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Did USCCB Inclusive Language Cause the Androgynous Mess at Humanae Vitae’s 50 year Anniversary?
Today is the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae. For us, we know the truth is the truth today as it was then. It predicted the mess of problems we see today. Several news outlets are carrying articles today about the fact that the #MeToo movement, where women speak out about sexual abuse and label it with the #MeToo…
Detente with the Devil and Stagnation of the Church… How Bridges, Margins, Dreamers, and Fear of Schism Have Subverted Our Faith: BFP011
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.podbean.com/mf/play/89uyzc/eforumpodcast_bellarmineforum_org_wp-content_uploads_2018_05_BFP-011-Detente-with-the-Devil-and-Stagnation-of-the-Church_-How-Bridges-Margins-Dreamers-and-Fear-of-Schism-Have-Subverted-Our-Faith.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadYour host, John B. Manos, discusses how the fear of causing schism, offending people, or driving people out of the Church has caused us to become comfortable with error in the Church. This is the detent with the Devil at the table. In this stagnation, he covers some of…
Pre-Synod Group Tamps Down Meddling Youth
Meddling kids want Latin Mass. They want to talk about it with the Pope in the Youth Synod next year. The group charged with presenting the voices of the youth, the “Pre-Synod” has decided they are a lobby and adjusted the summary accordingly. The theme of nearly every Scooby Doo episode is that the villain gets caught…
Chuck Norris (Fr. George Rutler) on Communion in the Hand
If you’ve ever been a fan of kung fu movies or action films, you can always tell who the prize fighters are. Maybe Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris. But then they reveal the bad guy. The best of these films always have you wondering how the good guy is going to win. You know he’s going to. You can’t wait…
Communion in the Hand is “Perfectly” Legal?
When famous ponzi scheme fraudster Bernie Madoff was apprehended, he defended himself by positing that “I was only doing what everyone else was.” I can recall trying that defense as a child: everyone else is doing it… The implication is plain: …so it must be OK. That never really worked with my parents (nor should…
Ever Get Tempted to Give up Catholics for Lent?
I get a little edgier this time of year every year now. It’s because of the stupid, vapid advice I see repeated about lent. The Forum has posted a lot of good posts about lent on social channels recently. One was this piece of gold by Cindy Paslawski. In it, she asks whether traditional lent is optional. And she…
MacLean’s Brings the Contraception Freak Show to Mainstream
The cover of the February 2018 Maclean’s magazine (a Canadian publication) features a smiling woman holding a young smiling boy over her head. If you did not read the text yet, it looks like fun. She looks happy. But, emblazoned across her face is a bold pink banner that reads “I wish I never had kids. There. I said…
“I put the Calf in the Oven”, “we give Papal Awards to anyone that visits”, and Slavery
One my favorite lame excuses of all time should be enshrined and burned into the memory of every child. It should be repeated now and then while drinking — everyone at the table laugh and laugh and laugh. It should be the first example off our lips when someone dissembles… “I put the gold in the oven…
God’s Pursuit of Fr. Walter Ciszek, S.J….and Each of Us
I suspect every person—at one point in his life or another—has a moment when he reflects on where he’s been, where he is, and muses at where he might be going. Similarly, I suspect that each person also has a moment where he reflects (or even agonizes) on what might have been if another path…
The First Church Liturgy: Angels Adoring, Shepherds Give Glory – All History is Changed
Let Our Lord remember your stinky self as one of the shepherds that bent a knee in the stable.
