Showing posts with label restorationism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restorationism. Show all posts
Saturday, May 3, 2014

I Listen to Facebook Conversations of Younger Catholics: I Get An Earful about What Makes Church of JPII and BXVI Tick (The Earful Is Not Pretty)

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I've mentioned before, I think, that I have a number of Facebook friends who stand considerably to the right of me when it comes...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

More Brief Takes from Week's News: Pope Francis, Catholic Reform, and Liberation Theology

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More brief takes from the past week's news--these focusing on discussions of Pope Francis and the Vatican:
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Gospel. Good News. Is What. It's All. About. Commentators Continue to Parse Pope Francis's Recent Interview

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Gospel. Good news. Is what. It's all. About.
Friday, September 20, 2013

My Theological Reflection on Pope Francis's Jesuit Interview: "God Is Encountered Walking, Along the Path"

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Where is God?
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

More Commentary on John Paul II and His Legacy: Australian Priest Fr. Eric Hodgens on John Paul's "Lust for Power"

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Fr. Eric Hodgens Another posting I'd like to lift out of the vault of previous postings here, as the canonization of John Paul I...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

"How Much Filth There Is in the Church": Jason Berry on the Flow of Corrupt Money in the Vatican, with Implications for JPII Canonization

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As we continue thinking about and discussing the decision of Pope Francis to continue the plans for canonization of Pope John Paul I...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Belgian Lay Catholic's Letter to a French Priest Agitating Against Marriage Equality: Thierry Peltier vs. Abbé Grosjean, Competing Visions of Catholic Action

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Yesterday, a Belgian Catholic, Thierry Peltier, published an open letter at the Mediapart website, responding to one of the Catholic lea...
Friday, March 29, 2013

A Reader Writes: What's This Foot Washing All About, Anyway (and Is There a Red State/Blue State Divide Here)?

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In response to my posting earlier today about Pope Francis's choice to include women among those whose feet he washed in the Holy...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Tom Ehrich to Staunch Catholic Traditionalists: "Sorry to Burst Your Bubble"

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At Religion News Service, Tom Ehrich maintains that the bubble of "establishment Christianity" in America is now bursting...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Beautybeautybeauty! The Reform of the Reform, Liturgy, and the Cessation of Critical Questions

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Catholic News Service distinguishes itself again (NOT!) with this bit of shlock touting the virtues of the "reformed reformed...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The Cost of Keeping Lord Ray Fine-Clad

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In his essay about why the hierarchy fears the nuns to which I just linked , Frank Cocozzelli notes that Catholics are now living in a...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "What Really Did They Accomplish," Those Theologians of Vatican II?

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Anonymous gets around a lot on Catholic blog sites.  (S)he often strikes me as having the temperament that ancient proto-psychologica...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Tics, Gesticulations, Swoops, and Flourishes Amidst Liturgical Bedlam

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So many droppings, so little time.  I want to frame today's piece with a snippet that a reader sent to Andrew Sullivan recently.  ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

On Conscience, the U.S. Bishops, and Manufactured Battles with the Obama Administration: David DeCosse at NCR

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National Catholic Reporter is now carrying valuable commentary by David DeCosse , director of campus ethics programs at Santa Clara U...
Saturday, January 14, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "My Aunt Is a Sister . . . ."

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From this week's edition of "Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage": this anonymous reader responds to National Catholi...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

We Go to Mass, We Experience the "New" Liturgy, We Leave Shaking Our Heads

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And speaking of the "new" liturgical translations (I just did so in my posting about Michael Iafrate's music): as I...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

Giovanni Franzoni on the Catholic Hierarchy's Attempt to Coerce Civil Society as Betrayal of Vatican II

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Giovanni Franzoni In the thread of comments following my posting about the attack on Hans Küng for his recent critique of Pope Bened...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

As Benedict Visits Germany: Hans Küng on What the Reform of the Reform Is Costing the Church

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Yesterday, I wrote ,
Monday, September 5, 2011

We Go to Mass, We Receive Orders: The Liturgical Revisions and Ongoing Betrayal of Catholic Pastoral Leadership

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Steve and I went to Mass yesterday with his aunts.  For reasons I've explained on this blog, I don't take part in Catholic liturgi...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Notes from the Heartland, As We Travel through Minnesota

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Notes from the American heartland: Motel signs we see in Grand Forks on the first night of our trip through Minnesota (and a small part o...