Tag Archives: Holy Communion

Is it a virtuous act of obedience to receive Communion in hand at bishop’s command?

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

September 8, 2020, LifeSiteNews: J.D. Flynn, editor at Catholic News Service, has told his Twitter followers: Every time I go to Mass it is hard for me to receive in the hand. Every time I go to Mass, I have to say … Continue reading →

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From Holy Communion to Corona Communion

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From Gloria TV: Holy Family Parish in Stow, Ohio, purchased a plastic screen with a slot through which Corona Communion is distributed (article’s picture). More pictures of a distribution of Corona-Communion: • The Italian standard for distributing Communion are one-way … Continue reading →

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An exorcist on what demons say about priests and Mass

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

From Fr Z’s Blog: How I wish that you all understood Italian. I heard a recording posted by La Nuova Bussola of comments by an exorcist of the Archdiocese of Milan, don Ambrogio Villa, in which he speaks about the Mass. … Continue reading →

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Swiss bishop censored by apostolic administrator for criticizing Church’s response to coronavirus

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

CHUR, Switzerland, March 18, 2020, LifeSiteNews: An outspoken Swiss auxiliary bishop has been censored by his brother bishop who is an apostolic administrator after criticizing the Church’s response to the coronavirus epidemic and stating his belief that God would not … Continue reading →

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Outside Italy, European churches begin ‘guidance to halt COVID-19 spread’

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

A man prays inside an empty Catholic church in Milan March 1, 2020. European churches have begun guidance for Masses in attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus. (Credit: Yara Nardi/ Reuters via CNS.) By Simon Caldwell at Crux: … Continue reading →

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Bring Back Reception of Holy Communion on Knees and on the Tongue

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

[…] It is no wonder that belief in the Real Presence has plummeted since Vatican II. Kenneth C. Jones’s Index of Leading Catholic Indicators shows a decrease in all major statistical categories of the Catholic Church from the late ’50s … Continue reading →

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Another Turn of the Tide?

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Catholicism Pure & Simple

The following post originally appeared in July 2010 on the Laodicea blog, and was re-posted more recently by James Preece on his blog Catholic and loving it. The aim of giving it another airing here is to look more closely at … Continue reading →

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VATICAN II – Bishop Schneider’s call for a “syllabus of errors”

Posted on January 25, 2011 by mmvc

I encountered Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who is also a patristic scholar, through a small volume entitled “Dominus Est”. From the book’s very first pages, this young and gifted bishop’s holiness shines through. His description of the Eucharistic devotion, which flowed … Continue reading →

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Little Nellie of Holy God

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Brother Burrito

For those readers who have never heard of this little girl, I would like to draw your attention to her. She only lived for four and a half years, but her story was so moving, that it inspired Pope Pius … Continue reading →

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