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Last Seen Profiles
Group of young Catholics outside
#SynodalerWeg
. They say it doesn’t speak for German Catholics.
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Come to to read about the slow but steady "Catholic awakening" in the Nordic countries through the eyes of four seminarians. Stay for the absolutely breathtaking photos of Catholic life being lived out in the epic majesty of Scandinavia.
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Jesus in the Eucharist, the source of the Catholic faith, crossing the Mississippi River at its source.
#MarianRoute
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Eucharistic procession passing through the campus of the University of Notre Dame, in front of the Word of Life mural that adorns ND’s library. Part of the National Eucharistic Procession’s Marian Route, which started in N. Minnesota in May and will culminate in Indy in 12 days.
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Very inspiring to meet so many German Catholics who love Pope Benedict XVI. They told me those leading their Church toward schism are "loud", but not representative. Another note: they were also distinctively young, a sign German Catholicism’s future is in Benedict’s mold.
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The Eucharistic Lord passes in front of Notre Dame’s golden dome on the way to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
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A glimpse of what probably over a million people gathered to celebrate the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions in Uganda looks like.
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Priest in Berlin: those faithful to Christ are surrounded by others, who say we must abandon what Jesus told us and what we’ve done for 2000 years, and update it for the 21st century.
“In these days, it’s our task to go to the foot of the cross, and stay with Jesus with Mary.”
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The Source and Summit Eucharistic Procession, with 5000 participating, passes the Governor of Minnesota’s mansion on Summit Avenue in St. Paul.
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Participants in the Source and Summit Eucharistic Procession, which St Paul police just told me is 5000 people strong, praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet as they walk along Summit Avenue in Minnesota’s capital city.
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The choir from the Diocese of Nebbi helps lead millions in worship at the Shrine of the Ugandan Martyrs on the feast of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
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The Catholic Church doesn’t have a “ban” on ordaining women. It affirms that it has no power to do so. This is an important difference, and when one prefers to use the former, more inaccurate description, you wonder why they choose to do so.
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This is the Mississippi River—yes, the same mighty body of water that goes on downstream to sustain cities like Minneapolis, St. Louis, and New Oreleans. But it starts up here in N Minnesota as little more than a brook….with just a little “fiat”, one might say…
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Children cast rose petals before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at the front of the Source and Summit Eucharistic Procession in St. Paul, MN. The 4.5 mile procession to the Cathedral of St Paul along Summit Avenue is part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Marian Route.
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💥BREAKING💥
Four German bishops vote against funding Synodal Committee
They’ve said the Committee violates Pope’s instructions, and that the Synodal Way has caused “unrest” in the Church
A huge development—and a huge blow to Synodal reform efforts 🧵
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During Mass at St. Roch’s in Vienna this morning, new altar servers (boys ages ~7-10) were called by name and ritually welcomed into the sanctuary.
Mass was full at St. Roch, Vienna’s Oratorian parish, this morning.
Rates of Sunday Mass attendance are higher in Austria than neighboring Germany (as high as 17% of Catholics pre-COVID), but are likewise in sharp decline.
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Really touching moment at Mass today. Abp. Gaenswein chokes up while recalling Benedict XVI’s words following the pope’s resignation in Feb 2013.
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“Synod on Synodality: Laywoman’s Speech Opposing Women’s Ordination Draws Big Ovation”
The speech characterized calls for women’s ordination as a form of clericalism and as a distraction from what Catholic women want and need.
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Cardinal Cupich's decision to restrict Eucharistic adoration during 2024's Eucharistic Revival procession through his archdiocese seems related to a pattern of permitting liturgical abuses while cracking down on more traditional expressions of piety.
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Bishop Barron shares a cool story. Eucharistic adoration wasn’t a thing in his generation of priests, he acknowledges. He picked it up from the seminarians he taught at Mundelein, who had rediscovered the devotion by watching EWTN rerun of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s talks.
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“Bätzing Resign Immediately,” reads the sign, referring to the president of the German bishops conference, who was inside for the
#SynodalerWeg
.
Stephanie tells me that “he is destroying the Church.” He doesn’t listen to anyone but leftists.
“Pope Francis, please remove him!”
