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More about Holy Innocents in Manhattan (videos)

Posted on 28 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Many media outlets (e.g. NYT, NRO, Rod Dreher), are noticing the plight of the people of Holy Innocents Church in midtown Manhattan’s reviving Garment District.

There is now a good article at the National Catholic Register about Holy Innocents, though I strongly disagree with the first line:

NEW YORK — Every weekday, several [?] traditional Catholics in New York City gather for a 6pm Traditional Latin Mass at the Church of the Holy Innocents, a Gothic Revival structure in Manhattan’s Garment District.

“Several”? Several dozens! And they are of every color and shape and economic level.

Masses are celebrated every day at the ideally situated Holy Innocents Church in both the Ordinary Form and, more importantly, in the Extraordinary Form.

The attendance at the Extraordinary Form evening Mass, well-timed for people getting off work, has been steadily growing. For Low Masses on Monday and Thursdays there is an average of 55 people. For Sung Masses – every Wednesday – about 75. On Fridays the number climbs to over 100. On Saturday morning, it varies between 80-100. On Sundays the average has been 170 and that number is climbing to around 200 these days. There are about 40 men who are in the server corps and about 20 in the choir rotation. Lay people gather and at least one cleric on Sunday afternoons to sing Vespers (as the Second Vatican Council asked) and have Benediction. There aren’t Sung Vespers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, but there are at Holy Innocents. More people are at Sunday Vespers than at the Novus Ordo Mass at 12:30.

I don’t usually go for the “empower” buzz word stuff, but it is the lay people who are seriously empowered here. A liberal’s dream, right? Lay people have, with the benign nod of the pastor, turned this place around in 5 years.

Since the now infamous sermon given by Fr. Wylie and the way Holy Innocents has been in the news, I am told that there are many new faces in the congregation. I was told, “there are so many new faces for the coffee hour that we are running out of food extremely quickly.” They have coffee and doughnuts after the Sunday Extraordinary Form Mass and quite a few people hang out, as is typical of the traditional Mass goers whom I have seen around these USA and abroad.

Traditional Catholics tend to form a close and warm community. That’s also what is at stake. These are people, not numbers.

But speaking of numbers, last year the parish exceeded the quota for the “Cardinal’s Annual Appeal”.

Holy Innocents is on 37th between Broadway and 7th, near Herald Square, not far from Penn Station, so it is ideally situated near many public transportation options. The Garment District is experiencing a revival. The New York Post wrote that it is becoming another Silicon Valley. Even now, there is a steady stream of people all day long in an out of the church. People come to light candles, to pray briefly, and then go on their way. There is a thrift clothing store in the basement which is a help to low income people. I wrote about watching people during the day HERE.

If you are in New York sometime, and go to nearby Times Square or Macy’s, stop in at Holy Innocents even if you can’t be there for Mass. Say a prayer, and then watch the people come and go. It is amazing.

Animi caussa… just for kicks… just to give you a taste of what happens there… here are filmettes of the choir practicing one of the ethnic Christmas pieces for the concert before Midnight Mass and then the Gloria at the Holy Thursday Mass, which was done rather simplex this year, for various reasons. And, yes, the boy was playing the organ. Talented kid! He also composed the Gloria! And, yes, the music is generally that good.

I say again:

Do not give up.
Make your desires known in charity but clearly.
Put aside minor differences and band together.
Excel in works of mercy.
Be willing to work and sacrifice and give of time and talent and treasure.

Step up. Don’t whine. Think it through. Set goals. Make it happen. You can do it.

Posted in ACTION ITEM!, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill | Tagged Archd. New York, Cardinal's Annual Appeal, Constantino Brumidi, Holy Innocents
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ASK FATHER: Prayers for putting on cassock, surplice

Posted on 28 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

While vesting for Mass, a member of the clergy (at least in the EF; the priests I know do it for OF too) will say a set of prayers as he is putting the different vestments on. As un-ordained servers wear some of the same vestments (exs: the cassock, sometimes an alb), would it be appropriate for a server to say the prayers for those vestments?
(ex: [look… if you are going to abbreviate “for example”, how about using a standard form? For example, “e.g.”] if a layman were to don an alb, would it be appropriate to pray the Dealba me, Domine prayer while putting it on?)

