What Sort of Culture of Obedience?

The case of Jean Vanier, writes Leon J. Podles, has opened the eyes of France to a secret world of heresy and abuse which the Vatican first encountered in the 1950s. Céline Hoyeau has documented and analyzed this world in "The Betrayal of the Fathers".https://t.co/hplyxG3LUH

— Catholic World Report (@cworldreport) May 17, 2021

Not Your Father's Anticlericalism?

Yesterday, thousands of users of @Twitter in Spain called for Catholic priests to be burned alive, making it trending topic for hours.

The social network, apparently, does not consider a call to set priests on fire to be in violation of its norms 🧐https://t.co/ClAASGIRkG

— Ines San Martin (@inesanma) November 25, 2020

On the same day that Pope Francis approved the beatification of 127 Catholics killed in Spain in hatred of the faith in the 20th century, a hashtag calling for Catholic priests to be burned was trending on Twitter in Spain. https://t.co/OwVLwkxeEY

— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) November 25, 2020

Promotion of Bridal Mysticism?

Investiture as a Bridal Ceremony by Peter Kwasniewski

Why One Must Be Careful with Figurative Language

The Church as the Bride of Christ, and individual Christians as "brides" of Christ -- but if the latter is an appropriate application of the first statement, taken literally, that would mean that the Theotokos is both the Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ and His bride. (One of many.) Do you see a problem with that?

(Then there is the Latin title of Mary, Spouse of the Holy Spirit... this will have to be addressed in a separate post.)

Softness

The Forgotten Vice in Seminary Formation
July 27, 2015 By Fr. James Mason