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, [...]
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The Pro-Life Homily That Rocked The World
Posted in Bishops, Dignity on August 4, 2011 | 11 Comments »
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 [...]
Archbishop Dolan’s Embarrassment and New York’s Shame
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged 41%, Abortion, Archbishop Dolan, Chiaroscuro Foundation, New York City, Penn Club on January 7, 2011 | 17 Comments »
Today Archbishop Dolan joined an interfaith, interracial group of New Yorkers and the Chiaroscuro Foundation to decry the recently released NY City Department of Vital Statistics data that show 41% of all pregnancies in New York City in 2009 ended in abortion. For blacks, that number is 60%. I was fortunate enough to have been [...]
Catholic Bishop Right to Push Back Against Culture of Death
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, Bishops, tagged Abortion, Bishop Thomas Olmsted, ERD's, LifeNews.com, Saint Joseph's Hospital, Sister Margaret McBride on December 28, 2010 | 32 Comments »
My article in today’s LifeNews.com Bishop Thomas Olmsted, of the Phoenix, Arizona Diocese took the extraordinary step last week of removing Saint Joseph Hospital’s Catholic status. The measure comes after last May’s confrontation between Sister Margaret McBride, the hospital’s administrator who gave permission for an 11-week pregnant woman with a severe case of pulmonary hypertension [...]
Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix Revokes St. Joseph Hospital’s Catholic Identity
Posted in Abortion, Bishops, tagged Bishop Thomas Olmsted, Catholic, Phoenix, R.S.M., Sister Margaret McBride, St. Joseph's Hospital on December 21, 2010 | 30 Comments »
Many will recall the battles earlier this year on this blog when I defended Bishop Olmsted for declaring that Sister Margaret McBride, R.S.M. excommunicated herself by approving an abortion at Saint Joseph’s. I wrote several posts on this issue: FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH (How Catholic Bioethics is guided) SEVENTH (An article on Double-effect) [...]
The Pope and Rain Gear
Posted in Bishops, Condoms, tagged Condoms, HIV, Pope Benedict XVI on November 23, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Many have written asking for my take on the Pope’s comments about condom usage. I cannot, and will not comment on the moral dimensions of this issue as regards the use of condoms in light of Humanae Vitae. However, I think there is a scientfic dimension that has been overlooked here, and that dimension yields [...]
When a Man Loves a Woman…
Posted in Bishops, Dignity on November 17, 2010 | 12 Comments »
To a great extent the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy [...]