I don’t see any problem with any male reciting the prayers used when putting on these items.

However, to do it right, males should wash their hands before putting on any vestment, reciting the proper prayer:

Da, Domine, virtutem manibus meis ad abstergendam omnem maculam ut sine pollutione mentis et corporis valeam tibi servire.

Give virtue to my hands, O Lord, that being cleansed from all stain I might serve you with purity of mind and body.

When putting on the cassock, a male should say:

Dominus, pars hereditatis meae et calicis mei, tu es qui restitues hereditatem meam.

O Lord, the portion of my inheritance and my chalice, You are He who will restore my inheritance.

When putting on the surplice, a male should say:

Indue me, Domine, novum hominem, qui secundum Deum creatus est in iustitia et sanctitate veritatis. Amen.

Invest me, O Lord, as a new man, who was created by God in justice and the holiness of truth. Amen.

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity | Tagged alb, cassock, surplice, vesting prayers
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Citizen Wesolowski, laicized for violating minors

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

By now you will have heard that Jozef Wesolowski, an Archbishop and the former Nuncio to the Dominican Republic, has been laicized. It is not known exactly where he is at the moment, I believe.

When the Holy See heard of the charges against Wesolowski, he was pulled out of the Dominican Republic back to Rome. Of course that started up the cliché mill that the Vatican was protecting a pedophile, blah blah. Not so. They were doing what any sovereign state’s government would do to a errant diplomat with immunity from prosecution: they recalled him and then they prosecuted him.

First, the CDF got hold of Wesolowski. They examined the charged and found them credible. Since what Wesolowski did was a horrible sin and crime by the Church’s law, he was laicized. Harming minors is a grave delict. He got what was coming to him as a cleric.

Now that the CDF has moved against Wesolowski, and laicized him, the only recourse that he has would be back to the CDF itself. The members of the Congregation, meeting on one of their Wednesday dates called a Feria Quarta, would consider an eventual appeal. I doubt Wesolowski will make one, since they nailed him dead on. After that, only the Pope himself could hear an appeal, but you can bet that with something like this, involving a Nuncio and diplomatic immunity, etc., the CDF didn’t sneeze without the Holy Father’s being brought up to speed.

So, now that Wesolowski has been laicized he is fired from his position, he no longer would have diplomatic immunity from prosecution in the Dominican Republic, and he will surely lose any pension that he might have had.

Now he will get what is coming to him simply considered as a man, rather than also as a cleric.

Wesolowski is now, since he was a diplomat, a citizen of the Vatican City State. He is now subject to criminal prosecution under the Vatican’s own judicial system. This is not the same as the Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church. This is not the same as the special law that the CDF would lay down. This is the Vatican City State’s own penal law and criminal justice system. Wesolowski could be incarcerated, as Benedict XVI’s traitorous butler was, tried in a trial, and then sentenced to jail time. Long term sentences are taken care of, for the Vatican, by Italian authorities.

Could Wesolowski be extradited by the Dominican Republic? I suppose so, but I don’t know what sort of agreement the two states have.

And former Father Greg Reynolds is still excommunicated.

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Clerical Sexual Abuse, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Drill | Tagged clerical sexual abuse, Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, Vatican City State
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We’ve see this movie before, and it ain’t The Bells of St. Mary!

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) is having a spittle-flecked nutty about the upcoming Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris. Ho hum.

They are, I think, afraid that the Synod is not going to relax the “rules” (read: doctrine) about Communion for the remarried without declarations of nullity, inter alia. They see that support for the Kasperite position is falling away and they are scared. We have had indications that His Holiness himself, and some of the left-leaning power brokers near him, are moving away from the untenable proposal: “tolerated but not accepted”.

People have asked me what I think is going on, what is going to happen.

As the Kasperite position crumbles watch what will happen on the catholic Left. They will start whipping up fear among bishops whom they think desire the Kasperite Non-Solution.

They will work to create the same sort of rebellion among priests and bishops that the catholic Left did around the time of Humane vitae. They will stir mutiny against the Church’s clear doctrine and against ecclesial authority. What they want is that when the Holy Father upholds the Church’s teaching, as many priests as possible, and bishops with them, will criticize the Pope and will ignore the the Church’s doctrine and law when dealing with the divorced and remarried. Just as liberals told people, after Humanae vitae, to go ahead and contracept as they pleased, so too they will tell the remarried to do as they please and receive Communion. Then they, in defiance fueled by what they will claim is compassion and mercy, will stop submitting marriage cases to diocesan tribunals.

Anyone who upholds the Church’s doctrine (who won’t give a pass to adultery, etc.), will be vilified by the Left as being against mercy, lacking in compassion.

We’ve see this movie before, and it ain’t The Bells of St. Mary!

Humanae vitae: The Sequel

Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill | Tagged divorce and remarriage, Humanae vitae, Synod, The Bells of St. Mary
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Special Treatment in Manhattan: “Where is the charity for this priest?”

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Even the New York Times (usually aka Hell’s Bible… but not today!) has taken notice of what is going on in New York City with the parish of Holy Innocents in midtown Manhattan’s Garment District.

My emphases. I would post many comments, but I fear retribution for my friends.

Manhattan Parish Draws Attention of Conservative Catholics and the Church
Church of the Holy Innocents, Home of the City’s Only Daily Latin Mass, Might Close

As the Rev. Justin Wylie took the pulpit at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan last month, anger and anxiety emanated from the pews. Parishioners, who rely on the church to offer a daily traditional Latin Mass, were about to meet to discuss an archdiocesan panel’s recommendation to close their church, and some were talking about schism.

“I worry about the situation of traditional Catholics in the archdiocese,” Father Wylie, a visiting priest, said in his sermon, articulating their concerns. “No longer, I say, should you think of yourselves as squatters in the mighty edifice of the Holy Church, nor should you find yourselves turned out like squatters.”

It was an unusual moment of open criticism by a Roman Catholic priest of church policy in New York. And the reaction was swift. Within two weeks, Father Wylie was reprimanded by the New York Archdiocese and in short order dismissed from his job as attaché at the Mission of the Holy See at the United Nations, where he negotiated human rights issues on the Vatican’s behalf.
The actions taken against Father Wylie offer a glimpse of how sensitive the New York Archdiocese is to dissent, particularly from inside the church, as it weighs the closing of potentially dozens of churches in a sweeping consolidation of its parishes. But the episode has also taken on broader significance, because the parish involved is Holy Innocents, the only church in New York City to offer the 444-year-old Tridentine, or Latin, Mass daily, making it a beloved institution among a small but vocal [GROWING] community of traditionalist Catholics across the country.

[…]

At Holy Innocents, the Latin Mass helped bring a renaissance, parishioners said. The church, which dates back to 1869 [1866 for the founding of the parish and the church was build, I think in 1870…] and has about 300 registered parishioners, operates at a surplus, driven in part by generous collections and a thriving thrift shop in the basement, according to church documents. Attendance at Sunday Mass has nearly tripled since 2009, and the church recently paid $350,000 to restore a mural behind its high altar that was painted in the 1870s. [The painting is by Brumidi. The fundraising and restoration was recent. They did a good job of it, too.]

[…]

While [Fr. Wylie] urged [the Holy Innocent’s parishioners] to be obedient to any decree, Father Wylie also told them in his sermon that he believed the archdiocese had a responsibility to provide them a stable place to worship, according to a transcript made by a parishioner from a recording.

