Tag Archives: heresy

Pope: To attract people more easily tone down teachings, relax severity… NOT.

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged Americanism, heresy, Leo XIII, Testem benevolentiae
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Fishwrap’s latest tacky move

Posted on 22 May 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

Posted in Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, You must be joking! | Tagged Bp. Paprocki, heresy, Janice Sevré-Duszynska, National Catholic Reporter, NCR, NSR, Ordinatio sacerdotalis, Ordination Tambourine
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URGENT: CDF STATMENT ON LCWR

Posted on 5 May 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This is big. From the site of the CDF. This is pretty much self-explanatory. Just read it through. CONTEXT: Remember that the nuns were trying to spin what the US bishops and the CDF were, and are, doing as payback … Read More →

Posted in Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious | Tagged Archbp. Sartain, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Card. Müller, CDF, Concious Evolution, doctrinal assessment, Elizabeth Johnson, heresy, LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, women religious
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Most heresies don’t spring full-grown from the head of Zeus

Posted on 12 March 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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
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ASK FATHER: What to do if sermons are heretical?

Posted on 15 January 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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
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Why Irish Fr. Tony Flannery was censured by the CDF

Posted on 15 November 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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
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“If heretics no longer horrify us today”… it’s NOT because we are more charitable

Posted on 22 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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
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Putting the well-deserved spotlight on Irish dissident Fr. Tony Flannery

Posted on 4 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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
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CDF Prefect Archbp. Müller: “the hermeneutic of reform” is “only possible interpretation”

Posted on 30 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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
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“Whatever they don’t like, whatever they don’t understand, is a heresy.”

Posted on 7 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →