sainthood campaign, several sisters, plus three doctors from nearby Terre Haute, were stunned to see that the woman's brain was still in tact a half century after her death.

Before Mother Théodore's body was resealed in a new coffin and placed in a convent shrine, the sisters borrowed the brain. They then touched it to the burned foot of a nun whose severe injury had left her immobile. According to records at the convent -- St. Mary-of-the-Woods -- after the brain was "applied" to the nun's foot, she was able to walk again with the help of a special shoe and crutches. (This alleged healing never was submitted to the Vatican as a claimed miracle).

In 2006, Mother Théodore was canonized as the eighth American saint. During that ceremony in St. Peter's Square, a nun from St. Mary-of-the-Woods handed Pope Benedict XVI a gift: several of Mother Théodore's hand bones.

Following John Paul's May 1 beatification Mass in St. Peter's Square, Vatican workers will remove his triple coffin from a grotto tomb and place it before the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica. It will stay there for viewing and veneration until all who want to see it have done so, the Vatican said.

L'Osservatore Romano, which bills itself as the Vatican's "semi-official" newspaper, has reported that John Paul's corpse will remain "enclosed."

But as the appetite among the faithful surges for papal relics, will the Vatican truly keep a lid on John Paul's body?


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Slap On Wrist: Vatican orders priest to retire to life of penitence for abusing minors

The priest would relocate from a Santiago parish to an undisclosed location so that he would have no contact with his former parishioners and “lifelong prohibition from the public exercise of any ministerial act, particularly confession and the spiritual guidance of any category of persons.”



In announcing the Vatican’s decision, Archbishop Ezzati said the church would not hand over records gathered during the church’s investigation of the charismatic and influential priest in Santiago.

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Vatican orders priest to retire to life of penitence for abusing minors





By Aaron Nelsen



Catholic News Service
SANTIAGO, Chile – The Vatican ordered an elderly priest in Chile to “retire to a life of prayer and penitence” for sexually abusing minors.


Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello of Concepcion announced the decision regarding Father Fernando Karadima, 80, Feb. 18 and said the priest would relocate from a Santiago parish to an undisclosed location so that he would have no contact with his former parishioners.


He said Father Karadima risked harsher penalties should he fail to heed the judgment.


The Vatican ruling, read by Archbishop Ezzati, said Father Karadima was subject to “lifelong prohibition from the public exercise of any ministerial act, particularly confession and the spiritual guidance of any category of persons.”


Following the announcement, two of Father Karadima’s victims called for a special prosecutor to reopen a criminal investigation.


Jose Andres Murillo and Juan Carlos Cruz said Feb. 21 that criminal proceedings should be brought against the priest and against anyone who “helped cover up these crimes.”


“Now there has to be a serious investigation into these criminal activities,” announced Juan Pablo Hermosilla, the victims’ attorney.


In an attempt to quash an appeal, Leonardo Battaglia, Father Karadima’s attorney, petitioned an appeals court Feb. 22 to disallow any charges brought against his client, leaving a decision on the future of the case pending until Feb. 28 when the court reconvenes.


Meanwhile, Chile’s Supreme Court President Milton Juica recommended that a special judge be appointed to investigate the priest if the case is reopened. The move ignited debate over what, if any, relevant materials the church would share with the court.


In announcing the Vatican’s decision, Archbishop Ezzati said the church would not hand over records gathered during the church’s investigation of the charismatic and influential priest in Santiago.


“I don’t see why they can’t be delivered,” Juica said in response to Archbishop Ezzati’s comments. “Any time a judge needs information, it should be placed at his disposal.”


The Vatican’s ruling brought a measure of relief to Father Karadima’s accusers, however, Cruz and Murillo expressed frustration with the church’s failure to respond when accusations first surfaced against the priest in May 2005. The ecclesiastical investigation of Karadima began five years later, in July 2010.


“There are a lot of people who are going to jump on the bandwagon now that the Vatican made its ruling,” Cruz said. “Even though they did nothing at the time, they know who they are.”


