Pseudo-Vatican Approved Altar Girls

PSEUDO-VATICAN COMMUNICATION ON FEMALE ALTAR SERVERS
Congregation for Divine Worship
Following is the text of a communication sent from the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to the presidents of episcopal conferences permitting altar girls.

Rome, 15 March 1994

Excellence,

It is my duty to communicate to the Presidents of the Episcopal Conferences that an authentic interpretation of Canon 230 #2 of the Code of Canon Law will soon be published in Acta Apostolicae Sedis.

As you know, Canon 230 #2 lays down that:

"Laici ex temporanea deputatione in actionibus liturgicis munus lectoris implere possunt; item omnes laici muneribus commentatoris, cantoris aliisve ad normam iuris fungi possunt."

The Pontifical Council for the interpretation of Legislative Texts was recently asked if the liturgical functions which, according to the above canon, can be entrusted to the lay faithful, may be carried out equally by men and women, and if serving at the altar may be included among those functions, on a par with the others indicated by the canon.

At its meeting of 30 June 1992, the members of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts examined the following which had been proposed to them:

Utrum inter munera liturgica quibus laici, sive viri sive mulieres, iuxta C.I. C. Can. 230 #2, fungi possunt, adnumerari etiam possit servitium ad altare.

The following response was given: "Affirmative et iuxta instructiones a Sede Apostolica dandas."

Subsequently, at an Audience granted on 11 July 1992 to the Most Reverend Vincenzo Fagiolo, Archbishop Emeritus of Chieti-Vasto and President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, Pope John Paul II confirmed the decision and ordered its promulgation. This will be done in the near future.

In communicating the above information to your Episcopal Conference, I feel obliged to clarify certain aspects of Canon 230 #2 and of its authentic interpretation:

1) Canon 230 #2 has a permissive and not a preceptive character: "Laici . . . possunt." Hence the permission given in this regard by some Bishops can in no way be considered as binding on other Bishops. In fact, it is the competence of each Bishop, in his diocese, after hearing the opinion of the Episcopal Conference, to make a prudential judgment on what to do, with a view to the ordered development of liturgical life in his own diocese.

2) The Holy See respects the decision adopted by certain Bishops for specific local reasons on the basis of the provisions of Canon 230 2. At the same time, however, the Holy See wishes to recall that it will always be very appropriate to follow the noble tradition of having boys serve at the altar. As is well known, this has led to a reassuring development of priestly vocations. Thus the obligation to support such groups of altar boys will always continue.

3) If in some diocese, on the basis of Canon 230 #2, the Bishop permits that, for particular reasons, women may also serve at the altar, this decision must be clearly explained to the faithful, in the light of the above-mentioned norm. It shall also be made clear that the norm is already being widely applied, by the fact that women frequently serve as lectors in the Liturgy and can also be called upon to distribute Holy Communion as Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist and to carry out other functions, according to the provisions of the same Canon 230 #3.

4) It must also be clearly understood that the liturgical services mentioned above are carried out by lay people ex temporanea deputatione, according to the judgment of the Bishop, without lay people, be they men or women, having any right to exercise them.

In communicating the above, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has sought to carry out the mandate received from the Supreme Pontiff to provide directives to illustrate what is laid down in Canon 230 #2 of the Code of Canon Law and its authentic interpretation, which will shortly be published.

In this way the Bishops will be better able to carry out their mission to be moderators and promoters of liturgical life in their own dioceses, within the framework of the norms in force of the Universal Church.