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Opening procession for Mass on the feast day of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions at the National Shrine of the Ugandan Martyrs. The procession moves from the shrine built over where St. Charles Lwanga was killed to a pavilion in the middle of a man made lake.
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A Catholic student fraternity, Churpfalz Mannheim, at Mass today, Berlin. They study together and live by a common set of principles incl. spiritual disciplines. One member told me that many Mass-going Catholics are opposed to proposals of
#SynodalerWeg
, but aren’t represented.
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Amazing 🇩🇪German Catholic ⛪️ custom: when they pray the Rosary, they insert the mystery they’re meditating upon *into* the prayers: ie, when they’re on the 5th Joyful Mystery, they’ll pray, “…and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, who was found teaching in the temple.” 🤯
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Two things that are simultaneously true:
-the vast majority of self-identified German Catholics favor the proposals of the Synodal Way
-also: the vast majority of self-identified German Catholics don’t go to Mass and don’t know/accept basic teachings of the universal Church
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BREAKING: Pope Francis has just expressed deep reservations about the direction of the Catholic Church in Germany, warning that concrete steps currently being taken “threaten” to undermine unity with the universal Church.
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Standing room only for the noon Mass at St. Michael, the Jesuit parish in Munich.
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A celebratory Mass for “graduating” seminarians at Saint Paul Senior Seminary in Tabora, Tanzania 🇹🇿, one of the country’s 6 major seminaries.
Total number of seminarians? 291, with 40 now finished with their pre-ordination academic formation.
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Well, that’s a wrap for me at
#SynodalerWeg
.
But my time in Germany’s just getting started. Over the next two weeks, I’ll be going everywhere from Berlin to Bavaria, showing that German Catholicism is more than what’s happened here. Come along for the ride 😎 🇩🇪 🇻🇦
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Love it. I’m in Africa, tweeting about the fruitfulness of the Church in Africa, and an African priest is tweeting about the fruitfulness of my home Church back in Minnesota. Praise God for this universal faith.
13 men have been ordained to the Catholic priesthood for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, the largest group of men to be ordained since 2005
As long as God lives, The Church will be alive!
Image: Saint Paul seminary
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After a week in Germany, covering
#SynodalerWeg
and the state of German Catholicism: I have never been more affirmed in my appreciation for the vitality, creativity, and fidelity of the Catholic Church in the USA.
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Synodal “priorities“ in Germany vs St. Paul-Minneapolis
Germany:
-ordain women
-change teaching on sex
-have laity govern the Church
StPMpls
-foster small groups for sake of missionary discipleship
-renew understanding/celebration of the Mass
-equip parents as primary educators
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Archbishop Muhatia of Kisumu told me that Kenyans are grateful for Western missionaries, but now the west is bringing something very different: secularism and values antithetical to the Gospel. “It is not the Good News. It is very bad news.”
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I feel bad for all the Catholics who simply love to pray and worship in the TLM who may have that ruined by those whom appear to love the idea of being special (and being persecuted for being special) more than they apparently love the TLM
False, the Novus Ordo will die with the contraceptive generation that barely attends.
The NO is not a Catholic Rite, thus it will not survive.
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Heading home after an incredible 2 weeks in Germany. I’ve learned so much—about the serious challenges in the German Catholic Church, but also the many signs of hope! Excited to provide ongoing coverage + followup on significant leads.
Our Lady of Altötting, pray for Germany!
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Golgotha means “place of the skull,” possibly b/c the rock formation looked like a skull. But a more ancient explanation is that the skull of Adam was buried here. So when Christ died, the blood of the New Adam reached down to the Old.
Something to mediate on this Holy Week.
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A new bishop in Turkey—who was raised a Muslim.
Bishop Antonie Elgit was born to a Turkish immigrant family in Germany, and became Catholic when he was 25 years old. He was just ordained as an auxiliary bishop to the Apostolic Vicariate of Anatolia.
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@TimothyNerozzi
@lawindsor
A new genre of journalism. NEW UNDERCOVER: Mitch Romney says we need tax cuts. NEW UNDERCOVER: Nancy Pelosi says there should be no limits on abortion.
