I picked this up from the young Peters, who has been doing a great job of keeping track of developments.
A cartoon by Michael Ramirez:
Do you remember this story from a couple days back? HERE.
Review: A priest was changing the words of Mass. He was corrected on more than one occasion by the bishop. The priest, having refused to change, offered his resignation which the bishop eventually accepted. Liberal lamentations abound.
In the newspaper account on BND.com there is a POLL.
As if this is a matter for a secular newspaper editor to stick his long nose into…
“Should a priest be allowed to change the words he says during Mass?”
I am not going to tell you how to vote, but I sure hope you will go there and VOTE! Vote fairly. Vote once. But VOTE.
Click HERE.
Here are the results as of this writing the anarchists are willing, which I think is a darn shame.
UPDATE 2042 GMT:
It’s moving.
On 2 February, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was a Pontifical Mass in Miami, celebrated by His Excellency Most Rev. Thomas Wenski.
Before I get to the liturgical eye-candy and some commentary on the meaning of this Mass, Archbp. Wenski said in his sermon:
Today, the witness of the Church on behalf of the dignity and right to life of the human person from the first moment of conception till natural death is itself a “sign that will be contradicted” – and is in fact contradicted in the present mandate of the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate to deny a religious exemption to Catholic institutions and thus force us to violate our consciences and to make us accomplices in evil.
WDTPRS kudos!
A couple shots from the website of the Archdiocese of Miami.
And
On the Archdiocesan website, there is some commentary from Father Chris Marino, pastor of St. Michael Church in Miami. Among the helpful things he said is this:
“What’s happening tonight should give us an indication of what should be happening in our parishes every Sunday — the dignity, the solemnity, the pageantry, if you will. But it’s not about entertaining people, it’s about worshiping God, along with the tradition and continuity of the faith throughout the ages.”
Spot on.
In a “liturgical aid” issued to clerics participating “in choir” there is an interesting note which touches on something I have been talking about ever since Summorum Pontificum was issued in 2007.
“”All priests are welcome to attend. This wonderful celebration is an opportunity to experience beautiful music in its intended spiritual setting, but also to be immersed in the rich symbolism of the Tridentine Mass. It is the Archbishop’s hope that this event will serve as a means for “mutual enrichment,” as Pope Benedict XVI has noted, between the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms of the Roman Rite. By becoming more familiar with and deeply rooted in the Mass of the 1962 Missale Romanum, we can better understand the Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI and its accompanying ars celebrandi.”
The provisions of Summorum Pontificum are needed today not just to promote the wide-spread use of the pre-Conciliar forms, but also to teach those who use mainly the Novus Ordo something about a proper ars celebrandi consistent with our Roman tradition, our Catholic identity.
In other words, as one of my correspondents put it, “the last sentence (in the quote above) crystallizes Pope Benedict’s primary reason Summorum Pontificum — to rescue the Mass of Paul VI from the ‘deformations’ to which it has almost universally been subjected.”
For a video of the Mass go HERE.
I like to have a big breakfast once in a while, usually Saturday.
Here is one with a few nice features.
First, I have Mystic Monk Coffee in a “Save The Liturgy Save The World” mug. I used a “French Press“, in honor of my English friends where these gizmos seem to be the preferred method of making coffee.
Also, I have two eggs in a coddler. You coat the inside with butter and add your seasoning together with the eggs (which I got from a nearby farm) and then, after screwing the cap onto the porcelain coddler, it is placed in simmering water. This is a slow method, which allows you to do some other things, such as fry your bacon and toast your English muffin. It seems to me that coddlers, since they are a slow prep method and keep the contents warm, would be ideal for a breakfast tray. I have written about this thing before.
I usually slam breakfast down in a hurry and not rarely even skip it. It is nice once in a while to take your time.
I am settling in for a movie and supper. Tonight I’ll watch an old favorite, the 1998 Les Miserables with Geoffrey Rush as Javert and Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean. No movie would get everything that Victor Hugo pressed into his pages (it is one of the only full novels I have ever read in French – I also read Notre-Dame de Paris and it was like torture, the French was so much harder), and there are lots of changes to the novel for its filmification.
Hugos’s digression about Waterloo in Les Miserables (not in the film) is amazing, up there with the mighty digression about the plague in Milan in I promessi sposi. But I digress.
