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Tag Archives: CDF
“Copernican Revolution”? Not!
Our friends at Rorate have published part of something from Messa in latino, speculation about the “Doctrinal Preamble” offered by the CDF to the SSPX during their meeting of 14 September, last. I wrote about that here. The speculation rises … Read More
WDTPRS POLL: Will the SSPX leadership sign/accept the CDF’s “Preamble”?
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SSPX Bp. Fellay interviewed after CDF meeting today
From the site of the SSPX. Here is the salient parts, as far as I can tell. Read the whole thing there. […]When I stated on August 15 of this year that we were in agreement on the fact that … Read More
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Anniv of Summorum Pontificum – Communiquè of the Holy See: Meeting between CDF and the SSPX
Today is the anniversary of Summorum Pontificum going into effect. What do you think of this? My emphases. I edited out the first two paragraphs, which were just background people already know, for the most part. ORIGINAL TEXT (which seems … Read More
A pessimistic article about SSPX and talks with Rome
In Vatican Insider of La Stampa comes this. My emphases and comments. Beware: Weird translation. You might have better success in Italian. Or else the original French, more more nuanced, here. Before a key meeting in Rome, the leader of … Read More
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CDF speculations
You might want to have a look at the intrepid Andrea Tornielli’s article in La Stampa (in English) about the proximate need for a a new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Card. Levada is coming … Read More
The depression and hopeless of many Irish priests, and proposals. Fr. Z rants.
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, P.P. of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, has a interesting, sad, provocative post on his blog today. Emphases, comments, comments and the insertion of images mine. Fr. Blake writes… If I was going to be … Read More
The CDF on a burning issue of our day … wait for it….
… the biblical obligation of head coverings for women in church, … because we haven’t had enough of that yet. The Canonical Defender, Dr. Peters, has added a note to his esteemed commentary on head coverings. Hat tip – (HA! … Read More
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QUAERUNTUR: Of several issues, personal and other, with a few rants
I have far too many emails in my box about several points. I hope with this I can put them to rest. The resignation of Amb. Kmiec. What do I think? I think what I wrote before about the poor … Read More
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PODCAzT 117: What the Catholic Church really says about same-sex unions
NB: iTunes users… I found that there was a second enclosure buried in these posts which screw up the iTunes feed. Let me know if you are not getting this on iTunes. After the release of that iTune app/tool to … Read More
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