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Quinque Puncta … Five Points To Be Recited Usefully
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If we don’t know who we are as Catholics, and if we don’t keep firmly in mind our common Christian vocation to holiness, we will not be able to fulfill our particular vocations and we … Continue reading
U.S. Bishops Issue Call To Action To Defend Religious Liberty
From the website of the USCCB:
April 12, 2012
Urge strong lay involvement
Outline threats to First Freedom at all levels of government and abroad
Call upon dioceses to pursue religious liberty fortnight, June 21-July 4 [Mark your calendars. Get things going.]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. bishops … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Blatteroons, Brick by Brick, Dogs and Fleas, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, freedom of religious, freedom of worship, Obama Administration, Pres. Obama, public square, religious liberty, USCCB
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Fr. Blake: “What we have failed to do is prepare our people for any battle over this issue.”
One dimension of the international kulturkampf is the promotion of unnatural unions as if they were “marriages” and the introduction of legislation to force these unions to be recognized as such, even in the face of reason. After legislation is … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged ad extra, ad intra, Catholic identity, Catholic Voices, England and Wales, Fr. Blake, homosexuality, kulturkampf, marriage, marriage amendment, Minnesota Catholic Conference, public square, religion, same-sex unions, worship
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Santorum’s Catholicism, candidacy, and Archbp. Chaput’s address “The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life”
It is timely to haul this old PODCAzT out of cold storage. In light of presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s comments about Pres. Kennedy and Catholicism and the public square, let’s review Archbp. Chaput’s outstanding address in Houston in 2010.
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10-03-02 Archbp. Chaput on The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life [ 49:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3423)
Posted in Classic Posts, Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, Religious Liberty
Tagged Archbp. Chaput, Houston, public square
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PODCAzT 126: Benedict XVI’s important address to US Bishops on Religious Freedom and the Church in the Public Square
In this PODCAzT we drill into an important address given by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 January 2012 to the bishops of Regions 4-6 in the United States.
This was Benedict’s second major discourse to US bishops who are making their ad limina … Continue reading
PODCAzT 126: B16 to US Bishop on the Church in the Public Square Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (897)
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Emanations from Penumbras, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ad limina, bishops, freedom of religion, liturgy, public square, religious freedom, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, worship
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Benedict XVI on faith in the public square, politics
Yesterday the Holy Father spoke to bishops from Brazil gathered in Rome for their ad limina visit.
Some of his comments pertain to the upcoming US midterm election next week and the role of the Church in shaping the consciences of … Continue reading
Bp. Wenski’s Mass of Reparation – sermon (Orlando, 3 May)
I had posted about the Mass of Reparation in the Cathedral of Orlando to be celebrated by Bp. Wenski on 3 May. This Mass was brought about by alumni of Notre Dame because of the recent scandal there.
A priest reader … Continue reading
