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Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Gregory VII. Bronze Relief in Cathedral Causes Controversy Austria Wednesday a controversial bronze relief of Sr Restituta Kafka was inaugurated in St Stephen’s …More
Gloria TV News on the Feast of St. Gregory VII.

Bronze Relief in Cathedral Causes Controversy

Austria

Wednesday a controversial bronze relief of Sr Restituta Kafka was inaugurated in St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Sr Restituta was murdered in 1943 by the Nazis and declared blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1998. The relief was produced by the Vienna artist Alfred Hrdlicka who calls himself an atheist and Stalinist. Last year blasphemous works of Hrdlicka, on display in the Vienna diocesan museum, produced an international scandal. But during the recent inauguration, the rector of the Cathedral explicitly stated that this scandalous porn-exhibition laid the foundation for the collaboration of the archdioceses and Cardinal Schoenborn with Hrdlicka.

Civil License instead of Marriage?

USA

Doug Kmiec, a prominent Catholic who backed Barack Obama’s presidential bid, has endorsed replacing marriage with a neutral “civil license.” Responding to Kmiec’s proposal, Princeton University professor Robert George said that this was a “terrible” idea and a “very, very bad one.” “The family is the original and best Department of Health, Education and Welfare,” he continued. Governments, economies and legal systems all rely on the family to produce “basically honest, decent law abiding people of goodwill – citizens – who can take their rightful place in society” – George said.

Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos in Écône?

Switzerland

The usually very well-informed French priest Claude Barthe wrote in this Wednesday's edition of French daily “Présent” that Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos has considered visiting the Seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X in Écône, Switzerland, on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and may indeed do so, perhaps as a kind of farewell visit before his almost certain retirement from the presidency of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei".

Rigidity of the Western Canon Law?

Austria.

On Monday the Catholic Theological Faculty of Linz gave canon lawyer and Redemptorist, Father Bruno Primetshofer, an honorary doctorate the Diocesan newspaper has reported. In his acceptance speech, the priest compared the Latin Canon Law with the Code of Canon Law of the Eastern Churches. He claimed that for these Churches it was "unthinkable" that a bishop could be appointed without the involvement of the diocese. He declared to be is awaiting the day when "the rigidity of the Western canon law no longer prevails."