It’s been a blistering and draining week with the Komen story. As tomorrow’s Gospel tells us, Jesus often withdrew to prayer and solitude, and so am I today. Time for a retreat weekend. Here is an outstanding homily given by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the eve of his election to the Chair of Peter. It [...]
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Retreating from Komen with Cardinal Ratzinger
Posted in Bishops, Dignity, tagged Dictatorship of Relativism, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Komen on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Archbishop Chaput Addressing the Growing Aggressive Eugenics in Fetal Medicine
Posted in Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, Eugenics, Uncategorized, tagged Abortion, Archbishop Chaput, Disability, Eugenics, Fetal Medicine on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hot on the heels of our medical conference last Saturday, Therapeutic Advances in Poor Prenatal Diagnoses, comes this letter from Archbishop Chaput to the people of his archdiocese. Opposition to this new eugenics is swelling all over the nation. Here is a bishop who makes me proud of my Church. Earlier this week local media [...]
Declaration on Procured Abortion (III): The Church’s Prophetic Vision of Medical Developments and Moral Obligations
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Declaration on Procured Abortion on August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continue our study today of a little-known and little-studied 1974 document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion Read Part I here. Read Part II here. Today we turn our attention to the prophetic voice of the document, with commentary to follow: 17. Scientific progress is [...]
Declaration on Procured Abortion (II): The Church on the Infusion of the Soul and Life’s Beginnings
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Church Fathers, Declaration on Procured Abortion, Didache, Gaudium st spes on August 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We continue our study today of a little-known and little-studied 1974 document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion Read Part I here. Today we turn to the document’s treatment of the Church’s varied voices on when the body is infused with a soul. This is critical, [...]
Declaration On Procured Abortion (I)
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Declaration on Procured Abortion, Pope Paul VI on August 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
There is a little-known and little-studied document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion In my reading of proabort arguments and pre-life rejoinders, it has become evident that most Catholics are not armed with the truths and rejoinders in this document. We’ll spend a few posts looking [...]
The Pro-Life Homily That Rocked The World
Posted in Bishops, Dignity on August 4, 2011 | 11 Comments »
H/T to Deacon Greg Kandra who posted this yesterday on the 70th Anniversary of this Homily. This comes from historyplace.com which has an excellent repository of historical speeches and commentary. This homily, slightly reworded for current leaders is a commentary for our present age. For distributing copies of this homily, the Nazis beheaded three priests, [...]
Catholic Hospital in Colorado Won’t Fire Abortionist
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, Uncategorized on July 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Dr. Richard Grossman is the longest serving physician with privileges at Mercy Regional Medical Center, a Catholic hospital in Durango, run by Englewood, CO’s Catholic Health Initiatives. Dr. Grossman is at his hospital office one day per week. When he’s not there, he spends 1-2 days per week working at the local Planned Parenthood as [...]
Bishop DiMarzio Responds to New York’s Politicians on Gay Marriage: Has the Slumbering Giant of the Episcopacy Been Awakened?
Posted in Bishops, tagged Andrew Cuomo, Bishop DiMarzio, Bishops, Excommunication, Gay Marriage, Holy Communion, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy on June 28, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The following is a statement by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of the Brooklyn Diocese, regarding the passage of the gay marriage bill in New York. The Diocese of Brooklyn is one of the largest in the United States in terms of population, and Bishop DiMarzio’s is therefore a very influential voice. First Bishop DiMarzio’s statement, [...]
Bishops, Dallas, Corapi, Cuomo, and the Eucharist; The Ties That Bind
Posted in Bishops on June 27, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Update: See Bishop DiMarzio’s condemnation of both parties here. We have seen in blistering detail the way the Church goes about dealing with the mere allegation of sexual impropriety between consenting adult parties when a priest is involved. If an allegation is deemed credible, the priest is out, laicized. The same for allegations involving minors. [...]
Father Jack McGuire and Geraldine Ferraro: A Tale of Two Funerals
Posted in Bishops on April 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday saw two notable funerals in the Archdiocese of New York. Geraldine Ferraro, the first vice-presidential candidate in U.S. history was buried from Manhattan’s Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer, the Church where Regina and I were married eighteen years ago. Awe-inspiring beauty doesn’t even begin to describe this church. It is without parallel. Filling the [...]
Ferraro, Cuomo, the Young Seminarian, and the Bishops Who Held the Line on Abortion
Posted in Bishops on March 29, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Last week two New York giants died within days of each other; one a pro-abortion political trailblazer who did much to advance abortion, and the other an auxiliary bishop who left behind him a legacy of life-giving love to handicapped children and their families. The politician is Geraldine Ferraro (my commentary on her right to [...]
Father Corapi and March Madness
Posted in Bishops, tagged Father John Corapi on March 19, 2011 | 53 Comments »
I was made aware of this late last night. The following statement is from Fr. Corapi’s website: A Call for Prayer On Ash Wednesday I learned that a former employee sent a three-page letter to several bishops accusing me of everything from drug addiction to multiple sexual exploits with her and several other adult women. [...]
Planned Parenthood Admits Rome Had It Right
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, Planned Parenthood, tagged Abortion, Alan Guttmacher, Birth Control, Bishops, Declaration on Procured Abortion, Gaudium et Spes, Humanae Vitae, Planned Parenthood on March 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Catholic Church has certainly taken its lumps for speaking out consistently against contraception and where it naturally leads. Today we contrast two quotes. They speak to very different visions of the same human reality, and point to a validation of Rome’s visionaries.. The first is from the Church’s Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of [...]
Glorify God!!
Posted in Bishops, tagged Chant, Gloria, New Roman Missal Translation on January 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
H/T to Deacon Greg Kandra at The Deacon’s Bench. The new translation of the Mass comes to us this year. Here is the Gloria set to chant. I have lots to write about in the next few days, very heavy material. I spoke at a Queens Church tonight with my friend, Chaplain Viviana Hernandez, bringing [...]
