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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1124: “Et Cetera… nope, keep looking!”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1124: ““Fons” and “imbuisti?” “Inebria me” vibes? Either that or the contrast of “caligine” with “lucis.””
- on Daily Rome Shot 1124: “Hard to believe Bellarmine and Francis are both Jesuits. Jesuits with different paths I guess. If all paths are equal,…”
- on “Sin against synodality”: “The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1124: “Have any of St. Robert’s works against Calvinism and Lutheranism been translated in to English?”
- on “The young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”: “As for the dear Chili’s quote, that is a nice case for the St. Ambrose’s quote: “In Rome do as…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1124: “India is the sole leader in Budapest. India beat Hungary. Vietnam’s Le Quang Liem took down struggling world champ Ding…”
- on 16 Sept: Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian – endurance: “BeatifyStickler, I love sarcasm. Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian give us another example of times past that gives us strength for…”
- on “Sin against synodality”: “https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259315/here-s-what-will-be-new-at-the-synod-on-synodality-part-2 It looks real. It reminds me of attending an all girls “Catholic” High School in the 1990s. The students…”
- on “Sin against synodality”: “Another reason, apart from the Pachamama abomination, to shun St. Peter’s until an act of reconciliation has taken place.”
- on “Sin against synodality”: “Is it me, or does this seem eerily like a Maoist spiritual struggle session?”
- on 16 Sept: Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian – endurance: “Thank you for this! I’ve just been thinking about St. John Henry Newman’s novel Callista set in those days.”
- on “Sin against synodality”: “Looking through this examine, I think those who are trying to supress the TLM can be guilty of all of…”
- on 16 Sept: Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian – endurance: “If only they understood that the sacrifices to the pagan gods were equal pathways to God. They would have never…”
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Tag Archives: George Weigel
BOOK ALERT: Collected essays and reviews by the late, brilliant Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ
Last September 2020, my friend Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, died, far too young. Fr. Mankowski was everything that several highly visible Jesuits are not: Catholic, deeply faithful and amazingly intelligent. He was a Biblical scholar who taught in Rome for … Read More
George Weigel on ‘Traditionis custodes’: “Summorum Pontificum…. hope was being vindicated….”
At Catholic World Report George Weigel reacts to the 2021 Plessy v. Ferguson move Traditionis custodes. First, let it be said that in his writings about what the Church needs today viz. “new evangelization” and the like has not included the Traditional Latin … Read More
Is survival mode all we have now?
No one can give what they don’t have. In fun-Latin, nemo dat quod non ‘got’. And yet the universal vocation to evangelize is predicated on what we have, what we have received. We haven’t been evangelizing well. Rather, we seems to … Read More
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Worthy reading. More Pachamama and more from Archbp. Viganò.
At the Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last week (HERE with VIDEO), you could tell that quite a few of the congregants were unfamiliar with the Traditional Mass by the fact that they sang the Pater … Read More
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Run, don’t walk, to read it. Summary view of the 2018 Synod (“walking together”)
At the UK’s (and soon to be also USA’s) best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, you must… I repeat MUST… read George Weigel’s biting postscript on the 2018 Synod (“walking together”). HERE Weigel’s is the first of several postscript “letters” posted … Read More
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The upcoming Synod’s “working document”
George Weigel described the guiding document for the upcoming 2018 Synod of Bishops and Non-Bishops. Anyone looking for a remedy for insomnia might try working through the Instrumentum Laboris, or “working document,” for the XV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod … Read More
Weigel on improvising priests. Fr. Z rants.
We had an honorable mention in a piece by George Weigel today, not by name, but pretty much everyone knows what’s what. In First Things, Weigel is rightly worked up about priests who, contrary to law and good sense, impose … Read More
“Pius later sent rosaries to all the Catholic tars on ‘Old Ironsides’”
In my other day job I am the captain of HMS Surprise. Therefore I took note of something I read about Bl. Pius IX and USS Constitution. You will recall from your reading of The Fortune of War that Jack and Stephen were aboard … Read More
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3 views of Pope Francis after the South America trip
I bring to your attention three interesting analysis pieces about Pope Francis following his trip to South America. First, check out George Weigel at National Review. My impression is that Mr. Weigel has drawn a line through the pontificate (at … Read More
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Weigel on “traditionalists”
I saw this at First Things: Protesting Too Much Matthew J. Franck At National Review Online over the weekend, the familiar-to-First Things-readers George Weigel published a talk he gave recently in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the course of which he … Read More
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Sobering photos
Sometimes when I hear talk, often vapid, about the New Evangelization, I cynically wonder when it was that we completed the Old Evangelization. On the other hand, we are living in a post-Christian era, most of us in countries that were … Read More
Phoenix Legatus Summit Day 2
The first talk today is by George Weigel. Weigel is explaining that the three footings of Western Civilization, termed “Jerusalem (Biblical truths and revelation), Athens (rationality – we can know truths) and Rome (the rule of law is better than … Read More
Weigel on the Nuns on the Bus v Real Nuns
From NRO: The Sisters of Life were founded in 1991 by Cardinal John O’Connor and Mother Agnes Mary Donovan (a former Columbia psychology professor and clinician) as a new religious community of women dedicated to the defense of life at … Read More
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George Weigel offers a suggestion to liturgically narcissistic priests for Lent
At the site of First Things, there is a piece by George Weigel which includes a rather spiffy idea. He relates a recent experience of a priest screwing around with the texts of Mass and then continues: Bad habits built … Read More
G. Weigel gets it about the Magisterium of Nuns and
On the site of National Review George Weigel has a piece about the bishops and Pres. Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church and the 1st Amendment rights of all Americans. Among other things he wrote: […] In his appearance on … Read More
Weigel about the huge ( ____ ) in the John Jay Report.
Did you see the analysis by George Weigel about the John Jay Study? I am just getting to it. Weigel makes good points for National Review Online. My emphases and comments. May 19, 2011 4:00 A.M. Priests, Abuse, and the … Read More
Is the “Vatican’s” government a “train wreck”?
There is a slow seismic tremor running very deep, but it is discernible. For example, some in the UK are saying that the Bishops meetings there ought to be live-streamed so that the Catholic people know what is going on. … Read More
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The slapping down of a dissident theologian
The nice folks at First Things… do you subscribe? … have performed a fine public service – and some smile provoking entertainment – in the form of an open letter from George Weigel to none other than, wait for it, … Read More
Weigel’s piece in First Things… then Fr. Z rants
Preface: I urge priests and bishops reading this to at the very least skip to the last part if you think you don’t have time to read the whole. _____ George Weigel has a piece in First Things which merits … Read More
The dogs of Proverbs 26:11
Now this is a good day’s work. From First Things with my emphases and comments. Mar 29, 2010 George Weigel The sexual and physical abuse of children and young people is a global plague; its manifestations run the gamut from … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1124: “Et Cetera… nope, keep looking!”
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