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If a video of a pro-life activist pwning an “Alpha male” chauvinist can’t bring all of Catholic twitter together, not sure what can
This is first time in TikTok history…
that the chick HUMILIATES the guy
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The Aachen Cathedral: built by order of Charlemagne and the place of his final resting place. Where the kings of Germany were crowned for centuries. The original chapel—the domed tower—dates back to the 8th century.
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11 months ago, I joined a small group of Berlin Catholics for their first rosary walk through the city known as Europe's atheist capital. We were heckled, but most found the experience invigorating. Update from a friend: they've been doing it monthly ever since. Photos/vid below
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Cdl Gregory’s clear, concise criticism of Biden’s Catholic practice is remarkable, and deserves unpacking.
But let me just say that
@Mebudde
’s (inane) response to a question asked solely to Cdl Gregory, as Biden’s rightful spiritual leader, was despicable+deeply un-ecumenical
Wilton Cardinal Gregory (
@WashArchbishop
) on President Biden:
“I would say that he's very sincere about his faith. But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts. There is a phrase that
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And they’re off! After Bishop Cozzens blessed the pilgrims and their journey at the shores of Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River, the small group began their pilgrimage along the
#MarianRoute
, which will take them to the Natl Eucharistic Congress in Indy in July.
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Meet David Rodriguez and his wife, whom I met after Mass yesterday in Berlin. David, a 🇪🇸/🇩🇪 citizen, told me he’d just written the papal nuncio, begging for intervention & an alternative to paying the German church tax.
“I can’t keep paying for all of these heretical bishops.”
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I’ve seen a lot of implications that my coverage of
#SynodalerWeg
is biased.
It is.
It’s biased in the sense that I take as an editorial starting point the Catholic faith as authoritatively taught and evaluate things on that basis. And I’m not going to apologize for that.
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With 7000 participants, the procession in St Paul, MN was the largest National Eucharistic Pilgrimage event yet. The next closest—a procession across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fran a week and a half ago—had 4000.
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The Ordinary of the Mass in the Latin Rite should be in Latin. It’s a beautiful expression of unity, and it’s also hospitable to immigrants and visitors alike. It’s also not that hard to learn!
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Praying the rosary on the streets of Berlin with Ethos Maria. This comes after an afternoon workshop on “AI and Creation” and evening hours spent in prayer and Mass.
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The idea that "conservative" Catholics are particularly obsessed with "the pelvic issues" is bizarre and disingenuous. Certainly they wouldn't be talking about them so much if there wasn't a concerted effort to overthrow basic sexual norms? So who's really obsessed with them?
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The theological situation in Germany is dire—but Fr. Ohly and the faculty of the newish Cologne University for Catholic Theology offer something else. They form students to apply the Tradition of the Church to the questions of today—missionaries for a post-Christian Europe.
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@jasonwblakely
You had me going for a while, but this ended up being a worse take than when Deneen tried to say It’s a Wonderful Life was an ode to destructive capitalism.
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The four are:
-Cardinal Woelki (Cologne)
-Bishop Oster (Passau)
-Bishop Voderholzer (Regensburg)
-Bishop Hanke Eichstatt
By voting no, they’ve blocked the Synodal Committee (set to begin Nov 10) from accessing diocesan funds, aka, the German Church tax.
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The challenge in traditionally Catholic regions of Germany is like revitalizing a tree w/ deep roots but dead branches.
Not so in Berlin. Here, it’s more like planting seeds in untamed soil. The resulting dynamic is often creative, edgy—and a little wild.
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On Saturday, my seminary class got ordained. In other words, if I hadn't DO'ed, I'd have been up there. Lots of mixed emotions, but what stood above the rest: Overwhelming joy, gratitude, and pride to see my friends become priests, especially now-Fr. Ryan Glaser, my d.b. in Rome.
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Would Cardinal Cupich have restricted this?
"(Cardinal Blase J. Cupich) told them they could go through Chicago, but they couldn’t expose the Blessed Sacrament while they were walking"
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Hundreds of priests and men and women religious on hand for Martyrs Day in Kampala, Uganda
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Africa is often said to be the future of the Catholic Church—so I’m grateful for the chance to cover it on its own terms.