There are pathetic moments in Les Miserables, in the sense of pathos, and the film captures the social conditions of the time, the tenuous nature of women in the era, the extremities of justice without mercy versus human and Christian mercy and compassion. And of course there is tale to be told here about what happens where there is hierarchy for the sake of hierarchy based on wrong notions entirely.
Great film. Geoffrey Rush is, as usual, brilliant. He captures rigid obsession with frightening impact.
Here is an excerpt of a pivotal moment when the old bishop ransoms Valjean’s soul from bitterness and ultimate despair.
Valjean, a convict of 19 years of hard labor for stealing and just paroled, is taken in for a night by the bishop of a place. Valjean steals the bishop’s silver and knocks the bishop out when he comes to investigate. He flees.
BTW… later in the movie there are some liturgically incorrect (absurd) scenes of Mass and a clothing of postulants. And the actors/clergy sure ain’t French. You can tell that the people who made the film had no historical sense when it came to the Church. Thus, we see that pagans think the Church doesn’t change things very much over time and therefore the way we do things now must be the way they did things in the early 19th century. And thus, enters Claire Danes to replace the sweet little girl who played Cosette.
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Septuagesima, Latin for the “Seventieth” day before Easter. This number is more symbolic than arithmetical. The Sundays which follow are Sexagesima (“sixtieth”) and Quinquagesima (“fiftieth”) before Ash Wednesday brings in Lent, called in Latin Quadragesima, “Fortieth”.
These pre-Lenten Sundays prepare us for the discipline of Lent, which once was far stricter.
Septuagesima gives us a more solemn attitude for Holy Mass.
Purple is worn on Sunday rather than the green of the time after Epiphany. These Sundays have Roman stations. Alleluia is sung for the last time at First Vespers of Septuagesima and is then excluded until Holy Saturday. There was once a tradition of “burying” the Alleluia, with a depositio ceremony, like a little funeral. A hymn of farewell was sung. There was a procession with crosses, tapers, holy water, and a coffin containing a banner with Alleluia. The coffin was sprinkled, incensed, and buried. In some places, such as Paris, a straw figure bearing an Alleluia of gold letters was burned in the churchyard. Somehow that seems very French to me.
The prayers and readings for the Masses of these pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by St. Gregory the Great (+604), Pope in a time of great turmoil and suffering. Pre-Lent is particularly a time for preaching about missions and missionary work, the evangelization of peoples. In the Novus Ordo of Paul VI there is no more pre-Lent.
A terrible loss.
We are grateful that with Summorum Pontificum the pre-Lent Sundays have regained something of their ancient status.
The antiphons for the first part of Mass carry a theme of affliction, war, oppression. How appropriate right now when the Obama Administration is conducting a war against the Catholic Church and against religious liberty of all Americans. We hear from 1 Corinthians on how Christians must strive on to the end of the race. The Tract (which substitutes the Gradual and Alleluia) is the De profundis.
COLLECT:
Preces populi tui,
quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi:
ut, qui iuste pro peccatis nostris affligimur,
pro tui nominis gloria misericorditer liberemur.
This prayer, as well as the other two we will see, is in versions of ancient sacramentaries, such as the Gregorian. Our wonderful Lewis & Short Dictionary says ex-audio means “listen to” in the sense of “harken, perceive clearly.” There is a greater urgency to exaudi (an imperative, or command form) than in the simple audi. Clementer is an adverb from clemens, meaning among other things “Mild in respect to the faults and failures of others, i.e. forbearing, indulgent, compassionate, merciful.” We are asking God the omnipotent Creator to listen to us little finite sinful creatures in a manner that is not only attentive but also patient and indulgent.
LITERAL TRANSLATION:
We beseech You, O Lord, graciously to hark
to the prayers of Your people:
so that we who are justly afflicted for our sins,
may mercifully be freed for the glory of Your Name.
The first thing you who attend mainly the Novus Ordo will note, is the profoundly different tone of this prayer.
It is just as succinct as most ancient Roman prayers. It has the classic structure. But the focus on our responsibility and guilt for our sins is very alien to the style of the Novus Ordo. For the most part, such direct references to our sinful state were systematically excised from the ancient prayers which survived in some form on the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum.
SECRET:
Muneribus nostris, quaesumus, Domine,
precibusque susceptis:
et caelestibus nos munda mysteriis,
et clementer exaudi.
