"Now, it is true that on the spiritual side Islam had declined in one factor wherein we of the West had not declined, and that was the factor of energy allied to and productive of, tenacity and continuity of conduct. But on the other hand, in the major thing of all, Religion, we have fallen back and Islam has in the main preserved its soul. Modern Europe and particularly Western Europe has progressively lost its religion, and especially that united religious doctrine permeating the whole community, which unity gives spiritual strength to that community.
There is with us a complete chaos in religious doctrine, where religious doctrine is still held, and even in that part of the European population where the united doctrine and definition of Catholicism survives, it survives as something to which the individual is attached rather than the community. As nations we worship ourselves, we worship the nation; or we worship (some few of us) a particular economic arrangement believed by us to be the satisfaction of social justice. Islam has not suffered this spiritual decline; and in the contrast between [our religious chaos and] the religious certitudes still strong throughout the Mohommadean world — as lively in India as in Morocco, active throughout North Africa and Egypt, even inflamed through contrast and the feeling of repression in Syria (more particularly in Palestine)–lies our peril.
We are divided in the face of a Mohommadean world, divided in every way–divided by separate independent national rivalries, by the warring interests of possessors and dispossessed–and that division cannot be remedied because the cement which once held our civilization together, the Christian cement, has crumbled.
These lines are written in the month of January, 1937; perhaps before they appear in print the rapidly developing situation in the Near East will have marked some notable change. Perhaps that change will be deferred, but change there will be, continuous and great. Nor does it seem probable that at the end of such a change, especially if the process be prolonged, Islam will be the loser."-The Crusades
By: Hilaire Belloc www.tanbooks.com/index.php/Crusades

Gay marriage a threat to humanity's future - Pope
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said Monday that gay marriage was one of several threats to the traditional family that undermined "the future of humanity itself."January 9, 2012. REUTERS/Pier Paolo Cito/Pool
The pope made some of his strongest comments against gay marriage in a new year address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican in which he touched on some economic and social issues facing the world today.
He told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that the education of children needed proper "settings" and that "pride of place goes to the family, based on the marriage of a man and a woman."
"This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself," he said.
The Vatican and Catholic officials around the world have protested against moves to legalise gay marriage in Europe and other developed parts of the world.
One leading opponent of gay marriage in the United States is New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, whom the pope will elevate to cardinal next month.
Dolan fought against gay marriage before it became legal in New York state last June, and in September he sent a letter to President Barack Obama criticising his administration's decision not to support a federal ban on gay marriage.
In that letter Dolan, who holds the powerful post of president of the U.S. Bishops Conference, said such a policy could "precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions."
The Roman Catholic Church, which has some 1.3 billion members worldwide, teaches that while homosexual tendencies are not sinful, homosexual acts are, and that children should grow up in a traditional family with a mother and a father.
"The family unit is fundamental for the educational process and for the development both of individuals and states; hence there is a need for policies which promote the family and aid social cohesion and dialogue," Benedict told the diplomats.
Gay marriage is legal in Canada and a number of European countries, including Spain and the Netherlands.
Some Churches that have allowed gay marriage, women priests, gay clergy and gay bishops have been losing members to Catholicism, and the Vatican has taken steps to facilitate their conversion.
In 2009, Benedict decreed that Anglicans who leave their Church, many because they feel it has become too liberal, can find a home in Catholicism in a parallel hierarchy that allows them to keep some of their traditions.
The Vatican has since set up "ordinariates," structures similar to dioceses, in Britain and the United States to oversee ex-Anglicans who have converted and be a point of contact for those wishing to do so.
2012 Reuters

sigh...well as long as a you dont speak about (against) gays/homosexuals agenda, your fine, but if you are a modernist, speak against the Magisterium and promote homosexual lifestyle acceptance,' womyn priests' etc you can be the 'US Catholic' magazine, and the 'National Catholic Reporter'. but"please don't name Bishops,make waves... or call Bishops to holiness" and certainly never speak against unchaste homosexuality and there lifestyles... o...r the homosexually inclined Bishops..... will shut you down.....sad.... i .must pray and sacrifice more.

