REPOST:
Are you thinking about what you will do for this season of spiritual warfare?
Here is the Holy Father’s message for Lent 2009
My emphases and comments.
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
At the beginning of Lent, which constitutes an itinerary of more … Continue reading →

Here is a Declaration from SSPX Bp. Williamson released by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
DECLARATION
The Holy Father and my Superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, have requested that I reconsider the remarks I made on Swedish television four months ago, because their … Continue reading →

Scranton’s Bishop, His Excellency Most Reverend Joseph Martino keeps firing on all cylinders.   This is in from CNA with my emphases and comments.
Bishop asks university to consider closing Diversity Institute
Scranton, Pa., Feb 26, 2009 / 03:06 am (CNA).- Following controversy … Continue reading →

Patrick Madrid asked me to pass this along:
As you all know, we’re living through some very difficult, even perilous, times. Many people are moving beyond nervous to scared. The next step for some will be a deep discouragement that could … Continue reading →

Not quite clean

There is an interview in French in Le Monde with Fr. Hans Küng.
I like how he compares Benedict to a Soviet dictator shut up in the Kremlin and compares him to an "integriste" from whom Catholics no longer expect anything.
True … Continue reading →

I am not a great fan of SSPX Bp. Williamson, as you know.  Though from time to time he hits one out of the park, his ideas about many things are strange and destructive.  Broken clocks, and all. 
I profoundly … Continue reading →

I missed this yesterday.
VATICAN CITY, 24 FEB 2009 (VIS) – The Holy Father promoted:
 - Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, to the order of bishops, assigning him the suburbicarian see of … Continue reading →

From The Catholic League:
February 25, 2009
Progressives Celebrate Ash Wednesday
We thought you’d like to know how progressives view penance.  Here is what Roger Ray had to say about the issue in today’s edition of the News-Leader, a Springfield, Missouri newspaper:
"As a … Continue reading →

There is a profoundly silly article by John Follain on the Pope in the last Sunday number of The Times.
The writer clearly dislikes this Pope and what he is doing.  From that point of view he couldn’t possibly write a … Continue reading →

The Holy Father has processed from Sant’Anselmo on the Aventine Hill to Santa Sabina for the Station Mass of Ash Wednesday.
As I write he is vesting for Mass.
It is live on various streams.
I have the sermon and will post some … Continue reading →

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Damian at Holy Smoke reports that The Tablet, after launching bitter personal attacks on Fr. Finigan of The Hermeneutic of Continuity, will not publish a contrasting letter by a once favored contributor, the fine composer James MacMillan.
Since The Tablet won’t … Continue reading →