This ancient prayer was also in the Mass “Puer natus” for 1 January for the Octave of Christmas. The first part of the prayer is an ablative absolute. In the second part there is a standard et…et construction. The prayer is terse, elegant.
LITERAL TRANSLATION:
Our gifts and prayers having been received,
we beseech You, O Lord:
both cleanse us by these heavenly mysteries,
and mercifully hark to us.
In the first prayer we acknowledge our sinfulness and beg God’s mercy. In this prayer we show humble confidence that God is attending to our actions and we focus on the means by which we will be cleansed from the filth of our sins, namely, the Sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, about to be renewed upon the altar.
As the Mass develops there is a shift in tone after the Gospel parable about the man hiring day-laborers. An attitude of praise is introduced into the cries to God for help.
POSTCOMMUNIO (1962MR):
Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur:
ut éadem et percipiendo requirant,
et quaerendo sine fine percipiant.
Glorious.
In an ancient variation we find per[pe]tua, turning “by means of your…” into “perpetual”. That éadem (neuter plural to go with dona, “gifts”) is the object of both of the subjunctive verbs which live in another et…et construction. Requiro means “to seek or search for; to seek to know, … with the accessory idea of need, to ask for something needed; to need, want, lack, miss, be in want of, require (synonym: desidero)”. Think of how it is used in Ps. 26(27),4: “One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after (unum petivi a Domino hoc requiram); that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.” Quaero is another verb for “to seek”, as well as “to think over, meditate, aim at, plan a thing.” The first meaning of the verb percipio is “to take wholly, to seize entirely” and then by extension “to perceive, feel and “to learn, know, conceive, comprehend, understand.”
Notice that these verbs all have a dimension of the search of the soul for something that must be grasped in the sense of being comprehended.
The New Roman Missal – 1945:
May Thy faithful, O God, be strengthened by Thy gifts,
that receiving them they may still desire them
and desiring them may constantly receive them.
The New Marian Missal – 1958:
May Thy faithful people, O God, be strengthened by Thy gifts;
that in receiving them, the may seek after them the more,
and in seeking them, they may receive them for ever.
Saint Andrew Bible Missal – 1962:
O Lord, may your faithful people be made strong by your gifts.
By receiving them may they desire them.
And by desiring them, may they always receive them.
Just to show you that we can steer this in another direction, let’s take those “seeking/graping/perceiving” verbs and emphasize the possible dimension of the eternal fascinating that the Beatific Vision will eventually produce.
A LITERAL ALTERNATIVE:
May Your faithful, O God, be strengthened by Your gifts:
so that in grasping them they will need to seek after them
and in the seeking they will know them without end.
In this life, the closest thing we have to the eternal contemplation of God is the moment of making a good Holy Communion. At this moment of Mass, which so much concerned struggling in time of oppression, we strive to grasp our lot here in terms of our fallen nature, God’s plan, and our eternal reward.
I don’t believe this prayer, like Septuagesima Sunday, made it into the Novus Ordo, to our great impoverishment.
We have come to 1st Vespers of Septugesima Sunday already. It seems like just the day before yesterday that the Christmas cycle ended.
No. Wait… it did.
Here is something for the brethren if they need to fulfill their obligation and are weary.
This is the last time we hear the “Alleluia” for a while. The “Alleluia” is effectively buried after 1st Vespers of Septuagesima. Tomorrow we will say the “Laus tibi Domine” instead.
From a priest:
I was concelebrating a Mass last week (N.O., in English) and the principal celebrant substituted the word ‘all’ for ‘many’ at the consecration. I gather he does this at every Mass he offers. Does that change render the Mass invalid and/or illicit?
See how annoying concelebration can be? Concelebration should be safe, legal and rare.
Ad rem: No, his illicit and abusive changing of the words of consecration did not in this case invalidate the consecration. Furthermore, it was a concelebration.
However, if the priest does this all the time, his pastor (if he is an assistant) and the local bishop should be informed. It could be useful to send a copy to the Congregation for Divine Worship.
The issue of pro multis was and still is very controversial. If a priest were during the Gloria to make a substitution and say “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to MEN of good will” instead of the dopey choice made by ICEL and the Holy See for “on earth peace to PEOPLE of good will”, that would be wrong, but it wouldn’t be as bad as changing the words of consecration. BTW… my objection to “people of good will” is that the two-syllable word destroys the flow of the sentence. They really needed a one syllable word, but I digress.
