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  • [Catholic Caucus] US Bishop Shows How to Circumvent Francis' Rescript

    02/26/2023 3:14:33 PM PST · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    Gloria TV ^ | February 26, 2023 | Gloria TV
    [Catholic Caucus] US Bishop Shows How to Circumvent Francis' RescriptDiocesan bishops are "much more in tune" with what’s going on in their diocese than a Vatican office, noted Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki, Illinois, about Francis' rescript "forbidding" to celebrate Mass in parish churches (CatholicNewsAgency.com, February 24).He has offered Mass in both Roman Rite churches in his diocese and found “very faithful Catholics” there.Traditionis custodes says, Paprocki observes, it wants to empower the bishops. He therefore questions the wisdom of the rescript under the principle of subsidiarity, since decisions such as those contained in it are usually made at a local...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Paprocki: “The problem has not been solved, but tensions have been heightened.”

    07/29/2021 8:22:55 AM PDT · by ebb tide · 3 replies
    Catholic World Report ^ | July 27, 2021 | Jim Graves
    [Catholic Caucus] Bishop Paprocki: “The problem has not been solved, but tensions have been heightened.”After Pope Francis released his July 16th motu proprio Traditionis custodes, which placed restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, was one of the first American bishops to quickly respond. In a July 19th decree, Bishop Paprocki offered a dispensation allowing the Traditional Latin Mass to continue without restrictions at two parishes in his diocese, and subsequently another decree allowing it to continue at a third of the 129 parishes he oversees.Bishop Paprocki, 68, was...
  • Bishop Paprocki uses Canon Law to set aside Bergoglio's demonic action against the Holy Mass, But what about Wagga Wagga?

    07/21/2021 1:21:36 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 15 replies
    Vox Cantoris ^ | July 21, 2021 | Vox Cantoris
    Bishop Paprocki uses Canon Law to set aside Bergoglio's demonic action against the Holy Mass, But what about Wagga Wagga? The Most Reverend Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the American Diocese of Springfield in Illinois has used Canon Law to literally set aside Bergoglio's demonic attack on the Holy Mass according to its ancient use. At the same time other bishops are being punitive and acting to or more than to this wretched document such as the Bishop of Wagga Wagga in Australia, Mark Edwards, "'The Extraordinary Form of our Mass, also called the Traditional Latin Mass, is to...
  • US bishop: Voting for Biden requires ‘reason that outweighs’ 860,000 abortions

    10/16/2020 4:26:01 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 4 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | October 16, 2020 | Charles Robertson
    US bishop: Voting for Biden requires ‘reason that outweighs’ 860,000 abortions Bishop Thomas Paprocki asked, ‘Is it a sin to vote for Biden?’ SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, October 16, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Thomas Paprocki said that voting for pro-abortion Democrat Joe Biden in the upcoming election would require “a proportionately grave reason that outweighs the killing of 860,000 babies per year,” adding that even the death penalty is no such reason. In a follow-up to his recent video contrasting President Donald Trump’s pro-life record with his opponent’s pro-abortion stance, the bishop of Springfield, Illinois, attempted to answer the question, “Is it...
  • [Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich defends giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians

    06/14/2019 4:51:14 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 70 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | June 14, 2019 | Martin M. Barillas
    [Catholic Caucus] Cdl. Cupich defends giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians BALTIMORE, June 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago defended giving Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians, saying, “I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don’t change anybody’s minds.” Cardinal Cupich expressed his position in the wake of Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois barring pro-abortion legislators from receiving the sacrament of Holy Communion. Citing canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law, Bishop Paprocki ruled last week that state legislators working to pass Illinois’s new abortion bill may not present themselves for communion in his diocese...
  • Illinois Catholic bishop denies communion to two prochoice Democrats [state senators]...

    Illinois Catholic bishop denies communion to two pro-choice Democrats after calling abortion an 'abominable crime' (full title) as the state looks to expand women's rights. Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield targeted two Democratic leaders of the Illinois state legislature because of their stance on abortion. Speaker of the House Michael Madigan and John Cullerton, who leads the state Senate, are barred from 'the most sacred aspect of our Catholic faith'. The Illinois legislature this month passed a bill stripping away a number of restrictions on abortions in the state that have existed for decades. Illinois Governor JB...
  • Bishop Won't Say If Sen. Kaine Should Receive Communion, Even After 'Appalling' Pro-Infanticide Vote