Father Karadima was accused by James Hamilton, a gastroenterologist, attorney Fernando Batlle Cruz, a journalist, and Murillo, a philosopher, of kissing and fondling them when they were teenagers. Father Karadima has maintained his innocence since the allegations surfaced.


“The truth didn’t perish, it triumphed,” Cruz wrote in a letter to his supporters that appeared on the website of the CIPER Chile news service. “Now, we must look ahead, let the truth follow its course and together create something better for those who have suffered so much and for those who come after us. This should never happen again, not only in our dear country, but anywhere in the world.”
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Italian court upholds fines on Vatican Radio for excess electromagnetic emissions

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Italian court upholds fines on Vatican Radio for excess electromagnetic emissions

Italy’s highest court has confirmed a judgment against Vatican Radio for violating legal standards governing the emission of electromagnetic radiation.


The court upheld a decision requiring Vatican Radio to pay damages to the town of Cesano, located near the broadcaster’s transmission facility outside Rome. However, the court also overturned a criminal conviction and 10-day suspended sentence that a lower court had imposed on Cardinal Roberto Tucci, the former chairman of the Vatican Radio board.


The case against Vatican Radio became a hot political topic in 2001, when local authorities in the area of Santa Maria in Galeria, on the outskirts of Rome, charged that electromagnetic impulses from the main Vatican Radio broadcasting antenna there were causing an elevated incidence of leukemia in the neighborhood. Although authorities could not demonstrate any scientific link between the disease and the radio transmissions, prosecutors charged that Vatican Radio was exceeding the legal limits for electromagnetic emissions.


In their defense against the charges, Vatican Radio officials also pointed out that the broadcast facility had been in line with European standards regarding electromagnetic emissions. At the time Italy had only recently adopted more stringent standards.


After negotiations with the government and changes to the broadcast equipment, Vatican Radio announced later in 2001 that it was now fully compliant with the new Italian standards for emissions.

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Vatican Radio ordered to pay damages

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- An Italian court has ruled Vatican Radio must pay damages to a small town near Rome for electromagnetic pollution created by its transmitters.

Italy's Supreme Court upheld an order for damages in a case that began in 2001 when so-called electrosmog levels produced by Vatican Radio transmitters near the town of Cesano were found to exceed levels allowed by law, Italian news agency ANSA reported Friday.

The station quickly reduced the strength of its signals, but the case went to court amid news reports of a regional health authority study that found children in the Cesano area were six times more likely to develop leukemia than their peers elsewhere.

A group backing the Cesano residents' claims hailed the court's decision.

''It's a great victory. Finally justice is done and the people of Cesano will be able to have the compensation they are rightfully due," said Carlo Rienzi, president of the Codacons consumer association.

''We're satisfied. Now we'll see what happens with the other more serious question of the increase in mortality for leukemia among Cesano inhabitants," he said.

Vatican Radio denied its transmitters were causing health problems and said it had always abided by international treaties on emission limits.

''This sentence comes at the end of a long, stormy trial process which has seen the pontifical broadcaster subject to unjust accusations,'' a Vatican Radio statement said.

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Brian Wilson Is an 'Awesome Vatican Assassin': Charlie Sheen

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Brian Wilson Is an 'Awesome Vatican Assassin': Charlie Sheen

By
SAJID FAROOQ
Brian Wilson poses for a picture during spring training

San Francisco Giants' fans worried about their closer hanging out with a drugged-out, porn star-loving Hollywood actor have nothing to worry about, right? Maybe.

Charlie Sheen's ongoing battle to clean up his life and get back on his hit CBS television show continue.

Last week, Giants' closer Brian Wilson took flak for flying out on a private jet to meet with Sheen and talk about a new version of the movie "Major League."

Since then the actor has apparently decided to go on a media offensive to get production of his halted show, "Two and a Half Men," turned backed on.

In a strange 18-minute interview on the "Alex Jones Show," Sheen goes after his bosses at CBS and talks about his life.

But about 12 minutes into his speech, Sheen decided to turn his attention to the Giants' colorful ace in a semi-coherent way.

After calling Wilson an "awesome Vatican assassin," Sheen went on to talk about the pitcher's character.

"He's as radical as you think he might be," Sheen said.

