Chris Lee

To the editor:

Since you permitted Nico Fassino to use your pages of October 12 for a Guest Column titled: “Why I hate bad Church music,” I hope you will allow me to express my opinion, honed over 87 years.

Nico expresses HIS personal opinion that: “The value of proper liturgical music has nothing to do with . . . what your personal opinions are about music.” Is he saying “his” is more important than others? Or, does his personal opinion ALSO have nothing to do with the value of liturgical music?

Year of Faith

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

From Trent to Vatican II — ongoing reform

While the liturgical reforms promulgated by the Second Vatican Council were unexpected by many people, the seeds of the reform actually were planted centuries earlier at the Council of Trent (1545-1563).

The Council of Trent was a monumental moment for the Church. Held in the decades following the Reformation, the council sought to define, unite, and codify many of the Church’s dogmas and practices. In terms of the liturgy, the most significant task that they accomplished was directing the pope to standardize and revise the books for the celebration of Mass.

Letters to the editor

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

Consider ‘intrinsic evil’ of abortion in voting

To the editor:

In June 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great civil rights leader, wrote a letter to eight white clergymen explaining why he was in Birmingham, Ala., fighting racial discrimination. Dr. King wrote this letter from his jail cell, thus it has been famously known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

In the letter Dr. King talked about just and unjust laws. “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law . . . an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.”

Since 1973, almost 55 million surgical abortions have taken place in this country because seven unelected men serving for life decided they were above God’s eternal law. Of course, I am speaking of the seven men on the nine-member body of the United States Supreme Court who voted to strike down the abortion laws in all 50 states with its 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

Year of Faith

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

From Trent to Vatican II — ongoing reform

While the liturgical reforms promulgated by the Second Vatican Council were unexpected by many people, the seeds of the reform actually were planted centuries earlier at the Council of Trent (1545-1563).

The Council of Trent was a monumental moment for the Church. Held in the decades following the Reformation, the council sought to define, unite, and codify many of the Church’s dogmas and practices. In terms of the liturgy, the most significant task that they accomplished was directing the pope to standardize and revise the books for the celebration of Mass.

Letters to the editor

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

Consider ‘intrinsic evil’ of abortion in voting

To the editor:

In June 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great civil rights leader, wrote a letter to eight white clergymen explaining why he was in Birmingham, Ala., fighting racial discrimination. Dr. King wrote this letter from his jail cell, thus it has been famously known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

In the letter Dr. King talked about just and unjust laws. “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law . . . an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.”

Since 1973, almost 55 million surgical abortions have taken place in this country because seven unelected men serving for life decided they were above God’s eternal law. Of course, I am speaking of the seven men on the nine-member body of the United States Supreme Court who voted to strike down the abortion laws in all 50 states with its 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

Letters to the editor

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

Consider ‘intrinsic evil’ of abortion in voting

To the editor:

In June 1963, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the great civil rights leader, wrote a letter to eight white clergymen explaining why he was in Birmingham, Ala., fighting racial discrimination. Dr. King wrote this letter from his jail cell, thus it has been famously known as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

In the letter Dr. King talked about just and unjust laws. “A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law . . . an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.”

Since 1973, almost 55 million surgical abortions have taken place in this country because seven unelected men serving for life decided they were above God’s eternal law. Of course, I am speaking of the seven men on the nine-member body of the United States Supreme Court who voted to strike down the abortion laws in all 50 states with its 1973 decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton.

Letters to the editor

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

We must vote when consequences are so great

To the editor:

This election produces a worst case scenario. We must pray without ceasing that worst case pro-abortion candidates don’t get elected, that the American people don’t get so turned off that they don’t vote. It is a great moral negligence, a sin of omission, an evil, not to vote when the consequences are so great.

Christians in particular MUST hold on to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior (not political parties or candidates) and that the end government result is not a government that mandates killing babies by abortion and the frail person with dementia or disability or non-terminal life conditions by “murder by morphine.”

