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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
What is at the heart of the progressivist attacks on the Traditional Latin Mass and the accusations that people who want it are “against Vatican II”? Here’s what it is.
A little over a year ago, I read something from one of the foremost of the “self-promoting through papalotry” voices of the ecclesiologically progressive gang. It was alarming in its implications. What I had read was a claim that Vatican … Read More →
Posted in Benedict XVI, Classic Posts, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Jesuits, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, The Drill, Vatican II, What are they REALLY saying?, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
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Tagged beans, Benedict XVI, hermeneutic of continuity, Karl Rahner
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Compare what Archbp. Roche said in 2015 to what he is saying now.
It is very hard to respect clerics who are just weathervanes, waving around, changing directions under the pressure of whomever is at the moment in power. Archbp. Roche, now in present role as Prefect of the CDW, now one of … Read More →
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged Archbp. Roche
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Unpleasant but useful reading ALERT!
Today at Rorate I see two very useful pieces. First, Joseph Shaw, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society (join even if you are not in the UK) in which he eviscerates one of the most embarrassing of the papalatrous left, … Read More →
Wherein at the tail-end of 2021 Fr. Z reflects on the phrase “In cauda venenum”
There’s a pattern in papal and curial and chancery documents. In general, after the salutations and other blah blah, there follow status quaesitionis points which stand as the justification for the correspondence or decree. However, the business is nearly always … Read More →
I am in total awe of a piece posted – thank you – at Rorate. A monumental take down of Traditionis custodes and the Dubious Dubia using Francis’ own categorical declarations about freedom, conscience, clericalism, proselytizing, discernment. A Manual for Resistance.
Today, on the last day of this annus terribilis, I am in total awe of a piece posted – thank you! – at Rorate. HERE The writer was a lawyer in Buenos Aires, now a priest with a super CV. … Read More →
“I am a devout Catholic, but….”
From Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ: Herod was fearful that He Who came to bring a heavenly crown would steal away his own tinsel one. He pretended that he wanted to bring gifts, but the only gift he wanted to … Read More →
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged abortion, Fulton Sheen, Joe Biden
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Ed Pentin interviewed the Prefect of the CDW about “Traditionis custodes” and the Dubious Dubia.
At the National Catholic Register, Ed Pentin has an interview with Archbp. Roche, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Roche’s responses are typical, in that they are replete with buzz words and jargon and the usual specious premises. These … Read More →
ASK FATHER: Not one word about Card. Cupich’s “The Gift of Traditionis Custodes”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Card. Cupich, who is a trusted advisor of Pope Francis, issued a document the other day called “The Gift of Traditionis Custodes”. I take it you don’t see it as a gift, but I notice that … Read More →
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Be The Maquis, Cri de Coeur, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Traditionis custodes, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged Card. Cupich, Traditionis custodes
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Why would a pope do such a thing?
I have a few busy days right now and also people in town, so my energies are divided. However, I bring to your attention the fact that, other day, with other religious leaders Francis signed a document about “safeguarding nature” … Read More →
Two macabre images come together
Damian Thompson is one of those writers who reminds me of Hamlet’s advice to Polonius: “After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.” Lately, at The Spectator, he offered some views … Read More →
Posted in Francis, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged George Floyd, World Meeting Of Popular Movements
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maternalView on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 12th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th Ordinary): “I appreciate the Mass intention for today. I needed it. It’s the one year anniversary of my mother’s fall and…”
