Monthly Archives: July 2011

Do you believe in the Enemy of the soul and in the eternal punishment of Hell?

From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald comes this with my emphases and comments:
The … Continue reading

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Do you have good news?

Let’s start the work week with some of your good news.
For my part, I had a … Continue reading

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Non-Catholic abortionist working at Catholic hospital: “When a woman says a fetus is a person, I think it is one.”

From Lifesite comes a story that left me perplexed about how to express my anger.
Doc at … Continue reading

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QUAERITUR: Getting permission for Extraordinary Form in a parish

From a reader (edited):
I have a friend whose priest performs the extraordinary form of the mass, … Continue reading

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The Feeder Feed

Things are slow at the feeders these days.  There seems to be a new flock… or … Continue reading

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WDTPRS 6th Sunday after Pentecost – What is “religion”?

Please flip open your own trusty copy of the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae Ordinis Anni Circuli … Continue reading

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The depression and hopeless of many Irish priests, and proposals. Fr. Z rants.

My friend Fr. Ray Blake, P.P. of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, has a interesting, sad, … Continue reading

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Apostolic Nuncio to USA Archbp. Sambi gravely ill

The Apostolic Nuncio to the USA is gravely ill.  I suggest prayer for him and his … Continue reading

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Shine, Perishing Republic

Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers (+1962)
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, … Continue reading

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WDTPRS 17th Sunday Ordinary Time: Sin-Teflon, Demon-Kevlar

Historically the prayer has roots in the ancient “Leonine”, or better the Veronese Sacramentary used during … Continue reading

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