Priests are bound to stick to the texts in the books.
However, it is still possible that, even after a few months, a priest will slip and use the obsolete ICEL texts from memory. We shouldn’t be worried about a slip here and there. But if a priest is regularly changing the words of consecration – especially after all the controversy over that very point – he has stepped over the line. He must stop what he is doing or be stopped by proper authority.
Finally, may I suggest that you send Father a gift of one of my Say The Black Do The Red “New Translation” edition coffee mugs? Maybe he needs a reminder that there is now a new translation. Perhaps with some Mystic Monk Coffee?
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Same time of year! I wonder if Fr. Bugnini’s experts may not have run out of glue that day.
Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers.
Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine,
continua pietate custodi,
ut, quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis innititur,
tua semper protectione muniatur.
Custodio, common in military contexts, means “to watch, protect, defend.” Innitor, also with military overtones, means “to lean or rest upon, to support one’s self by any thing.” Caesar and Livy describe soldiers leaning on their spears and shields (e.g., “scutis innixi … leaning upon their shields” Caesar, De bello Gallico 2.27). Munio, is a military term – sensing a theme? – for walling up something up, putting it in a state of defense.
When applied to us humans, pietas, which gives us “piety”, is “dutiful conduct toward the gods, one’s parents, relatives, benefactors, country, etc., sense of duty.” Pietas is also one of the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit (cf CCC 733-36; Isaiah 11:2), by which we are duly affectionate and grateful toward our parents, relatives and country, as well as to all men living insofar as they belong to God or are godly, and especially to the saints. In common parlance, “piety” indicates fulfilling the duties of religion.
However, applied to God, pietas usually indicates His mercy towards us. That is what pietas is doing here: it describes God’s trustworthy mercy.
SUPER LITERAL RENDERING:
Guard Your family, we beseech You, O Lord,
with continual mercy,
so that that (family) which is propping itself up upon the sole hope of heavenly grace
may always be defended by Your protection.
OBSOLETE ICEL (1973):
Father,
watch over your family
and keep us safe in your care,
for all our hope is in you.
NEW CORRECTED ICEL (2011):
Keep your family safe, O Lord, with unfailing care,
that, relying solely on the hope of heavenly grace,
they may be defended always by your protection.
“Watch over your family, …with continual mercy/religious dutifulness,…” invokes the images soldiers as well as that of a father checking into the bedrooms of his children as they sleep. He listens through the night for sounds of distress or need.
The Church is not afraid to combine images of family and soldiering, the symbiotic exchange of duty, obedience and protection. Putting the military imagery in relief helps us to hold both sets of images in mind as we hear Father lift our Collect heavenward during Holy Mass.
We Catholics are both a family, children of a common Father, and a Church Militant, a corps (from Latin corpus, “body”). Many of us when we were confirmed by bishops as “soldiers of Christ” were given a blow on the cheek as a reminder of what suffering we might face as Christians. Perhaps not the last time some of us have suffered at the hands of bishops.
We ought rather die like soldiers than sin in the manner of those who have no gratitude toward God or sense of duty. We ought to desire to suffer if necessary for the sake of those in our charge.
Today we beg the protection and provisions Christ our King can give us soldiers while on the march. We need a proper attitude of obedience toward God, our ultimate superior, and dutifulness toward our shepherds in the Church, our earthly parents, our earthly country, etc.
Our prayer reminds us that we belong to communities in which we have unequal roles.
There is a profound interconnection between the members of a family, but also inequality.
Children are no less members of the family than their parents, but they are not their parents’ equals. Even the young Jesus– the God man – was subject to Mary and Joseph (Luke 2:51). As Glorious Risen King and Judge, Christ will subject all things to the Father (1 Cor 15:27-28). We are all members of the Church, but with unequal roles. As St. Augustine said,
“Vobis enim sum episcopus, vobiscum sum Christianus… I am a bishop for you, I am a Christian with you” (s. 340, 1).”
Our times are dominated ever more by relativism and the obtuse madness of secular humanism. Both the military and the family (and Holy Church?) are being eroded, systematically broken down. Individual soldiers might be praised but the military is looked at by the intelligentsia with suspicion. Rights of individuals – even of children against their parents – are validated, while the family as a unit is under severe attack.
