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Category Archives: Priests and Priesthood
ASK FATHER: My priest doesn’t carry the “emergency phone”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: What’s the deal with priests carrying their emergency cellphone on them? [Hmmm… I don’t know what the deal is!] I was disturbed to learn that our priest doesn’t keep it with him. When I asked him … Read More
Pope reacts to Viganò and #ViganòTestimony 3.0
Okay, that meant Msgr. Charles Pope of the Archdiocese of Washington DC. He writes about the third Viganò Testimony HERE. A sample: As I finished reading Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò’s third letter, I had an immediate sense that I had … Read More
The future of the Church (hint – NOT #Synod2018)
The demographics of the Church are on the move, at least in these USA. We will, in the next few years, witness a dramatic drop in numbers of those who bother with the Church at all. Everything will have to … Read More
A Visual Image of Years of Priesthood – or – Good Clericalism
I really enjoyed this email, which is a kind of visual testimony about priesthood. Please allow me to share with you a photo I think you will enjoy. Last week, while in Rome, I took the opportunity to buy a … Read More
Posted in Mail from priests, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries
Tagged biretta, clericalism
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3 Comments
Court case, Seal of Confession, and requiring priests to break the Seal
From Lexology: A note about the Seal of Confession and requiring priests to break the Seal: State Could Not Require Priest to Breach Confessional Without Satisfying RFRA In Ronchi v. State, No. 5D18-194, 2018 WL 2988975 (Fla. 5th DCA June … Read More
A story about St. Luke’s: “I have seen wonderful moments of grace there; priests and Religious who limped in, who left healed.”
The other day I posted about how bishops have used “psychological evaluation” as a weapon against conservative and traditional priests. At the time I acknowledged that some priests really do need help. Along with the horror stories I have received … Read More
Posted in Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged psychological evaluation, St. Luke's, The Psych Strike Gambit
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8 Comments
Oppressed priests and portable altars and true emergency conditions
St. Joseph’s Apprentice has made beautiful, practical portable altars for me and for many priests. I have called his portable altars “the ultimate gift for a priest”. I have one that I can travel with, using a Pelican case, that … Read More
A story about St. Luke’s: “you are totally in their power – you are utterly at their mercy.”
The horror stories are pouring in from priests who have been through The Psych Strike Gambit by their bishops or superiors. Here is one, with some detail, which I have permission to post and which I have anonymized. His … Read More
Posted in Priests and Priesthood
Tagged psychological evaluation, St. Luke's, The Psych Strike Gambit
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15 Comments
Fr. Z thanks readers who want to help priests.
It doesn’t surprise me even as it surprised me. I am ever amazed at the response I get from readers in certain circumstances, even as I have, over time, learned to expect it. Since I posted about Fr. Kalchik, … Read More
Read and weep: Soviet style “psych” tactics used against priests by bishops.
What I am about to post, read carefully. Over the last few months I have been contacted by diocesan priests (and a religious) who were being sent by their bishops (superior) to be “evaluated” at one of these psych clinics … Read More
ProfessorCover on REMINDER: “The Life of Little Saint Placid”: “Wow!”
