http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=9f3_1344469583 Items in channel 'Vatican' Wed, 22 May 2013 11:58:05 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=9f3_1344469583 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 05:34:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=458_1363166902 BloodyPeasant Not sure if this is going to work or not but if it does then this should show a live youtube feed from the Vatican as they get ready to elect a new pope. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work and at least I have the benefit of being able to say I tried. http://vatican.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=458_1363166902 BloodyPeasant (Embed)(Vatican) Live Feed from the Vatican vatican, pope, elect, new pope, 2013, cardinal, cardinals Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:59:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e11_1345312630 BloodyPeasant August 12th, 2012 Openness to the radiant beauty and life force of the Creator", helps us to "grow beyond ourselves and gives us peace" said Benedict XVI on Saturday evening following a concert held in his honor. Organized by Caritas Regensburg it marked the ninetieth anniversary of its charitable activities and featured German cellist Thomas Beckmann, founder of "Together against the cold" an association of musicians who devolve profits from their performances to helping the homeless. Music - said the Pope - is an expression of the spiritual, and of an inner place within the person, created for all that is true, good and beautiful. Note: All vatican videos are now PRIVATE. This means that in order to view them you need to visit my vatican channel at: http://vatican.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e11_1345312630 BloodyPeasant (Vatican) Music is an expression of the spiritual vatican, pope, holy see Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:57:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a5_1345311191 BloodyPeasant This is the multi language version of the angelus of August 15th, 2012. Total run time is just under 17 minutes. Note: All vatican videos are now PRIVATE. This means that in order to view them you need to visit my vatican channel at: http://vatican.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a5_1345311191 BloodyPeasant (Vatican) Angelus of August 15th, 2012 - Full version vatican, pope, holy see Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:33:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=34e_1345310907 BloodyPeasant These are the english and german excerpts of the angelus of august 15th, 2012. Multi language version will follow shortly. Runtime is just over 2 minutes. Note: All vatican videos are now PRIVATE. This means that in order to view them you need to visit my vatican channel at: http://vatican.liveleak.com http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=34e_1345310907 BloodyPeasant (Vatican) Angelus of August 15th, 2012 - English and German Excerpts only vatican, pope, holy see Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:37:39 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d3_1344472278 BloodyPeasant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Dominic_de_Guzman Saint Dominic ( Spanish : Santo Domingo ), also known as Dominic of Osma and Dominic of Caleruega , often called Dominic de Guzm'an and Domingo F'elix de Guzm'an (1170 - August 6, 1221), was the founder of the Dominican Order . Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers . . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5d3_1344472278 BloodyPeasant (Vatican) Popes speech of August 8th, 2012 regarding St Dominic de Guzman vatican, pope, holy see Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:31:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e7d_1344471925 BloodyPeasant Benedict XVI attended a performance of Bavarian songs, dance, and music organized by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising as part of a Bavarian afternoon held yesterday at Castel Gandolfo. It demonstrated the joy typical to the Bavarian culture, the Pope said, and he thanked archbishop of Munich and Freising Cardinal Marx who organized the Bavarian hour. "We have been able to perceive that Bavarian culture is a cheerful one. It is imbued with joy, born from an inner acceptance of the world, from an inner yes to life that is a yes to joy." The Pope explained, this joy is based on the fact that we are in harmony with the Creation and with the Creator himself. . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e7d_1344471925 BloodyPeasant (Vatican) Excerpt from the Popes speech of August 5th, 2012 regarding Bavaria, Germany vatican, pope, holy see Thu, 02 Aug 2012 21:28:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e21_1343956692 BloodyPeasant Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (September 27, 1696 - August 1, 1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop , spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian , and founder of the Redemptorists , an influential religious congregation . He was canonized in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI . Pope Pius IX proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church in 1871. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonsus_Liguori . . Biography Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was born in Marianella , near Naples , then part of the Kingdom of Naples . He was the first-born of seven belonging to the Neapolitan nobility . Two days after he was born he was baptized at the Church of Our Lady the Virgin as Alphonsus Mary Antony John Cosmas Damian Michael Gaspard de' Liguori. Alphonsus Liguori went to law school at age sixteen, becoming a very well known lawyer. He was thinking of leaving the profession, and wrote to someone: "My friend, our profession is too full of difficulties and dangers; we lead an unhappy life and run risk of dying an unhappy death. For myself, I will quit this career, which does not suit me; for I wish to secure the salvation of my soul." At the age of twenty-seven, after having lost an important case - the first he had lost in eight years of practicing law - he made a firm resolution to leave the profession of law. In 1723, after a long process of discernment , he abandoned his legal career and, despite his father's strong opposition (and reluctant consent), began his seminary