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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Catholic Church in Ireland is collapsing?
Our Lord promised that Hell would not prevail against the Church He founded. He didn’t promise the Church would prevail in Ireland. The Holy Father wrote in his letter to Catholics in Ireland that they should do penance in more … Read More
Pastor of two parishes ends use of Extraordinary Ministers of Communion
For your “Brick By Brick” file. I found this, thanks to a reader, on the site Knights of Divine Mercy, by Fr. Rick Heilman, pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Pine Bluff, WI. My emphases and comments. Extraordinary Ministers … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, The future and our choices
Tagged Ecclesiae de mysterio, EMHC, Fr. Heilman
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PODCAzT 116: Toward a true ecumenism
NB: iTunes users… I found that there was a second enclosure buried in the post which screwed up the feed. Let me know if you are getting this on iTunes. Ecumenical dialogue has been much on my mind these days. … Read More
Philadelphia
It’s time for more purification. Are you ready, Philadelphia? It is time for us all to get tough and bear this Cross in the face of the mysterium iniquitatis. Get down on our knees and pray and do penance. The … Read More
Why we needed Summorum Pontificum: Reason #746589
A reader alerted me to this. I am not making this up. From Inquirer.net of Luzon in the Philippines: Nuns dance to get recruits in Baguio City By Elmer Kristian Dauigoy Inquirer Northern Luzon BAGUIO CITY—Never too old for “Toyang.” … Read More
A Papal Nuncius with sharp words about bishops who resist Summorum Pontificum.
Yesterday we saw with the help of Rorate and Messa in Latino that an Italian bishop had some things to say about other bishops who resist Pope Benedict’s visions and provisions. Today, our friends at NLM clue us in about … Read More
CNS: CHA Pres. Sr. Keehan affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives
I saw this on CNS. My emphases and comments. First, you might review this: the Magisterium of Nuns (and this). CHA president affirms bishop’s role in interpreting health directives [Uh huh.] By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The future and our choices
Tagged Archbp. Dolan, CHA, magisterium of nuns, Sr. Keehan
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Summorum Pontificum, reforming the reform, and resisting the reform
Pope Benedict, in his ongoing effort to heal the rupture that occurred in our worship when a composed, artificial rite was suddenly imposed on the Church, in 2007 put into effect the provisions of Summorum Pontificum, by far surpassing the … Read More
The slipping-away of Catholic identity
I think that Pope Benedict had as a project for his pontificate the revitalization of Catholic identity. The West is losing its soul because Christianity – Catholicism in particular – is not being lived by the mature or passed on … Read More
PODCAzT 116: Bp. Athanasius Schneider’s proposal for a “Syllabus” on the correct interpretation of Vatican II
His Excellency Most Rev. Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, has made quite a splash over the last few years. He first caught people’s eyes at the Synod on the Eucharist in 205 in Rome where he gave an … Read More
