Posts Tagged ‘Bishop Thomas Paprocki’

Bishop trumps Cardinal: McElroy labelled a heretic

Monday, March 6th, 2023
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US Cardinal Robert McElroy is a heretic, hints a US Catholic bishop in an essay called ‘Imagining a Heretical Cardinal’. In his ‘First Things’ magazine article, conservative prelate and canon lawyer Thomas Paprocki (pictured) cites an unnamed cardinal’s views on how the Church should minister to LGBTQ people and divorced and remarried Catholics. While he Read more

Bishop directs that tabernacles go back to centre of sanctuaries

Friday, June 27th, 2014

An American bishop has directed that tabernacles that used to be in the centre of sanctuaries in churches and chapels are to be returned there. In a recent pastoral letter, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield emphasised that devotion to the Eucharist is central to faith. Bishop Paprocki directed that “tabernacles that were formerly in the Read more

The LCWR, CDF and the doctrinal assessment

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Bishop Leonard Blair is one of the three bishops (the other two being Bishop Thomas Paprocki and Archbishop J. Peter Sartain), that made up the committee formed by the Holy See to undertake the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR. Bishop Blair says that since the assessment has been completed he “can only marvel at what is Read more