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Category Archives: New Evangelization
Pontifical Council for Culture… winning the minds and hearts of women everywhere!
I have sometimes offered that, were I Pope, I would create two new dicasteries (while axing a bunch of others). Firstly, there would be a Sacred Congregation for the Dusting of the Holy Doors. After all, the major basilicas all … Continue reading
Posted in Linking Back, New Evangelization, You must be joking!
Tagged Card. Ravasi, Pont. Council Culture
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ASK FATHER: Friday fish and chips cooked in beef fat? POLL: “meatless Fridays”
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This is a repost of a by now classic here from a few years ago. It is still useful (and fun).
From a reader:
I was watching TV last night & on the program they were talking about fish & chips … Continue reading
Defending Archbp. Cordileone (Archd. San Francisco)
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is taking flack from the usual suspects for his support of an initiative at Star of the Sea to build a corps of altar boys (not girls – HERE) and for having an entirely reasonable … Continue reading
Paprocki and the Canons!
After the March for Life in Washington DC this year, we had a Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool with His Excellency Most Rev. Thomas Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield in Illinois.
You will also recall His Excellency’s reaction to the State of Illinois … Continue reading
Death in Belgistan
I point the readership’s attention at a blog which lead me to a piece in the Italian Il Foglio.
The situation in Belgium is described. Belgium has nearly completely abandoned the Catholic Faith.
Giulio Meotti:
Belgium is Committing Suicide
As the capital of … Continue reading
Receiving divorced and/or remarried catechumens into the Church properly
I recently obtained a blurb from a mailing of a diocese to priests which had a great summary of how to handle the cases of catechumens who are in apparently invalid marriage situations. I obtained permission to repost it.
This is useful … Continue reading
Card. Burke: “Liturgy is absolutely the first act of the New Evangelization.”
At The Wanderer there is part 1 of a new interview with His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke.
See if this isn’t exactly what I have been talking about for… how long now?
“The Sacred Liturgy is absolutely the first act of the New Evangelization. Unless … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Do the devout have the hardest deaths?
From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
I have been unsettled by remarks of a Dr Martin Scurr (Daily Mail 27 Jan 2015) who some years ago served the Jesuits at their HQ in Mayfair and religious attached to Westminster Cathedral. “I always think that … Continue reading
Polish Archbishop predicts ugly confrontations at Synod: “innovators have not been idle”
At the blog Witness for Church and Pope I saw this (my emphases):
BREAKING NEWS from POLAND: Archbishop Henryk Hoser: “The Church has betrayed John Paul II…they did not follow his voice, they did not acquaint themselves with his teaching”
Today’s Niedziela, … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pope Francis, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, ¡Hagan lío!
Tagged Archbp. Henryk Hoser, civil marriage, divorce and remarriage, family, Poland, Synod of Bishops, Synod on the Family
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ASK FATHER: Parish fundraiser serves meat on 1st Fridays
From a reader…
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Every First Friday, a neighboring parish hosts a fundraiser dinner at which they serve beef or chicken, except during Lent. Many of our friends (homeschooling families) are parishioners there and attend every month. We hear that it’s delicious fare and as I … Continue reading
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