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Tag Archives: Catholic identity
A priests suggestions to correct our Catholic identity
At Catholic World Report, Fr. Peter Stravinskas reacts to ongoing scandal. He has some suggestions about how to address the identity problem we have in the Church – that’s what it is, isn’t it! – along the lines of Catholic … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Why should I remain Catholic when the Church doesn’t seem to believe her own message?
From a reader… Why should I remain Catholic and believe the Catholic Church’s, when the Church HERSELF doesn’t even seem to believe In her own message? I attend Mass with my family weekly, mostly to maintain spiritual harmony in our … Continue reading
Dismissal of publicly immoral Church employees
This story caught my eye because of the name of the place involved. When I see this name I always think of Daffy Duck. From the San Bernardino Sun: A Rancho Cucamonga man who taught 17 years at a Catholic … Continue reading
Is Catholicism True?
A friend sent me a note with the statement: I wonder how much THIS site cost to build! http://www.iscatholicismtrue.com/
John Rist: ‘You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching’
From CNS, something from an old prof of mine. I have written about Prof. Rist before. ‘You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching’ Posted on December 19, 2012 by Carol Glatz By Greg Watry VATICAN CITY (CNS) — … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic identity, John Rist
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Archbp. Chaput: “Catholics cannot have alternate views on abortion”
It seems to me that His Excellency Most Rev. Charles Chaput of Philadelphia is probably the heavy-hitter of the US episcopal conference right now. CNA has this: Archbishop Chaput: Be Catholic before you are Democrat or Republican By Carl Bunderson … Continue reading
Bp. Olmsted removes “Catholic” status from another Phoenix hospital
Bp. Olmsted is reinforcing Catholic identity again. As I wrote some time ago: We’ve seen this movie before, and it ain’t The Bells of St. Mary’s. I saw this at azcentral.com: Bishop strips Mercy Gilbert Medical Center of Catholic status By … Continue reading
A quick comment about our Catholic identity
“To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.” Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
Catholic and Faithful – American and Free
Let us not forget about our necessary battle for our religious liberty. Let us not forget the HHS mandate. Catholics must declare themselves in the public square, especially in the context our struggle with the anti-Catholic Obama Administration for our … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged anti-catholicism, Catholic identity, HHS mandate, Pres. Obama
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Quinque Puncta … Five Points To Be Recited Usefully
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! If we don’t know who we are as Catholics, and if we don’t keep firmly in mind our common Christian vocation to holiness, we will not be able to fulfill our particular vocations and … Continue reading
“There is only one problem in the whole world….” Wherein Fr. Z has a mini-rant.
“There is only one problem in the whole world: restoring spiritual sense in people. Showering on them something like a Gregorian chant.” – Saint-Exupéry Simple? Too simple? Perhaps. Faith is the last thing that sinners lose, after charity, first, and … Continue reading
Author of “The Exorcist” building suit against Georgetown U for not living up to Catholic identity
Here is an interesting development. From CNA: ‘Exorcist’ author prepares canon lawsuit against Georgetown By Michelle Bauman Washington D.C., May 19, 2012 / 05:03 pm (CNA).- The author of the best-selling book and award-winning screenplay “The Exorcist” has announced that … Continue reading
“To me, the most serious element in all this was the breach of fundamental, liturgical consciousness.”
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! In Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year, from the works Joseph Ratzinger (you know who) for 25 April we read a blurb from his perennially useful Feast of Faith (US … Continue reading
REVIEW: Courageous
I just watched the movie Courageous, about some men who decide they will make a special commitment to be better men and good fathers. The context is Georgia and the milieu is decidedly Baptist, though one of the main characters … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Dogs and Fleas, Priests and Priesthood, REVIEWS, The future and our choices
Tagged broken homes, Catholic identity, Courageous, crime, domestic Church, dysfunctional families, families, fatherhood, fatherless homes, men, SNAGs, society
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Of penance and preparation and pilgrimage
We are headed into a time of true spiritual warfare. The signs of this are thick in the air about us now. We would do well to get ourselves ready. We need good examinations of conscience, good confessions, good Communions – always GOOD … Continue reading
Fr. Blake: “What we have failed to do is prepare our people for any battle over this issue.”
One dimension of the international kulturkampf is the promotion of unnatural unions as if they were “marriages” and the introduction of legislation to force these unions to be recognized as such, even in the face of reason. After legislation is … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged ad extra, ad intra, Catholic identity, Catholic Voices, England and Wales, Fr. Blake, homosexuality, kulturkampf, marriage, marriage amendment, Minnesota Catholic Conference, public square, religion, same-sex unions, worship
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Pres. Obama owes you and me an apology!
Mr. President, you owe me and millions of American Catholics an apology. You apologized to Islamic extremists and other Muslims abroad and in the United States for something done against the Islamic faith by mistake. What you are doing to … Continue reading
Why Bishops must guard the name “Catholic”
Why do Bishops have an obligation to oversee which groups or publications can use the word “Catholic”? There is a White House response to the online petition against his recent moves against the 1st Amendment entitled “Protecting the Health of … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Catholic Health Association, Catholic identity, Catholics United, HHS, Planned Parenthood, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Sr. Keehan
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Dr. Peters (canonist) on Nancy Pelosi (public abortion absolutist)
The mighty Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, has posted on his excellent blog In The Light Of The Law a comment about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) statement that, as a Catholic, she will stand with the Obama Administration against the … Continue reading
Let’s go over this AGAIN. It’s our liturgical worship…
“If the crisis of church life today is above all a crisis of liturgy, then the renewal of the church must begin with a renewal of the liturgy.” Sound familiar? This was the Swiss-born Kurt Card. Koch, President of the … Continue reading
