Fr. Derlis Garcia

Priest. Pro-Life Advocate. Oratorian Priest. Liturgy & Sacramental Theology Student. Pharr, Texas.

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

@holysmoke I didn’t know the Ascension had a sequence! What do you know!

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

It’s time for Congress to ban mifepristone for abortion

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

@jmgmoron No olvidemos la bendición Papal. Muy importante abajo del televisor! @Pontifex

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

@956Forina @MrsForina @bpdflores The candles were taller than me. I was trying to hide behind them! 🥸

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

A true shepherd of our times. Thank you @bishop_conley

[James D Conley @bishop_conley]

I invite you to read my letter to Fr. Robert Dowd, president of the University of Notre Dame, regarding the announcement of a recent appointment to one of their institutes. Please join me in praying that those at Our Lady’s University will reconsider this decision.

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

@bishop_conley Thank you for your apostolic leadership dear bishop. We need prophets like you. I will offer my Lenten fast that @NotreDame will see the error of their ways and make choices more in line with its calling from Christ.

[Jonathan Liedl @JLLiedl]

Santiago Schnell, former Notre Dame science dean turned Dartmouth provost, says that Catholic univs must stop imitating secular schools and should instead be excellent at what makes them truly distinct.

His proposal for Catholic higher ed? Cultivate future Doctors of the Church

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

As usual the faith is grassroots… while people up top worry about anything but. @NotreDame continues loosing its way…

[Bill McGurn @wjmcgurn]

Notre Dame student newspaper shows more courage than the university’s president and Board of Trustees. God bless ‘em. https://t.co/hhtrKY33OG

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

@NotreDame is truly a parody of itself… Talks a big game of Catholic identity but has no problem hiring someone who not only espouses anti-Catholic positions but that calls those who promote pro-life Catholic views white supremacists and racists.

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

“Whether Notre Dame realizes or squanders its opportunity to become a genuinely Catholic university—that is on Notre Dame... I am putting my lost battles behind me. For those who still care about ­Notre Dame, perhaps this postmortem will be of value. But I advise: Don’t get your hopes up.”

[Archbishop Paul S. Coakley @ArchbishopOKC]

I fully support Bishop Kevin Rhoades in his challenge to Notre Dame to rectify its poor judgement in hiring a professor who openly stands against Catholic teaching when it comes to the sanctity of life, in this case protection of the unborn.

https://t.co/PIRWaM1JV5

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I want to express my strong support for the statement that Bishop Kevin Rhoades made this morning concerning a controversial appointment at the University of Notre Dame. Please read his communication in full, for he makes the case more completely and eloquently than I could. Suffice it to say that the woman proposed for a key leadership position at Our Lady’s University is not simply “pro-choice” on the question of abortion; she is a sharp critic of the pro-life position and those who advocate it. She has gone so far as to characterize the anti-abortion stance as rooted in white supremacy and racism, and she has insinuated that the Catholic commitment to integral human development implies the support of abortion rights.

Like Bishop Rhoades, I speak as someone with strong connections to and deep affection for the University of Notre Dame. I believe that going ahead with this appointment is repugnant to the identity and mission of that great center of Catholic learning.  
https://t.co/3aTins9GJ5

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

@956Forina @PharrTx That’s a nice picture! Thanks for sharing! Prayers for you!

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

I understand that one of the topics under consideration at the Consistory of Cardinals is synodality. I’m speaking as a bishop who was an elected delegate to both rounds of the Synod and Synodality in Rome and who has just presided over a local synod in my own diocese. Synods are good and useful tools for the determination of practical pastoral strategies, but they oughtn’t to be forums for debate regarding doctrine. When settled teaching becomes a subject for synodal determination, the Church devolves into relativism and self-doubt—as is clearly evident in the misconceived “Synodal Way” in Germany. I’m sympathetic with the founders of the journal “Communio”—Joseph Ratzinger, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Henri de Lubac—who broke with the journal Concilium the stated purpose of which was the perpetuation of the “spirit of Vatican II.” The great Communio theologians said that councils are indeed sometimes necessary in the life of the Church but that one sighs with relief at the end of a council, for the Church can then return to its essential work. As long as it sits in council, the Church is in suspense, unsure of itself, wringing its hands. It was precisely the perpetuation of the spirit of Vatican II that led to so much vacillation and drift in the years when I was coming of age.

