Daily Archives: 16 December 2010

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Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Via CMR:
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood released its 2008-2009 Annual Report. And the news is horrific.
Red State reports:
Behind the colorful graphics and happy faces is a stark number: Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government grants and contracts from … Continue reading →

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Time Magazine’s dopey and erroneous remarks about Pope Benedict

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Time Magazine chooses, usually poorly, some “person of the year”.  Time this year included Benedict XVI among “people who matter”, indicating his “Highs” and “Lows”.
Time usually gets things about the Catholic Church wrong.  I suspect they do that on purpose.  … Continue reading →

Posted in The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged | 19 Comments

European court: Ireland’s abortion laws breach human rights

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The European Court of Human Rights seems to think that abortion is a human right.
From The Catholic Herald:
European court rules that Ireland’s abortion laws breach human rights
By Michael Kelly on Thursday, 16 December 2010
The European Court of Human Rights has … Continue reading →

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty | Tagged , | 10 Comments

Hurray for President Obama!

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Did you ever think to read that here?
President Obama’s approval rating may be at an all time low, but today for me he ticked up a notch!
POTUS signed a critically important world-changing piece of high impact legislation of global important … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: recording my own confession

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Under stress, my mind goes blank. I find Confession really stressful, so therefore can not mentally absorb the advice of the priest nor remember hardly anything he says afterwards. I feel I am missing a lot of good … Continue reading →

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New Nuncio for Great Britain

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I know we must suspend judgment… but…
From His Hermeneuticalness:
I had prepared a post to put up when the Vatican Bollettino announced that the new Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain is Archbishop Antonio Mennini. However,  the Tablet has now … Continue reading →

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R.I.P.

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My digital thermometer, has died. I thought it just needed a new battery.
It served me well for many years.

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QUAERITUR: absolution without any confession

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
There is a parish in our diocese that offers a rather unique penance service with no individual confession offered. A penance service is held and people simply file up in a line, say to the priest “I am … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent: We’re all going to die!

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary.  In the 1962MR it was one of the prayers for Ember Saturday of Advent.  The cutting, snipping experts of Fr. Bugnini’s Consilium decided in their wisdom to add a word, salutari, for … Continue reading →

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You, too, can write like a Pope!

Posted on 16 December 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I know that some people out there, in the real world or the blogosphere… certainly no one here… writes as if she had magisterial authority. She may consider herself to have the same authority as, say, popes or … Continue reading →

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