Hierarchy and discipline provide the protection needed by marching troops and growing children.
We members of the Militant Church, disciples of Christ, need discipline from our officers/shepherds so we can attain our goal. We need nourishment and discipline in the sense of instruction (Latin disciplina) and sacraments.
We can always rely on the trustworthy, dutiful mercy of God. He can never fail us.
Parents and shepherds must fulfill their own roles toward us with pietas, religious and sacred duty! Their pietas requires sacrifice, being the first to step out in our defense, forming good plans, sounding a clear and certain trumpet to lead us.
The webcam pointed at St. Peter’s Square in Rome shows something I only saw a couple times in all my years in Rome.
Pres. Obama is at war with the Catholic Church.
On NRO, I read this:
Army Silenced Chaplains Last Sunday
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
February 3, 2012 4:58 P.M.In Catholic churches across the country, parishioners were read letters from the pulpit this weekend from bishops in their diocese about the mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services giving Catholics a year before they’ll be required to start violating their consciences on insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs. But not in the Army.
A statement released this afternoon — which happens to be the 67th anniversary of the sinking of the USS Dorchester, on which four chaplains lost their lives – from the Archdiocese for Military Services explains:
On Thursday, January 26, Archbishop Broglio emailed a pastoral letter to Catholic military chaplains with instructions that it be read from the pulpit at Sunday Masses the following weekend in all military chapels. The letter calls on Catholics to resist the policy initiative, recently affirmed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, for federally mandated health insurance covering sterilization, abortifacients and contraception, because it represents a violation of the freedom of religion recognized by the U.S. Constitution.
The Army’s Office of the Chief of Chaplains subsequently sent an email to senior chaplains advising them that the Archbishop’s letter was not coordinated with that office and asked that it not be read from the pulpit. The Chief’s office directed that the letter was to be mentioned in the Mass announcements and distributed in printed form in the back of the chapel.
Archbishop Broglio and the Archdiocese stand firm in the belief, based on legal precedent, that such a directive from the Army constituted a violation of his Constitutionally-protected right of free speech and the free exercise of religion, as well as those same rights of all military chaplains and their congregants.
Following a discussion between Archbishop Broglio and the Secretary of the Army, The Honorable John McHugh, it was agreed that it was a mistake to stop the reading of the Archbishop’s letter. Additionally, the line: “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law” was removed by Archbishop Broglio at the suggestion of Secretary McHugh over the concern that it could potentially be misunderstood as a call to civil disobedience.
The AMS did not receive any objections to the reading of Archbishop Broglio’s statement from the other branches of service. [Just the Army.]
So not only were chaplains told not to read the letter, but an Obama administration official edited a pastoral letter . . . with church buy-in?
Didn’t people flee across an ocean-sized pond to be free of this kind of thing?
Lopez also had an update:
An update on the silencing of the chaplains post from earlier: A spokesman for the Army tells National Review Online:
the Army became aware of the Archbishop’s letter last Friday (Jan. 27) and was concerned that the letter contained language that might be misunderstood in a military setting. The Army asked that the letter not be read from the pulpit. Instead, the letter would have been referenced in announcements and made available in the back of the chapel for the faithful, if they wished, as they departed after the Mass. The Army greatly appreciates the Archbishop’s consideration of the military’s perspective and is satisfied with the resolution upon which they agreed.
I’ll grant that a call to disobedience in the military is not good.
However, why just the Army?
What is there about the Army’s culture that is different?
Over at the young papist’s place, on Catholic Vote, Tom Peters is forming a list of US bishops who have responded to Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on the 1st Amendment and on religious liberty when while he openly refuses to fulfill his responsibility under the Constitution to uphold federal law in DOMA.
If we look at how the American episcopate has been changing in the last 10-15 years, I think we can take heart. But we still need to pray for our bishops. And pray relentlessly. Consider how at the time of the Notre Shame debacle, 80+ bishops protested that cringing bit of pandering to the most aggressively pro-abortion president we have ever seen. 5 years before, the number of bishops in protest would have been unthinkable. Today there are even more bishops reacting and the count is not complete.
In any event, at the time of this writing, 116 US Bishops have been reported to have reacted with strength against Pres. Obama’s determination to force Catholics to violate their consciences in a way that contradicts our Catholic Faith and the clear moral teachings of Holy Church. Amish and Quakers get waivers from some federal mandates. Not Catholics.
