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Tag Archives: heresy
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
22 Comments
22 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
8 Comments
8 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
23 Comments
23 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
39 Comments
39 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
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