UPDATE on: Jul 25, 2025 at 18:55
Here’s an interesting tidbit.
From Facebook about one of the social events of the year in Detroit.
Seminarians, priests, benefactors, and friends of Sacred Heart Major Seminary gathered at Huntington Place in downtown Detroit on Thursday, June 12 for the 2025 Archbishop’s Gala.
The Seminary’s biggest fundraiser, this annual event supports the students, staff, and operations at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.
UPDATE on: Jul 25, 2025 at 18:39
GOOD FOR HIM!
UPDATE on: Jul 25, 2025 at 17:46
I just learned that the well-known canonist Ed Peters has also been “ecclesiastically euthanized” from his long-held post at Sacred Heart Seminary.
This has a very bad look to it.
I wonder what the bishops who have sent their seminarians to Sacred Heart think about this.
I wonder if any bishops – other than the usual suspects – will consider Sacred Heart, and don’t mean the one at Hales Corners, WI.
I understand that Sacred Heart seminary is a separate legal entity from the Archdiocese and that the Archbp is head of the board. BUT… if he doesn’t want someone there, they won’t be there, and if he wants to keep them there, it is hard to imagine that they would be let go anyway.
Ralph Martin
Eduardo Echeverria
Ed Peters
… no long listed on the faculty. HERE
Pour décourager les autres?
Originally Published on: Jul 25, 2025 at 13:16
In two “daily” posts I’ve written about this. HERE and HERE It deserves its own entry.
Archbishop Edward Weisenburger removed Ralph Martin and Eduardo Echeverria from their positions at Sacred Heart Major Seminary on July 23, both theologians told the National Catholic Register separately. HERE and HERE
Weisenburger has been giving his all to Detroit for about 5 months, since 18 March. In record time, by June, he had shut down numerous Traditional Latin Masses. He has also used raw force to ban ad orientem posture from Novus Ordo liturgies in the archdiocese. Most competent commentators think that is ultra vires since he is effectively forbidding them to obey the rubrics which, also the for the Novus Ordo, are officially in Latin. But, hey, he has power and there hasn’t been anyone around who would try to stop him from picking on priests and the faithful in this way. Now he is having a go at seminarians by removing two highly respected and competent formators.
Ralph Martin has been known for years for his involvement in the charismatic movement. However, he is quite the solid theologian and he has of late spoken with urgency about problems in the Church and signs of the times. If you are interested in his most recent video, check this out. HERE He talks about two kinds of death (one of them is the in popular concept of “sin”). He has called out heresy in high places.
Martin in the NCReg:
“When I asked him for an explanation, he said he didn’t think it would be helpful to give any specifics but mentioned something about having concerns about my theological perspectives,” Martin said in a written statement Thursday afternoon.
“This news came as a shock,” Martin said. “I have contributed much to the seminary over more than twenty-three years. I even helped introduce and lead, up until yesterday, our flagship pontifical degree program, the Licentiate of Sacred Theology Degree in the New Evangelization.”
I can recommend a couple books by Martin.
First, A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward
US HERE
Also, Will Many Be Saved?: What Vatican II Actually Teaches and Its Implications for the New Evangelization
US HERE
Eduardo Echeverria. He declined to comment because of a non-disclosure agreement.
However, he was a contributor to an important book about “sense of the faithful” (sensus fidelium) a topic which goes to the heart of many moving pieces in the Church today including darling issues for those who are striving to undermine teaching on faith and morals. If you want lots of “walking together” and approval of sodomy you will appeal to a false version of sensus fidelium. It is critically important today to know what sensus fidelium is and isn’t. Hint: in order to have the “sense of the faithful” you have to be faithful. Right?
However, that will be unpopular with certain people.
Here’s THE BOOK to read on the subject. It is not easy but it is illuminating.
The Faith Once For All Delivered: Doctrinal Authority in Catholic Theology
This a daring selection of essays by prominent orthodox Catholic scholars published by Emmaus Academic Press.
US HERE – UK HERE
The book includes a Foreword and Introduction written by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, and an Afterword authored by Robert Cardinal Sarah.
The book was turned down by a couple of major Catholic publishers because of at least one essay/author they were afraid about.
Echeverria’s essay, in the second part of the book, is: “Saint Vincent of Lérins and the Development of Christian Doctrine”.
Again, this is an important book and if you are in it, you will probably be hated by who are striving to undermine teaching on faith and morals
The essays in the first part of this collection seek to answer the question, “What went wrong with Catholic theology since the Second Vatican Council?”
Following a brief account of the movement in modern theology from its philosophical basis in Kant and Hegel to the nouvelle théologie and later progressivist theologies of the twentieth century, the writings of Karl Rahner, Walter Kasper, and Bernhard Häring are treated as representative of principal problematic trends, and the concept of heresy is surveyed as it has been understood in the past and as it operates in the Church today.
The essays in the second part indicate the way forward for Catholic doctrinal and moral theology, examining and distinguishing the orthodox use of the sources of theology of magisterial teachings, the deposit of faith in its development, the sensus fidelium, Sacred Scripture, and Church councils and synods.
Edward Feser’s treatment of the Magisterium is deeply instructive and was challenging to the direction Francis was taking. The same is true of John Rist’s masterful commentary on contemporary heresies. These essays are especially valuable in debunking the current German synodal way and stand as a warning about the seemingly unending drive for synodality (“walking together”).
It will be interesting to see who replaces them. My money is on recently transitioned Dyna Moore of the Transgendered Daughters of Charity and perhaps Fr. Bruce Hugalot of the Sing A New Faith Community Into Being Faith Community in Libville.
