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“Go home now,” Cardinal Roger  http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/05/go-home-now-cardinal-roger.html Patrick Brennan reports some troubling news, as if it could get any more bizarre: The Los Angeles Times expresses confusion, as we all should, about what the heck is going on in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.  Three months ago, Archbishop Gomez relieved his predecessor, Roger Cardinal Mahony, of “public duties” in the Archdiocese, including, according to a spokesman for the Archdiocese Read more [...]

[the alcohol-loving cardinal jokes he can turn water into wine] ANALYSIS/OPINION: Minutes before a formal dinner in a spacious Arlington hotel room, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, had one question for the master of ceremonies: “Is this an evangelical [Christian] or a Roman Catholic event?” Cardinal Dolan asked. Eric Metaxas, the emcee and best-selling author of “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy,” replied that it would be highly evangelical, as in “dry” — Read more [...]

Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, spokesman of the Holy See, to journalists assembled at the headquarters of the Association of the Foreign Press in Rome, on April 24: “[I]t is a good thing for the child to know that he has a father and a mother”; [it must be] “made clear that matrimony between a man and a woman is a specific and fundamental institution in the history of mankind. This does not prevent that other forms of union between two persons may be recognized”. (Source: Rossa Porpora; H/T: Read more [...]

12-04-2013 Filed under From Rome, News www.dici.org/en/news/humility-to-the-detriment-of-authority/ On March 28, 2013, on the website atlantico.fr,Jacques-Charles Gaffiot published an article devoted to the new pope’s style, entitled “Humility Alert:  what the Church would lose by renouncing decorum and her traditions”.  J.-Ch. Gaffiot is the author of Trônes en majesté, l’autorité et son symbole [Thrones in majesty: authority and its symbol], published Read more [...]

11/04/13 09:38 Saint Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church, called Lutheranism “that wretched sect”. Celebrating an Apocalyptic Plague Catholics and Lutherans Prepare to Commemorate 2017 Fifth Centenary of the Protestant Revolt Note: This is a repost of a CFN piece from 2006. We re-present it in light of news that newly-elected Pope Francis, a man who has always been a proponent of Vatican II’s ecumenism, may plan to “celebrate” the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Revolt Read more [...]