Selective Hearing

Catholic & Loving It! blog - 9.3.2011

http://www.lovingit.co.uk/

Let me get this right...

Fr Dermot Fenlon is banished from his home at the Birmingham Oratory with absolutely no notice at all mere months before the Papal Visit while Jack Valero tells the world that there's nothing to worry about and it's all perfectly normal for members of a religious community to dissapear mere months before one of the most important events in that communities history even though they've done nothing wrong.

The "visitor" shifts people out and moves a new provost in and the stream of pro-life, pro-family press releases stops. The community has been taken over and silenced.

Austen Ivereigh has nothing to say.

Lesley Anne Night, secretary generral of Caritas International doesn't get to renew her contract and suddenly he's talking about a "Vatican coup".

Update: Today marks 300 days of unjust exile for Fr Fenlon.

Cat becomes a star after Pope blessing

The Daily Telegraph - 8.10.2010

"Pushkin, the Birmingham Oratory cat, has become an unlikely religious hero after the Pope paused during his state visit to 'bless’ the feline and tickle his ears."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8052235/Cat-becomes-a-star-after-Pope-blessing.html

With news of the Pope meeting Pushkin the cat now widespread and indeed some reports claiming that the Pope gave the cat a "blessing", Free the Birmingham 3: Justice for Fr Fenlon asks why Fr Dermot Fenlon, Fr Philip Cleevely and Br Lewis Berry were not allowed to meet the Pope and receive his blessing?  Surely these three sons of Newman should have been afforded this dignity? 

This news story makes a mockery of the Pope's visit to the Birmingham Oratory.  It is grossly insensitive and insulting to Fr Dermot, Fr Philip and Br Lewis and it casts shame on those responsible for their exile.     

Pope meets Pushkin the Birmingham Oratory Cat...

but not Fr Dermot Fenlon, Fr Philip Cleevely and Br Lewis Berry.

L'Osservatore Romano has made some images available from the Pope's recent private visit to the Birmingham Oratory, which can be viewed at:

http://www.photovat.com/PHOTOVAT/VIAGGI%20BENEDETTO/UK2010WEB/26_UK2010ORATORIO/index.html