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Cardinal Walter Kasper Jan Bentz NEWSCATHOLIC CHURCHWed Dec 14, 2016 – 2:34 pm EST Cardinal Kasper: Pope’s ‘next declaration’ should allow ‘shared Eucharistic communion’ with Protestants https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-kasper-continues-to-push-for-intercommunion Catholic ,  Intercommunion ,  Lutheran ,  Pope Francis ,  Sacraments ,  Walter Kasper [ EMPHASIS AND {COMMENTARY} IN RED TYPE BY ABYSSUM ] … Continue reading →

For reasons too numerous and personal for me to give to you I was unable to prepare a homily for today.  So, rather than leave you without words of wisdom, which is what I like to think my homilies contain, … Continue reading →

Cardinal Mueller                                                                Cardinal Schoenborn Did Cardinal Schönborn’s News Agency … Continue reading →

  Cards. Burke & Brandmüller Join Meeting of Bishops, Priests & Laity About Dubia Deacon Nick Donnelly December 9, 2016  (Photo: interior of the Basilica of Saint Balbina, Rome) 1PETER5 [ EMPHASIS AND {COMMENTARY} IN RED TYPE BY ABYSSUM ] … Continue reading →

1P5 BLOG Cardinal Martino Speaks Out in Support of the Dubia Steve Skojec December 17, 2016 What began as Four Cardinals became Four Cardinals and three bishops. Over the past two weeks, three more Cardinals have added their voices in support … Continue reading →

Rewriting the History of Two Synods? Fr. Gerald E. Murray https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2016/12/17/rewriting-the-history-of-two-synods/?utm_content=buffere910e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2016 The now famous dubia sent to Pope Francis by Cardinal Burke and three of his fellow cardinals is a sincere effort to clear up what has become … Continue reading →

First Sunday of Advent, 1969: The Long Lent Begins  V FOR VICTORY WEBSITE On November 30, 1969, the first Sunday of Advent, the Novus Ordo Missae took effect, and what is now known as the Extraordinary Rite was effectively abolished.  The floodgates … Continue reading →

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/climate-of-fear-in-the-vatican-is-very-real Climate of fear in Vatican is very real St. Peters and the Vatican Shutterstock December 16, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Our Nov. 16-23 visit to Rome was the most dramatic of many such twice-per-year work trips we have taken there during the … Continue reading →

Rod Dreher ‘Tenderness Leads To The Gas Chamber’ By ROD DREHER  December 13, 2016 [ EMPHASIS AND {COMMENTARY} IN RED TYPE BY ABYSSUM ] ‘Hurry up with those prayers, Father, we’ve got work to do, eh?’ (Marcel Jancovic) “In the absence … Continue reading →