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The Need for Beautiful Churches
Pictured above is the rendering for St. Mary’s church in Fennimore, WI. Go here to see details of the renovation project. by Art Lohsen: It’s happening all over America. Pastors and dioceses are phoning to say that they need their post Vatican II church renovated to be more traditional, more beautiful, more Catholic. Whether it [...]
HHS Mandate Explained – Please Pray With Us!
Please plan to join Bishop Morlino at the Wisconsin State Capitol (State Street Steps) on Thursday. June 20 at 7:00 PM. We will hear an inspiring talk from the Bishop and pray 15 decades of the Holy Rosary. Read the following article to understand what is at stake: From The Weekly Standard: On August 1, [...]
“Bring me my weapon” -Padre Pio
From Malitia Immaculata: “Bring me my weapon”– St. Padre Pio “Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.” –Blessed Pope Pius IX “The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you’ll be amazed at the results.” –St. Josemaria Escriva Why the rosary? How does the rosary [...]
More Culture Wars: Public School Indoctrination
From Catholic Journal US: In 1975, the brilliant Catholic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe wrote one of the earliest defenses of Humanae Vitae with her essay “Contraception and Chastity.” It is a work that every Catholic should read, not only for her brilliant logic but also for her remarkable prescience. This is how she saw the future: If contraceptive intercourse is [...]
Help My Kids Still Aren’t Catholic!!
From Fr. Longnecker: An earlier post this week with a similar title evoked the most passionate comments I’ve had on a post for a long time. I suggested that one of the reasons why Catholic kids leave the church is that our catechism and worship styles and preaching for the past fifty years did not [...]
Help! My Children Aren’t Catholic Anymore!
From Fr. Longnecker: I’m in Indianapolis Indiana leading a parish mission this week, and in the meet and greet session afterwards, the most common conversation I have is with middle aged women who say, “Father, what can I do, my children have stopped practicing the faith!” or they tell me how their children have married [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 4
From Fr. Longnecker: Cut Off Catholicism vs. Continuous Catholicism In the midst of composing this series on what’s killing American Catholicism I am not only reading George Weigel’s Evangelical Catholicism and Sherrie Weddell’s Forming Intentional Disciples but on the flight out to Indianapolis read Russell Shaw’s American Church — The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 3
From Fr. Longnecker: What’s killing American Catholicism? This is the third part of a series. The problems all begin with the letter ‘C’. The first part was Cultural Catholicism. The problem when people are more cultural than Catholic. The Catholic faith transcends culture, and if it is linked too closely to culture, when the immigrant stops being [...]
Catholic Answers: Homosexuality
From Catholic Answers: Every human being is called to receive a gift of divine sonship, to become a child of God by grace. However, to receive this gift, we must reject sin, including homosexual behavior—that is, acts intended to arouse or stimulate a sexual response regarding a person of the same sex. The Catholic Church teaches [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 2
From Fr. Longnecker: I’m continuing a series on things that are destroying American Catholicism. They all begin with the letter ‘C’–as does the solution to the problem. You can use the ‘Categories’ tool to pull up the whole series as they are written. Here is a link to the first article in the series on Cultural Catholicism [...]
What’s Killing American Catholicism – 1
From Fr. Longnecker: Reading Sherry Weddell’s excellent Forming Intentional Disciples is making me think about the American church and what ails her. Can anybody deny that there is a sickness in the body ecclesia? When 50% of Catholics vote for a man who stoutly defends same sex marriage and partial birth abortion can we say that Catholics [...]
BREAKING: PENTAGON CONFIRMS MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH
From Breitbart: The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis…”. The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian [...]
What Vatican II Did Not Say
From Matt Fradd: Sacrosanctum Concilium is the Vatican II document that dealt specifically with the reform of the liturgy. Due to the great confusion many people have regarding the changes implemented by Vatican II, allow me to point to three things which the constitution did not say. 1. Abolish Latin in the liturgy In paragraph 54 [...]
Cardinal Kasper Admits to Intentional Ambiguities in Vatican II
From The Bellarmine Report: Cardinal Walter Kasper made the long-awaited admission in L’Osservatore Romano on April 12, 2013 that Vatican II was created with ambiguities and contradictory statements for the precise purpose of fomenting division between the liberal and conservative ranks of the Catholic prelature. Here are some choice excerpts from the article: “In many places, [the [...]
On Correcting Deviant Liturgical Customs
From Corpus Christi Watershed: In my last blog, I talked about the phenomenon, quite common today, of those who would delay or oppose the correction of liturgical abuses or imperfections because they feel that people’s feelings will be hurt or that they will be confused by “more change.” While I grant that too much change too [...]
