July 1st, 2008

CU Episode 80: Maybe We Overdid it With the Eighty.

This week, some chat about the Catholic New Media Celebration, some news on CatholiCon ’09 (that’s right!), the year of St. Paul, our picks of the week, Pallia old and new, Conservative Anglicans, Schismatic Catholics a plenty, Burke’s new zuchetto color, and we continue to answer some RCIA FAQs.  Whew!

Fr. Chris | Posted in CU Podcast | 11 Comments »

  • http://www.kedinger.com Daniel Kedinger

    Very good cast! I have my own comments on the Drobo, but for the average home geek needing LARGE amounts of storage it is fierce! We had to hop over the Drobo option for our office and go completely to a RAID system that take entirely too long to explain!

    Great cast guys!

  • http://www.opinionatedcatholic.blogspot.com JH

    I must say I really enjoyed your show today

  • Barb in Nebraska

    You guys rock! I love all the big words you use. Maybe one day those words will flow easily out of my mouth. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work.

  • http://www.stjudecatholic.org hopeless case

    Placet.
    Did y’all see Lino Rulli at CNMC?
    Fr. Chris, would you like some lasagna?

  • Jason

    Did I miss something? I thought the CNMC was what you guys had been planning. Was there some kind of fallout with the SPQN folks, that Fr. Ryan alluded to?

  • http://www.catholicunderground.com Fr. Chris

    @Jason: CNMC was not what cu has been planning. In fact, we didn’t have anything to do with the planning or execution of CNMC. SQPN were the point people for that.

    CatholiCon is a bit of a different concept but will hopefully have a lot of the same elements.

    No fallout with SQPN, mainly because we’re only affiliates of SQPN and aren’t part of the orginization; they simply developed another type of event.

    Good question though!

  • Michael

    I was about to question the relationship too, since your last episode posted on SQPN is 74… Maybe I should just keep checking the periodicals in the supermarket line…

    Josh, I’m afaid I have to disagree with you on Archbishop Burke. For all his canon law genius, his pastoral skills sucked. It is HIGHLY unusual for an archbishop to be appointed to a new job on the SAME DAY. There is usually a transition period. This was more like death.

    The Holy Father saw his real potential and called him to Rome. He doesn’t mind giving him a red hat, but not to this Archbishop of St. Louis” Rather, as the chief justice (or whatever the Latin title is).

    Good conversation on infallibility. Do you know who was the ONLY US bishop to vote against it at Vatican-I? There were others who conveniently left Rome early so as not to vote… among them Peter Richard Kenrick, Archbishop of St. Louis…

    Of course, these bishops did what they had to do, which was to submit to obedience.

    hint: The Big Rock versus the Little Rock

  • http://richestmaninassisi.blogspot.com Jason

    Interesting stuff about the Year of St. Paul and the indulgences. I’m sure there are a lot of relatively new Catholics like me who haven’t done an indulgence before. My question is, if a bishop of another diocese designates a church for this pilgrimage, can you go there to receive the indulgence? Or must it be within your own diocese designated by your own bishop?

    Muchos gracias!
    Jason

  • http://fatherryan.tumblr.com Fr. Ryan

    Good Question Jason.

    Pilgrims may take advantage of any indulgence attached to any Church they visit (Depending, of course, on the requirements of obtaining that indulgence… e.g. the timeframe when the indulgence is available).

    You’re bishop can and should designate a Church in your diocese for this year of St. Paul indulgence, but you may certainly visit other dioceses as well.

    (Note that you can only receive one plenary indulgence per day.)

    God Bless
    Fr.R

  • http://fatherryan.tumblr.com Fr. Ryan

    @Michael,

    Sorry to have ignored the website so long, I’m a slacker.

    I’m going to have to side with Josh here. His pastoral skills are quite excellent. Here is a man who made every effort to reach out to the multitude of wildly disobedient Catholics in his diocese. He stepped well beyond what was required of him…

    Also, think of the millions of people he ministered to by telling them the truth. Look at the cowardice of so many of our American bishops… They’re jelly-legs aren’t “Pastoral”, far from it. Their cowardice and false “pastoral” decisions are leading people to error and sin. (Of course, its unfair for me to accuse them all en masse, I should say “more than a few” of them.)

    Archbishop Burke was and is an excellent pastor and I wish we had more like him. We have to set aside an idea of being ‘pastoral’ which is synonymous with ‘making people feel like part of the family.’ The original use of the word comes from herding sheep which requires firmness, unflinching courage and a real desire to see the sheep safe, even if it means a knock with the crozier. (He did try niceness, he tried calling them back, he tried explaining them their errors in letters, he tried calling them and willing to meet with them on their terms…)

    Further, it’s unfair to say that the Pope is giving him the red hat just because he earned a glorified desk job… He’s giving him a red hat because he’s shown himself willing and ready to bleed for the Church – even if that particular martyrdom is in the press and in the PC-obsessed American Culture. Again, this is something more of our bishops could stand to do.

    No hard feelings, but I think we’ve got to see the much larger picture (and listen to the Church, not our own feelings or desires) when we talk about the role of His Excellency the Bishop.

  • http://www.pauloalmeida.com Paulo Almeida

    Hello you triad of podcast hooligans!

    This isn’t necessarily a response to a particular podcast. I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy downloading and listening to the show every week. I work on a cruise ship in the Caribbean as a drummer and do not get the opportunity to attend mass or get involved in conversations about religion that don’t involve my defending the church while I’m on board. It’s really inspiring to hear the topics that you three discuss, particularly when I can relate it to following a life that is unlike that of many crew members on the ship who usually insist it necessary to be even more immoral than they may be on land just to “help them keep their sanity throughout their contract.” I often hear, “what happens on the ship, stays on the ship,” although I’m pretty sure that saying was stolen from Vegas.

    Regardless, I really feel listening to the podcasts a necessary part of my shiplife and look forward to further episodes and the (perhaps) insulting impersonations of the Pope. Peace to y’all.

    Paulo Almeida, originally from California