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America Magazine Bishop Strickland relieved of pastoral governance of US diocese The Vatican has published the Pope’s decision concerning the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, following an apostolic visitation conducted by two US bishops. Read and weep. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-11/bishop-strickland-relieved-of-pastoral-care-of-us-diocese.html Excerpt from the Vatican News report: The Holy Father has removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Tyler, United States of America, and has appointed Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin as apostolic administrator of the same diocese, rendering it sede vacante. The decision came after an apostolic visitation ordered by the Pope last June in the Diocese of Tyler, which was entrusted to two US bishops, Bishop Dennis Sullivan of Camden, and Bishop Emeritus Gerald Kicanas of Tucson. [...] “As a result of the Visitation,” the statement continues, “the recommendation was made to the...

[ 11 min. read ] UPDATE : 26may2024  https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2024/05/vatican-reverses-dismissal-of-nun-in-fort-worth-diocese The latest news has hit the airwaves. The nuns of the Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Arlington, Texas, issued a defiant three-page statement Wednesday (see below) in which they said that Bishop Olson does not have the authority to close off their monastery and that their chapel remains open to the public. - NCRegister https://www.ncregister.com/cna/texas-carmelites-defy-bishop-s-order-to-close-their-doors-to-the-faithful Oh dear. The monastery is open to the lay faithful; not so much to the Bishop. Bishop Olson may have forgotten that it is never a wise course to go up against a group of nuns, especially Texas nuns. Just sayin'. The nuns' statement, with interjections. http://www.carmelnuns.com/ STATEMENT BY THE REVEREND MOTHER PRIORESS AND CHAPTER MONASTERY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS  5801 MT. CARMEL DRIVE  ARL...

2 Timothy 4: 1-4 KJV  I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (μύθους). RSVCE I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the tru...

His Excellency Steven J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, will be celebrating Mass in the Ordinariate Use and giving a talk on Divine Worship at the June 28 - July 1, 2022 Conference in San Francisco. https://www.sacraliturgiasf.com/schedule In 2021, Bishop Lopes was elected chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Divine Worship. + + + Tuesday, June 28th 6:00 PM - Vespers following by Mass (Usus Antiquior) Wednesday, June 29th 9:00 AM - Paper 2: Professor Michael Foley - “Learned Gaffs: The Impact of Flawed Scholarship on the Liturgical Reforms of the Twentieth Century” 10:00 AM - Paper 3: Fr. Joseph Fessio - “The Reform of the Reform Revisited” 11:00 AM - Coffee Break 11:30 AM - Paper 4: Professor Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka - “Emotion, Intellect, and Will: The Fruits of Sacred Music in the Spiritual Life” 12:30 PM - Lunch Forum: The Sacred Liturgy and Catholic Identity in Education with Archbishop Cordileone 2:30 PM - Paper 5: Metropolitan Gerasim...

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The Pillar has an interesting take on the upcoming USCCB committee elections. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/a-day-at-the-races-predicting-the A day at the races: Predicting the USCCB elections https://www.usccb.org/ Analysis JD Flynn and Ed. Condon Race 2: Chairman-elect, Committee on Divine Worship  Bishop Steven Lopes of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter vs. Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis Ed’s prediction: Rozanski JD’s prediction: Lopes Ed says: A race notable for the oddness of the matchup and handicaps on both runners, pitting a bishop who doesn’t usually say Mass according to the ordinary Roman Rite (Ahem... doesn't the USCCB also include Eastern Rite hierarchs?) against an archbishop whose most public sacramental intervention was ruled invalidating by Rome and the committee he’s now looking to lead. Lopes will certainly come into this as a dark horse; right out of the gate, he has not spent much time in the conference as a bishop at all, and th...

... that Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has done swum the Tiber. https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/coming-into-port-the-conversion-of-michael-nazir-ali/?fbclid=IwAR2MFTz5cQ9yFRYifv9MH-hnMMOyGEuSgByIrbXs_noFBaodeL5U0FxQy3o https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ex-c-of-e-bishop-michael-nazir-ali-converts-to-catholicism The Spectator Michael Nazir-Ali I believe that the Anglican desire to adhere to apostolic, patristic and conciliar teaching can now best be maintained in the Ordinariate. Provisions there to safeguard legitimate Anglican patrimony are very encouraging and, I believe, that such patrimony in its Liturgy, approaches to Biblical study, pastoral commitment to the community, methods of moral theology and much else besides has a great deal to offer the wider church. Ministry in the Church of Pakistan, in the Middle East generally, in the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion remains precious to me and I see this as a further step in the ministry of o...

