Daily Archives: 24 October 2021

CDWDS Decree on Magnum Principium 1

Today starts the meat of the CDWDS’s Decree on Magnum Principium. We’ll spend some posts this week looking at their views on Norms and Procedures.  If you readers were my liturgy students, I would urge a complete reading of the … Continue reading

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Godparent Ban Again

I’ve heard of and seen news bits on the Catania archbishop, Salvatore Gristina, banning godparents in his diocese. Not the first time this has happened in Italy, as mentioned and commented upon here last year. I went to the NCReg … Continue reading

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Via Pulchritudinis: Conclusion, Part 1

We arrive at a fitting Conclusion to this document on the Way of Beauty. We’ll let the thinking of the Pontifical Council for Culture parcel out bit by bit over the next few days. To propose the via pulchritudinis as a pathway of evangelization … Continue reading

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Reconciliatio et Paenitentia 12: Other Means of Reconciliation

Pope John Paul II rounds out the discussion on the Church’s role in God’s reconciliation with humankind. We’ll look briefly at Other Means of Reconciliation in this post and the two that follow. When we speak of the Church, we discuss people … Continue reading

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