Tag: Diocese of Madison

  • Sanity on the Cup from Archbishop Schnurr

    “I was informed by the USCCB that it is not a matter of the indult expiring. Rather the indult has been supplanted by The General Instruction of the Roman Missal.”

  • Some are welcome

    “[Bishop Morlino says] to us that [Marty Haugen’s “All Are Welcome”] cannot possibly be ‘appropriate-for-liturgical-use’ because the chorus is not true and hence not beautiful.”

  • The seismic shift in sacramental theology

    I’ve been wondering what Pope Saint Pius X might say to his brother bishops in Phoenix and Madison about their sacramental theology. All of us who are caught up in the controversy over restricting access to the chalice might do well to revisit the entire text of Pius’s immensely liberating document, Sacra Tridentina.

  • “The Eucharist Is Not A Weapon”

    “It strikes me as nothing less-than an clerical overstepping and unnecessary demarcation of the clergy and laity. What are these pastors (by which I mean the Canonical notion of pastor) thinking? It seems, at least superficially, that it is an ‘in’ and ‘out’ club — who is and who is not permitted to receive from…

  • And now, Madison

    Madison follows Phoenix’s lead in drastically cutting back on the ministry of the Cup.