For the next 3 wks, I’ll be visiting 5 countries to learn abt the reality of Catholicism in Africa: the exciting, challenging, and surprising. Come along
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Abp. Muhatia said that 10 years ago, many priests in his diocese were European. Now? Just one. “The missionaries have done their part. It’s now our time to be missionaries, to ourselves and to others.” Transition of responsibility from missionaries to Africans is major theme.
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Trevor Williams, a Catholic and a pitcher for the Washington Nationals, publicly criticizes the Dodgers for honoring the "Sisters" of Perpetual Indulgence.
Interestingly enough, he points out that the Dodgers are violating their own Discrimination Policy re: prejudicial attire.
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Pope Francis wants a poor Church for the poor, that reaches out to the global peripheries. It would be very sad then if the universal Church continued to be held hostage by a warped, hollowed out, zombified form of European Catholicism (
#SynodalerWeg
) and the reason why was money
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Finished my time in the Diocese of Passau with a little pilgrimage to Altötting, the spiritual heart of Bavaria, the “Lourdes of Germany,” and one of Pope Benedict XVI’s favorite places on earth.
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I think the biggest fault line in theology today isn’t communio v concilium or thomist v nouvelle, but theology with a mystical imagination v theology that is just glorified sociology.
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BREAKING: Reducing the "Sensus Fidelium" to crude public opinion polling continues to be bad theology
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I’m grateful for all the followers after my coverage of
#SynodalerWeg
. In the replies and RTs, I’ve seen a lot of comments to the effect of “this is what Vatican II gets you.” I respectfully but emphatically disagree. In fact, the Synodal Way is a profound rejection of V2.
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The Traditional Chartres Pilgrimage had to deny registrations--because a record number 16,000 people had already signed up, and organizers couldn't accommodate any more.
An interesting liturgical sign of the times.
@Solena_Tad
with the report.
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You cannot bless a same-sex couple in a way that doesn't "create confusion between what constitutes marriage and what contradicts it" if you simaltaneously describe them as married and each other's husbands.
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Don’t really understand how the Catholic community in a country that has produced models of evangelization (WoF, FOCUS, etc) that are desperately imitated by dying European dioceses can be described as inwardly focused, engaged in solely cultural Catholicism, etc.
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“Catholic Church upholds ban on administering communion with Laffy Taffy”
“Catholic Church upholds ban on identifying Grover Cleveland as the 4th person of the Trinity”
“Catholic Church upholds ban on reestablishing heaven at the 7/11 on Front St.”
See how stupid this is?
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In Passau, aka, Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") in the SE corner of Germany. It’s the seat of the most Catholic diocese of Germany (75% of pop, 12% Sunday Mass-goers)—and home to some of the country’s most exciting new evangelization efforts, under Bishop Stefan Oster.
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Still 7+ hours til the Vigil at
@NotreDame
and the line is up to 50+. Mostly students, but also parents (like my UST prof Dr. Foote). The crowd is passing the time with prayer, reading theology, and playing a bit of volleyball. You love to see it.
It’s 10 AM on Holy Saturday at Notre Dame, and already there’s a line for tonight’s Easter Vigil at the Basilica. Inside, two lines are full for confession (~15 hours offered during the Triduum) and preparations are being made for the great solemnity ahead. Deo Gratias!
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@MichaelSWinters
@USCCB
@FranciscanU
By “culture warrior” it seems you just mean people you don’t like/wouldn’t have picked. For instance, Fr. Mike Schmitz speaking in staccato and toward a college-aged audience don’t really seem like convincing reasons to call him a “culture warrior” unless, again, it means nothing
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All the “What will happen to the Church without Benedict’s influence XVI?!” piece, many written by Catholics, are so brutally materialistic. The man is, God-willing, participating in Trinitarian life in heaven. He’s more influential than ever before.
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One of the single best ways to address Eucharistic coherence AND people feeling singled out and excluded for not receiving: STOP THE ASSEMBLY LINE RECEPTION OF COMMUNION.
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After 5 days at Notre Dame, mostly celebrating the Paschal Triduum but also talking to some fine folks at
@ND_EthicsCenter
and
@McGrathND
abt their work, I have never been more convinced that there is so much good at ND, and that it’s completely and utterly worth fighting for.
