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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Chiara on 24 March – Feast of St. Gabriel, Archangel – images – EXPANDED: “Father, these images are *so* beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing them! My own favorite may not be one that appeals…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1277: “White to move and mate in 3. Fun. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025: “The gospel was about the gardener working the fig tree so that it will bear fruit. Father talked about how…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025: “At our TLM for the 3rd Sunday of Lent, Father said there were at least 5 sermons he could give…”
- on Daily Rome (video) 1275 – a trip to the tailor: “@Suburbanbanshee Indeed. There is a reference to the practice in Grettir’s Saga, where a berserker bites his shield, only to…”
- on Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11: “In regard to your comment about mental illness, there are also physical illnesses that one could mistake for possession. In…”
- on Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11: “REMINDER: Exorcism is merely a sacramental. Going to confession is a SACRAMENT, and much more powerful than a sacramental.”
- on Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11: “excalibur: Caution. While I know that demonic influence is on the rise, every exorcist will warn not to ascribe to…”
- on Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11: “Originally posted in the wrong thread, the one below this one. ************************ This is one of the best things you…”
- on Notes on a curiosity in today’s Gospel reading from Luke 11: “If we look at Luke 11, we see the description of a household, which is mystalogical description of the City…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025: “I went to Sunday Mass at the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Milan. They follow the Ambrosian Rite.…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025: “At the TLM (small old church, full as usual, probably 250 people) Father pointed out that the demon says “I…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday of Lent 2025: “We had one of our bishops saying Mass, as he was there for a groundbreaking ceremony for our new addition.…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1276: “Hikaru Nakamura won the The American Cup Grand Final with a classical game against Fabiano Caruana. $75,000 first prize. Tatev Abrahamyan…”
- on Daily Rome (video) 1275 – a trip to the tailor: “Correction to notation: 1. . . . . . . . B-h3+ 2. N×h3 . . Q-f3+ 3. K-g1 .…”
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Tag Archives: heresy
ASK FATHER: Some say @TaylorRMarshall, Tim Gordon, Archbp. Vigano are schismatic. Is this true?”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am a relatively new re-convert to Christiantiy. I have learned much from Dr. Taylor Marshall and I have started attending my local Traditional Latin Mass and have picked my latin missal at his recommendation. Some … Read More
The Devil Wears SJ. The Jesuit Superior General: The Devil is a symbol, not a person.
This week brought us Jesuit Thomas Reese, who undermined faith in transubstantiation. I wrote about that HERE. And Jesuit James Martin is incessantly sowing confusion about same-sex relationships and the Church’s teaching about homosexual acts. Now this. From CNA: Vatican … Read More
Posted in Canon Law, Jesuits, Liberals
Tagged can. 751, heresy, Jesuits, Superior General, The Devil
22 Comments
22 Comments
Canonist Ed Peters on trying Gov. Andrew “the Ghoul” Cuomo for heresy. Fr. Z makes some observations.
When I was travel back to these USA from Tokyo, I was addressed by fellow travelers about Gov. Cuomo. “When is he going to excommunicated?” They were really angry. People are angry. Rightly so. They want action, not words, from … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Andrew Cuomo, Becket, canon law, Ed Peters, excommunication, heresy, St. Thomas More
19 Comments
19 Comments
Beans reveals his self-interest
Evidence of self-interest. Where does his mind go? Catholic publications obsessively insisting on the fight against heresy and heretics are the Catholic equivalent of “Playboy”. Only, “Playboy” used to publish better interviews. — Massimo Faggioli (@MassimoFaggioli) January 5, 2019 I’m … Read More
ASK FATHER: Hypothetically, can a Pope dogmatically teach heresy? Wherein Fr. Z speculates.
NB: I revise a bit, below. From a reader… QUAERITUR: What if the Pope were to dogmatically declare that [insert major heresy here] was true? I don’t have an answer for this, which means I am utterly dependent on faith … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged dogma, heresy, St. Robert Bellarmine
19 Comments
19 Comments
Is homosexualist activist Jesuit Fr. @JamesMartinSJ a heretic? Canon Law with Ed Peters.
