Tag Archives: CDF

Lutheran Ordinariate coming?

Posted on 22 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Vatican Insider has something today about some Lutherans who are getting nervous about the Holy Father establishing an Ordinariate for Lutherans, along the lines of that which he established for Anglicans.
“A Lutheran ordinariate? That’s a bad sign”
An ordinariate for Lutherans … Continue reading →

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National Catholic Reporter teams up with Ford Foundation backed entity to hide the truth about the Holy See’s ‘Doctrinal Assesment’ of the LCWR

Posted on 27 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Every year around Christmas and Easter, the usual hyenas emerge from the brush to worry at the Church’s heels.  This year, as a little gift to the Christ Child, the National Catholic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) has teamed up with an … Continue reading →

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Prefect of CDF on Anglican Ordinariate and SSPX

Posted on 19 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald with my emphases:
Head of the CDF urges Catholics to welcome ordinariate converts
Catholics in England and Wales should welcome members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the new prefect of … Continue reading →

Posted in Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, SSPX, The future and our choices, Vatican II | Tagged , , , , , | 39 Comments

Sr. Fiedler’s spittle-flecked nutty over Mr. Bourgeois

Posted on 21 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Sr. Maureen Fiedler is one of our favorites at National catholic Fishwrap.
This could be an great exercise for a fundamental theology class: count the errors.
No… there may be too many to cover in a class period.
Only someone like Maureen could present … Continue reading →

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“There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall…” Farewell, Roy Bourgeois!

Posted on 19 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Sound of Music:
There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say, “Cuckoo”
Regretfully they tell us but firmly they … Continue reading →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Liberals, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged , , , , , , | 13 Comments

More on CDF Prefect Archbp. Müller and the SSPX

Posted on 6 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The other day I posted that the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbp. Gerhard Müller indicated about the SSPX in an interview with a German radio station that “I don’t think there will be any more new … Continue reading →

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Prefect of CDF about SSPX and LCWR

Posted on 5 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The National Catholic Register (not the National catholic Reporter, aka Fishwrap) has an interview with the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbp. Gerhard Müller.   Part 1 HERE and part 2 HERE. The interview … Continue reading →

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LCWR Assembly Update: How did keynote speaker Hubbard do?

Posted on 8 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I posted a video of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly’s keynote speaker, Barbara Marx Hubbard, HERE.  If you were able to get through even part of it, you have an idea of what NunThink involves and why the CDF … Continue reading →

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Archbp. Sartain offered to attend LCWR Assembly. In a spirit of dialogue, The Nuns rejected his gesture.

Posted on 4 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The other day in the National Catholic Register, I read a piece about the upcoming annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR – a subsidiary of the Magisterium of Nuns).  The writer, Ann Carey, is all over this … Continue reading →

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The SSPX’s “sine quibus non” conditions

Posted on 25 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the intrepid Andrea Tornielli:
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The latest version of the doctrinal preamble – discussed by cardinals of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by the Pope – is considered by the Holy See to be definitive and … Continue reading →

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