Here is Peters’ list. I will try to update it as well: Peters wrote “If I have missed anyone please let me know in the comments!” So, let HIM know. It is better if one person is forming a master list, and this is even more in his bailiwick than it is in mine.
We bloggers must cooperate, inter-link.
(Can anyone make a word cloud out of all these statements?)
Now here is the list:
Items in bold mean the statement was read at all diocesan Masses or included in all parish bulletins on Sunday:
- Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, CA (Emeritus)
- 1. Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan of New York City, NY
- 2. Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, TX
- 3. Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis, MO
- 4. Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix, AZ
- 5. Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit, MI
- 6. Archbishop John Nienstedt of Saint Paul & Minneapolis, MN
- 7. Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay, WI
- 8. Bishop Paul Etienne of Cheyenne, WY
- 9. Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, CT
- 10. Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, IL
- 11. Cardinal-designate Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore, MD
- 12. Bishop Felipe Estevez of Saint Augustine, FL
- 13. Bishop James Conley of Denver, CO
- 14. Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, IL
- 15. Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, PA (Twice!)
- 16. Bishop Walker Nickless of Sioux City, IA
- 17. Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington, VA
- 18. Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee, WI
- 29. Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth, TX
- 20. Bishop Kevin Farrell of Dallas, TX
- 21. Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati, OH
- 22. Bishop William Medley of Owensboro, KY
- 23. Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, GA
- 24. Bishop Peter Libasci of Manchester, NH
- 25. Bishop Frederick Campbell of Columbus, OH
- 26. Bishop Richard Malone of Portland, ME
- 27. Bishop Anthony Taylor of Little Rock, AR
- 28. Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, OK
- 29. Bishop Patrick McGrath of San Jose, CA
- 30. Bishop Joseph Bambera of Scranton, PA
- 31. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, FL (also apostolic administrator of Pensacola-Tallahasee, FL)
- 32. Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angelas, CA
- 33. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, TX
- 34. Bishop Leonard Blair of Toledo, OH
- 35. Donald Cardinal Wuerl of Washington, DC
- 36. Bishop Patrick Zurek of Amarillo, TX
- 37. Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN
- 38. Bishop William Callahan of La Crosse, WI
- 39. Archbishop John Myers of Newark, NJ
- 40. Bishop Bernard Hebda of Gaylord, MI
- 41. Bishop David O’Connell of Trenton, NJ
- 42. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, NE
- 43. Bishop Michael Mulvey of Corpus Christi, TX
- 44. Archbishop Timothy Broglio of Military Services, USA
- 45. Sean Cardinal O’Malley of Boston, MA
- 46. Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, WI
- 47. Bishop Richard Lennon of Cleveland, OH
- 48. Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, LA
- 49. Bishop Alexander Sample of Marquette, MI
- 50. Bishop Michael Burbidge of Raleigh, NC
- 51. Bishop Walter Hurley of Grand Rapids, MI
- 52. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, IL
- 53. Bishop Francis Malooly of Wilmington, DE
- 54. Bishop Peter Jugis of Charlotte, NC
- 55. Bishop Francis DiLorenzo of Richmond, VA
- 56. Archbishop Roger Schwietz of Anchorage, AK
- 57. Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, ND
- 58. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tuscon, AZ
- 59. Bishop Robert Muench of Baton Rouge, LA
- 60. Bishop Sam Jacobs of Houma-Thibodaux, LA
- 61. Bishop Michael Jarrell of Lafayette, LA
- 62. Bishop Ronald Herzog of Alexandria, LA
- 63. Bishop Glen Provost of Lake Charles, LA
- 64. Bishop Michael Duca of Shreveport, LA
- 65. Bishop Dale Melczek of Gary, IN
- 66. Bishop Michael Jackels of Wichita, KS
- 67. Bishop Peter Christensen of Superior, WI
- 68. Bishop John Noonan of Orlando, FL
- 69. Bishop Gregory Hartmayer of Savannah, GA
- 70. Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, CA
- 71. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia, PA
- 72. Bishop Michael Driscoll of Boise, ID
- 73. Bishop Robert Cunningham of Syracuse, NY
- 74. Bishop David Kagan of Bismarck, ND
- 75. Bishop Paul Bradley of Kalamazoo, MI
- 76. Bishop Placido Rodriguez of Lubbock, TX
- 77. Archbishop John Vlazny of Portland, OR
