Tag Archives: Joseph Ratzinger

ADVENTCAzT 13: Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent

Posted on 14 December 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am continuing with my 5 minute daily podcasts to help your preparation for the upcoming feast.
And so, here is ADVENTCAzT 13, for Friday the 2nd week of Advent.

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Christ is born, astrology dies – a comment on the Pope’s new book about Jesus

Posted on 20 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

First, if you plan to buy the Holy Father’s new book online, will you please my links?  You’ll get your book quickly and at a good price and I will also benefit.  Thanks!
US hardcover HERE.  Kindle HERE. Unabridged audio HERE. … Continue reading →

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PODCAzT 132: Ratzinger on Conscience and Truth – Part 3

Posted on 24 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In 1991 Joseph Card. Ratzinger gave a talk to American Bishops called “Conscience and Truth”. This talk is useful today, especially in the context of two major controversies that are going on as I write, namely, the defense of the … Continue reading →

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PODCAzT 130: Ratzinger on Conscience and Truth – Part 1

Posted on 22 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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In 1991 Joseph Card. Ratzinger gave a talk to American Bishops called “Conscience and Truth”.  This talk is useful today, especially in the context of two major controversies that are going on as I write, … Continue reading →

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“To me, the most serious element in all this was the breach of fundamental, liturgical consciousness.”

Posted on 26 April 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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In Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year, from the works Joseph Ratzinger (you know who) for 25 April we read a blurb from his perennially useful Feast of Faith (US link … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 18 December – Liberation Theology

Posted on 18 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In these final days of Advent preparation, the Church prays with great intensity. It is one of the “greater feria” of Advent, the home stretch, as it were.
Here is today’s
COLLECT (2002MR):
Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus,
ut, qui sub peccati … Continue reading →

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Why we need more “ad orientem” worship: “we cannot serve this world with a kind of banal officiousness”

Posted on 10 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Perpend:
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations …” (Mt. 28:19). But the dynamism of this mission, this openness and breadth of the Gospel, cannot be revised to read: “Go into the world and become the world yourselves!” Go into … Continue reading →

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Of Popes, Jubilees and Pontifical Masses

Posted on 31 March 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I was alerted to this video over at Rorate.
I would point out that this year on 29 June is the 60th Jubilee of our Holy Father’s ordination to the priesthood, together with his brother Georg.

It is too bad that there … Continue reading →

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Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Kung: compare and contrast

Posted on 24 March 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Be sure to check out the latest by my friend Samuel Gregg who writes for Acton Institute.  Mr. Gregg has a fine comparison of  Papa Joseph Ratzinger and Fr. Hans Kung, sparked by the coincidental release of their respective new … Continue reading →

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Thoughts about the “Benedictine arrangement”

Posted on 9 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At NLM there are photos of a “Benedictine arrangement” of an altar in Bogota.

The “Benedictine arrangement” is, of course, the placement of the Crucifix with candles at a versus populum Mass such that the Crucifix becomes the common focus, not … Continue reading →

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