Catholic Stuff
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Actually, I still haven't quite finished it, but I'm close, and I'm impatient to say what I think: this is a wonderful document. I mostly kept to my intention of avoiding commentary about the work, wanting to encounter it with as little preconception as I could manage, but it was impossible to avoid hearing the…
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I guess I should say "Ordinariate-related." "Anglican" is both more and less accurate, as it isn't in the name of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, on the face of which designation you would not know that its purpose is the preservation of the Anglican patrimony in union with the Catholic Church. …
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So, Pope Francis has published an "apostolic exhortation," and I see indications that the Catholic blogosphere is lighting up with comments about it. And I'm tempted to skim the thing as quickly as possible and deliver some quick comments of my own. But I'm going to resist that impulse. This thing is about 50,000 words…
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I've had these two movies on DVR for quite a while now, recorded from Turner Classic Movies. I'm sure it's been over a year, and it may be two, because I think I recorded them not long after we subscribed to AT&T's Uverse service for Internet and TV. (The TV part is soon going to…
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Well, here's a major argument-starter. Peter Leithart in First Things argues that Protestantism is over, that Protestants should stop calling themselves Protestants and call themselves "Reformational catholics" instead. I sympathize, and of course speaking as a Catholic I think it's a step in the right direction, but: Like a Protestant, a Reformational catholic rejects papal…
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The un-ecumenical days, when books like this were published: The Lenten Lectures of Rev. Thomas Maguire; delivered in Dublin in 1842, in answer to the Thirty-nine articles of the Church of England Lecture V is: The Absurdities, Contradictions and Blasphemies of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Parliamentarian Rule of Faith of the Episcopalian Protestants Yesterday…
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I'm not sure how many readers of this blog are interested, but here is an interesting piece on the situation of Anglo-Catholics since the establishment of the Ordinariate. One word summary: untenable. The author is addressing the Church of England, but what he says is broadly applicable to American Episcopalians of Catholic inclination as well. …
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"…most faculty wanted to keep full coverage [for abortion in the school's insurance plan], and felt that a total ban would signal that the university 'values diversity less than our Catholic affiliation.'" Good thing I long ago got over being impressed by doctoral degrees. I must say that this deserves some kind of special mention…
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I remain skeptical of the idea that the pope's outreach to non-believers is being received as anything but a concession. Here's a writer at the New York Times who is effusive in his enthusiasm that the Church might be coming to him: The only problem with Francis is his age. If he were 50, he…
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An Italian journalist has published a book asserting that Pope Francis, then simply Fr. Bergoglio, assisted "by conservative estimates…more than 100 people" in escaping arrest and probable death at the hands of Argentina's ruling military during the 1970s. More information here. I'd seen scattered references to the future pope's involvement in these rescues, but it…
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