In deep communion with all the members of your Episcopal Conference. I remain

Yours sincerely in Christ,

Cardinal Antonio Maria Javierre Ortas
Prefect

An Altar-girl Carries the Processional Cross At Antipope Benedict-Ratzinger's Mess to Dishonor Cardinal Newman

An Altar-girl Carries the Processional Cross

At Antipope Benedict-Ratzinger's Mess of

Novus Ordo Pseudo-Beatification of Cardinal Newman

Benedict-Ratzinger Frequently Uses Altar-girls at His Messes

Although He Falsely Poses as a So-Called "Traditionalist" when It Suits

His Purpose To Garner Pew-warmers and Money for His New Order

An altar-girl prominently carries with the pontifical processional cross ahead of Antipope Benedict-Ratzinger before his Mess Novus Ordo-beatifying invalidly John Henry Cardinal Newman at Cofton Park in Birmingham, England, September 19, 2010. The Mess drew about half the number expected, far fewer than 40,000. Newdioceses in Britain couldn't sell the tickets and returned many to Newvatican. Some Newchurchers felt cheated and demanded their money back from Newvatican.

It's Not All For You! You can view with discretion this abomination of Modernism via BCTV:

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/default.aspx?videoID=1612

What would Cardinal Newman Do?

Cardinal Newman, of course, who was truly traditional, never used altar-girls and would have considered Benedict-Ratzinger an unCatholic antipope to reject Catholic Sacramental theology in this way, as he wrote about Arianism so it applies today to Neo-Arianism, that is, Modernism has engulfed the Apostasy of most clergy and even an antipope has usurped the Vatican, as Cardinal Newman and his disciple Fr. Henry Ryder wrote:

JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN (1801-1890)

"It is not a little remarkable that, though historically speaking
the fourth century is the age of the doctors, illustrated as it is, by
the Saints Athanasius, Hilary, the two Gregories, Basil, Chrysostom,
Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine (and all those saints bishops also,
except one, nevertheless in that very day the divine tradition committed
to the infallible Church was proclaimed and maintained far more by the
faithful than by the episcopate....
"I mean still, that in that time of immense confusion the divine
dogma of Our Lord's divinity was proclaimed, enforced, maintained, and
(humanly speaking) preserved, far more by the Ecclesia docta ("the
taught Church" -- the faithful) than by the Ecclesia docens ("the
teaching Church" -- the Magisterium); that the body of the Episcopate
was unfaithful to its commission, while the body of the laity was
faithful to its baptism....
"On the one hand, then, I say that there was a temporary
suspension of the functions of the Ecclesia docens. The body of bishops
failed in their confession of the faith. There was weakness, fear of
consequences, misguidance, delusion ... extending itself into nearly
every corner of the Catholic Church. (The Arians of the Fourth Century,
1833)

FR. HENRY IGNATIUS DUDLEY RYDER (1837-1907)
THEOLOGIAN AND SUPERIOR OF THE BIRMINGHAM ORATORY
SUCCESSOR AND STUDENT OF JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN

"It has always been maintained by Catholic theologians that for
heresy the Church may judge the Pope, because, as most maintain, by
heresy he ceases to be Pope. There is no variance on this head amongst
theologians that I know of, except that some, with Turrecremata and
Bellarmine, hold tha by heresy he ipso facto ceases to be Pope: whilst
others, with Cajetan and John of St. Thomas, maintain that he would not
formally [as opposed to materially] cease to be Pope until he was
formally deposed.

"The privilege of infallible teaching belongs only to an undoubted
Pope; and on the claims of a doubtful, disputed Pope the Church has the
right of judging. No single example can be produced of a Pope whose
orthodoxy and succession ws undoubted upon whom the Church pretended to
sit in judgment.... During a contested Papacy the state of things
approximates to that of an interregnum. The exercise of active
infallability is suspended." (Catholic Controversy, 6th ed., Burns &
Oates, pp. 30-31)

Catholics must know the Faith about the Sacred Liturgy (Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi), please confer the page "The Pontifical Catholic Magisterium Against Liturgical Abuses & Sacrileges" for more information.

http://laicanetwork.blogspot.com/p/pontifical-catholic-magisterium-against_29.html

Please pray to stop this sacrilege for Liturgical Abuse is Child Abuse!

http://laicanetwork.blogspot.com/p/act-of-reparation-to-holy-trinity.html