Some other dioceses dedicate a priest and a parish for the celebration of the Latin Mass. But in New York the laity have to organize traditional Masses themselves, seeking out volunteer priests “hither and thither as though we were seemingly still living in Reformation England or Cromwellian Ireland,” Father Wylie said, calling it an “injustice.”

“Isn’t it high time for the church to take pastoral responsibility also for these sheep?” he said.

Edward Hawkins, a parishioner, said he felt Father Wylie’s intent had been to encourage traditionalists to stay loyal to the wider church. “He was very specific to say that we have to understand that choices have to be made, but don’t be afraid to ask for care,” he said. “Where is the charity for this priest?”

Posted online, Father Wylie’s words ricocheted through the traditionalist community. Then someone sent the New York Archdiocese a link to an Internet radio program on which the host read the transcript aloud.

On May 30, Bishop-elect John O’Hara of New York, who is overseeing the parish consolidation process, sent Father Wylie a stern reprimand for criticizing the archdiocese, with copies to Father Wylie’s superior at the Vatican Embassy in New York, Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt; Father Wylie’s archbishop in Johannesburg; and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, said a spokesman for the diocese, Joseph Zwilling.

“It reminded the father that he is a visiting priest, that we need priests who don’t criticize or attack the local diocese, that we need priests who work to build up the church rather than try to bring disunity,” Mr. Zwilling said, adding that Father Wylie should have shared his concerns with the archdiocese privately.

The letter also threatened to revoke Father Wylie’s ability to celebrate Mass in New York, a rare punishment, according to a person who had seen the letter but spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from church officials. But Mr. Zwilling said he did not know whether the letter went that far.

Archbishop Chullikatt dismissed Father Wylie after receiving the letter in early June and told him he should immediately cease all public appearances in New York. Archbishop Buti Tlhagale in Johannesburg is now recalling him back to South Africa.

Regarding the Latin Mass, Mr. Zwilling said that lay groups in the diocese were welcome to organize such Masses but that the diocese did not think a special parish needed to be assigned. He said it was premature to discuss what would happen to the parishioners of Holy Innocents until Cardinal Dolan, who is the archbishop of New York, made the final decisions on church closings in September.

The archdiocesan priest who officiated at the Latin Mass at Holy Innocents on a recent Sunday asked not to be identified for fear of retribution.

Father Wylie, reached by email, said, “I am confident of having tried faithfully at all times to serve the best interests of the Archdiocese of New York.”

Read the rest over there.

Everyone: Do not be discouraged. Do not flag. Do not rest. Do not relent.

Continue to work, cheerfully and with great respect, so that your “legitimate aspirations” as St. John Paul called them, will be realized with harmony in each and every place you are.

Furthermore, pray diligently for all ecclesial authorities. They have difficult mandates in troubling times.

Combox moderation is ON.

Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, Priests and Priesthood, Self-absorbed Promethean Neopelagians, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The Olympian Middle, You must be joking! | Tagged Archd. New York, Fr. J. Wylie, Holy Innocents, New York Times
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ASK FATHER: Criticizing a priest’s homilies

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader…

QUAERITUR:

Father, our parish priest is a good man, well versed in Scripture, in the encyclicals. He is also charismatic.

However, his preaching is dreadful. He uses the homily as an opportunity to teach and goes on far too long. Yesterday, he preached for 35 minutes; this in addition to confirming 16 candidates so that Mass took a total of 2 hours. [Imagine! 2 hours out of your week… in church!]

One could see people getting impatient and quite a few had to leave; their small children simply could not remain any longer.

How does one tell a priest that his preaching needs to be short, succinct, to the point, and leave the theological teaching to another time?

I sense that my priest wants to share everything on a subject with us, thinking that something will stick to someone. But the result is the opposite. He loses the majority and those who listen at first, and wish to listen, tune out after he goes on and says the same thing in three different ways.

How does one kindly tell one’s priest that he needs to learn to preach? thank you.

