In recent years it has been fashionable for the USCCB to transfer feasts to the next Sunday. The thinking behind this should be obvious, we don’t want people to feel guilty because they don’t bother to come to Mass, so we will move the feast to Sunday so people can still celebrate it without guilt. [...]
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FSSP Ordination North America 2008 May 30, 10:00 A.M. by His Excellency Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz Cathedral of the Risen Christ Lincoln, Nebraska Rev. Mr. Brian Austin, F.S.S.P. Rev. Mr. Matthew Goddard, F.S.S.P. Rev. Mr. Michael Stinson, F.S.S.P. Please keep these men in your prayers as they ascend to the altar of Our Lord.
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Problems of interpretation The opinion has been advanced that all the laws of the Church that regulated the use of the Missal and the Sacraments in 1962 have been derogated and the revival of the 1962 Missal does not automatically revive those legal norms. The shocking consequence of this interpretation is that altar girls and [...]
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By: Matthew Schultz In an interview with Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Good Friday of 1989, Father George Rutler asked, “Mother, what do you think is the worst problem today?” Without any hesitation, Mother Teresa said, “Wherever I go in the whole world, the thing that makes me saddest is watching people receive Communion in [...]
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NCRegister.com – Bishop John D’Arcy of Fort-Wayne, South Bend, Ind., is not supportive of the protests organized by Randall Terry against the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama. “Bishop John D’Arcy has urged Catholics ‘to stay away from unseemly and unhelpful demonstrations,’ such as those advocated by Randall Terry and others [...]
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With all the recent flurry concerning girl altar servers, please consider the following which has popped up on several blogs. Below and through the hyperlink this controversy is answered. In July 2001, the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship issued a response to a bishop’s question (dubium) concerning the possible admission of girls and women as [...]
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From: RORATE CAELI Andrea Tornielli reports in his blog today that the nomination of Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, current Secretary of Divine Worship, as new Archbishop of Colombo, has been postponed due to the current illness of the Prefect of Divine Worship, Cardinal Cañizares Llovera (who is fully recovered from his ailment). Tornielli adds some important [...]
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by Gregor Kollmorgen The Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has written a preface to the Spanish edition of a recent book by Fr. Nicola Bux, The Reform of Benedict XVI, which will be presented in Toledo this Thursday. In this outstanding preface, the Prefect of the dicastery [...]
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By way of the Italian blog Cantuale Antonianum we learn that the Archbishop of Bologna, Italy, H.E. Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, has issued new norms for the distribution of Holy Communion in his archdiocese. Here is an NLM translation of the communiqué of the Office for Social Communications of the Archdiocese: On the first Sunday of [...]
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