Artículos en Español

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

Abre nuestros ojos, Señor


	Esta columna es la comunicación del Obispo con los fieles de la diócesis de Madison. Cualquier divulgación más amplia va más allá de la intención del Obispo.

Queridos amigos:

En el Evangelio del pasado domingo escuchamos sobre Bartimeo (Mc 10:46-52). Bartimeo no era ciego de nacimiento, a diferencia del hombre en el cuarto capítulo del Evangelio según Juan. Bartimeo vio por muchos años y luego perdió la vista y por ello sabía qué era lo que no tenía. Y además de perder la vista, por su ceguera fue reducido a mendigar, y por esa razón era tratado como alguien que había perdido su dignidad humana.

En la historia del Evangelio, Bartimeo estaba sentado allí, en su miseria, y se acercó Jesús. Bartimeo no puede controlarse porque, de repente, la esperanza invade su miseria, y le grita a Jesús. Pese a que algunos quieren que Bartimeo se quede en silencio, Jesús lo llama y le pregunta: “¿Qué quieres que haga por ti?” Bartimeo, que hablaba en forma directa, respondió: “Señor, quiero ver”. Bartimeo recibe el don de ver, ¿y qué hace? No regresa a su vida antigua. Ahora con vista, inmediatamente sigue a Jesús.

De eso se trata la Nueva Evangelización durante el Año de la Fe. Mucha gente una vez vio, pero se ha vuelto ciego. El problema es que no lo saben como para decir, “quiero ver”. Pero nosotros somos los instrumentos de la esperanza de Jesucristo que los mueve a decir eso. Y tenemos un gran problema en nuestro país y en nuestra sociedad con la gente, incluyendo a muchos católicos, que simplemente no quieren ver.

We must vote when consequences are so great

To the editor:

This election produces a worst case scenario. We must pray without ceasing that worst case pro-abortion candidates don’t get elected, that the American people don’t get so turned off that they don’t vote. It is a great moral negligence, a sin of omission, an evil, not to vote when the consequences are so great.

Christians in particular MUST hold on to Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior (not political parties or candidates) and that the end government result is not a government that mandates killing babies by abortion and the frail person with dementia or disability or non-terminal life conditions by “murder by morphine.”

Artículos en Español

On November 1, 2012

Chris Lee

Abre nuestros ojos, Señor


	Esta columna es la comunicación del Obispo con los fieles de la diócesis de Madison. Cualquier divulgación más amplia va más allá de la intención del Obispo.

Queridos amigos:

En el Evangelio del pasado domingo escuchamos sobre Bartimeo (Mc 10:46-52). Bartimeo no era ciego de nacimiento, a diferencia del hombre en el cuarto capítulo del Evangelio según Juan. Bartimeo vio por muchos años y luego perdió la vista y por ello sabía qué era lo que no tenía. Y además de perder la vista, por su ceguera fue reducido a mendigar, y por esa razón era tratado como alguien que había perdido su dignidad humana.

En la historia del Evangelio, Bartimeo estaba sentado allí, en su miseria, y se acercó Jesús. Bartimeo no puede controlarse porque, de repente, la esperanza invade su miseria, y le grita a Jesús. Pese a que algunos quieren que Bartimeo se quede en silencio, Jesús lo llama y le pregunta: “¿Qué quieres que haga por ti?” Bartimeo, que hablaba en forma directa, respondió: “Señor, quiero ver”. Bartimeo recibe el don de ver, ¿y qué hace? No regresa a su vida antigua. Ahora con vista, inmediatamente sigue a Jesús.

De eso se trata la Nueva Evangelización durante el Año de la Fe. Mucha gente una vez vio, pero se ha vuelto ciego. El problema es que no lo saben como para decir, “quiero ver”. Pero nosotros somos los instrumentos de la esperanza de Jesucristo que los mueve a decir eso. Y tenemos un gran problema en nuestro país y en nuestra sociedad con la gente, incluyendo a muchos católicos, que simplemente no quieren ver.