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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
The future depends on diocesan priests
My good friend Fr B – whom I hope to see soon – sent notice of a gathering of priests and future priests in New Jersey. A group of diocesan priests got together with the mighty Fr Pasley of Mater … Read More
News about Toowoomba, Australian bishops
Remember Toowoomba? The Holy Father accepted Bishop Wm. Morris’s un-proffered resignation after years of misguidance of the diocese. From CNA with my emphases and comments: Australian bishops to issue Toowoomba statement By David Kerr Vatican City, Oct 19, 2011 / … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Australia, Bp. Morris, D. Toowoomba
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21 Comments
QUAERITUR: Minister, ministry, apostle, apostolate…
From a reader: I’m on the pastoral council at my parish. I hear people using the term “Ministry” for all kinds of activities. Pretty much all of these folks are lay Catholics. I’m kind-of a stickler for terminology, because muddled … Read More
QUAERITUR: Sunday obligation and TV Masses
From a reader: I was chatting with someone and she told me the priest in the parish where she is a member gave her permission, due to her ill health and thus difficulty in attending Mass on Sunday, to “attend Mass … Read More
QUAERITUR: The Sin of Presumption and You: How to go to Hell in an Uneasy Lesson.
From a reader: I greatly appreciate your time and work you do with this blog, it has inspired me at various times to strive for fortitude and perseverance, especially in the sacrament of penance. I have been studying the sins against … Read More
Pope announces a “Year of Faith” for 2012-13
The other day the Holy Father celebrated a Mass a Mass for participants in an event hosted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, during which he also used a raised platform to move from one end of the … Read More
US Catholic promotes reception of Protestant “communion”? Fr Z really rants.
A reader alerted me to an article in US Catholic suggesting that Catholics can receive “communion” in Lutheran (read: Protestant) services. Sound right to you? Good… thought not. Let’s have a look with my comments and emphases. Should you pass … Read More
QUAERITUR: Things manipular. Wherein Fr. Z rants and ties on one.
From a reader: For some reason unbeknownst to me I am intrigued by the maniple. My understanding is that when the maniple comes off, the Mass is suspended, hence the reason for permitting the reading of announcements just prior to … Read More
Minnesota Bishops ask parishes to create grass-roots committees in defense of marriage
In my native place, Minnesota, the Catholic Bishops have banded together in a defense of true marriage against a redefinition of marriage to include something unnatural. Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. They are working together to support passage of … Read More
A reader’s experience of the Extraordinary Form
From a reader: Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of attending my second Extraordinary Form mass. It was held in honor of the close of our parish’s Forty Hours devotion. Unlike the first mass where I felt overwhelmed and a little … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Extraordinary Form
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19 Comments
amenamen on QUAERITUR: Have we brought Jesus Christ closer to the people entrusted to us?: “There was an effort, in the early stages of the Endless Synod, to solicit massive amounts of input from every…”