So, if we must continue with synodality, let it be dedicated to the consideration of practical means by which the Church can more effectively do its work of worshipping God, evangelizing, and serving the poor. And let it not be a defining and permanent feature of the Church’s life, lest we lose our verve and focus.

[Fr. Derlis Garcia @derlist]

This is an amazing point from Feser. Truly amazing. Could not agree with this point more.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

In the DDF document released today, Cardinal Fernández writes that “when an expression requires many, repeated explanations to prevent it from straying from a correct meaning, it does not serve the faith of the People of God and becomes unhelpful.”

Well said. But consider all the ink spilled in recent years by those attempting to explain:

-how Amoris Laetitia can be reconciled with Christ’s teaching on divorce and St. Paul’s teaching on worthiness to receive Holy Communion

-how the revised Catechism’s statement that “the death penalty… is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person” and Dignitas Infinita’s statement that “the death penalty… violates the inalienable dignity of every person, regardless of the circumstances” can be reconciled with the consistent teaching of scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and all the popes up to Benedict XVI that the death penalty is not intrinsically wrong

-how “blessing couples” in same-sex or adulterous relationships can be licit even though “blessing unions” of those kinds is not

-Pope Francis’s claim that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions… are willed by God”

-how human beings can “possess an infinite dignity,” given that, on the most natural reading of that expression, only God can have such dignity

And so on for other statements coming from the pope or the Vatican during Francis’s pontificate. Even if we suppose for the sake of argument that all of these statements can be reconciled with traditional teaching, it takes a lot of work to do so – much more work than should ever be necessary with a statement coming from a pope or from the DDF.

So, while the cardinal’s point is well taken, I wish it were applied consistently.

[Father V @father_rmv]

Updated list of bishops extending charitable fraternal correction to Cardinal Cupich:

Most Rev. Thomas Paprocki (Springfield, IL)

Most Rev. Salvatore Cordelione (San Francisco)

Most Rev. James Wall (Gallup, NM)

Most Rev. James Conley (Lincoln, NE)

Most Rev. David Ricken (Green Bay, WI)

Most Rev. Joseph Strickland (Emeritus, Tyler, TX)

Most Rev. Michael Olson (Ft. Worth, TX)

Most Rev. Carl Kemme (Wichita, KS)

Most Rev. David Ricken (Green Bay, WI)

Most Rev. James Johnston (Kansas City-St. Joseph, MO)

[Bishop Michael Olson @BpOlsonFW]

At every Mass we ask the Lord Jesus for the gifts of peace and unity in his Church, and at this time of strife and division, Cardinal Cupich could promote peace and unity by withdrawing the invitation to Senator Durbin to receive an award and instead use the event to highlight -

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

This is shameful.

The blood of innocent children cries out.

[James D Conley @bishop_conley]

I too was shocked and bewildered to learn of this Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. The senator’s public record has been consistently pro-abortion and he has opposed any protections or safeguards for unborn children in the womb, even to the point of rejecting legislation to protect children who survive failed abortions. That goes against the fundamental moral principles of the Catholic Church. It seems to me there is still time to reconsider this decision. I pray for the good of the Church this award is not given to Senator Durbin and the scandal it will likely cause the faithful is avoided.

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

“I offer this fraternal correction in the hope that Cardinal Cupich might reverse this erroneous decision, and so preserve the integrity of the Church’s moral teaching and avoid the scandal that this decision will otherwise cause to the faithful.”