Fr. Gerhard Wagner, who had been appointed to auxiliary bishop of Linz, has asked Pope Benedict XVI to withdraw his appointment in the face of hysterical opposition by liberals in the diocese. Sadly, the Holy Father has accepted his resignation.
For those unfamiliar with this diocese, it is quite possibly the least orthodox diocese in Europe, [...]

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Every once in a while, if you frequent traditionalist Catholic institutions, you will meet some people who advocate something called distributism (or distributivism). Generally speaking, these people mean well, and really are trying to conform themselves to what they believe is Church teaching.
Distributism was a 19th- and early-20th-century idea forwarded by Chesterton and Belloc, which [...]

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