Before launching into the trip itself, homage must be paid to my hosts. Last night we had terrific sauteed peppers and spicy sausage on the grill, which could be consumed with or without the excellent Turano rolls (which I have missed).
Transformations. sauteed pepper and hot sausage
So satisfying.
I picked up my rental car from ORD (the cost… YIKES) for the drive to La Crosse where the cool kids of canon and civil law gathered with Card. Burke and a star studded cast and try to be both civil (a challenge for some of them) and canonical for a couple of days of excellent talks and socializing. One of the presenters is Michael Mazza who has done so much to defend priests and defend their good name, their reputation, which is always a casualty especially at the hands of the dioceses which don’t follow proper procedures. I look forward to meeting good friends, including the official parodohymnodist of this blog, whom I’ve known since the 80’s.
Excellent presentations. Card. Burke honored up with another brief video message which I must edit and post.
Arriving at the Shrine you see the “candle chapel” which one of my more brilliant friends compared to – the inside, mind you – “a zoroastrian fire tower”. The grounds of the Shrine were truly lovely. Volunteers swarmed to tend the flowers.
Card. Burke during the Q&A after supper last night. I was able to ask about can. 249. Heh.
Along the river walking home. How nice to see real trees and grace.
The pilgrims house is being built. It’ll be ready in 2027.
My dear Little Flower.
It was a good opportunity for confession.
Heading down after the talks.
This was fun.
I stopped in my old stomping grounds as a first leg to Milwaukee tomorrow. Into a favorite grocery store I compared the pizza aisle to what is available where I now hang my head… HAT… my HAT.
The entire aisle is pizza. It isn’t even quarter of that elsewhere.
More later.
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We were intending to be at the shrine on the 11th. We had to cancel because my wife is about to have a baby.
Hopefully next summer we get there.
Welcome back, Father, to the great Midwest. LaCrosse is wonderful and being only two hours away, easily accessible for us in Heaven (Iowa), although my Wisconsin friends would disagree and say that Wisconsin is God’s country. I’m glad you were able to get up here. Of course, you are also in the land of beer, so enjoy that! With the scenery up there, with rolling hills and gobs of trees, it is no wonder the German and Luxembourgian immigrants settled in the area.
I should have you come down for some good food and (what I think is great) homebrew the next time you are in the area!
Peace and blessings and continued safe travels!
As someone who grew up in Chicago, nothing beats Turano or Gonnella. I hope you were able to have an Italian beef or if you were able to do a comparison of having ketchup on a hot dog (a true sacrilege) over the deliciousness of mustard.
Looking at the beautiful Shrine church, it jumps out of the page that it has startling similarities to the chapel church of Thomas Aquinas College in CA. So much so, that I had to look a second and then a third time to be sure they were different. Then I looked it up, and discovered that they have the same architect designer, Duncan Stroik. So, I guess one didn’t copy the other, the designer just borrowed from himself.
So, what was Cardinal Burke’s response? Why aren’t Priests being taught Latin?
During an ordination the bishop quizzes someone representing the seminary about whether or not the candidates were worthy. The rep always says yes. However, can. 249 requires that candidates be “very well trained” in Latin, “bene calleant”. Calleo already means well trained. Our word “callous” comes from calleo. And this is better yet, “bene calleant”. Candidates ought to be very well trained in Latin, in addition to other tongues useful for ministry.
BUT THEY ARE NOT.
Hence, every time a rep stands up and says that they are well formed, he is saying something that is not true.
However, does the bishop saying, “we choose these men” simply wipe out canon law?
And I think it is pretty obvious why Latin is no being required according to the CLEAR dictate of the Church’s universal law.