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Tag Archives: Catechism of the Catholic Church
CCC 2499
2499 Moral judgment must condemn the plague of totalitarian states which systematically falsify the truth, exercise political control of opinion through the media, manipulate defendants and witnesses at public trials, and imagine that they secure their tyranny by strangling and repressing … Read More
ASK FATHER: As a youth minister, I don’t think clergy have my back.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father have you seen this recent Pew poll on how we as Catholics view the Eucharist? I’m a Youth Minister @ my Church. I can do talks till I’m blue in the face, but feel I … Read More
ASK FATHER: “I now have doubt about sorting the doctrinal from the papal opinion.” Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: All this confusion with the death penalty has caused me to doubt the authority of what I assumed were books of bedrock Catholic Doctrine. Of course there was the first JPII Catechism, then his revision, both … Read More
The Mysterious Case of CCC 2358 on objectively disordered homosexual inclinations
This is an unusual post. First, I must preface this that some one sent me information about this recently, but I can’t remember who it was, I’ve looked for the email. So, someone found this before I did. I would like … Read More
Pope Francis changed the Catechism about the death penalty. What next? Wherein Fr. Z opines.
I wonder if the recent move of the Holy Father to change the text – the teaching of the Church – of the paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about the death penalty will generate enough buzz to … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Sorting out confusing, contradictory messages from priests
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to ask you a question since I know you are knowledgable and do not lead souls astray. My question is not meant to vent about the state of the … Read More
Cri de Coeur: What recourse do we laypeople have?
This cri de coeur comes from a comment under another entry. And what recourse do we laypeople have? Do we just have to sit around and remain silent because we do not have proper authority to speak up? Priests and … Read More
25th Anniversary of the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. St. John Paul II approved the provisional text in June 1992 and it was promulgated on 11 October 1992, which is also the anniversary of the … Read More
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A “cri de coeur”: Fr Z responds with a strong suggestion.
I had a note, really a cri de coeur, from a reader who said that she feels as if she and other good and innocent people in the Church today are undergoing one terror attack after another against our Catholic … Read More
Are you anxious, upset, confused about the Church today? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
In this time of confusion over doctrine and praxis, many people ask me in email what they can do either to maintain equilibrium, or else to “be the maquis”, as it were, and join the resistance against the liberal undermining of … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Sundays, open restaurants, and you.
From a reader: I have had a discussion with a good traditional Catholic that has told me going out to eat after Mass on Sundays, or for that matter any Holy Day of Obligation, is a sin against the 3rd … Read More
Of sympathy and pageant, of aging and refreshing
The other day a priest friend brought up a line from Hilaire Belloc’s The Path To Rome, which I have not read for many a year. This is the story of the wine of Brule, and it shows that what … Read More
QUAERITUR: A convert hungry to learn more
From a reader: Now that I have been a Catholic for one year, I am finding that I am still thirsting for info on Catholic doctrine. I read all I can but at almost 60 I am finding it overwhelming. … Read More
SSPX reaction to the Anglican Ordinariate and the recent converts
Long-time participant HE alerted me to the following from the site of the SSPX. They are happy about the reception of so many former Anglicans entering into the Roman obedience. As you know, Anglicans are able to enter full union … Read More
Newt Gingrich on why he became a Catholic
I saw this in the Seattle Post Intelligencer but it goes back to a piece Newt Gingrich wrote for the National Catholic Register about why he joined the Catholic Church. I think it is interesting that the secular MSM picked … Read More
