Category Archives: Vatican II

Card. Burke: liturgical abuses “strictly correlated with a lot of moral corruption”

Posted on 26 July 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Around here we say: Save The Liturgy – Save The World A preamble: The Eucharist, its celebration and itself as the extraordinary Sacrament, is the “source and summit of Christian life”. If we really believe that, then we must also hold that what we … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Francis, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Reading Francis Through Benedict, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Vatican II | Tagged Card. Burke, Extraordinary Form, liturgy, Sacra Liturgia 2013, Save The Liturgy Save The World
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PODCAzT 136: John XXIII opens Vatican II – ‘Gaudet Mater Ecclesia’ – optimism and naïveté, error and continuity

Posted on 19 July 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

have wanted to do this for some time. Today we have as our guest, Pope John XXIII. I read for you the whole of John’s address to the opening of the Second Vatican Council, a speech called Gaudet Mater Ecclesia, … Read More →

Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II, Year of Faith | Tagged Bl John XXIII, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia, John XXIII, podcast, PODCAzT, Second Vatican Council, Vatican II
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PODCAzT 136: 25 years later – Ratzinger’s address to the Bishops of Chile; The Biological Solution

Posted on 13 July 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today marks 25 years since Joseph Card. Ratzinger gave a famous address in Santiago, Chile to the Chilean bishops. Context: In the months immediately preceding this address, Archbp, Marcel Lefebvre of the SSPX had signed an agreement with the Holy … Read More →

Posted in Benedict XVI, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, SSPX, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged 1988, Archbp. Lefebvre, Chile, continuity, desacralization, hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture, Joseph Card. Razinger, Second Vatican Council, SSPX, superdogma
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PODCAzT 135: Encyclical Letter “Lumen fidei” – AUDIO files of entire encyclical

Posted on 7 July 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In my desire to get my ears and mind around the new encyclical, Lumen fidei, of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, to sort the “voices” and get to know the trajectory of its arguments, I decided to read it aloud. Wanna … Read More →

Posted in Benedict XVI, Francis, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, The Drill, Vatican II | Tagged Benedict XVI, encyclical, Lumen fidei, Pope Francis
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Wherein Fr. Z explains what is really going on with the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II

Posted on 5 July 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today, in addition to Francis’ dedication of the Vatican City State to St. Michael (and does that place need defense of the attacks of Hell!) and in addition to the release of Benedict’s final encyclical, which is Francis’ first encyclical … Read More →

Posted in Francis, The Drill, Vatican II, Year of Faith | Tagged hermeneutic of continuity, hermeneutic of reform, John Paul II, John XXIII, Pope Francis, SSPX, Vatican II
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“Latin’s gone, peace is too; singin’ and shoutin’ from every pew.”

Posted on 27 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Someone sent me a PDF of a parish bulletin for St. Patrick’s Church in Madison, WI dated 7 Feb 1965. On the front page there is this poem. Latin’s gone, peace is too; singin’ and shoutin’ from every pew. Altar’s … Read More →

Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Vatican II | Tagged D. Madison
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The wussificiation of the priesthood and the Novus Ordo

Posted on 25 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have in the past mentioned the comment made by Card. Heenan when he experienced the Novus Ordo for the first time. The comment leads a longish piece posted at Rorate (which no longer links to this blog, btw) by … Read More →

Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II | Tagged Card. Heenan, clericalism, Fr. Cipolla, Julius Caesar, Novus Ordo
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CRI DE COEUR: “If there were no more priests hardly anyone would be crying about it.”

Posted on 6 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At Rorate I saw something (translated there from Italian) from the blog Radicati nella fede, for the Catholic community of Domodossola and Vocogno in the Diocese of Novara. This is a cri de coeur, if there ever was one. My … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Cri de Coeur, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Vatican II, Vocations, Year of Faith | Tagged Cri de Coeur, priesthood, Priests, Vatican II, vocations
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Voris video on Vatican II’s built in vagueness

Posted on 4 June 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is a video from Michael Voris in his usual non-committal, indifferent, ambiguous, vague, tepid, ho-hum style. o{];¬) I will remind the readership that in the greater arc of the Church’s history, Vatican II wasn’t all that important. It is … Read More →

Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II | Tagged Card. Kasper, Michael Voris, Vatican II
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Bp. Nickless (D. Sioux City): we must “exorcize” the “spirit of Vatican II”

Posted on 31 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have mentioned Bishop Nickless of Sioux City before. This is from LifeSite: Sioux City Bishop Calls for “Exorcism” of “Spirit of Vatican II” By Kathleen Gilbert SIOUX CITY, Iowa, October 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Catholics must learn to “exorcise” … Read More →