Canonist Ed Peters posted at his excellent site In The Light Of The Law, an illuminating post bringing greater clarity to what heresy is and what Jesuit homosexualist activist Fr. James Martin thinks. Peters doesn’t have a combox, but I do. … Read More
Your Trinity Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point (at least not a heretical point) made in the (sometimes dreaded) sermon for your Trinity Sunday Mass of Obligation? The dogma of the Most Holy Trinity is not only a mystery, it is a really … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged Arianism, heresy, Modalism, Partialism, Trinity, Trinity Sunday, Tritheism
33 Comments
33 Comments
Peters on Popes and Heresy, Personal and Public
Famed canonist Ed Peters today at his exceptional blog In The Light Of The Law has a piece that you will want to peruse. He doesn’t have an open combox, but I do. Read, re-read, pause to think, think again, … Read More
Posted in Canon Law, Fr. Z KUDOS, Francis, The Drill
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, can. 1330, can. 1389, can. 751, Ed Peters, heresy
18 Comments
18 Comments
Excommunication of same-sex ‘marriage’ Catholic SCOTUS Justices for Heresy
From Ed Peters, distinguished canonist, on Catholic SCOTUS Justices (Kennedy, Sotomayor) who ruled for Obergefell v. Hodges: Obergefell and canonical criminal law Dcn Greg Kandra calls attention to a question floating around out there, namely, [QUAERITUR…]should Catholic justices who voted … Read More
ASK FATHER: Rebaptism and membership in two Churches at the same time?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is a person who was baptized a Roman Catholic and later re-baptized in the Coptic Orthodox Church a member in good standing of both Churches who can receive communion in either one? A dear friend of mine was … Read More
Pope: To attract people more easily tone down teachings, relax severity… NOT.
Recently I read this quote from Pope Leo XIII’s 1899 Letter (sometimes called Encyclical, sometimes Apostolic) on the heresy of Americanism Testem benevolentiae: The underlying principle of these new opinions [Americanism] is that, in order to more easily attract those who differ … Read More
Fishwrap’s latest tacky move
Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) tested new depths of tacky today. They published, on the 20th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, a piece by the excommunicated “lady tambourine ‘priest‘” (perhaps you recall the Bob Dylan parody … Read More
Most heresies don’t spring full-grown from the head of Zeus
A priest friend forwarded this from Pat Archbold at the National Catholic Register: The Seven Stages Of Heresy Stage 1. Immoral practice is clearly condemned and anathematized. The eternal salvation of souls is at stake. Some people still do it, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liberals, The Drill, The Olympian Middle
Tagged heresy
23 Comments
23 Comments
ASK FATHER: What to do if sermons are heretical?
From a reader. QUAERITUR: What does a laywoman do if the Priest or layperson (this has happened) giving the homily at a mission starts promoting so called “same sex marraige” or trashing the teachings of the Church? Walk out? Take … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged heresy, homilies, preaching, protest, sermon
34 Comments
34 Comments
Why Irish Fr. Tony Flannery was censured by the CDF
From Protect The Pope comes this useful clarification: Fr Flannery’s heretical views on the Eucharist and Priesthood are the reason why CDF intervened – Cardinal Lavada explains BY DEACON NICK DONNELLY, ON NOVEMBER 15TH, 2013 Cardinal Levada, the former Prefect of … Read More
Posted in Blatteroons, Brick by Brick, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Fr. Tony Flannery, heresy
9 Comments
9 Comments
“If heretics no longer horrify us today”… it’s NOT because we are more charitable
I picked this up from Let Nothing You Dismay: “If heretics no longer horrify us today, as they once did our forefathers, is it certain that it is because there is more charity in our hearts? Or would it not … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged Henri de Lubac, heresy
24 Comments
24 Comments
Putting the well-deserved spotlight on Irish dissident Fr. Tony Flannery
At this site Renew America the Australian author Eamonn Keane has done us a great service by summarizing many points concerning the Irish heretic Fr. Tony Flannery, who has been under scrutiny by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged CDF, Fr. Tony Flannery, heresy, Ireland
83 Comments
83 Comments
CDF Prefect Archbp. Müller: “the hermeneutic of reform” is “only possible interpretation”
My old pastor, the late Msgr. Schuler used to say that “You can go into the ditch on either side of the road, left or right. Either way, you are still in a ditch.” This has been my concern about … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Year of Faith
Tagged aggiornamento, Archbp. Müller, Benedict XVI, December 2005, discontinuity, heresy, hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture, hermeneutic of reform, SSPX, traditionalists
41 Comments
41 Comments
“Whatever they don’t like, whatever they don’t understand, is a heresy.”
Via the Laudator: Erasmus, letter to Albert of Brandenburg (November 1, 1519), tr. Robert Blackley Drummond: Nunc alia res est haereseos crimen, et tamen ob quamlibet levem causam, hoc statim habent in ore, ‘Haeresis est, haeresis est.’ Olim haereticus habebatur … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Erasmus, heresy, Latin, Praise of Folly, Stultitiae Laus
7 Comments
7 Comments
Chiara on 24 March – Feast of St. Gabriel, Archangel – images – EXPANDED: “Father, these images are *so* beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing them! My own favorite may not be one that appeals…”
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