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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
When the priest confessor doesn’t use the proper Form of Absolution. Wherein Fr. Z advises.
Everyone should go to confession regularly. That said, sometimes it can happen that you will have a less than edifying experience of the priest confessor. Do not fret! This even happened to me, recently. While out on the road, I … Read More
Bp. Matano (D. Rochester) ends decades illicit practice of “lay preaching”
For your Brick by Brick file. From the Democrat and Chronicle: Catholic diocese upends custom on homilies For the better part of 40 years in churches across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, clergy ceded the floor to laypeople for … Read More
Fishwrap: less than enthusiastic about new ITC document on “sensus fidei”.
Over at Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter), knickers are in twists over the recently issued document from the International Theological Commission, “‘Sensus Fidei’ in the Life of the Church“. As you will recall, at Fishwrap, “sensus fidei“, closely related to … Read More
Ecumenical consequences of C of E decision on women bishops (aka “wyshyps”)
On 5 June 2006, Walter Card. Kasper, then-President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, spoke to the Church of England members gathered for the Lambeth Conference. They were discussing, and were going to vote on, women bishops [aka … Read More
Malaysian Airlines 17, Death and You
The black boxes from Malaysian Airlines 17 might indicate that the pilots attempted a vain evasion. I doubt it. I suspect that exploding death was sudden. Who knows who may have survived the initial blast and remained conscious for some … Read More
“Thanks for your blog. It saved this seminarian from a particularly mortifying purification.”
From a seminarian: Just wanted to say a big “Thanks” for your blog. I was sure glad for the liturgical minutiae I’ve picked up here when I found a fly in the Precious Blood tonight after Mass. Your advice about … Read More
Voice of America on Holy Innocents in Manhattan: a vibrant Catholic community
There was another media story about Holy Innocents in Manhattan. This is the only parish in Manhattan which as daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form. It is a beautiful place with great people. As you know a commission in the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Anglican confession… valid?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: On my journey to the Catholic Church, just prior to deciding to join the Church we investigated a High Anglican church (most of ours are Low, and the High are much more Catholic in feel though … Read More
ASK FATHER: “The Body of ‘grace'”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am distressed. I went to mass today and received, as the priest said over and over, “the body of grace.” Don’t get me wrong, I love grace, but I was expecting the body of Christ. … Read More
Anglicans have a home
Across the pond in Ol’ Blighty, the Church of England has approved female bishops. This was inevitable. The CofE is on the State’s leash and the State blows with (and creates) the wind of social changes, trends, fads, etc. But … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity
Tagged Anglicans, women's ordination, wyshyps
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Charivari Rob on My View For Awhile: The City of Big Shoulders: “Did you get to not-so-new-now Comiskey Park for “Pope Hat Night”?”