studies in preparation for the priesthood in the Oratory of St. Philip Neri . He was ordained a priest on December 21, 1726, at the age of 30. He lived his first years as a priest with the homeless and marginalized youth of Naples. He founded the Evening Chapels which were managed by the young people themselves. These chapels were centers of prayer and piety, preaching, community, social activities, and education. At the time of his death, there were 72 of these chapels with over 10,000 active participants. His sermons were very effective at converting those who were alienated from their faith. The saint suffered from scruples much of his adult life, and felt guilt about the most minor issues relating to sin. Moreover, the saint viewed scruples as a blessing at times, he wrote: "Scruples are useful in the beginning of conversion....they cleanse the soul, and at the same time make it careful". In 1729, Alphonsus left his family home and took up residence in the Chinese College in Naples. It was there that he began his missionary experience in the interior regions of the Kingdom of Naples where he found people who were much poorer and more abandoned than any of the street children in Naples. On November 9, 1732, St. Alphonsus founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, when Sister Maria Celeste Crostarosa told him that it had been revealed to her that he was the one God had chosen to found the Congregation. This congregation's goal was to teach and preach in the slums of cities and other poor places. They also fought Jansenism which was a heresy that denied humans free will and barred many Catholics from receiving the Eucharist. He gave himself entirely to this new mission. A companion congregation of nuns was founded simultaneously by Sister Maria Celeste.Alphonsus was consecrated Bishop of Sant'Agata dei Goti in 1762. He tried to refuse the appointment, proposing his age and infirmities as arguments against his consecration. During this time he wrote sermons, books, and articles to encourage devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1775, he was allowed to retire from his office and went to live in the Redemptorist community in Pagani, Italy , where he died on August 1, 1787. He was beatified on September 15, 1816, by Pope Pius VII and canonized on May 26, 1839, by Pope Gregory XVI . He was named patron of confessors and moralists by Pope Pius XII on April 26, 1950, who subsequently wrote of him in the encyclical Haurietis Aquas . Works Overview Alphonsus was proficient in the arts, his parents having had him being trained by various masters of the arts, and was a musician, painter, poet, and author at the same time. He put all his artistic and literary creativity at the service of the Christian mission and he asked the same of those who joined his congregation. His biography says that, in his later days, he liked to go to the local theater, which at the time had a very bad reputation. After being ordained, each time he attended the recitals Alphonsus simply took his optic glasses off and sat in the last row, listening to the music and not paying attention to anything else. Alphonsus wrote 111 works on spirituality and theology. The 21,500 editions and the translations into 72 languages that his works have undergone attest to the fact that he is one of the most widely read Catholic authors. Among his best known works are The Great Means of Prayer , The Practice of the Love of Jesus Christ and The Visits to the Most Holy Sacrament . Prayer and its power , love, his relationship with Christ and his first-hand experience of the pastoral needs of the faithful made Alphonsus one of the great masters of the interior life . His best known musical work is his Christmas hymn Quanno Nascetti Ninno , later translated into Italian by Pope Pius IX as Tu scendi dalle stelle ("From Starry Skies Thou Comest"). Mariology In the field of Mariology , Alphonsus Liguori wrote The Glories of Mary , Marian Devotion , Prayers to the Divine Mother , Spiritual Songs , The True Spouse of Jesus Christ , Visitations to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Virgin Mary , and other writings. His Mariology, though mainly pastoral in nature, rediscovered, integrated and defended the Mariology of Saint Augustine and Saint Ambrose and other fathers and represented an intellectual defence of Mariology in the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment , against the cold rationalism of which his often flaming Marian enthusiasm contrasted. Moral theology Alphonsus' greatest contribution to the Church was in the area of moral theological reflection with his Moral Theology . This work was born of Alphonsus' pastoral experience, his ability to respond to the practical questions posed by the faithful and from his contact with their everyday problems. He opposed sterile legalism and strict rigorism. According to Alphonsus, those were paths closed to the Gospel because "such rigor has never been taught nor practiced by the Church". His system of moral theology is noted for its prudence, avoiding both laxism and excessive rigor. He is credited with the position of Aequiprobablism , which avoided Jansenist rigorism as well as laxism and simple probablism . As a master of moral theology, he was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1871 by Pope Pius IX , one of only 34. The Redemptorists founded the Alphonsian Academy for the advanced study of Catholic moral theology in the spirit of St. Alphonsus. The Academy offers licentiates and doctorates in moral theology. Many of the professors are Redemptorists. "Inspired by St. Alphonsus M. de Liguori, who strove to renew moral theology in his time, and in harmony with the Magisterium of the Church, as expressed especially in the Second Vatican Council, the Alphonsian Academy seeks the fullest human and christian knowledge about humankind. Rooted always in the salvific Mystery of Christ the Redeemer, the Academy promotes the worth and meaning of human life by discerning the norm of human behaviour in the individual, in the family, in civil society and in religious faith. Over 4.600 students who have passed through the Academy give vital witness to the pastoral and doctrinal worth of the Institute." . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e21_1343956692 BloodyPeasant Popes address of August 2nd, 2012 from the Freedom Plaza at Castel Gandalfo vatican, saint, liguori