by Steve Ray on May 1, 2009
Texas diocese reacts to swine flu: Communion under one kind, disinfect holy water fonts http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2771 In the wake of mounting concern about a swine flu pandemic, Bishop Gregory Aymond of Austin, Texas, has directed that Holy Communion be distributed under one kind and that holy water fonts be disinfected after properly disposing of the holy [...]
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by Steve Ray on April 27, 2009
Today I will be on the 2nd hour of Catholic Answers Live discussing the newly announce Year of the Priest. For info later on how to listen to archived replay, click here; to listen on-line tonight, click here. I took this picture (right) of the incorrupt body of St. Jean Vianney on our last trip [...]
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by Steve Ray on April 22, 2009
465 Americans to be ordained priests; 1/4 foreign-born, majority on dean’s list in college http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=2680 The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released data on members of the ordination class of 2009. A remarkable 55% who responded to a survey were on the dean’s list in college, while 11% were college valedictorian or [...]
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by Steve Ray on March 13, 2009
The Pewsitter Petition on Canon 915 (from my friend and canon lawyer Ed Peters) Pewsitter.com has published an on-line petition by which Catholics may call upon bishops to withhold holy Communion from Catholic political figures who gravely disregard Church teaching on certain fundamental life issues. The petition invokes canon law in support of some of [...]
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by Steve Ray on March 12, 2009
Some poor parisheners are suffering this from the “progressive” and trendy practice of emptying holy water fonts and baptismal fonts during Lent. Some parishes have even been known to fill the font with sand after the water is emptied out. I guess this is to symbolize the desert. Clever, trendy, but not in line with [...]
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by Steve Ray on March 8, 2009
(CatholicCulture.org) One has to be thankful for the new project by Human Life International to connect with and support “Humanae Vitae Priests”–those priests who are not content to remain silent on a moral question that is so close to the root of contemporary hedonism. In addition to providing these priests with excellent resources, the effort [...]
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by Steve Ray on March 6, 2009
(CatholicCulture.org) If you want to really understand why the Church is developing a new translation of the Mass, look no further than the brilliant address on this subject given by the new Archbishop of Detroit, who is also a member of the U.S. Bishops’ Worship Committee. Archbishop Allen Vigneron spoke at the Gateway Liturgical Conference [...]
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by Steve Ray on February 5, 2009
Rome’s Reconciliation Writing for Newsweek, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel explores and explains Pope Benedict XVI’s lifting of excommunication of four Lefebvrist bishops, including Holocaust denier Richard Williamson: “the lifting of Williamson’s excommunication in no way constitutes a papal endorsement of Williamson’s lunatic view of history, or a retraction of John Paul II’s 1998 [...]
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by Steve Ray on December 20, 2008
Better than a football team; better than a Men’s Club; better than a precision military unit or SWAT team. These are the cream of the crop. These guys are princes! Yeah, I know that the Cardinals are called princes of the Church. I’ve met many of them including Cardinals Ratzinger, Schonborn, Wamala, Vidal, Arinze and [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 24, 2008
Here is an article written by a friend and fine young apologist named William Albrect. It was inspired by a question he received: “Hello Mr. Albrecht. A certain Joe Mizzi claims that there is no warrant for a priesthood in the New Testament. Here are the comments he makes in contention to this. This is [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 8, 2008
My friend and Canon Lawyer Ed Peters on a recent priest’s comment on Women’s Ordination: Fr. Theodore Hesburgh’s recent interview with the Wall Street Journal is getting some attention in the Catholic blogosphere, and it should: the WSJ article presents a casus classicus of how priestly ministry disappeared under the allure of social activism for [...]
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by Steve Ray on October 6, 2008
From Canon Lawyer Ed Peters: A news story out of the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska describes an upcoming “priestless Sunday” wherein priests will be away from their parishes to serve remote missions, leaving their parishioners without Sunday Mass that weekend. I can see arguments for and against this unusual action and I don’t think [...]
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by Steve Ray on September 9, 2008
From Canon Lawyer Ed Peters: In 2006 Abp. Emmanuel Milingo was excommunicated for illicitly ordaining married men to the episcopate. Now, Abp. Milingo is traipsing through his native Zambia trying to get Catholic priests to agitate for an end to priestly celibacy in the Roman Church. The excommunicated archbishop assures clergy not to worry about [...]
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by Steve Ray on August 26, 2008
Frankly I am very happy to see this story and hope it spreads. Converts make enthusiastic faithful Catholics and Protestant clergy who convert will make excellent priests. My friend Alex Jones converted after being a Pentecostal preacher for decades. He is now a deacon in the Archdiocese of Detroit and I would love to see [...]
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by Steve Ray on June 6, 2008
There is a Polish Catholic church in St. Louis that rebelled agains Archbishop Burke and they were all excommunicated. One of the board members who was part of the rebellion broke rankes with the rebels and was reconciled with the Church through the ministry of Archbishop Burke. What a great bishop this is! We could [...]
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by Steve Ray on June 1, 2008
Vatican decree on women's ordination and excommunication By John L Allen Jr Daily — Created May 29 2008 – 15:36 The following is an NCR translation of the decree from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's top doctrinal office, issued today regarding excommunication for those involved in attempts to ordain women [...]
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