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Category Archives: Be The Maquis
WDTPRS – 32nd Ordinary Sunday: Our Identity and Extreme Ownership
Let’s look at the Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday, keeping that Sunday, 11 Nov 2018 – the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day – is Veterans Day (observed on Monday).
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Sunday’s Collect has an antecedent in the … Continue reading
More on #Synod2018 (“walking together”) document #146
Today the pithily perspicacious Fr H looks at the Synod’s (“walking together”) notion about developing ways to certify Catholic blogs to avoid “fake news”.
He wrote along the lines of what I wrote HERE. He also wrote:
We seem to have … Continue reading
Oppressed priests and portable altars and true emergency conditions
St. Joseph’s Apprentice has made beautiful, practical portable altars for me and for many priests.
I have called his portable altars “the ultimate gift for a priest”. I have one that I can travel with, using a Pelican case, that houses … Continue reading
Read and weep: Soviet style “psych” tactics used against priests by bishops.
What I am about to post, read carefully.
Over the last few months I have been contacted by diocesan priests (and a religious) who were being sent by their bishops (superior) to be “evaluated” at one of these psych clinics for … Continue reading
When they tell you it’s not about homosexuality, it’s about homosexuality.
Well-organized and highly motivated Team Francis has rallied the MSM and circled their obfuscating wagons around their base camp position: It’s not about homosexuality, it’s clericalism. THAT’s the problem! Clericalism… clericalism… clericalism.
Their other tactic is to distract with the good, but … Continue reading
Infiltration of the priesthood. How did it happen? How bad is it?
A priest friend of mine sent a link to a piece at his site: Padre Peregrino.
I think he over estimates the number of priests who are homosexual. However, I will agree that the percentage is probably higher among bishops and, … Continue reading
30 years a priest, 60th birthday – a priest’s first real Solemn Mass! Wherein Fr. Z rants.
This is the season of First Holy Masses. For example, on Saturday 30 June, I will be helping as Assistant Priest with the First Mass of a newly ordained priest to be celebrated in the presence of the bishop (coram … Continue reading
AUSTRALIA: Law change requires priests to break the #SealofConfession
Every once in a while, like the occasional blooming of the giant Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, some government entity attempts to criminalize the practice of our Faith.
The latest rotting-flesh blossom occurred inCanberra, Australia. On 7 June the Australian Capital Territory’s Legislative Assembly … Continue reading
CAVIEZEL: You weren’t made to ‘fit in’… BE SAINTS!
No young person wants to follow an uncertain trumpet.
Here is a good video to rise to as the morning gets underway.
Actor Jim Caviezel speaking at Stuebenville. Posted at LifeSite.
¡Hagan lío!
Who cares what libs think? Boldly recover and use great traditional items and vesture of yore.
At the newish blog LAJ, Shawn Tribe has a good post about boldness in regard to some traditional vesture and other items of yore.
In the 60s Paul VI abolished quite a lot of good things. That was a mistake. However, … Continue reading
A new year, a new membership – LMS @latinmassuk
When I find an organization or cause that I like or that I use, I try to support it.
For example, I really like Our Lady of Hope Clinic, about which I have written. I like Team Rubicon.
I really like the … Continue reading
Meanwhile, TLM groups are growing in number and numbers…
These stats are making the rounds, and I mentioned them recently. However, they popped up again at Spirit Daily.
From Scientific American:
Since 1990, the fraction of Americans with no religious affiliation has nearly tripled, from about 8 percent to 22 percent. … Continue reading
Cri de Coeur: What recourse do we laypeople have?
This cri de coeur comes from a comment under another entry.
And what recourse do we laypeople have? Do we just have to sit around and remain silent because we do not have proper authority to speak up?
Priests and bishops are … Continue reading
SSPX Bp. Fellay about the #FilialCorrection
SSPX Superior Bp. Bernard Fellay signed the Correctio Filialis. Libs pounced.
“OMG!”, they sneered, “The correction is so baaaad because an SSPX guy signed it!”, which you will immediately recognize as a really powerful argument.
Bp. Fellay explains why he signed.
From the site … Continue reading
Fr. Blake on faithful clerics’ fear of vicious liberal reprisals
Let’s be clear about something. There is nothing more vicious than a liberal. For over 30 years I dealt with this first hand and I have the ecclesial scars on my back and in my heart to prove it.
My friend … Continue reading