Criticizing a priest’s homiletic skills is generally as easy as criticizing one’s wife’s weight gain. One can take the Subtle Approach™, suggesting, “Hey, hon, let’s have a walk after dinner!”, or perhaps buying a new exercise bike for oneself, but making it clear that she can use it anytime she wants. You might suggest the arugula salad, again, and you can hope the hints are picked up. One use the More Direct Approach™ and leave a diet book on the coffee table, or comment on how much better the lady down the street looks since she lost all that weight. One could use the Blunt Approach™ and say, “You’ve put on a lot of weight lately.”

Any approach is a potential minefield, and just as likely to reap a huge negative reaction as it is to bring about positive change.

Me, I’d take the Cushioned Direct Approach™. “Father, I love what you have to say in your homilies and would definitely sign up and come if you had a mid-week scripture/apologetics/catechesis class. I’m concerned though that the length of your homilies is turning people away from the parish. I wish you would tighten it up a bit.”

Now, having no responsibility whatsoever for the results of your attempts (unless it works), with the wife or the parish priest, I bid you adieu.

(And Fathers, remember, you don’t have to get all of it into every single sermon.)

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Priests and Priesthood | Tagged homiletics, homilies, Priests, sermons
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INDULGENCE ALERT – Feast of the Sacred Heart

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today, the Feast of the Sacred Heart, the faithful can gain a plenary indulgence by the public recitation of Iesu dulcissime (Act of Reparation) (Ench. Indulg., al. conc., 3). All other recitations gain a partial indulgence.

Priests and Bishops! Have PUBLIC recitation!

Do not be afraid to bend yourself down before God especially and also to the angels and saints our intercessors and patrons and be simply pious.

Man was made to be pious.

This is the essence of religion, without which we are empty shells: to give due reverence to God. The sin of our first parents came from trying to be the opposite of pious: self-sufficient self-gods. That was defiance of due piety.

We can drift into the same emptiness of life by neglect of piety and devotion, neglect of fostering the habits of devotion.

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Signatures of Saints

Posted on 27 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am in Chicago… well… north of Chicago.

Yesterday, I visited for the first time the campus of Mundelein Seminary, the University of St. Mary of (by?) the Lake. As part of the visit I was able to see some of their treasures in their library vault. Card. Mundelein was, as many people were back in the day, a great collector of signatures of famous people. The collection is in the library of the seminary. Among the treasures are handwritten letters of many saints and secular figures. Here are a few of the saintly signatures I saw.

First, St. Teresa of Avila:

And because there are lots of trade reading the blog, and fans of Dominicans, St. Pope Pius V. Enjoy and imagine what that “nel suo pristino stato” might refer to.

And here is the great St. Robert Bellarmine.

There was also a letter from St. Julianna Falconieri to her sister, to which she actually affixed one of her teeth. Yes… teeth. I didn’t get to read the letter, so I don’t know the back story on that. I don’t think she thought that her sister was the… you know….

Posted in Just Too Cool, On the road, Saints: Stories & Symbols, What Fr. Z is up to | Tagged St. Pius V, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Teresa of Avila
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Lutherans call for Latin Liturgy as an aid to identity and unity

Posted on 26 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I saw a post at a Lutheran blog calling for – wait for it – more Latin in their liturgy.

As a convert to Holy Mother Church from Lutheranism, I found this pretty interesting. I am aware that there exists a Lutheran liturgical service of some sort which is more like Mass and which involves Latin. If memory serves it was used at least once a year at the large Luther Northwestern Seminary in my native place in Minnesota. That said: when we think of Lutheran services, Latin doesn’t leap to mind.

Here are a couple excerpts from the post at the blog The Jagged Word. As a former Lutheran, I could add more of my usual red intertextual comments than I often do, but I shall restrain myself. Read the whole thing THERE.

It’s been roughly 500 years since Martin Luther introduced the language of the people to the Mass – the Divine Liturgy of the Church. 500 years since the historic language of the Western Church was purged from the worship of God’s people. As a student of history, I understand why Luther thought this was necessary. Indeed, there is goodness in hearing and understanding the Liturgy in one’s native tongue. But Luther’s experiment with language should end. It’s time to restore Latin to the Mass of the Western Church. [The true Mass of the Western Church is the Mass of the Catholic Church…. but let’s go on…] It’s time to reintroduce the language of the Church to her people. [Bruthuhs n Sistuhs do I hear an “Amen!”?]

