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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “I don’t believe God will allow either of those to happen in the Church He founded. Were either of those…”
JonPatrick on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Unfortunately that vocal minority will keep pushing until they win their two goals – ordination of women and Church acceptance…”
JabbaPapa on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: ““One of them insists that the ordination of the deacon is ” ad ministerium ,” not ” ad sacerdotium “”…”
ProfessorCover on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@TheCavalierHatherly and R2D Perhaps the Church should require all Catholic blogposts and comments to be written in Latin or Greek.…”
TheCavalierHatherly on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@R2D They should be forced to speak Latin. If they can’t, they shouldn’t say anything. This would greatly reduce the…”
gothic serpent on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Synodality: Listening to a vocal minority of elite homosexual Germans hostile to the Catholic faith.”
Fr. Reader on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Sorry fr, the unicode link did not work for me”
R2D on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@ TheCavalierHatherly: eh, if you have a choice between Italian and English for writing international documents, just about nobody would…”
Not on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Before Vatican II You took vows as a Sub Deacon. Then a Deacon . Then an Ordained Priest. No “Lay…”
TheCavalierHatherly on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@R2D Hoc disputo. Est lingua prolix mendaxque. Discendum est clericis dilucide cogitare.”
Bryan D. Boyle on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “The chin wagging and word salads will continue, as a previous commenter noted, until someone somewhere wearies of the constant…”
Geoffrey on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Now if only “Spiritus Domini” (2021) would be reversed…”
ProfessorCover on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “This is more of a question than a comment. What sort of woman, do you suppose, advocates of women priests…”
R2D on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “The untold great gift of the current pontificate is the expansion of English as an acceptable business language by the…”
EAW on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Like that old bishop our reverend host often quotes, I think more talk is not what we need, but there…”
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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- “It was in these cataclysmic days that the people chose a certain Roman Deacon Gregory to be their new Bishop.”
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Tag Archives: hermeneutic of continuity
Kwasniewski instructs @MassimoFaggioli about real “rupture”
Recently Massimo “Beans” Faggioli has attempted to stir up a pingle and, with it, attention for himself, by denigrating our Catholic Tradition – nay, rather – by denigrating the people who desire our Catholic Tradition. His latest clickbait shtick, which … Read More
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Sometimes I post “good news” posts. We all need good news for a change, right? One piece of good news gets special notice today. My good friend Fr. Tim Finigan, PP of Margate, is posting more often again at his exceptional … Read More
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The Hermeneutic of Ambiguity
From a comment under an entry here… When enumerating the various hermeneutics for reading documents: the hermeneutic of continuity or the hermeneutic of rupture, they, apparently, forgot to include the hermeneutics of ambiguity. A priest friend sent this. UPDATE: … Read More
Again HUGE news: Pope Francis explicitly endorses Benedict XVI’s “hermeneutic of continuity”
You will want to read this carefully and put it in your “IMPORTANT” file. This is, again, HUGE news. The 450th anniversary of the closing of the Council of Trent is coming up on 4 December. We like to celebrate … Read More
STOP THE PRESSES: Bad news for liberals who have hijacked Pope Francis!
Here is something that really caught my eye. If this is the real thing, if… this is the real thing… this is huge. It is plausible, but I want to take it with just a grain of salt. This smells … Read More
St. Mary’s is getting a Continuity Makeover – VIDEO
My friend Fr. Greg Markey has gotten a spectacular renovation project going at his parish in Norwalk, CT. St. Mary’s is getting the “Continuity Makeover”. Another angle of the New Evangelization. Gosh! I wonder if, once it is done, they’ll … Read More
Mountaintop experiences matter, but they are not enough.
My constant drumbeat has been that for any effort of New Evangelization to bear long-lasting fruit, we must revitalize our sacred liturgical worship of God. Nothing we do to renew the Church will last unless we get our liturgical house … Read More
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Wherein Fr. Z explains what is really going on with the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II
Today, in addition to Francis’ dedication of the Vatican City State to St. Michael (and does that place need defense of the attacks of Hell!) and in addition to the release of Benedict’s final encyclical, which is Francis’ first encyclical … Read More
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