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Incredible photos from
#Adoratio
Eucharistic congress in Altötting, Germany. Led by Bishop Stefan Oster of Passau, the annual event of prayer, inspiration, and fellowship has become a rallying point for German Catholics seeking a different path of renewal than the Synodal Way 🧵
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With so much turmoil and controversy in the Church right now, was good to go to the altar of St Peter tonight for Adoration and remember what it’s all about. “The most fruitful human activity is to receive from God.”
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Bishop Stefan Oster: "It's about our human image and our understanding of the church"
The bishop of Passau, one of four German bishops who blocked funding for the Synodal Committee, explains his position in this interview published today.
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Mass was full at St. Roch, Vienna’s Oratorian parish, this morning.
Rates of Sunday Mass attendance are higher in Austria than neighboring Germany (as high as 17% of Catholics pre-COVID), but are likewise in sharp decline.
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On of the day
#Synod
votes on summary text, a prayerful (and very international) procession of Catholics makes its way to St. Peter’s. The procession is part of the “Populous Summorum Pontifical” Pilgrimage, an annual event for those devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass.
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The pushback from so many African bishops came after years of church elites in Germany bullying the rest of the universal Church. After years of humble deference while leaders of dying Euroepan churches flouted clear directives. Idk what this means going forward, but seems big.
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It’s 10 AM on Holy Saturday at Notre Dame, and already there’s a line for tonight’s Easter Vigil at the Basilica. Inside, two lines are full for confession (~15 hours offered during the Triduum) and preparations are being made for the great solemnity ahead. Deo Gratias!
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More images from the Eucharistic procession across Notre Dame’s campus today. Several professors and ND shirts in the crowd.
@McGrathND
will host a panel on the Eucharist this evening, followed by a “mystery play” tomorrow, and an even bigger campus procession on Sunday.
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No offense to the rest of Germany—but this is my kind of cathedral.
I’m in Cologne/the Rhineland for the last leg of my trip. So far I’ve heard Rhinelanders:
-are very sociable
-have good food but bad beer
-think they are the best Catholics in Germany
Did I miss anything?
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Beautiful witness and practice of the most forgotten corporal work of mercy. What's stopping other Catholic schools or even parishes from organizing their young men to do something like this?
Students at
@RockhurstHS
are helping lay to rest those who died without families in Kansas City through the school's St. Joseph of Arimathea Society.
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An evening rosary prayed by the faithful of St. Ulrich in Augsburg before the 6 pm Mass.
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Statement from Bishop Andrew Cozzens of the Diocese of Crookston (MN) on Vatican’s new declaration on pastoral blessings and same-sex couples.
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Kind of insane that Rachel Maddows is describing Vance as an abortion "absolutist" when I'm sure many pro-life Catholics are wishing that were actually true after his public acceptance of the abortion pill last week.
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So many of our problems in the Church stem from an inability to hold two realities together simaltaneously. Truth & charity. Justice & mercy. Being & action. Love & discipline. Evangelization & clarity. They're always pit against each other in a fundamentally non-Catholic way.
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An increasing number of German Catholics don’t want to fund the post-Synodal Way trajectory; but the only way to not pay the ‘church tax’ is to officially disaffiliate from the German Church — and risk losing access to the sacraments. My latest
@NCRegister
.
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“Diocese of Regensburg signals resistance to Synodal Committee”
With the German bishops meeting starting TODAY, and only one bishop needed to stop funding for the next stage of controversial process, high ranking cleric in Regensburg signals opposition.
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Apologies if this makes me an "integralist" or something, but they should not repeatedly air commercials of horror movies where a mom becomes some kind of demon and attacks her kids during a professional basketball game on a Sunday afternoon.
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Reminder that Pope Francis has called the Synodal Way elitist, ideological, unhelpful and not serious.
Dear US Catholics: This is a superb report on what is really happening with the Catholic Church's synodal process. Ignore other disinfo and propaganda:
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My favorite shot from the day: a lady next to a dual Ugandan/Vatican flag set up completely getting into the African hymns of praise
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The👏Magisterium👏does👏not 👏 GENERATE👏divine👏 truth, it verifies it and puts it into words for us.
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I think a lot of people are going to focus on the specific proposals coming out of
#SynodalerWeg
, which makes sense.
But I think the even deeper issues are:
-the fundamental theology that animates the project
-and the truly Orwellian measures taken to suppress dissent
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