Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?

Schism at NSR?

Posted on 19 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Something curious is happening at the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap).
Our pal Michael Sean Winters wrote about the Holy See’s hostile takeover of the LCWR in light of the keynote address to the LCWR given by Sr. Laurie Brinks. Sr. Laurie, … Continue reading →

Posted in Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?, Women Religious | Tagged CDF, Fishwrap, LCWR, magisterium of nuns, Michael Sean Winters, National Schismatic Reporter, NSR | 33 Comments

Pope Francis slaps down those who resist the Holy Spirit

Posted on 16 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Pope Francis has been saying Mass semi-publicly in the chapel of the Casa S. Marta, where he has been living. He has been giving a “fervorino” at Mass, that is, a brief, usually off the cuff, sermon. So far, there … Continue reading →

Posted in Benedict XVI, Ecclesiae unitatem, Our Catholic Identity, SSPX, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty, Vatican II, What are they REALLY saying? | Tagged Benedict XVI, continuity, hermeneutic of continuity, Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, SSPX | 201 Comments

What does Fr. Z really say? A response to critics on the left and the right.

Posted on 9 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Back on 2 April – which in blog years is like a decade ago – I offered a brief manifesto about how I think we ought to approach Pope Francis.
In fact, there are any number of entries I have posted … Continue reading →

Posted in "But Father! But Father!", Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, Pope Francis, Reading Francis Through Benedict, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged critics, extremists, Pope Francis | 119 Comments

Unless you recover the words, you can’t recover the concepts.

Posted on 26 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

When you change the words, you change the concepts.
The liberal progressivist liturgical terrorist reformers were successful in changing our way of speaking about our sacred liturgical worship.
For example, they made us – and no one asked them to do this, … Continue reading →

Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, Vatican II, What are they REALLY saying?, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith | Tagged hermeneutic of continuity, liturgy, sacred, worship | 53 Comments

Whose ecumenism?

Posted on 22 October 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Liberals are beginning to twit.
They are just warming up, but soon it will be a grand mal twit.
They are panicking about Pope Benedict and his provisions for Anglicans who, after their long nightmare with liberal on their side of … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecclesiae unitatem, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying? | Tagged Pope of Christian Unity | 72 Comments

FOLLOW UP: McBrien’s “rather adolescently rigid” article… NCR readers react!

Posted on 9 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Notre Dame’s Richard McBrien says that "Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward."
You can read his sneering NCR article if you want or read it with my commentary HERE.
A WDTPRS reader … Continue reading →

Posted in Linking Back, What are they REALLY saying? | Tagged Eucharist, Eucharistic Adoration, NCR, Notre Dame, Richard McBrien | 32 Comments

Non-denial denials

Posted on 30 August 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

His Hermeneuticalness has done us a service in translating from Italian a comment by the intrepid Andrea Tornielli. I turn the mic over to Fr. Finigan, but add my emphases and comments:

Andrea Tornielli "le smentite che non smentiscono"
This morning on … Continue reading →

Posted in What are they REALLY saying? | 12 Comments

Recent survey concerning the TLM: 2-1 of those with opinions favor a TLM option

Posted on 26 August 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A reader alerted me – mired as I was in the midst of computer battles – about a survey recently conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate of Jesuit run Georgetown University about the availability of the … Continue reading →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, POLLS, SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying? | 12 Comments

Justice Ginsberg originally thought Roe v Wade was about control of undesirable populations

Posted on 9 July 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

With a tip of the biretta o{]:¬/ to Sancte Pater, I present this from Worldnet Daily.
I was amazed… amazed to read this.
LAW OF THE LAND
Ginsburg: I thought Roe was to rid undesirables Justice discusses ‘growth in populations … Continue reading →

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying? | 57 Comments

A study in how “nuance” is used to enervate

Posted on 11 May 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the ultra-lefty National Catholic Reporter we have this piece.A Georgetown prof is trying…. [btw... nice tie, Father] … to offer a very nuanced position. The bottom line is that Catholics, especially bishops, are not sophisticated or wise unless they … Continue reading →