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Tag Archives: Card. Cupich
I have good news and bad news
I’ve had some emails over the last months and weeks from deeply wounded, anxious souls who fear that, in regard to traditional sacred liturgical worship (TSLW), we have gone back to the 70’s and 80’s, all the gains from Ecclesia Dei and Summorum … Read More
Xi… more than a letter in the Greek alphabet, especially in Hong Kong.
There might be Alpha and O-micron variants. There is a Xi origin. X marks the spot. Constantine wanted Nicea. Xi… “I want” is, in Chinese, xi?ng. Reuters: Historic conclave: Chinese bishops, priests brief Hong Kong clerics on Xi’s religious views … Read More
Communion for openly-lesbian Chicago Mayor – the devil is in the details
Check out this piece at the National Catholic Register (not to be confused with the National Schismatic Reporter aka Fishwrap). Background: A Chicago – Murder Central USA – police officer was killed in the line. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a non-Catholic … Read More
Canonist Ed Peters eviscerates bishops – one in particular – who won’t apply law
Right away go over to canonist Ed Peters’ place and read his vivisection of Card. Cupich. It’s not just Cupich whom he has eviscerated. It’s all the bishops who refuse to implement the Church’s Canon Law. I believe bishops take … Read More
Posted in 1983 CIC can. 915, Canon Law, Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged can. 915, can.916, Card. Cupich, Ed Peters
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Anniversary of John XXIII’s 1962 “Gaudet Mater Ecclesia” and how it has been misused #Synod2018 #VaticanII #podcast
Today is the anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. At the opening, John XXIII (whose feast it is today) gave a famous speech which is known by its incipt, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia. John XXIII’s speech is … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, Pò sì jiù, PODCAzT, Synod
Tagged Card. Cupich, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia, John XXIII, Louis J. Cameli, Synod
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Card. Cupich: Francis has better things to do. People who resist him a racists. Rabbit hole!
Okay, that’s it. I posted this within a different post, but it deserves its own place, for the record. Chicago’s Card. Cupich, who surely owes his rise to a certain someone, has reacted to The Present Crisis and the Viganò … Read More
UPDATED: Provincial recommended Fr. Frank Phillips of @SJCantius be restored as superior general of the Canons
In the case of Fr. Frank Phillips, CR, the founder of the Canons of St. John Cantius, removed by the Archbp. of Chicago from his pastorate… Phillips, was accused of misconduct involving adult men. He was removed as pastor of … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Archd. Chicago, Card. Cupich, Fr. Frank Phillips, Resurrectionists
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Fr. Murray on “lived experience”, “accompaniment”, “conscience”
UPDATE: Since I posted this a short while ago, I saw at First Things a commentary by Gerhard Ludwig Card. Müller (third in a series) precisely touching on the issues raised by Card. Cupich in England. This is obviously Müller’s response. Here … Read More
Posted in Mail from priests, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged accompany, Card. Cupich, lived experience
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MUST READ: Carl Olsen on the #USCCB17 Pro-Life committee vote!
Today’s must fulfill assignment is to go to Catholic World Report and to read thoroughly Carl Olsen’s piece about lib aspirations for the USCCB election of the Pro-Life committee chair and their subsequent spittle-flecked nutty. Olsen brings in the analysis of several other … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Naumann, Card. Cupich, Carl Olsen, USCCB
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How does Pope Francis choose bishops of important dioceses?
Italian vaticanista Andrea Gagliarducci writes regularly a column at his place called “Monday Vatican”. You should read him. Today, however, he has a piece at CNA about how Pope Francis seems to approach the selection of and translation of bishops. … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Andrea Gagliarducci, Archd. Washington DC, Bp. Robert McElroy, Card. Cupich, Card. Wuerl, Pope Francis
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