lanternedslenoir hmmm some say new york, some say England interview, now you say Canada?? please give a reference/tv station time/date place for such an report...i have all close relatives in Quebec Canada and never heard of this...i am sure of course she privately disagreed with the Church on this, as evidenced by her Communities actions... i am not questioning your sincerity...but,the 'worst thing that ever happened in the world! " really? ...since the Missionaries of Charity deny her saying this, and the Mother Teresa Centre which has all documentation/ films/ interviews /writing's on and about her have no reference to this statement,www.motherteresa.org/08_info/Quotesf.html
isn't it unusual for someone who thinks that is the 'worse thing in the world' to only make such a statement one time, to a reporter in Quebec...and nevermore say it again, nor have any public or private record of it, while Abortion and lack of true Charity in the world.... she spoke of regularly since these to her were the 'worse things in the world. Peace be with you.

Mother Teresa never said or wrote such a thing that would not have been her style....there is no hard evidence....though-yes the Missionaries of Charity as a Congregation received only the tongue,(praise God),but there is no evidence in writing that Blessed Mother Teresa (whom i9 met and spoke with in 1997),ever said in the hand was a 'sin' or in the hand what made her the most sad..."..but she sure did say that about abortion!!.The MC Fathers even have, somewhere online, wrote about this, as being an urban Myth..

and from the 'Mother Teresa Center "..

"Mother Teresa would not have contradicted the Church. On the mode of receiving Holy Communion, she wrote to her sisters: “This is like the permission of the Bishops given some years ago for receiving Holy Communion in the hand. It is allowed, but not an order, … as M.C.s, we have chosen to receive Holy Communion on the tongue. If questioned about [it], do not enter into discussion – “let every spirit praise the Lord” – but let us pray that all be done for the greater glory of God and the good of the Church.”
You quoted "Wherever I go in the whole world, the thing that makes me the saddest is watching people receive Communion in the hand." This statement does not seem authentic to us. We have never heard Mother Teresa saying these words nor read them in her writings. One thing that Mother Teresa used to repeat very often was: “…The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself… the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.”www.motherteresa.org/08_info/NOTIFICATION.html

Ceci est un article/Video injuste, il fait de quelque chose bête, ....quelque chose déplorable et qui implique des attitudes impudiques aux prêtres, pour lesquels nous devons prier et donner exemple, et ne pas se moquer, (ils le font bien eux-mêmes parfois ). Je pense que la danse est ridicule, et la musique est typique d'un mouvement charismatique Catholique, mais la chanson française dans la vidéo pour la première minute est consacrée à «l'ouverture de votre cœur à la vraie vie, à lever et faire l'éloge de Jésus et l'amour etc" et puis quelqu'un met la musique profane et impudique, anglaise laïque sur le dessus à la marque d'une minute, à peu près. Il est injuste de mettre ces paroles impudiques dans votre message et d'impliquer et de supposer que c'est l'attitude des prêtres et des jeunes présents.

Avant que tu "freak-out" je suis un catholique traditionnel converti, qui a été soulevée pentecôtiste, et déplore ce type de "teen" messe pour les jeunes, mais je ne pense pas que cela aide votre cause en prenant ce que est déjà des abus liturgiques d'une stupide jeunesse, et qui se transforme en une attitude i discothèque impudique du monde .. Se moquer de ces gens-ci (ce qu'il font eux-mêmes, sans votre aide supplémentaire), qui ont besoin de retourner à la beauté et la tradition, sera rejetté en raison de la caricature que vous faites d'eux.
comment l'affichage, et surtout a refaire, cette vidéo ,aide dans renouvellement liturgique tradtional? désolé pour mon français n'est pas mapremière langue.
PS curieusement, malheureusement, les pires et les meilleurs liturgies dont j'ai été témoin, ont pris place en France.