    02/28/2019 4:53:27 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 14 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | February 28, 2019 | 4:36 PM EST | Michael W. Chapman
    Although the Catholic bishop of Richmond, Va., the Most Rev. Barry C. Knestout, denounced Sen. Tim Kaine’s (D-Va.) vote against providing medical help to infants that survive abortions as “appalling and beyond comprehension,” he would not say whether Kaine, a pro-abortion Catholic, should present himself for Communion at Mass in the Diocese of Richmond. […] Given Kaine’s support for abortion (and for allowing infants that survive abortion to die on a table), CNSNews.com asked Bishop Knestout, “Given Sen. Kaine’s long-held and very public support for abortion, will you instruct him not to present himself for Holy Communion in your diocese?...
  • Catholic Bishop Denies Communion to Pro-Abort Sen. Dick Durbin: “Until He Repents of His Sin”

    02/25/2019 12:06:03 PM PST · by Mrs. Don-o · 61 replies
    LifeNews.com ^ | Feb 22, 2018 | Steven Ertelt
    Pro-life Catholics who wish Catholic Church leaders would step up and deny communion to leading politicians who support abortion are getting good news today. One Catholic bishop is denying communion to pro-abortion Democrat Dick Durbin, a top Democrat in the Senate who has long supported and promoted abortion. Durbin joined other Democrats to block a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois says Durbin is “cooperating in evil” and persisting in “manifest grave sin” because of his abortion advocacy and must therefore “not be admitted to Holy Communion until he repents of his sin.”...
  • Bp. McGrath’s letter on sacramental service

    07/05/2017 2:37:01 PM PDT · by Arthur McGowan · 4 replies
    In the Light of the Law ^ | July 5, 2017 | Dr. Edward Peters
    In 1977, during the darkest period of canonical confusion that ran from the end of the Second Vatican Council until the promulgation of the 1983 Code, then-Fr Patrick McGrath earned a doctoral degree in canon law from the Lateran University in Rome. Now-Bp Patrick McGrath of San Jose is surely aware, then, that multiple canonical requirements for sacramental participation exist and he would, I imagine, be distressed to learn that his recent letter, implying that “good faith” is the only criterion for admission to the sacraments, could be pastorally misleading.
  • Catholic Bishop: 'Moral Decadence' of 21st Century West 'Rivals Decline & Fall of Roman Empire’

    08/11/2015 4:43:10 PM PDT · by markomalley · 13 replies
    CNS News ^ | 8/11/15 | Barbara Hollingsworth
    Bishop Thomas Paprocki says that the “moral decadence of our 21st century Western world now rivals the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.”“Historians tell us that abortion and infanticide were widespread, commonplace, and for the most part legal in the classical world of the Greeks and Romans," said Paprocki, the head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Illinois."Perhaps if they had the technology at the time, they would have sold fetal body parts for profit,” the bishop said in a July 26 video response to undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress in which Planned Parenthood...
  • Bishop Paprocki: I Direct the Eucharist be Placed in the Center of the Sanctuary

    06/24/2014 10:31:08 AM PDT · by NYer · 36 replies
    Courageous Priest ^ | June 24, 2014
    His Excellency Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki; Ars celebrandi et adorandiOn the Art of Celebrating the Eucharistic Liturgy The art of celebrating the liturgy properly and adoring the Lord in the Eucharist devoutly (ars celebrandi et adorandi) is the key to fostering the active participation of the People of God in divine worship. (Part 1 of series)The Reservation and Adoration of the Holy Eucharist 18. While the Holy Eucharist is reserved in the tabernacle of every parish church in our diocese, the faithful in some places do not frequently come to pray before the tabernacle to be in the presence...
  • Bishop: Catholic Mom Brutally Murdered by Homosexual ‘Died as a Martyr for Her Faith’

    07/12/2013 4:44:09 AM PDT · by NYer · 17 replies
    CNS News ^ | July 11, 2013 | Michael W. Chapman
    Bishop Thomas Paprocki, head of the Catholic diocese of Springfield, Illinois. (CNSNews.com) – A Catholic mother who was brutally murdered by a gay man because she challenged him about his homosexual lifestyle “died as a martyr for her faith,” according to Bishop Thomas Paprocki, head of the Catholic diocese in Springfield, Ill., who also said the woman’s “murder was widely ignored by the media,” apparently for political reasons.The woman, Mary Stachowicz, a 51-year-old mother of four children and devout Catholic, was beaten, stabbed, raped, and strangled to death by then-19-year-old Nicholas Gutierrez on Nov. 13, 2002. He then wrapped her...
  • State lacks authority to redefine marriage, says bishop

