Daily Archives: 26 January 2018

ASK FATHER: Can a bishop forbid kneeling for Communion?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a few sincere questions and I believe answers to them may help other readers, too. For years I have heard it said that the “universal norm” for receiving Holy Communion is kneeling and on the … Read More

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WRONG: Maltese, Germans, Argentinians and now Braga. “Patently and gravely wrong.” Ed Peters explains the situation.

My old pastor and mentor, Msgr. Schuler, used to say: When you’re right, you can’t be wrong. The flip side is: When you’re wrong, you can’t be right. There are a lot of people out there who are just plain … Read More

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Card. Eijk: Pope Francis should create clarity about ‘Amoris laetitia’

UPDATE: I note that Mark de Vries has a better translation than the one someone has provided so far:  HERE (In Dutch, the word for ‘thus’, and an informal word for ‘sister’ consisting of its first syllable, are homonyms…) ____ … Read More

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