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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Reading Benedict Through Francis: Exploring ‘Lumen fidei 13’
Pope Benedict/Francis’ new encyclical, Lumen fidei (download PDF HERE), has some rich paragraphs. One in particular rang a deep bell for me. I think Benedict wove in an argument in favor of a particular style of liturgical worship. See what … Read More →
Pres. Obama sticks his nose into Catholic education in IRELAND
Another example of what this man wants: total isolation of any religious values in the private sphere alone. Pres. Obama is working either to intimidate or legislate or even TAX religious freedom out of the public square. From the Scottish … Read More →
Schism at NSR?
Something curious is happening at the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap). Our pal Michael Sean Winters wrote about the Holy See’s hostile takeover of the LCWR in light of the keynote address to the LCWR given by Sr. Laurie Brinks. Sr. … Read More →
Pope Francis slaps down those who resist the Holy Spirit
Pope Francis has been saying Mass semi-publicly in the chapel of the Casa S. Marta, where he has been living. He has been giving a “fervorino” at Mass, that is, a brief, usually off the cuff, sermon. So far, there … Read More →
Posted in Benedict XVI, Ecclesiae unitatem, Our Catholic Identity, SSPX, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty, Vatican II, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Benedict XVI, continuity, hermeneutic of continuity, Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, SSPX
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What does Fr. Z really say? A response to critics on the left and the right.
Back on 2 April – which in blog years is like a decade ago – I offered a brief manifesto about how I think we ought to approach Pope Francis. In fact, there are any number of entries I have … Read More →
Unless you recover the words, you can’t recover the concepts.
When you change the words, you change the concepts. The liberal progressivist liturgical terrorist reformers were successful in changing our way of speaking about our sacred liturgical worship. For example, they made us – and no one asked them to … Read More →
Whose ecumenism?
Liberals are beginning to twit. They are just warming up, but soon it will be a grand mal twit. They are panicking about Pope Benedict and his provisions for Anglicans who, after their long nightmare with liberal on their side … Read More →
FOLLOW UP: McBrien’s “rather adolescently rigid” article… NCR readers react!
Notre Dame’s Richard McBrien says that "Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward." You can read his sneering NCR article if you want or read it with my commentary HERE. A WDTPRS … Read More →
Posted in Linking Back, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Eucharist, Eucharistic Adoration, NCR, Notre Dame, Richard McBrien
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Non-denial denials
His Hermeneuticalness has done us a service in translating from Italian a comment by the intrepid Andrea Tornielli. I turn the mic over to Fr. Finigan, but add my emphases and comments: Andrea Tornielli "le smentite che non smentiscono" … Read More →
Recent survey concerning the TLM: 2-1 of those with opinions favor a TLM option
A reader alerted me – mired as I was in the midst of computer battles – about a survey recently conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate of Jesuit run Georgetown University about the availability of the … Read More →
Fr. Reader on WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?: “Thanks. Interesting because I have been reading it for many years, missing something.”
