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“If you are not on offense you are on defense.” So… what’s next?
The Obama Administration has to… has to… fold when it comes to the HHS mandate and their attack on the Catholic Church and the 1st Amendment.
While it is true that Pres. Obama is an ideologue, it is also true that … Continue reading
GUEST ENTRY: Pres. Obama, Bishops, and the Kulturkampf
Here is a perspective on what is going on offered by my old friend the great Roman Fabrizio:
First of all thank you for mentioning me in the same entry where caffè corretto alla sambuca is mentioned. It always moves me … Continue reading
UPDATE 171 US Bishops have protested Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on Catholics
Over at the young papist’s place, on Catholic Vote, Tom Peters is forming a list of US bishops who have responded to Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on the 1st Amendment and on religious liberty when while he openly refuses to … Continue reading
TO ALL U.S. BISHOPS! For your November meeting, read this.
UPDATE 14 Nov 1933 GMT:
Archbishop Nienstedt was elected.
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Your Excellencies,
That bastion of support for your ecclesiastical authority, the National catholic Fishwrap, is lobbying against the election of Archbishop John Nienstedt (St. Paul and Minneapolis) as Chairman of the USCCB’s Doctrine Committee.
If … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, One Man & One Woman, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Anglicanorum coetibus, Archbp. Nienstedt, Bp. McManus, Doctrine Committee, Fishwrap, Minnesota Catholic Conference, National catholic Fishwrap, USCCB
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USCCB doctrine committee confirmed its position on the theological work of Sr. Elizabeth Johnson
Remember Sr. Elizabeth Johnson? Teacher at the Jesuit-run Fordham University? She wrote some things about the Holy Trinity that seemed to the US Bishops not to be exactly in line with Catholic doctrine and was called on it. She objected. … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged CNA, CNS, doctrine, Fordham University, heterodoxy, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, USCCB
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MN Catholic Conference: Catholic leaders will not be silenced (STrib editorial)
I was alerted to this on the site of the Minneapolis STrib. This is from the Minnesota Catholic Conference and it is worth your attention:
Catholic leaders will not be silenced
Article by: JASON ADKINS Updated: October 4, 2011 – 8:35 PM
It … Continue reading
Archbp. Dolan issues a warning to Pres. Obama: Stop attacking marriage and religious liberty!
I found this to be pretty interesting. I urge you to read the whole thing. It is perhaps the best presentation of the issues I have seen in a brief form.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York City has sent, in … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Archbp. Dolan, Defense of Marriage, DOMA, Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, homosexuality, marriage, POTUS, Pres. Obama, same-sex unions, USCCB
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Serious discrepancies in USCCB’s derogations from the GIRM concerning EMHCs.
From a reader about a curious discrepancy on the site of the USCCB about the General Instruction/Institution of the Roman Missal.
On the USCCB site for the new edition of the GIRM [2011] (HERE) there is a link to Derogations on … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged derogation, EMHC, USCCB
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USCCB Media Blog reacts to Dept. of Health and Human Services
In missed this post by Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, RSM, the other day on the USCCB’s media blog. Even though the blogosphere can sometimes move fast enough that people forget about what happened just a few days ago, it is … Continue reading
Bishops Conferences and Fangorn Forest
A comment from a reader in my email:
This talk of the bishops, and lots of talking, and going to war somehow calls to my mind the Ents.
If our Entish bishops were to rouse themselves to war, they could be formidable.
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