Rocco Palmo has received and digested–and now reports on–the Motu Proprio. It is, he says, “a decisive compromise.” Benedict expresses his frustration with all the speculation over the last many months, on all sides. As stated in recent reports, the pope says the old mass was “never abrogated,” and that it will continue as an…
Have you heard the one about women having to get in more words each day than men? Not true. Both use about 16,000 words a day. Someone finally got around to counting.
The Guardian, in an article about Saturday’s release of the Motu Proprio, quotes Bishop Fellay of the SSPX: The society’s current leader, Bishop Bernard Fellay, has said the situation “will be practically unchanged” unless the return to the old Mass is accompanied by an “in-depth discussion” with the Vatican on key doctrinal issues that also…
We’re back to the days of the Peace of Augsburg, the 1555 agreement through which German Lutherans and Catholics recognized each other, but neither gave legal recognition to the Reformed or the Anabaptists. Now the Protestant state churches and the Catholic church want to link arms to support each other and limiting the status of…
The New Man Report.
Karl Donfried addressed the recent Word Alone Convention on the topic, “Scripture as the Real Presence of Christ,” asking questions about the ELCA’s hermeneutics, including, “What drives the non-Trinitarian, alien hermeneutic that empowers much of the ELCA’s secularist tendencies?” [Update: Donfriend responds to the report of his talk in The Lutheran]. Steven Paulson of the…
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