Showing posts with label prelates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prelates. Show all posts
Thursday, January 21, 2010

When the shepherd becomes a wolf...

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...the flock has a right to defend itself. Actually, according to Dom Prosper Gueranger, that right is more of a duty . Gueranger was referr...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Papabile?

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Someone (preferably a figure of authority in the Congregation for Divine Worship) should inform this man that yellow is not a liturgical col...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

The Bug

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The Bugnini died in 1982, and—happily for those of us who seek some measure of beauty and solemnity in public worship—is still dead. Long m...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Reflections on the feast of St. Ambrose

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Today is the feast of this courageous and holy saint who withstood a bloodstained Roman Emperor ( Theodosius ) by barring the latter from hi...
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...
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, October 01, 2008

Target practice

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Although this is hardly news ( Smasher and Fr. Finigan , among others, have drawn attention to it already), Melancholicus is interested to ...
Friday, August 22, 2008

Famous last words

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John Charles McQuaid CSSp , sometime archbishop of Dublin (1940-72) and iconic personification of pre-conciliar Irish Catholicism that the m...
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Monday, June 30, 2008

Twenty years ago today

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Whatever the reader may think of the above-pictured event, there is no doubt that it sent a message straight to the heart of the conciliar c...
Friday, December 14, 2007

The two faces of Cardinal Roger "Spirit of Assisi" Etchegaray

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Recently we lauded him over his comments regarding priestly celibacy, but we’re definitely not praising him now. From Catholic World News : ...

RIP Alfons Cardinal Stickler

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A true son of the Church, Cardinal Alfons Stickler of Austria, passed to his eternal reward on 12th December, the feast of Our Lady of Guada...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Cardinal Wetter's lament

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from Catholic World News : German cardinal decries seminarians' religious education Munich, Nov. 8, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Fried...

The mettle of Archbishop Burke

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From Catholic World News : Excommunication looms for would-be women priests St. Louis, Nov. 8, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Raymond Burk...
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...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

The time has surely come to suppress this heretical, non-Catholic order

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Melancholicus deliberately refrained from commenting on the affair of the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco giving holy communion to gays...
Friday, October 19, 2007

Populorum Progressio, and more fluff from the hierarchy

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Irish prelate urges idealism in politics New York, Oct. 18, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Pope Paul VI would support the work of the UN, but would als...

Consistory report: Armagh to be elevated to the sacred college

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This just in from Catholic World News . A papal consistory will be held on 24th November, at which 23 new cardinals will be elevated to the...