(CNA) Father Julio FernĆ”ndez Techera, a Jesuit priest and rector of the Catholic University of Uruguay, has written a widely circulated, critical essay about the Society of Jesus warning that the order, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola in 1534, is in ādeep decline.ā The essay by the 57-year-old priest is titled āAd Usum Nostrorum… Read More Rest in Pieces. Jesuits in “Profound Decline” šŖ¦
NCRegister: “A blessing is not compatible with a state of sin: One cannot bless that which breaks, consumes, destroys. To which sacrament, therefore, is the blessing of an irregular couple ordered? It is not true that blessing promotes and justifies nothing, because it implicitly promotes ādisordered actsā and a pseudo union… “In the text of Fiducia… Read More āNon-Liturgicalā Blessings Do Not Exist
2/24/24. “For years the annual Religious Education Congress in Los Angeles has been a regular source of liturgical distress as various innovations test the bounds of reverence, not to say sacrilege. This year as the congress unfolded on the West Coast, the genuine sacrilege took place on the East Coast, at St. Patrickās Cathedral in… Read More Dead Synodality. Fr. Raymond J. de Souza.
I like Damian Thompson. And I like the video, all the sleek suits, handsome people and cool cars. I’m nostalgic in many, many ways; but there was often a world of difference in dress and girth between a modern 1940s office or retail worker chosen for PR purposes and the average butcher, baker or candlestick… Read More Damian Thompson’s Got Class
… but pay attention to what is said” — Thomas a’ Kempis, The Imitation of Christ. Begging With Confidence January 27, 2024 Around us, evil on evil is unfurled? āFear not,ā said Jesus, āIāve overcome the worldā (Jn. XVI, 33). On the last day of 2023 a Franciscan priest of the Capucin Friary of Morgon… Read More “Do not inquire, ‘Who said this?’
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