Category Archives: The future and our choices

For Fishwrap, El Pueblo knows best!

Posted on 4 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters has a supremely naïve piece (for which I hope he was paid by the word).  Winters lays out a grand plan for Pope Francis to reform the Roman Curia and why.
Aside … Continue reading →

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Does a California bill really classify pedophilia as a “sexual orientation”?

Posted on 4 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

UPDATE: 5 April 13:19 GMT
From information provided by readers in the combox, below, you will see that there were a lot of problems with the information about the bill and the issues.  That’s why I posted the title in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, The future and our choices | Tagged , , | 70 Comments

A diocesan “morality clause” in Louisiana

Posted on 4 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Bp. Vasa has had a bumpy ride in Santa Rosa in implementing a provision that teachers in Catholic schools not live or teach in open violation of Catholic teachings.
Now I see that in the Diocese of Lafayette, a Catholic school … Continue reading →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Linking Back, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged , , , | 46 Comments

One look at Pope Francis’s first Holy Week. Fr. Z responds with brief manifesto.

Posted on 2 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Many people don’t know that Pope Francis planned to write his thesis on Romano Guardini, the distinguished theologian and liturgist who had a profound influence on Joseph Ratzinger.  Ratzinger even named one of his most important books with the same title … Continue reading →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Pope Francis, Reading Francis Through Benedict, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged , , , , , | 55 Comments

New College to open in Bp. Finn’s diocese

Posted on 2 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Very cool brick by brick news from the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, where Most Rev. Robert Finn is, by the grace of God, bishop.
Go now to the side bar of this blog and look for the feed of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices | Tagged | 8 Comments

SSPX stunning announcement!

Posted on 1 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I received this note:
(WDTPRSNEWS.COM – Ecône, Switzerland) In a surprise move, the followers of the late Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre in the Society of St. Pius X, have issued a document creating within their ranks an “ordinariate” for Catholics who wish … Continue reading →

Posted in SESSIUNCULA, SSPX, The future and our choices | Tagged | 91 Comments

Thank you, Pope Francis!

Posted on 30 March 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In two weeks Pope Francis has done more to promote Summorum Pontificum than Pope Benedict did since the day he promulgated it.
After the decision by Pope Francis to wash the feet of two women on Holy Thursday, conservative Catholic priests … Continue reading →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae | Tagged , , | 201 Comments

What is Pope Francis really saying?

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is what I think Pope Francis is up to.
In this explanation I am not necessarily endorsing specific things that he is doing (washing the feet of females in a prison) or not doing (refusing the mozzetta, etc.).
I am trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Liberals, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pope Francis, The Drill, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged , | 382 Comments

Martyrdom and you.

Posted on 27 March 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at the National Catholic Register, Matthew Archbold has this sobering observation:
Preparing my Children for Martyrdom
I was looking at my children in Mass yesterday and a horrifying thought occurred to me. If I do my job well as a parent, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cri de Coeur, Liberals, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, TEOTWAWKI, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice | Tagged | 170 Comments

TRADS ON FIRE! Young men getting the job done and implementing a TLM in a parish.

Posted on 26 March 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is a good Brick By Brick story.
A while back I posted a note to traditional Catholics.  This is our time to push forward and use the provisions of Summorum Pontificum and advance the vision of Benedict XVI.  I urge … Continue reading →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, HONORED GUESTS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices | Tagged , , | 26 Comments