- 78. Bishop Joseph McFadden of Harrisburg, PA
- 79. Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Center, NY
- 80. Bishop Michael Sheridan of Colorado Springs, CO
- 81. Bishop Timothy McDonnell of Springfield, MA
- 82. Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, FL
- 83. Archbishop Henry Mansell of Hartford, CT
- 84. Archbishop Michael Sheehan of Santa Fe, NM
- 85. Bishop Robert Gruss of Rapid City, SD
- 86. Bishop Gerald Barbarito of Palm Beach, FL
- 87. Bishop Michael Cote of Norwich, CT
- 88. Bishop Edward Kmiec of Buffalo, NY
- 89. Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, KS
- 90. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, KY
- 91. Bishop Roger Foys of Covington, KY
- 92. Bishop John LeVoir of New Ulm, MN
- 93. Bishop Gerald Barnes of San Bernadino, CA
- 94. Bishop Terry LaValley of Ogdensburg, NY
- 95. Bishop Salvatore Matano of Burlington, VT
- 96. Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, WA
- 97. Bishop Martin Amos of Davenport, IA
- 98. Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, NE
- 99. Bishop Edward Burns of Juneau, AK
- 100. Bishop John Quinn on Winona, MN
- 101. Bishop Joseph Cistone of Saginaw, MI
- 102. Bishop John Gaydos of Jefferson City, MO
- 103. Bishop Daniel Conlon of Joliet, IL
- 104. Bishop Robert Guglielmone of Charleston, SC
- 105. Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, FL
- 106. Bishop Richard Pates of Des Moines, IA
- 107. Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, MA
- 108. Bishop James Tamayo of Laredo, TX
- 109. Bishop John Kudrick, Eparchy of Parma, OH
- 110. Bishop John Barres of Allentown, PA
- 111. Bishop Ronald Gainer of Lexington, KY (better link needed)
- 112. Bishop Lawrence Brandt of Greensburg, PA
- 113. Bishop Joseph Tyson of Yakima, WA
- 114. Bishop Gerald Dino, Eparchy of Phoenix, AZ
- 115. Bishop George Murry of Youngstown, OH
- 116. Bishop Richard Seminack, Eparchy of Chicago, IL
- 117. Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing, MI
- 118. Bishop Tod Brown of Orange, CA
- 119. Bishop James Johnston of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO
- 120. Bishop James Wall of Gallup, NM (better link needed)
- 121. Bishop Arthur Serratelli of Paterson, NJ
- 122. Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, NY
- 123. Bishop Fernando Isern of Pueblo, CO
- 124. Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, TN
- 125. Bishop Michael Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston, WV
- 126. Archbishop Jerome Hanus of Dubuque, IA
- 127. Bishop Robert Brom of San Diego, CA (forthcoming, I am told)
- 128. Bishop David Choby of Nashville, TN (forthcoming, I am told)
- 129. Bishop Armando Ochoa of Fresno, CA (also apostolic administrator of El Paso, TX)
- 130. Archbishop-elect William Skurla, Eparchy of Pittsburgh (better link needed)
- 131. Bishop Paul Swain of Sioux Falls, SD
- 132. Bishop Joseph Galante of Camden, NJ
- 133. Bishop George Coleman of Fall River, MA
- 134. Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio, TX
- Monsignor Kurt Kemo (apostolic administrator) of Steubenville, OH
- Father Barry Brinkman (apostolic administrator) of Salina, KS
- 135. Bishop Terry Steib of Memphis, TN
- Bishop William Skystad (apostolic administrator) of Baker, OR
- 136. Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, MO
- 137. Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, CA
- 138. Bishop George Thomas of Helena, MT (forthcoming)
- 139. Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, IL (forthcoming)
- 140. Bishop Timothy Doherty of Lafayette, IN
- 141. Bishop Michael Warfel of Great Falls-Billings, MT
- 142. Bishop Michael Pfeifer of San Angelo, TX
- Edward Cardinal Egan of New York City, NY (Emeritus)
- 143. Bishop William Dendinger of Grand Island, NE (forthcoming)
- 144. Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, RI
- 145. Bishop Curtis Guillory of Beaumont, TX (forthcoming)
- 146. Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, TX
- 147. Bishop Edward Slattery of Tulsa, OK
- 148. Bishop Mark Bartchak of Altoona-Johnstown, PA
- 149. Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City, ID
- 150. Bishop Joseph Pepe of Los Vegas, NV
- 151. Bishop Randolph Cavo of Reno, NV
- Bishop Alvaro Corrada (apostolic administrator) of Tyler, TX
- 152. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, NY
- 153. Bishop Charles Thompson of Evansville, IN
SPECIAL MENTION: “The Assembly of Orthodox Bishops in North America just issued a formal statement of protest against the HHS mandate in which the Assembly, representing all 53 Orthodox bishops in North America, references their complete agreement with the statements of the USCCB.”
