If I Were An Protestant Minister: Sam Miller’s Numbers Wrong?

On Thursday, March 6, 2008, prominent Cleveland businessman Sam Miller gave a speech defending Catholicism from media bias at the City Club of Cleveland (Ohio). The full text of the speech was published in the May-June issue of the Buckeye Bulletin. Several Catholic blogs, including this one, posted the speech taking the media to task on [...]

Benedict Changes The Mass - The Study of the New Liturgy Assigned to the Congregation for Worship

The rite of the Mass [Rorate: i.e. the Mass of Paul VI] could change. According to some indiscretions, Benedict XVI has charged the Congregation for Divine Worship to study some modifications in the liturgy. In particular, the Pope is said to have the intention to restore Latin for the formula for the Eucharistic consecration within [...]

Thomas More Law Center Wins Significant Pro-Life Victory in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

ANN ARBOR, MI - In what was a surprising decision to many court observers, a unanimous 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision yesterday, and affirmed the Constitutional rights of pro-life activists to display large graphic photos of aborted babies on public streets adjacent to Dodson Middle School [...]

Columnist Judy Bowman on Women in the Priesthood

Editors Note: This fine article written by Judy Bowman on June 18th is by far one of the best I’ve discovered on the issue of women’s ordination within the Catholic Church. Along with Judy, we pray that the Holy Spirit will enlighten the hearts of those women (and men) currently excommunicated opening the door to their swift return [...]

Archbishop Burke goes to Rome: Catholic Media Coalition Applauds Appointment as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura

Editors Note: Fratres would like to thank Archbishop Burke for his faithful service in St. Louis and steadfast commitment to Catholic faith and morals as shepherd. I join my voice to those below… James Mary Evans
Members of a Catholic lay organization applauded the appointment of Archbishop Raymond Burke to a high Vatican post — full text [...]

Residence of Archbishop John Nienstedt Burglarized

Audacious theft at archbishop’s home nets Catholic treasures
By ANTHONY LONETREE, Star TribuneJune 30, 2008
An overnight burglary at the St. Paul residence of new Archbishop John Nienstedt netted the thief or thieves the gem- and precious-metal-laden rings and crosses worn by bishops throughout the 150-year-plus history of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, a church [...]

The Love of Many Will Grow Cold…, But Not Within This Heart… Fratres Blog News 06.29.08

Tamil Tigers hold Our Lady of Madhu hostage (for protection!)..
The Catholic community in Bethlehem, Palestine has issued a statement urging the leaders of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka to persuade the LTTE to return the statue of our Lady of Madhu to its original shrine so that it would be accessible to devotees who [...]

Where is the Rhetoric Headed? Shaping Public Opinion by Stephanie Block

I won’t skate conspiracy theories so long as there are simpler explanations, but please examine the following articles, trolled from between December 2007 and February 2008. There were dozens and dozens of additional articles one might have chosen to demonstrate the same thing, but one grows weary and the point remains the same, namely that [...]

Fratres Sunday Mass Readings: Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 07.06.08

Reading 1
Zec 9:9-10
Thus says the LORD:
Rejoice heartily, O daughter Zion,
shout for joy, O daughter Jerusalem!
See, your king shall come to you;
a just savior is he,
meek, and riding on an ass,
on a colt, the foal of an ass.
He shall banish the chariot from Ephraim,
and the horse from Jerusalem;
the warrior’s bow shall be banished,
and he shall proclaim [...]

Fratres Sunday Mass Readings: Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 07.13.08

Reading 1
Is 55:10-11
Thus says the LORD:
Just as from the heavens
the rain and snow come down
and do not return there
till they have watered the earth,
making it fertile and fruitful,
giving seed to the one who sows
and bread to the one who eats,
so shall my word be
that goes forth from my mouth;
my word shall not return to me [...]