Showing posts with label St. Pius X Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Pius X Society. Show all posts
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Cardinal Burke Throws Down the Gauntlet: "I Shall Resist" (Is This Cordileone's Message, Too?)

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The new insert added by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to the faculty handbook of employees of Catholic high schools in the San Franc...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "How Could a Catholic Priest with Such a History End Up As Second in Command of a Diocese—in 2014?"

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At Commonweal , Grant Gallicho examines the curious case of Father Carlos Urrutigoity, who was removed by the Vatican in July from h...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Archbishop Georg Gänswein and Benedict's Fixation on Rehabilitating SSPX, Benedict and Immunity from International Prosecution: What's Going on in the Vatican?!

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Follow the Money To be frank, I am not particularly interested in Vatican chit-chat. It seems far removed from my tiny little lif...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

In the News: End of Year Commentary on Religious News Stories (Uganda, Gay Marriage, Papal Pathology, Hobby Lobby, SSPX)

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Good commentary from articles uploaded to Facebook feed by friends in the past day or so, and from blogs I read:
Friday, June 15, 2012

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? The Vatican's Current Turmoil

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In Der Spiegel , Fiona Ehlers, Alexander Smoltczyk, and Peter Wensierski chronicle the astonishing turmoil now taking place inside th...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Europe's Resurgent Far-Right: "Same Politics of Scapegoating" (with a Catholic Footnote)

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At Salon, Steve Weissman and Frank Browning report (as many other commentators in the U.S. and abroad are also reporting) that the f...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Jesus and the Church: To Forget the Church Is to Forget Jesus?

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At National Catholic Reporter  this past week, Joe Ferullo takes  Andrew Sullivan's  recent  Newsweek  article entitled "Forg...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Gerald T. Slevin: Philly Abuse Trial: More HBO Than MSNBC?

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Jerry Slevin has sent another strong statement about the situation in Philadelphia, where, as he notes, the ongoing seamy revelation...

Anthea Butler Excoriates Attempt of Catholic Centrists to Give Cover to Anti-Semitism of Lefebvrists

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At Religion Dispatches, Anthea Butler writes , "On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Catholic 'Liberal' Hails Return of Anti-Se...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Heck Yeah . . . God Bless the Magisterium"

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At a posting at the Commonweal  blog site yesterday , Grant Gallicho notes that in a single day, Catholic officials announced

Vatican Targets U.S. Nuns, Welcomes St. Pius X: Good, Bad, Ugly

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"Vatican Orders LCWR to Revise, Appoints Archbishop to Oversee Group" "Welcome Back Lefebvrists"
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Amidst Controversy about Susan Sarandon's Benedict-Nazi Remark, Anti-Semitic Bishop Williamson Spouts Off Again

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A day or so ago, when Kathy Hughes mentioned to me the dust-up about Susan Sarandon's recent remark re: Pope Benedict Hitler Youth...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Rome's Witch Hunt Against American Nuns: Women as Source of Vatican's Loss of Authority

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When I first read about the recent Vatican announcement that there is to be a doctrinal investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women ...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Continued Conversation about Catholic Centrists: David Clohessy on Michael Sean Winters

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UPDATE (2 P.M., CST): Interestingly enough, the America thread to which I link below, by Michael Sean Winters, with David Clohessy's res...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

The State of the Catholic Church, Lent 2009: A Photo Essay

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For today, a photo essay--an interesting snapshot of the state of the Catholic church as Lent begins, 2009 . . . . The first two photos are ...
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Some Notes on the Meaning of Church in Light of Benedict's Rehabilitation of SSPX (2)

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A week ago, I posted some notes ( here ) on Vatican Council II. I wanted to look back at that council in light of the choice of the current...
Monday, February 16, 2009

Continuing Crisis in Austrian Church: Wagner Resigns

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Also in the news today, Gerhard Maria Wagner, the right-leaning auxiliary bishop-to-be in Linz, Austria, about which I’ve blogged a number o...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

Weekly News Roundup: Austrian Church Crisis, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Knoxville Shooter

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Lots of stories today following up on ones discussed in recent postings on this blog. A number of websites are reporting that the Catholic ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Some Notes on the Meaning of Church in Light of Benedict's Rehabilitation of SSPX

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As discussion has unfolded in recent days about Benedict XVI’s choice to rehabilitate the Vatican II-denying group Society of St. Pius X, it...

A Reader Writes: The Real Cost of Benedict's Smaller, Purer Church

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In this posting, I’d like to give attention to a comment that an astute reader of this blog recently posted in response to my reflections on...