NOTE: If you would like a statement by an Eastern Rite bishop to be included please send me [PETERS!] the link/document or post it in the comments! Thank you. I’m trying to provide documentation for all the bishops I list and Eastern Rite bishops have been harder for me to find. Thanks for the understanding!
UPDATE: Of the 183 dioceses (by my count) in the U.S. who have a bishop currently serving as its head, 155 of them have issued statements. So over 80% of bishops who head dioceses have spoken out against the Obama/HHS mandate.
UPDATE:
Don’t send updates to ME, send them to Peters… as I requested. Please read the entry, above. Thanks!
Hey New Yorkers, and anyone nearby, mark your calendar. The Catholic Artists Society will have an evening of recollection for artists and media professionals on Thursday, March 1st at 7pm at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 123 W. 23rd Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) in New York City.
Father Gerald Murray, the parish’s pastor and outstanding priest and good friend of many years, will offer a meditation on themes related to the work and spiritual life of the artist. There will be opportunity for confession and silent adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, followed by Solemn Benediction and a reception afterwards.
An invitation with more details will follow soon.
Of special interest to artists – The Church of St. Vincent de Paul is an architectural gem, with a 19th century interior designed in the classical style by Henry Englebert, and a facade added by Anthony Depace in 1939. The interior boasts many beautiful works of art, including 10 Tiffany stained-glass windows. The church has a long connection with the city’s Francophone community, and was the venue for the 1952 marriage of Edith Piaf to Jacques Pills, in which Marlene Dietrich acted as matron of honor.
I like radio guy Hugh Hewitt (whom I listen to on 1280 AM “The Patriot”). On Wednesday I heard him interview Rick Santorum. The issue of Pres. Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church and 1st Amendment came up and Santorum hit a home run.
Mr. Hewitt has a transcript. Please go there to read the whole thing and spike his stats. And tell him Fr. Z sent you. (I really would appreciate it if you would, too. He links to WDTPRS on his side bar under the “Friends and Allies of Rome” rubric! Fun!)
Here is an excerpt from the transcript:
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RS: I talked about it in every speech I’ve given today. And here’s what I said, though, Hugh. I said that I took issue with the Catholic Bishops Conference, because Hugh, you may remember, they embraced Obamacare.
HH: Yes.
RS: They embraced it and said…here’s what I said to them. Be careful when you have government saying that they can give you rights, that you have a right to health care, and government’s going to give you something, because once you are now dependant on government, they, not only can they take that right away, they can tell you how to exercise that right, and you can either like it or not. And that’s the problem. That’s what the Catholic Bishops Conference didn’t get, that there’s no free lunch here, folks. If you’re going to give people secular power, then they’re going to use it in a secular fashion. And that’s why, you know, I hate to say it, but you know, you had it coming. And it’s time to wake up and realize that government isn’t the answer to the social ills. It’s people of faith, and it’s families, and it’s communities, and it’s charities that need to do this as it has in America so successfully for so long.
HH: Rick Santorum, what do you advise Catholic hospitals, Catholic colleges, Catholic…the centers of poverty assistance, the adoption agencies? What do you advise them to do in the face of, as Archbishop Olmstead said, we cannot comply with this unjust law?
RS: Civil disobedience. This will not stand. There’s no way they can make this stand. The Supreme Court, eventually, this thing’s going to get to the Supreme Court just like the ministerial hiring issue that was just decided by the Supreme Court the other day. And it was a 9-0 decision that said the Obama administration can’t roll over people of faith when it comes to hiring. Yet in the face of that decision, this radical, secular government of Barack Obama continues to have faith be the least important of the 1st Amendment. And I just think they fight. They fight in the courts, and they fight by civil disobedience, and go to war with the federal government over this one.
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