RIP Bishop Robert Christian op.
Died while sleeping
I miss this one. I used to live at the Convitto San Tommaso, so I kept seeing him at the nearby Angelicum. I Swiss priest who had him as a professor just wrote to me that he was a good teacher.
An advocate for the Old Mass (Dominican Rite)
He attended a Jesuit High School and a Jesuit University. As a DominIcan, however, he had almost no use for Jesuit theology.
Jesuits.
The Incredible Shrinking Religious Order
@God's Cowboy. The two men's orders most affected have been the Jesuits and the Christian Brothers. Once Latin was dropped as a seminary requirement, vocations to the CB's almost stopped. The number of SJ's in formation in 1985 was about 10% of what it was in 1964.
I agree that almost very order was affected, but some didn't shrink that much and have how shown an uptick. The West Coast Dominican Province came close to maintaining numbers even during the worst years after Vat II. The Dominican Province in the East of the US has been loaded with vocations for at least 10 years. Ditto for the Dominicans in Toulouse.
The Jesuits, however, keep shrinking, much as the US religious orders of women. One exception, however, is the Nashville Dominicans, who have been doing well for some time--and produced the Dominican Sisters of Mary in Michigian.
The Trappists in the US have been shrinking for some time. And most of the Benedictine monasteries have declined in numbers, some more drastically than …More
We could probably see the same kind of decline in almost every religious order. Some of them declined years ago, so today's numbers wouldn't tell the whole story.
Pope Francis and Apostolicae Curae.
A few days ago a file was uploaded by Immaculate Heart insisting that Rev Jorge Bergoglio had explicitly stated he was opposed to Apostolicae Curae. In response I asked whether anyone had a link or could post the text. Later, my question was removed, presumably by someone who confuses Catholicism with low grade South American fascism. Then a response appeared noting the Bergoglio actions (which by definition are not explicit).
And so I'll ask once again: Does anyone have a link or can post the text in which there is an explicit statement stating his opposition to Apostolicae Curae?
By the way, the translation posted by Immaculate Heart is wrong.
Italian:
Jorge Mario Bergoglio non ha dichiarato esplicitamente . . .
Which in fact in English is :
JM Bergoglio has not declared explicitly
The translation posted by Immaculate Heart:
Jorge Mario Bergoglio not only explicitly stated
The Wisdom of the Peasant.
Re Auxiliary Bishop Steiner and "marriage" by same sex couples": The Church is always seeking to read the signs of the times, to see what must or must not change.
That comment seems to fit what Jacques Maritain wrote in The Peasant of the Garonne when he said that there were people in the Church too ready to kneel before the world.