2015-03-13T00:24:52+00:00

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National Catholic Register reporter Edward Pentin has released a statement in response to Cardinal Kasper’s assertion that he never spoke to Zenit or made some rather inflammatory remarks on African Bishops. Writes Pentin: His Eminence Cardinal Walter Kasper spoke to me and two other journalists, one British, the other French, around 7.15pm on Tuesday as he left the Synod hall. I transcribed the recording of our conversation, and my iPhone on which I recorded the exchange was visible. I introduced... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:53+00:00

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A couple of interesting things: Primo: Cardinal Kasper is saying he never said anything about the African bishops or church and never talked to Zenit. On Twitter, Austen Ivereigh (whom you should be following, if you’re not) offers a fast, “unofficial” and “working translation” picked up from a Spanish translation of the German so…as he notes, “…open to amendment in the circuli menores.”: “I am appalled. I have never spoken this way about Africans and I never would. I assure... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:53+00:00

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Hey, don’t listen to those African bishops! Unless you’re an African in Africa…and even then! They haven’t the fullness of our light![/caption] Yeah, I am sorry; I try not to get into the politics of the church and all that — because I hates it — but Cardinal Kasper is falling victim to the easiest temptation to the ego: to keep talking into microphones when you really should stop. ZENIT: It has been said that [Pope Francis] added five special... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:53+00:00

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I keep seeing these same six words all over social media: “Gradualism is another word for license.” Think so? Really? No possibility that it is the process of grace, working within us? So, no grace at work, here? an atheist-turned-nun: I was attending Mass for an entire year before I went to confession. I don’t make excuses for myself. My soul was not in the proper state to be receiving the Body and Blood of Christ, but it took time... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:54+00:00

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Yes, the language in paragraph 50 is troublesome, and fast-becoming notorious. Indeed, would homosexuals like hearing that the orientation of straights is “to be valued” in and of itself? I get it, you can stop sending me emails, b/c friends, I have no time to answer them Because the language is causing a furor — Father Dwight is pretty unhappy with it. I’m trying to keep in mind that this relatio we are all working from is an unofficial translation,... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:54+00:00

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I: It is instructive, and a little depressing, to watch Catholic social media come alive with reactions to the synod’s relatio text, which — let’s remember — is going to be revised and clarified in another week, and then studied, thought about and prayed over for at least a year. The secular media is, naturally, trying to drive the narrative to its preferred talking points (and they’re making sure to beat up on poor old Pope Benedict XVI, so whisper... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:55+00:00

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The Extraordinary Synod for the Family is only half-completed, and its denouement will not be known until October 2015 or even later, but if the relatio post disceptationem, the mid-term report of this Synod is any suggestion, then, as Vaticanista John Thavis suggests at his blog, it’s going to be a bumpy year, Bette; a bumpy year! The relatio emphasized the “principle of graduality” – the idea that Catholics move toward full acceptance of church teachings in steps, and the... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:55+00:00

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Amid all the layfolk, Patheos’ Catholic Channel has enjoyed hosting the blogs of two fine priests, one deacon, and one cinema-savvy religious sister, who is more or less “shared” with the Entertainment group. Now, we are happy to add another sister — unsurprisingly, a second Daughter of Saint Paul — to the mix. We are happy to announce the arrival of Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble, who brings her excellent blog, Pursued by Truth into our lineup! Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble,... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:56+00:00

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Boy, I was so glad to hear this because it’s what we’ve been talking in the comboxes, re this piece. People “know” church teaching, but they “know” it as a barrel of absolute “noes”. They mostly do not have any notion of the theological reasoning behind the teachings, or how they reveal the hidden but constant reality of the “Yes” of God that the church is charged to communicate**. And they often cannot see that Catholicism is so reasoned, and... Read more

2015-03-13T00:24:56+00:00

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Nothing is static. I recently posted my annual “Nun News Roundup” piece (which had helpful reader additions in the combox), but just a few days later — on a great Marian Solemnity — these two very Mary-connected communities welcomed newbies! I knew the Summit Dominicans were expecting a postulant in October (and more to come this year; that’s why they desperately need to succeed in their building campaign), but not this early. Yesterday they welcomed Sister Emily, and decked her... Read more

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