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America Magazine interview with Fr. Z
Today is a great day among Jesuits. It is the 200th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus. As you may know, the Society had been, for a while, suppressed. To mark this day, the Jesuit-run America Magazine has … Read More
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UPDATE: 2013 Scalfari Interview now BACK on the Vatican website. Why?
Originally Published on: Jul 16, 2014 @ 11:36 17 July: The interview has been removed. More below. ____ Can someone explain to me why the first Scalfari Interview from October 2013 is once again back on the Vatican’s website under the official … Read More
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Scalfari’s interview with Pope Francis removed from Vatican website. FINALLY!
Do you remember when I burst out in my own nutty melt-down about the fact that the interview by the atheist Eugenio Scalfari with Pope Francis, during which Scalfari neither made a recording or notes, was posted on the Vatican website … Read More
Tornielli calls into question accuracy of Pope Francis’ interview. Fr. Z asks a serious question.
Andrea Tornielli has a piece today at Sacri Palazzi wherein he calls into question the veracity of Scalfari’s account of the interview with Pope Francis. I don’t have time to translate the whole thing for you at the moment, since … Read More
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WDTPRS: What Did The Pope Really Say? 1 – UPDATES
I finally got the glacial site of the vile Italian daily La Repubblica to cough up the latest Franciscan interview… in Italian. When I read in the English version that Pope allegedly said, “The Son of God became incarnate in … Read More
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Pope Francis interview in La Repubblica, or, “Is This Now My Fate?”
My email is filled with notes from people who need to be talked off the ledge. The reason – this time – is Pope Francis’ interview with Eugenio Scalfari, the atheist editor of the vile Italian daily La Repubblica. BTW… … Read More
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More Francis Effect™ Analysis: “try crossing a rainbow-stole wearing priest in crappy sandals talking about love”
The other day I posted about an entry at The Sensible Bond. He is watching Francis and listening to rhetoric and considering their effects, especially in light of TBI™. We are all seeing what I call The Francis Effect™. He … Read More
Liberal over-reaction to The Big Interview
From the Catholic League a reaction to liberal over-reaction to TBI™ (aka The Big Interview). Pope “Hates Dogma” September 23, 2013 Bill Donohue discusses the way the left is responding to Pope Francis: If ever there were any doubt that the … Read More
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An article with critical observations about The Big Interview
I direct the readership’s attention to an article at First Things, by R.R.Reno concerning TBI (aka The Big Interview™). It is provocative. We need to work through it. A few samples. […] [T]he tone is mobile, the rhetoric fluid, and … Read More
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PODCAzT 137: Augustine on bad pastors; Sermon in the wake of Pope Francis’ interview
At the time of this writing it is still the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, aka the 18th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. It has been just a few days since the release of … Read More
First thoughts about the Francis Interview
Pope Francis, formerly a Jesuit, gave a series of interviews to the Jesuits. The interviews have been edited together, with parenthetical commentary and descriptions of the setting and so forth, and translated by lay people and Jesuits for publication in … Read More
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Interview with SSPX Fr. Schmidberger, Superior in Germany
Our friends at Rorate have put up an English translation of an interview by KNA (Katholische Nachrichten-Agentur) with SSPX Fr. Franz Schmidberer. Fr. Schmidberger was once the Superior of the SSPX and he is presently the SSPX Superior for Germany. … Read More
