Category Archives: Religious Liberty

Bp. Jenky (D. Peoria) required all priests to read letter from pulpit before election

Posted on 5 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The McClatchy newspaper group has not been, to my knowledge, very friendly toward the Catholic Church. At McClatchyDC we find this:
Bishop orders priests to read anti-Obama letter at Sunday sermons
CHICAGO — Joining the chorus of Roman Catholic clergy in Illinois … Continue reading →

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1953: Pius XII to American seminarians: be holy, heroes, officers of the Church Militant (quotes St. Charles Borromeo)

Posted on 4 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Because I am still having some internet problems and composition of posts is a little hard, I have pulled a couple things from the archives in which St. Charles Borromeo is mentioned. (His heart, by the way, in the great … Continue reading →

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From the Archive: Card. Burke on the obligation to VOTE properly

Posted on 28 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the Archive.
On this day in 2010, I posted this:
Remember how soon-to-be Cardinal Raymond Burke was, as liberals crowed, promoted to a Roman office in order to remove his influence on the American scene?
This is from CNA with my E … Continue reading →

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Hypocritical, one-sided, biased, mendacious, “tolerance” is on the horizon

Posted on 26 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Minnesotan readers!   Get out the vote!  Get your like-thinking to the polls and VOTE!
Otherwise, have a taste of Christmas-Yet-To-Come.
Not only is the Obama Administration actively and doggedly undermining our religious freedom, trying to reduce freedom of religion to freedom … Continue reading →

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Archbp. Chaput: “We are Catholics before we are Americans”

Posted on 25 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

More from Archbp. Chaput:

Technorati Tags: abortion, Archbp. Chaput, Catholic and Faithful American and Free, Catholic Democrats, Democrats

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Card. Burke’s contribution at the Synod of Bishops: “antinomianism …infected post-Council ecclesial life”

Posted on 25 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke, distinguished canonist and head of the Church’s “Supreme Court” gave his contribution to the Synod of Bishops.  The theme he touched on, all too briefly, alas, was topic also examined at a canon law conference … Continue reading →

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Archbp. Chaput: “Catholics cannot have alternate views on abortion”

Posted on 25 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

It seems to me that His Excellency Most Rev. Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is probably the heavy-hitter of the US episcopal conference right now.
CNA has this:
Archbishop Chaput: Be Catholic before you are Democrat or Republican
By Carl Bunderson and Matthew A. … Continue reading →

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Card. Burke’s Election Year Prayer For The Faithful Witness of Catholics in the USA

Posted on 22 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Card. Burke wrote a prayer which the Catholic Vote folks have posted:
AN ELECTION YEAR PRAYER FOR THE FAITHFUL
WITNESS OF CATHOLICS IN THE UNITED STATES
By His Eminence Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke,
Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
O Lord Jesus … Continue reading →

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Of priest holes and peddler trunks

Posted on 19 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In another post today I mentioned Shakespeare.  Here is another Shakespearean connection with something that is just too cool.
At The Shakespeare Blog I saw an entry about an October fair held in Stratford-upon-Avon.  The post concerns itinerant players and peddlers who … Continue reading →

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Minnesota Marriage Amendment, TV ads, consequences, DONATE!

Posted on 19 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE – MINNESOTANS – GET OUT THE VOTE!
The campaign in favor of the Minnesota Marriage Amendment is heating up.
Today there was a TV ad released:

There will consequences of this amendment does not pass and the homosexual marriage things … Continue reading →

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