Category Archives: Puir Slow-Witted Gowk

McBrien thinks the Pope is … wait for it… wrong about women’s ordination!

Posted on 14 June 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Richard McBrien in his column in the National catholic Fishwrap says that the Church’s infallible teaching about the impossibility of the ordination of women isn’t really infallible.  How dare the Pope say that it is?
His basic idea is that since … Continue reading →

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The Archbishop of Glasgow on the Holy Father’s provisions in Summorum Pontificum

Posted on 8 June 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

All day long people have been filling my email with requests for me to react to the opinions of His Excellency, nay rather, His Grace, Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow, who has spoken about the Holy Father’s provisions in  Summorum … Continue reading →

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A new batch

Posted on 31 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have ticked a few things off my To Do List for the day and can now settle down to read a bit.
I need, inter alia, to make some more notes about Augustine’s commentary on 1 John, which we will … Continue reading →

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Agony in England or Reason #100988876 for Summorum Pontificum

Posted on 24 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

P.A.I.N.F.U.L…..
To all my readers across the pond and elsewhere… I am so very sorry.
[Sorry about the vile ad, as well.]

UPDATE:
I am trying to think of a light-hearted analogy.
In the spirit of my baseball/cricket analogy at the time of Universae Ecclesiae….
Imagine … Continue reading →

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Mickens of The Pill K.O.’s “Universae Ecclesiae”!

Posted on 21 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Robert Mickens of The Pill (aka The Tablet aka RU486), found something really wrong with Universae Ecclesiae, something truly disturbing.
Some puir slow-witted gowk in the CDF or Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” screwed up the title or “incipit” of the Instruction … Continue reading →

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