Category Archives: POPES

“Five Revealing Details” about Pope Francis

Posted on 19 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

One of my new go-to guys for thinking about things Vatican is Andrea Gagliarducci and his Monday Vatican post. Today he has a piece about “Five Revealing Details” about Pope Francis, what he is doing, what he aims to do. … Read More →

Posted in Francis, The Drill | Tagged equipollent canonization
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Pope Francis: “Paul VI… had the strength to defend openness to life.”

Posted on 16 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From EWTN news: Pope Francis took the opportunity during an address to families in the Philippines to praise Blessed Pope Paul VI’s encyclical opposing contraception and affirming Church teaching on sexuality and human life. The Pope spoke Friday to families … Read More →

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Francis, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity | Tagged Humanae vitae, Paul VI, Pope Francis
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So the Pope and some journalists walk into an airplane…

Posted on 15 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am sensing a pattern. The Holy Father takes a trip. The Holy Father talks to journalists on the plane. The Holy Father is asked a question about a hot button issue. The Holy Father speaks off the cuff. The … Read More →

Posted in Francis, Religious Liberty, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Religion of Peace | Tagged Bill Donohue, Charlie Hebdo, freedom of speech, Pope Francis, religious freedom
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Francis, Cardinals and the Peripheries

Posted on 13 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have occasionally written about the significance of “peripheries” for Pope Francis. Today Andrea Gagliarducci drills into the topic, in view of the upcoming consistory and the nomination of new cardinals. A taste: Since becoming pope, Francis has asked the … Read More →

Posted in Francis, The Drill | Tagged Andrea Gagliarducci, periphery, Pope Francis
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Card Burke interview on “hot button” topics. Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 7 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At my old stomping ground The Wanderer (I had a weekly column for 11 years) there is an interview with His Eminence Raymond Leo Card. Burke. Read the whole thing there, but here is a sample of Part One of the interview, … Read More →

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, ACTION ITEM!, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged Card. Burke, divorced and remarried, Extraordinary Form, pyrrhic victory, Synod of Bishops
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More reasons for the promotion of Summorum Pontificum

Posted on 3 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Congregation for Divine Worship in Rome received a new Prefect last November, His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah. He should be a good, solid Prefect. At the same time, however, there was a bit of a purge of, say, the … Read More →

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Be The Maquis, Decorum, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged Anscar Chupungco, Archd. Cebu, Benedictine Arrangment, Card. Sarah, Joseph Ratzinger, Marshall Plan, Roman Curia, tabernacle, The Philippines
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What did Pope Francis really say?

Posted on 2 January 2015 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I had the chance finally to review, to listen to, Pope Francis sermon for 1 January, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. It was interesting especially because I had first reviewed the written text that was released in the Bolletino (and … Read More →

Posted in Francis, The Drill | Tagged hierarchical Church, Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius Loyola
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German bishops pushing hard to overturn the Church’s doctrine

Posted on 30 December 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at The Spectator, Damian Thompson has a good summary piece. He recaps what happened at the last Synod of Bishop, where controversy over the Kasper proposals about Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried dominated the proceedings. Damian is … Read More →

Posted in Francis, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged blackmail, Card. Marx, church tax, Communion, Damian Thompson, Die Kirchensteuer, divorced and remarried, German Bishops, Synod of Bishops, The Spectator
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Fanon of Christmas Past

Posted on 24 December 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Exactly two years ago, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the First Holy Mass of Christmas and he wore the fanon, hated by liberals and the ungodly HERE. I turned on the Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica for a little … Read More →

Posted in Benedict XVI | Tagged Christmas, fanon, Midnight Mass
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Pope Francis greets Curia for Christmas, and rips them to shreds

Posted on 22 December 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Each year it is customary for the Roman Pontiff to meet and greet members of the Roman Curia just before Christmas. The Pope gives an address. Often that address is a kind of “State of the Union”, describing things that … Read More →