Only pure nominalism could say: “those are the same rites.” When I read certain theologians dismiss your concerns, I can only think, in horror: if the Byzantine rites were changed this profoundly, they would seemingly also tell us to “suck it up” and “get over it.”
None of these issues should prevent us from working together in mutual charity for the common good of a moral society.
Holy Trinity Sunday is “a synthesis of Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost."
Dr Cuddeback brings enthusiasm to everything from pig-slaughtering to how to deal with failure.
...at this stage of the “cosmic edition” of Capture the Flag that we are now playing, for eternal stakes.
Thus, pilgrimages were bittersweet events, where the thrill of adventure was mixed with the challenges that naturally entailed long journeys.
The Catholic Church has a long and honourable tradition of recognising freedom of religion and conscience for minorities provided they do not threaten the safety and security of the State.
Our task this year is to look into the first reading for Holy Mass on Sunday celebrated with the Roman Catholic Church’s venerable and always legitimate and appropriate and contemporary and fruitful and ever alluring and awesome Vetus Ordo. We come to Pentecost at last, that major bookend, with its Octave, to the Pre-Lenten Sundays…
At any rate, what is most impressive about Bishop Strickland’s public change of opinion about the Society is not merely that he recognized the obvious truth that the SSPX is not, in fact, schismatic.
And that's the shift in OnePeterFive since Timothy Flanders began as its chief editor.
This is how most secular clergy spend half of their lives or more, while their consciences whisper: “This is wrong. Why am I taking part in it?”
