Tag Archives: New Evangelization

French prayer to oppose gay unions

Posted on 6 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Irish Times:
French prayer to oppose gay unions
The French Catholic Church will revive a centuries-old custom next week with an updated national “prayer for France” opposing the same-sex marriage and euthanasia reforms planned by the new Socialist government.  [Did … Continue reading →

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Signs of revival

Posted on 30 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At the site of Catholic World Report there is and interview with author Roger Kimball about his new book, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia (UK link HERE). Within the interview you will find this … Continue reading →

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Our Lady of Quito and the collapse of the Catholic Church (and its revival)

Posted on 26 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, comes this from William Oddie.
Our Lady of Quito prophesied that in the 60s there would be spiritual catastrophe in the Church; then, through the faith of the just, a ‘complete restoration’
But … Continue reading →

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Where are the Catholics? What are you going to do about them?

Posted on 4 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am sure you have heard that on Sundays the largest Catholic congregations are actually at fundamentalist mega-churches.
I saw this on Catholic Culture:
Roughly one-fifth of the Catholics in the US are not associated with a parish, a new study has … Continue reading →

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Pope Benedict: “Each confession … a step forward for new evangelization.” Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 12 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Every personal sin drags down the entire human race.
Every sacramental reconciliation helps to build us up.
We are in this together.
I have incessantly hollered that no initiative of renewal (New Evangelization, etc.) will succeed if we do not revitalize our liturgical … Continue reading →

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Card-To-Be Dolan addressed the College of Cardinals and Holy Father

Posted on 17 February 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From CNA comes a report of what Card-To-Be Dolan of New York said to the College of Cardinals about the New Evangelization.
[Read the whole thing here.]
My emphases.
Vatican City, Feb 17, 2012 / 12:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In remarks to the … Continue reading →

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Irish Times: Public decries closure of embassy to the Vatican

Posted on 16 January 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I didn’t expect this.
From the Irish Times:
Public decries closure of embassy to the Vatican
By Paul O’Brien, Political Editor
Monday, January 16, 2012
TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore’s decision to close the Irish embassy to the Vatican was met with overwhelming opposition from the public … Continue reading →

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Bp. Sample on how as a child he was catechized… NOT!

Posted on 15 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Michael Voris made a video about an interview conducted by Catholic World News with an old friend of mine of many years ago, His Excellency Most Reverend Alex Sample, Bishop of Marquette.  Voris has a summary of an important point … Continue reading →

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Archbp. Martin: “Irish Catholics are very weak, and that’s the fault of generations of the Church…”

Posted on 14 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From CNA:
Dublin archbishop says lapsed Catholics should admit their non-belief
By Benjamin Mann
Dublin, Ireland, Dec 14, 2011 / 06:05 am (CNA).- Non-practicing and non-believing Irish Catholics should be honest about their relation to the Church, Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told the … Continue reading →

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Bp. Etienne: “Secularism is the moral grizzly bear of our day!”

Posted on 29 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming (covering the whole state), His Excellency Most Reverend Paul Etienne, has a blog.  I have posted about his hunting with the Mystic Monk Coffee Carmelites in northern Wyoming.  Also in the Diocese of Cheyenne is … Continue reading →

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