    06/08/2013 6:54:25 AM PDT · by NYer · 22 replies
    cna ^ | June 7, 2013
    Bishop Thomas Paprocki Phoenix, Ariz., Jun 7, 2013 / 05:06 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., explained that marriage is rooted in nature and exists prior to the state, which has the authority to recognize, but not redefine, the fundamental social institution. “Marriage is a pre-political and natural phenomenon that arises out of the nature of human beings. The Catholic Church, along with virtually every religion and culture in the world, recognizes and supports this natural institution because without it, no society will exist or flourish,” he said. The bishop explained that marriage is “a...
  • Defending Church teaching on homosexuality, bishop says former parish secretary died a martyr

    06/06/2013 6:36:01 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 11 replies
    Catholic World News ^ | June 6, 2013 | CWN
    In a debate on acceptance of same-sex marriage, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, remarked on the media bias in coverage of issues involving homosexuality. Speaking to an audience in Arizona, Bishop Paprocki said that a woman who worked at a parish where he had served in Illinois was killed because of her defense of Church teachings on homosexuality. Mary Stachowicz, a part-time parish secretary, was beaten, stabbed, and strangled by a man who resented her efforts to persuade him to avoid homosexual acts. “Mary’s murder was widely ignored by the media, despite the fact that she died as a...
  • Bishop tells hostile crowd at gay marriage debate: my secretary was murdered by a gay activist

    06/06/2013 5:05:25 AM PDT · by markomalley · 33 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | 6/5/2013 | John-Henry Westen
    In what is being acknowledged even by liberal Catholics as a courageous move, Springfield, IL Bishop Thomas Paprocki debated dissident nun Sr. Jeannine Gramick on the topic of gay “marriage” before a decidedly gay-friendly crowd on Friday. In a shocking revelation in his opening remarks, the bishop told the crowd that his former secretary was brutally murdered by a gay activist simply for suggesting that he change his lifestyle. Heckling and insults from the crowd and were expected and received as the bishop lay out the argument in favor of traditional marriage, after which he concluded, “some of you may...
  • Catholic Bishop: Voting for Obama, Dems Could Place Salvation of Your Own Soul in Serious Jeopardy’

    10/02/2012 8:31:56 AM PDT · by Servant of the Cross · 33 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 9/28/2012 | Billy Hallowell
    Bishop Thomas John Paprocki from Springfield, Illinois, is getting attention after making some strongly-worded comments about those Americans who opt to vote for President Barack Obama in November. In a column and video that was posted by Catholic Times, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Springfield, Paprocki targeted portions of the Democratic platform that “explicitly endorse intrinsic evils.” He also warned that supporting certain politicians could place peoples’ “eternal salvation…in jeopardy.” While he noted that it’s not his job to to tell people who do vote for, the faith leader said that he has a duty to speak out...
  • Bishop Paprocki warns of 'intrinsic evils' in Democratic platform

    09/27/2012 8:43:29 AM PDT · by caldera599 · 5 replies
    Catholic News Agency ^ | 09/27/2012 | CNA
    Springfield, Ill., Sep 27, 2012 / 02:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Drawing particular attention to the Democratic Party platform’s support for “intrinsic evils” like abortion and “same-sex marriage,” Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill. has said Catholics need to “think and pray very carefully” about their votes in the upcoming election. “My job is not to tell you for whom you should vote. But I do have a duty to speak out on moral issues,” Bishop Paprocki said in his Sept. 23 column for the Catholic Times diocesan paper. “I would be abdicating this duty if I remained silent out...
  • Returning Angel [Michael Voris video]

    04/30/2011 5:10:51 AM PDT · by mlizzy · 1 replies
    YouTube ^ | 4-29-11 | Michael Voris
    Bishop Paprocki has brought back something very traditional, and very wonderful.
  • ‘Holy Goalie’ Chicago bishop takes to ice, not ready to give up day job

    01/29/2006 3:44:40 PM PST · by NYer · 27 replies · 558+ views
    Catholic Online ^ | January 19, 2006 | Tom Sheridan
    CHICAGO (CNS) -- The puns are obvious: "Who IS that masked man?" "'Stick' with me, kid." And, of course, "Hey, fella, you're on thin ice." But in this case, the "fella" would be Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki -- all dressed up in a Chicago Blackhawks uniform and ready to take to the ice at the United Center.Neither is it all for show. Bishop Paprocki, 53, has been involved with hockey for a long time -- as a fan and a player. He was profiled in the December issue of USA Hockey magazine, where he was pictured in his...