Category Archives: Year of Faith

“If heretics no longer horrify us today”… it’s NOT because we are more charitable

Posted on 22 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I picked this up from Let Nothing You Dismay:
“If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity in our hearts? Or would it not too … Continue reading →

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Bp. Morlino (D. Madison) – super sermon to converts about “moralistic therapeutic deism”

Posted on 18 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, gave a super sermon to converts who will enter the Church at Easter.  It was for the Rite of Election on the First Sunday of Lent.
Here is a phrase that … Continue reading →

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Benedict XVI on Vatican II: Council of the Fathers v. Council of the Media

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today during his annual meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, of which Benedict is still the Bishop, the Holy Father spoke about the Second Vatican Council.  Not my translation, but my emphases and comments:
[T]here was the Council … Continue reading →

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MADISON: 22-23 Feb – Men’s Retreat (with overnight accommodations)

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

There is going to be a men’s retreat at the pastoral center (“chancery” on my planet) of the Diocese of Madison. Click HERE.
Some details from the site…
Fortes in Fide
Annual Diocesan
Men’s Lenten Retreat
February 22-23, 2013
Bishop O’Connor Pastoral Center, Madison Wisconsin
Featuring Fr. … Continue reading →

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A great spiritual war is rising.

Posted on 7 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Have you ever heard of “Santa Muerte”?
This is a perversion of things Christian which is on the rise in certain sub-cultures, especially criminal.
There is an article at the site of the FBI “Santa Muerte: Inspired and Ritualistic Killings (Part 1 … Continue reading →

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Archbp. Müller, Prefect of the CDF, anti-Catholicism in USA, time running out for SSPX

Posted on 2 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From Vatican Insider comes this.
The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mgr. Gerhard Ludwig Müller, has launched a biting attack of [on?] the mood toward the Catholic Church in the U.S. and Europe, comparing it to … Continue reading →

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Swiss Bishop forbids the use of churches and chapels to the SSPX

Posted on 2 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am saddened by the following story, which I found on Vatican Insider in Italian from Andrea Tornielli:
“Lefevbrites are suspended a divinis, they cannot celebrate in Catholic churches”
His is a striking and suggestive position: the Bishop of Diocese of Lausanne, … Continue reading →

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Knights of Divine Mercy

Posted on 1 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am in Pine Bluff, WI, in the Diocese of Madison, to help on the First Friday, with an outstanding men’s group started by the parish priest, Fr Heilman.
For the Knights of Divine Mercy tonight we began with Holy Mass … Continue reading →

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Bp. Olmsted (D. Phoenix) issues pastoral letter to priests about importance of Confession

Posted on 28 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the onset, Fr. Z Kudos to His Excellency Most Rev. Bp. Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix for his new Pastoral Letter on CONFESSIONS!
The letter is called “Apostles of Mercy” and it is directed to the Priests of the Diocese of … Continue reading →

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“Zero Question” – NCReporter’s use of “Catholic” in title is canonically illicit.

Posted on 26 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

“Finn was too kind to them.”
That is Prof. Ed Peters, canonist over at his fine blog, In The Light Of The Law.
Peters has written about the Bp. Robert Finn’s column about the National catholic Fishwrap… Reporter.  Bp. Finn, bishop of … Continue reading →

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