From a priest:I regularly use a limited amount of Latin in the OF at weekend Masses. Most parishioners really appreciate it, but after catechesis and so on a few just won’t give up their protest.Last Sunday I preached on Otranto and mentioned that the words of consecration will be in Latin in honor of these special martyrs, as it was the language of their worship
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From a priest:For those that follow the 1962 calendar or simply follow the traditional penitential days, are the ember days in the octave of Pentecost days of fast? It would seem not since the octave days, similar to Easter, are first class feasts.
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QUAERITUR: Ember Days during Octave of Pentecost… penitential?
It took them a few hours to get organized, but Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter), in its capacity of LCWR spin surrogate, has started to twist Pope Francis’s address to the UISG (HERE) into something that it is not.Here is an example.In my own quick translation of the meat of the Pope’s remarks, I commented that translation of the phrase (in Italian, but also in Latin) “sentire con la Chiesa… sentire cum ecclesia“, can be tricky to render into English. In Italian, “sentire” has a stronger line of meaning in the senses and feeling, hearing, smelling, so forth.
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Pope Francis has been saying Mass semi-publicly in the chapel of the Casa S. Marta, where he has been living.
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Pope Francis convokes a “group” of CardinalsPosted on13 April 2013byFr. John ZuhlsdorfOne month into his pontificate, Pope Francis has done a few unusual things.
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The Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) today has an article about the US bishops and the hotly debated gun-control legislation.In evidence is their use of a story from the Religion News Service.As the Senate takes up a heated debate over gun control and background checks, Catholic bishops have used the months since the Newtown, Conn., school shootings to push gun control in email blasts and Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. But among the Catholic faithful, not everyone supports gun control measures.
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Back on 2 April – which in blog years is like a decade ago – I offered a brief manifesto about how I think we ought to approach Pope Francis.In fact, there are any number of entries I have posted over the last few weeks that demonstrate what I am trying to do.I am purposely, obviously, openly, repeatedly trying to rein in the hyper-trads – to get them to breath into paper bags – and also to remind liberals that tradition-scorning victory laps are waaaaay premature.But my adversaries – liberals and conservatives – are trying to paint me as a Francis-bashing rad-trad, and therefore to take me down.I want you readers to know that this is going on – not because I am concerned about myself - but because the position that I have taken over the past few weeks is highly nuanced and, therefore, should not be misrepresented, wittingly or unwittingly, as that of an extremist.I have been consistent. For example….19 March: Dear Traditionalists…28 March: What Pope Francis is really saying.Note also what I wrote on 2 April (full post there).[A]s I have been saying all along, Pope Francis needs some time to learn how to be Pope
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What does Fr. Z really say? A response to critics on the left and the right.
Over the National Schismatic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters has responded to something I wrote HERE.Winters is mostly wrong about things, but he occasionally right and, when he is, I have happily said so here.Winters opens with a little snark – fair enough – and then gets into it:Zulhsdorf [sic] then opines, “Let’s see how the editors of the National Schismatic Reporter (akaFishwrap) and The Bitter Pill (aka The Bitter Pill… er um… The Tablet) report on this one… if they mention anything about it all.” Well, I am not an editor, but I do write for both NCR and for the Tablet, so I will take the bait.I’m reminded of the story of Paddy the Irishman who sees a crowd around two guys beating the tar out of each in the street.
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It is hard to imagine how wrong newsies can be… and then you run into the abysmally twisted report from Reuters about what Pope Francis said today in his Wednesday audience about women.Pope stresses “fundamental” value of women in Church By Naomi O’Leary ROME | Wed Apr 3, 2013 1:23pm EDT(Reuters) – Pope Francis stressed the “fundamental” importance of women in the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday, a message hailed as a significant shift from the position of his predecessor Benedict.
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Dippy coverage from Reuters on Pope Francis’ General Audience
Pope Francis has openly expressed desire for dialogue with Islam.
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SharebarYou know that I am now calling Fishwrap (aka National catholic Reporter) the National Schismatic Reporter.You know that Bp. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St
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Bp. Sheridan: the Fishwrap is “an embarrassment to the Catholic Church”
Can you imagine the constitutional problems/crisis? From minutemennews.com Supreme Court Opens Door to Obama Eligibility Challenge on February 15th Chief Justice John Roberts Schedules A Case Regarding Obamas Forged IDs to be Heard in Conference Before the Full Supreme Court.
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SharebarIn another entry I mentioned a new book by Fr.
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REVIEW: A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey. “If you want to be a hero, you can be.”
QUAERITUR: Clarity about Pius XII’s cool Thanksgiving Friday indultPosted on23 November 2012byFr.
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SharebarOver at American Catholic my friend The Motley Monk saved me some time and effort by providing a good look at the increasingly irrelevant and yet always disappointing Richard McBrien, dissenter and retired ailing prof at Notre Dame.McBrien, who still writes – quousque tandem? – for the National catholic Fishwrap, recently raised his elderly whine to his aging-hippy readers about the menacing ultra-conservatives John Paul II and Benedict XVI have appointed as bishops.Even though McBrien, who has a predilection for lists, has provided names, I have never met any actually ultra-conservative bishops in the US.
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SharebarI see the other day, election day, that The National Catholic Reporter – aka Fishwrap – pandered for The First Gay President, effectively begging Catholics to endanger our nation and their souls by voting for him. They have an editorial in which they gush about supporters of homosexual “marriage” and applaud unnatural act promoters in another article
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Your Excellencies: Tell the National ‘c’atholic Reporter to drop the term “Catholic”
