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Category Archives: Benedict XVI
PODCAzT 130: Ratzinger on Conscience and Truth – Part 1
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! In 1991 Joseph Card. Ratzinger gave a talk to American Bishops called “Conscience and Truth”. This talk is useful today, especially in the context of two major controversies that are going on as I … Read More
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I STAND WITH BENEDICT
A reader sent me a link to a short video made by some faithful young Catholics in Italy in support of Pope Benedict XVI. The group is “Noi per Benedetto“. We are for Benedict. It’s in Italian, but check it … Read More
The Holy Father on active participation and worth, reverent liturgical worship
The Holy Father, in his video address to the Eucharistic Congress in Ireland, made some statements about our liturgical participation. POPE BENEDICT XVI’S MESSAGE AT CLOSING MASS […] Based upon a deepening appreciation of the sources of the liturgy, the … Read More
Card. Burke on the SSPX (video)
I am a little behind the curve on this, but I thought you might like to hear what His Eminence Raymond Card Burke has to say about the future (hopefully) reconciliation of the SSPX with the Roman Pontiff. [wp_youtube]fRcoaytPCa0[/wp_youtube] Benedict … Read More
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Benedict XVI establishes Anglican Ordinariate in Australia
Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity. From The Catholic Herald: Pope Benedict XVI has established a personal ordinariate in Australia and named a Lancashire-born former bishop of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) to lead it. The ordinariate, the … Read More
Bishops “relieved” of their duties
At Chiesa Sandro Magister has a piece about bishops who have been deposed from their sees. It is longish, but here is some of it. You can read the rest there: VATICAN CITY, June 15, 2012 – The old-timers of the … Read More
SSPX offered a Personal Prelature
To review: The Holy See gave the SSPX a “doctrinal preamble”. The SSPX studied it and proposed in return some modifications. The Holy See and Holy Father studied the modifications. Then the CDF and SSPX Bp. Fellay had a meeting, … Read More
SSPX Bp. Fellay in Rome to receive Pope Benedict’s decision about the Doctrinal Preamble. PRAY!
Three people have come up to me with questions. I am getting text messages on my phone. It seems SSPX Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay is in Rome to meet with officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith … Read More
Benedict XVI’s Sermon for Corpus Christi: Jesus in our midst is the “beating Heart” of the home, city, country, territory
When I was in seminary, the faculty spoke with contempt of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and treated seminarians with such a devotion with suspicion and fear. One of the things we heard was “Jesus said ‘Take and eat’ not … Read More
SSPX Bp. Fellay on the danger of inventing an idea of the Church that appears ideal.
Cindy Wooden of CNS did an article on comments made by SSPX Bp. Fellay on their site DICI. I found this on the site of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald. After some introductory remarks about the present … Read More
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