Showing posts with label church decline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church decline. Show all posts
Thursday, February 04, 2010

The motion for debate

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That this house believes Vatican II was the Catholic Church’s Haiti. Ideas?
Friday, January 22, 2010

Conciliar renewal a tremendous success in Holland

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Not. Because from where Melancholicus stands, he can see only devastation. Perhaps the feverish apostles of aggiornamento will cont...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Expect further growth in the Church of Ireland

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Melancholicus is sure that their Graces Harper and Neill (Church of Ireland archbishops of Armagh and Dublin respectively) are not given to ...
Sunday, November 29, 2009

More clerical turpitude

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This time it’s the Dublin diocese. There’s no end to it, is there? Go here for the ugly details.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Farewell to a shitten shepherd

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Meet Willie Walsh , the smiling, welcoming, thoughtful, paternal and ever-so-inclusive bishop of Killaloe. He is your friend—unless, of cour...
Monday, February 23, 2009

The liturgical colour of Lent: not violet, but green!

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The C of E , that formerly venerable institution of English culture and religion which has given us such delights as choral evensong and th...
Monday, February 09, 2009

But the penny still hasn't dropped

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The newsletter from the parish on the north side of Dublin city where Melancholicus spends his working week has again popped through his let...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

The clarity of his teaching makes me glad to be a Dubliner...

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... and even gladder to be a Catholic. Not. This story courtesy of Novus Ordo Catholic World News , and is Melancholicus’ first hosting of a...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Why all the fuss about this place?

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Taizé. If there is one word guaranteed to set the ageing renewalists aglow with gushing enthusiasm, it is Taizé. Taizé is the centre of thei...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Judas priest

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Ah, blessed Jesus, how Thou art traduced by Thy ministers, even of those who by virtue of their sacred orders ought to belong entirely to Th...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

A visit to Maynooth

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Yesterday, Melancholicus took a trip out to Maynooth. The purpose of this trip was work-related and of academic nature, hence his visit was ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The evil fruits of Dignitatis Humanae

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Will someone please tell Melancholicus, is this man a bishop or a politician? His enthusiasm for pluralism and multiculturalism in the scho...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Practising Catholics outnumber Anglicans in the UK

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Well, that is to say that practising Catholics outnumber PRACTISING Anglicans in the UK. Anglicans overall are still in the majority, and th...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Meet Leslie Rohn

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At the moment the Mohammedans (some of them, at least) are engaged in the Hajj , that is the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca prescribed as on...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Archbishop Ranjith: bishops who defy Summorum Pontificum are instruments of the devil

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A word to the wise from the good archbishop secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship: “The motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on the L...

Cormac attempts to frustrate efforts to restore the liturgy

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Melancholicus has learned, via Damian Thompson and Fr John Zuhlsdorf , that his eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, archbishop of Wes...
Friday, November 02, 2007

Whose fault is that, then?

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From Catholic World News : Quebec's loss of faith seen triggering social problems Quebec, Oct. 31, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The people of Que...

Letter from the abbé de Nantes to His Holiness Benedict XVI

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From the October edition of the CRC journal: Most Holy Father, The pride of the reformers who, in past centuries, always came up against the...