For those bristling at such a suggestion, I offer the following observations:

1) The Lutheran Reformers did not seek to abolish the Mass. Our confessions, contained in the Book of Concord, make this abundantly clear. These are the same confessions that every ordained Lutheran pastor swear to uphold and affirm. In other words, the Lutheran Church is a Liturgical Church and our worship is properly called the Mass. [Mass is a Sacrifice… but let that pass.]

[…]

3) While the Lutheran Church affirms sola scriptura, it does not reject Tradition or the importance of ritual. Catholicity is not adiaphara (optional/indifferent), [Nice phrase, though I would write adiaphora.] especially with respect to worship. And nothing affirms our catholicity like the Mass. It is, I believe, THE defining characteristic of what Lutherans confess. [That’s not quite what I remember hearing… but let’s move on.]

But why ditch the vernacular in our worship and relearn – reintroduce – and re-embrace Latin in the Mass? What possible benefits can come from such a change? I’m glad you’re curious… [Amen!]

[As an exercise, swap in the word “Catholic” here and there.] 1) Despite that the fact that the Lutheran Confessions affirm the Mass, many Lutheran [Catholic] churches today reject it altogether and embrace a worship style that is more akin to what one would find in a non-denominational church. Lex orandi, lex credendi [!]

CLICK ME!

(the law of prayer is the law of belief) is absolutely true and those who reject the Mass or think they should arrogantly rewrite it based on what they think their congregation wants/needs, [Tell it!] I believe, reject the very substance of Lutheranism. [Catholicism.] Can you imagine a contemporary Latin Mass? Neither can I. They are mutually exclusive, which is why the use of Latin in our Mass will help restore our catholicity in matters of worship, and affirm what our Confessions already do.

2) Our clergy and our people are very educated on matters of faith these days, much more than those prior to the Reformation. The Holy Scriptures, the Book of Concord, the writings of the church fathers, etc., are almost all in our native tongue. But with the expulsion of Latin, there is no longer a common language of the Church catholic. I know, very few clergy and even less laymen know Latin. But what a powerful educational tool the Church could be if it took it upon herself to educate her people in this language. As we relearn this language, some of our hymns, the assigned readings, and the sermon, could remain in the vernacular, along with a translation of the Latin in the hymnal or worship folder. But once again Christians could have a language that unites every congregation around the world – regardless of time or location.

3) Finally, re-embracing Latin in our Mass will further solidify the Lutheran Church as a communion that embraces the catholicity of the Christian faith. This embrace, I believe, will allow us to refocus our efforts on ending our schism with Rome. [Do I hear an “Amen!”?] Sadly, most Lutherans have no desire for reconciliation with those in fellowship with the Bishop of Rome. However, this runs contrary to the intent of the Reformation and to the spirit of the Augsburg Confession. But how can our communions be reunited if our worship is so radically different? Let’s embrace the language from whence we came and in it, find a new platform for dialogue and reconciliation.

It’s time. For the sake of the church and our faith – restore Latin to the Mass.

And this from a Lutheran blog.

Fr. Z kudos.

I would also like to remind everyone that Benedict XVI, who promoted Latin liturgical worship in our Holy Catholic Church, is the Pope of Christian Unity.

Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity | Tagged Latin, Lutheran
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SCOTUS DECISIONS: strikes down “buffer zones” at abortion clinics

Posted on 26 June 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I just heard that the Supreme Court of the United States, in a unanimous decision, struck down “buffer zones” around the clinical profit centers of big-business abortion.

I also heard that SCOTUS found that Pres. Obama’s so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were not lawful.

Apparently POTUS can’t just do anything it pleaseth him to do.

Now we will wait to see what actually happens.