NW Eparchy Photo From the Catholic Herald : The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope Francis named Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski of the Canadian Eparchy of New Westminster, British Columbia, to be the new bishop of the Eparchy of the Holy Family of London in the UK . Bishop Nowakowski, 61, had led the Canadian diocese since 2007. Story at the BC Catholic: https://bccatholic.ca/news/catholic-van/new-westminster-eparch-appointed-bishop-in-london

The Anglicanorum Coetibus Society blog has a noteworthy post. https://anglicanorumcoetibussociety.blog/2019/08/20/bishop-lopes-on-real-presence/ It begins: Bishop Steven Lopes has responded in a most instructive way to the disturbing recent Pew Research study showing 70 per cent of Catholics in America do not believe in Real Presence in the Eucharist. In an interview with Peter Jesserer Smith at the National Catholic Register, Bishop Lopes explains that better catechesis is not necessarily the solution: I am sympathetic with the idea that we need better and more effective catechesis. I remember the catechesis before the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and catechesis after the publication of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So in other words, the resources are there, the catechesis is there. The catechesis today is in really much better shape. So there’s a “yes, but …” if you will, when I hear “well, we need better catechesis.” Well yes, but we ca...

Bishop Schneider (Auxiliary, Astana, Kazakhstan) : Pope Saint Agatho did not let himself be confused and shaken by the lamentable behavior of his predecessor Honorius I, who helped to spread heresy. In spite of this, Pope Agatho kept his supernatural view of the inerrancy of the See of Peter in teaching the Faith, as he wrote to the Emperors in Constantinople: “This is the rule of the true faith, which this spiritual mother of your most tranquil empire, the Apostolic Church of Christ (the See of Rome), has both in prosperity and in adversity always held and defended with energy; which, it will be proved, by the grace of Almighty God, has never erred from the path of the apostolic tradition, nor has she been depraved by yielding to heretical innovations, but from the beginning she has received the Christian faith from her founders, the princes of the Apostles of Christ, and remains undefiled unto the end, according to the divine promise of the Lord and Savior himself, which h...

The headline at The Catholic Herald reads: Bishop Lopes: I don’t believe bishops who plead ignorance of McCarrick And, in addition to commenting on the current turmoil surrounding McCarrick, Bishop Lopes clarifies a matter that has also caused Catholics' guts to get tied, unnecessarily, in a knot. [CH]  Bishop Lopes also said there was a sense of “chaos and confusion” over the Pope’s change to the Catechism entry on the death penalty, and that his priests had communicated the refrain, “Not this again. Didn’t we just live through this in Anglicanism? Now we’re going to find it in Catholicism?” [ transcribed from video: 10:10 to 10:43 ] Because what's happening? We're being buffeted about by a blog and media culture that never bothers to read the details. And so, we have trumpeting headlines that (say) 'The Pope has changed the faith of the Church'. He has done no such thing. No such thing! If you read the modification of the Catechism, carefully,...

Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia: In a lecture at Queen’s College, Canada, in 2010, Cardinal William Levada, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noted: "Twenty-eight years ago, the great historian of ecumenism, Fr. Yves Congar, wrote that if we take seriously that the Holy Spirit has been working among our fellow Christians, we have to take seriously the ways they express their beliefs. When their particular expression of faith adds harmony to ours, and ours add harmony to theirs, the logical step is to pass from talking longingly about unity to living in unity, a unity whose essence is revealed in harmonious diversity." Divine Worship and the Personal Ordinariates represent, in many ways, a realized ecumenism. Here, the unity of faith allows for a rich diversity in the expression of that faith, creating a space wherein the cadences of the Coverdale Psalter and the sobriety and disarming frankness of the Prayer Book will continue...

As reported here a few days ago, the Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman (Victoria, BC) hosted His Excellency Steven Lopes on the occasion of his first pastoral visit to our community, a community of the Personal Ordinariate of The Chair of St Peter, of which Bishop Lopes is the Ordinary. Bishop Lopes gave a stirring homily on the readings for the Sixth Sunday in Easter. Given this Sunday was the first time we have served Mass with a bishop, we now have a better grasp on how to serve Mass with a bishop. Also, it was a first serving Mass concelebrated by our resident priests and the bishop. Despite a few liturgical curveballs, though nothing outside the rubrics, the expanding altar server team managed to avoid any major collisions or omissions. An honour guard consisting of six Knights of Columbus welcomed the procession. Thank you, Knights! The Choir, assisted by a couple of familiar guests, gave an excellent presentation of the music of the Liturgy. Bishop Lop...

The Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman, Victoria, BC, awaits with eager anticipation the arrival of His Excellency Bishop Steven J. Lopes, Bishop Ordinary of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. The Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman meets at Our Lady of Fatima Church, 4635 Elk Lake Drive across from the Commonwealth Pool. Saturday, May 5 – St Mary on Saturday (with Baptism) Sung Mattins 8:45 AM Said Mass 9:30 AM Bun fight (tea party) to follow. Sunday, May 6 – Sixth Sunday of Easter (Confirmations) Sung Mattins 8:00 AM Solemn Sung Mass 8:45 AM This is the first visit of Bishop Lopes to Victoria.