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VIDEO – On EWTN – Fr. Murray and Dr. Royal about Exhortation, devastating interview with Card. Zen about China
Tonight on Arroyo’s show, my good friends Fr. Murray and Prof. Royal talk about a range of issues involving the new Apostolic Exhortation. In the second half of the show, former Bishop of Hong Kong Joseph Card. Zen gave a … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Apostolic Exhortation, Card. Zen
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More Musings on #AmorisLaetitiae and a ‘Statement” from great #confccb priests
Now that the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation (P-SAE) Amoris Laetitia is settling in, I have few more observations. First, “left” and “right” have reacted predictably. We are challenged by the P-SAE in different ways. The P-SAE doesn’t change Catholic doctrine, though some … Read More
More analysis: “There will be those who will try and contort #AmorisLaetitia into the Kaspser proposal”
The newly released Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia in English is HERE. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, some analysis of Amoris laetitia. My emphases and comments. Francis has left Church teaching on Communion for the divorced and remarried … Read More
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", Francis, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Apostolic Exhortation, Card. Kasper, divorced and remarried, Pope Francis, tolerated but not accepted
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Robert Royal on ‘Amoris Laetitia’: Beautiful, Moving, and Divisive… Chaos and conflict, not Catholicity
I begin with a call for prayer. Please pray, then read. Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life, our sweetness and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up … Read More
Evangelii gaudium: Translation issues, problems
I am detecting rumblings that the English translation of the Pope’s new (first) Apostolic Exhortation is not so hot and that it may be, in some key places misleading. There are always going to be differences in opinion about how … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Drill
Tagged Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii gaudium, Pope Francis, translation
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First comment on the Pope’s new Apostolic Exhortation
The new Apostolic Exhortation is out: Evangelii gaudium. In English it is some 51000 words. It is a slog. It is not an encyclical. It is not an apostolic letter. It is only an apostolic exhortation. I caution all of you (and … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Francis, The Drill
Tagged Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii gaudium, Pope Francis
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