That radicalness is the reason he is such an effective pitcher, according to Sheen.

"It his job to go out there and embarrass people," the actor said. "Not just beat them but embarrass them."

After abruptly transition to Wilson, the actor just as abruptly transitioned into talking about love and hate but not before sounding an awful lot like Wilson speaking with Chris Rose.

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Jesus Cookies: Unmarried Gov. Cuomo is guilty of sacrilege and should be denied Communion, Vatican adviser says

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Unmarried Gov. Cuomo is guilty of sacrilege and should be denied Communion, Vatican adviser says

BY Leo Standora

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Newly-minted Gov. Cuomo and girlfriend Sandra Lee attend services in early January.

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Newly-minted Gov. Cuomo and girlfriend Sandra Lee attend services in early January.

Gov. Cuomo committed a "gravely sacrilegious" act by receiving Communion while holding certain political beliefs and living with his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, a Vatican canon law adviser said Tuesday.

Edward Peters told CNSNews that Cuomo, who supports abortion and gay marriage, should be denied Communion if he tries to take the sacrament again "as long as he persists in such conduct."

Peters zeroed in on the Mass, at Albany's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, that Cuomo attended a day after his Jan. 1 inauguration. He received Communion from Bishop Howard Hubbard at the Mass.

Cuomo went to the Mass with his three daughters from his first marriage and his "live-in girlfriend," Lee, host of the Food Network program "Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee."

In his sermon, Hubbard praised Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, who was at the Mass with his wife.

But Peters, a consultant to the Vatican's highest court, said the bishop was wrong to do so.

Hubbard's remarks, he said, constituted "a failure in pastoral care," largely for what he "did not say, than for what he did say."




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Minnesota parish under fire for lay preaching

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Minnesota parish under fire for lay preaching

by Deacon Greg Kandra

The problem reportedly surfaced last weekend, and drew the attention of higher-ups in the diocese.

Here’s more, from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune (and I’m sure you can spot the glaring factual error in the second paragraph…):

At a recent Sunday mass at St. Edward Catholic Church in Bloomington, a woman stepped to the lectern on the altar — and started to preach.

Before long, the vicar general of the archdiocese was paying a call to St. Edward’s pastor, the Rev. Mike Tegeder, and reminding him that the rules of Vatican II have changed. Lay people, even someone with a master’s degree in theology from St. Paul Seminary like this woman, can’t give homilies anymore. That job can be done only by priests.

“She probably is more competent than most priests when it comes to putting together a good message,” Tegeder said. “She has basically the same training as a priest.”

As many parishes in the country — including in the Twin Cities — struggle with a growing shortage of priests, the St. Edward’s incident points up tensions over the appropriate place for parishioners since the Vatican started limiting what roles they can play.

The archdiocese says it’s abiding by a Vatican policy change that began in 2004, though church leaders here didn’t actually try to enforce it until 2008, just before Archbishop John Nienstedt’s arrival.

After the Jan. 23 service at St. Edward’s, Tegeder said a parishioner notified the archdiocese that Heidi Busse preached the homily, the part of the mass when priests or deacons typically reflect on the Gospel and scripture. Busse is in charge of adult faith education at St. Edward’s and was preaching about the subject, Tegeder said. Busse could not be reached for comment on Wednesday.

Tegeder said that the Rev. Peter Laird, the archdiocese vicar general, told him that lay people could only preach after communion, near the end of mass.

“The purpose of the homily at the mass is to interpret the gospel,” said archdiocese spokesman Dennis McGrath. “Normally a priest is far more qualified to deliver that message. A priest is ordained to preach. Also, there’s an opportunity there for wrong teaching or misinterpretation [with lay preachers].”

Tegeder said Busse is scheduled to preach at an April 11 Lenten penance service at St. Edward’s, which is not a mass. He’d also like her to preach at a mass celebrating Mother’s Day in May. He said he’s not sure yet if he’ll ask her to preach during the homily or after communion.

There’s more at the link, including background on lay preaching.

And is it just me, or does it seem like the last sentence should be, really, a moot point?  Why is the pastor still “not sure” about when she will preach, when the law of the Church has already answered that question?

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