What did the Cardinal really say?

Sunday, 13 July 2014 00:09
Richard Chonak
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Cardinal Woelki of Berlin (now transferred to Cologne) has been under fire for his favorable comments on respecting same-sex couples. Personally, I wish he’d be more careful about his comments, but they don’t seem to be as liberal as his critics suggest.

Here’s my casual translation of comments made in an August 2012 interview with the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper.

The reporter gets into sensitive territory by suggesting that the cardinal has his own “Woelki method”: keeping Catholic teaching untouched while giving practical signs that anything is possible.

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Sunset at La Salette

Saturday, 14 June 2014 01:03
Richard Chonak
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The La Salette Shrine in Enfield, New Hampshire is apparently going to be closing at some time in 2015, 87 years after they took over from the Shakers. Enfield-StatuesSo says an announcement from the Missionaries of La Salette, recently received at the Shrine and reported in the local press.

I can’t say this is a surprise. This isn’t the first La Salette apostolate in New England to close, and

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A church musician’s ditty for the Triduum

Thursday, 17 April 2014 23:25
Richard Chonak
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I’ll be at th’end of my tether /
By the time that Holy Week is done /
‘Twill be time for beef and beer then /
‘Twill be time for having lots of fun /
Still we can’t sing alleluia /
‘Till the scho–la’s finished Gloria I (one).

[tune: UNION SEMINARY]

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Did Cdl. Bergoglio disagree publicly with Pope Benedict?

Monday, 17 February 2014 21:32
Richard Chonak
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Here’s a little piece, just for the record.

There’s a bit of talk on the net lately based on a March 2013 piece in the Telegraph which portrays “Pope Francis’ run-in with Benedict XVI over the Prophet Mohammed“. It says that Cdl. Bergoglio sharply disagreed with Pope Benedict’s magisterial lecture at the University of Regensburg in 2006.

I’ve seen this story cited as a justification for making one’s own critique of the Pope. After all, if Bergoglio thought it’s OK to diss Benedict’s statements, no

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