Posted on 01/27/2006 7:37:26 AM PST by NYer
[Fr. Euteneuer is director of Human Life International in Virginia]
After saying Mass, the wise old monk stopped to dine and visit with one of the village families. After eating, he sat down to relax. After a while, he went off to another room to pray. He then called in the family and said: "Evil spirit passing through the village, please kneel down and pray". No one questioned his sagesse and all dropped down in prayer. The monk then said: "Evil spirit come to get someone", and everyone prayed harder. Several minutes later three shots from a rifle, echoed through the town.
There are those who have received special graces from God. We must never doubt the presence of evil in our midst and constantly pray for protection.
Human Life International is doing outstanding work for life. No wonder the devil strikes at him.
http://www.hli.org/
HLI President - Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer ( EYE-ten-our) became president of Human Life International in December of 2000. Human Life International is the world’s largest pro-life organization with affiliate offices and associates in seventy-five countries around the world. In five years of service to this unique mission Fr. Euteneuer has traveled more than 500,000 miles as a pro-life missionary and visited more than forty countries.
Fr. Euteneuer was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1962, the fourth of seven children born to Joseph and Marian Euteneuer. He has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana as well as a Licentiate degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He is fluent in Spanish.
While in college, Fr. Euteneuer participated in the Marine Corps Officer Candidate Program, attended boot camp at Quantico, Virginia and graduated at the top of his Company. After discerning that the Lord was calling him to the priesthood rather than the military, he entered the seminary. After his ordination in 1988, Fr. Euteneuer served as a parish priest in five parishes of the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, secretary to the diocesan bishop, director of vocations, and spiritual moderator for the diocesan Respect Life Office.
His pro-life activity began in the early years of his priesthood with prayer vigils, pilgrimages, pickets at abortion mills, sidewalk counseling and the establishment of a crisis pregnancy center across the street from an abortion mill
in 1999.
Since taking office at HLI, Fr. Euteneuer has spoken to thousands of people all over the world spreading the Gospel of Life as well as making many appearances on EWTN and other local, national and international media. He has been featured in Human Events and National Catholic Register and has recently been awarded the John Cardinal O’Connor Award for Life from Legatus.
I will offer prayers for this great man that Our Lord's angels will continue to come to his aid in battle.
St. Michael, the archangel, pray for us.
Oh, gag.
Alright, so the guy's got a little too much St. Francis in him. However, I believe dogs can sense things. I've SEEN them sense things. Things like death, heart attacks and strokes.
I'm not saying animals aren't swell, and all. I don't even mind patting the gerbil. But that was so ... gooey - not to mention theologically unsound.
This reminds me of the time my girlfriend came over to visit me. "Pookie," our daschund, fell asleep in her lap as she talked with the family. Suddenly, "Pookie" woke-up and bit her on her neck
See, the dog knew you could do better!
LOL I married that beautiful strawberry blonde. "Pookie" was an absolute lunatic
Dachshunds can be like that! And then there are all the pit bull stories ... blech.
I've been missing my old cat the last couple of weeks. In my earlier pregnancies, she would huddle up next to my stomach and purr at the babies. I'm sure she could hear them!
Oops. Sorry about that. I hope you had the dog put down.
May as well burn witches by such polytheism.
It's incredible. There are people who make fun of creationists for not accepting the word of scientists about the origin of the universe but who insist the earth is hollow and filled with demons. I kid you not! Please tell me why the same scientist who has the authority to critique a literal Genesis creation is dismissed when it comes to what he says about the interior of the earth?
I'll never understand it. I can accept that Catholics reject the miracles of rival religions, but to reject the supernatural phenomena related in "your own" Bible because it took place in the "wrong" testament and because rednecks believe in it?
Ping to my above post to Aquinasfan on this thread.
Because the God of science is the God of the Bible and the God of Truth. Truth cannot contradict truth. Any apparent contradiction between the two must be just that.
The Church allows very wide latitude in the interpretation of Genesis (and biblical interpretation generally), ranging from a literal interpretation to a very figurative one, because neither science nor biblical exegesis is conclusive. The core truths that Catholics must hold regarding Genesis are the doctrines of creation from nothing, Original Sin, and with almost as high a degree of certainty, its logical corollary, the existence of original parents of the human race.
Regarding alleged cases of possession, the Church recommends first medical examination, and then, once medical explanations of physical phenomena have been found inadequate, exorcism.
I wish one of you "unity of truth" people (who always wind up making a radical division between "scientific truth" and "literal truth") would explain to me why when an "apparent contradiction" occurs it is the uniformitarian scientific explanations that must always be accepted as "what actually happened" while the Biblical account must always be relegated to didactic parable. Is it not ever possible that the uniformitarian scientific assumption must yield?
The Church allows very wide latitude in the interpretation of Genesis (and biblical interpretation generally), ranging from a literal interpretation to a very figurative one, because neither science nor biblical exegesis is conclusive.
You mean the "universal consent of the Fathers" isn't definitive? How many liberal theories must Catholics sift through in order to arrive at a "conclusion?"
The core truths that Catholics must hold regarding Genesis are the doctrines of creation from nothing, Original Sin, and with almost as high a degree of certainty, its logical corollary, the existence of original parents of the human race.
I note your refusal to deal with the issue of hypocrisy in defending Catholic traditions while subjecting the Jewish traditions that delivered the Bible to you to scientific criticism. Isn't this precisely the attitude of Protestants who accept the "Catholic" Bible while rejecting Catholic traditions about it?
BTW, at which point in Genesis do its characters suddenly cease to be mythical and become historical? I assume after Chapter 11?
I hope the Catholic Church will be equally willing to place all its teachings in the dock of science and modernity, however, and not just the Bible.
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