Tag Archives: Marshall Plan

A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 14 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For your Brick by Brick file. In another entry I answered a question from a lay person who desired to pray for a priest as he learns the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass at the request of his bishop. It … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith | Tagged Bp. Morlino, D. Madison, Extraordinary Form, Marshall Plan, seminarians, seminaries, TLM, Universae Ecclesiae
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United States of America: “Mission Territory”. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 17 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For a long time the Church in the USA was under the aegis of the Holy See’s then Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, called now the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. This is why, for example, … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Year of Faith | Tagged Benedict XVI, Black Liberation Theology, Marshall Plan, mission territory, Obama Administration, Pres. Obama, Propaganda Fide
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Benedict XVI: “So many of the baptized have lost identity.”

Posted on 24 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) has been meeting in a plenary session these days. The Holy Father addressed them about the harsh reality we face as countries which were at least Christian but are now losing their identity. In Italy, … Read More →

Posted in Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, Year of Faith | Tagged dictatorship of relativism, Marshall Plan
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A writer’s first experience of Mass “ad orientem”

Posted on 25 February 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Matthew Warner has a piece in which he descibes participating at Mass ad orientem for the first time. My emphases and comments. […] Not too long ago, however, I attended an Ordinary Form of the Mass where the priest was … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices | Tagged ad orientem, Marshall Plan, Matthew Warner, Pope Benedict, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Louisville, KY: 10-12 July: Conference for priests on being a better confessor

Posted on 17 January 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have been harping on the need for a revival of the Sacrament of Penance. This means that priests have to hear confessions and preach about confession. As a matter of fact, if Pope Benedict has a “Marshall Plan” for … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, GO TO CONFESSION, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The future and our choices | Tagged confession, Manhattan Project, Marshall Plan, Priests, sacrament of penance
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“the time has come for us to be courageous in working for a true reform of the reform and also a return to the true liturgy of the Church”

Posted on 27 December 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A friend and I have been talking about the provisions of Summorum Pontificum and the need to press press press them forward again. We need to keep pressing and working. On that note, I was delighted to read at NLM … Read More →

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I sense a trend.

Posted on 3 October 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at Orwell’s Picnic there is a post entitled “Face it, Hippies”, which this graph. I sense a trend. The growth is slow, some will say. But there is growth. There is growth in several important spheres of the Church’s … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae | Tagged Biological Solution, creative minority, Marshall Plan, TLM
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CARA study on trends for parishes, Mass attendance

Posted on 18 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at the Fishwrap, their elder-dissenter Richard McBrien posted a column about shifts in Mass attendance. He works from a study about the “‘Supersizing’ the U.S. Catholic Parish Life” conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) … Read More →

Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged CARA, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Extraordinary Form, Marshall Plan, NCFishwrap, parishes, Richard McBrien, TLM
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Benedict XVI refers to riots, relativism when welcoming new British Ambassador. Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 9 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, there is a sound observation about a comment made by Pope Benedict as he formally received the credentials of the new Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great … Read More →

Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged Benedict XVI, Britain, dictatorship of relativism, England, Fr. Aidan Nichols, Marshall Plan, moral relativism, Nigel Baker
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When diocesan priests choose to use exclusively the Extraordinary Form. Fr. Z rants, a lot.

Posted on 8 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Our friends at Rorate have an interesting piece, which you should read in toto over there. Here are some salient points. Can one be a diocesan priest and celebrate the traditional Mass exclusively? A true motivational example [We [Rorate] consider … Read More →