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Category Archives: One Man & One Woman
19 February 2012
Liberal social engineering is destroying us
National Review has a mordant piece by Mark Steyn. There are good points here. He links the so-called “social issues” (and if they go wrong, everything else must necessarily go wrong) and the partisan political mud fight, and … Continue reading
17 February 2012
Sickening example of what is happening in the USA at the highest levels of government
I felt a bit physically sick as I read this whole thing. I give only a part of it, below.
Part of what makes me sick is the manifest death of reason together with ethics. It seems that liberal politicians today … Continue reading
Posted in De Novissimis: Four Last Things, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices
Tagged Cardinal Newman Society, CNS, HHS, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Rep. Elijah Cummings
31 Comments
14 February 2012
Washington State unnatural “marriage” bill will force churches to accommodate ceremonies or face penalties
In finem citius?
From LifeSite:
Washington governor signs gay ‘marriage’ bill
February 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State has signed into law a gay “marriage” bill that will force church-owned facilities to accommodate homosexual ceremonies.
Gregoire, a lame-duck Democrat [A … Continue reading
10 February 2012
Paul VI: “danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law”
The pontificate of Paul VI produced many a disaster, in my opinion, but when it came to a crucial turning point, in the face of diabolical opposition Paul VI issued Humane vitae.
I suspect many of you have never actually read … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices
Tagged artificial contraception, HHS, Humanae vitae, Paul VI, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
18 Comments
4 February 2012
WDTPRS 5th Ordinary Sunday: Of soldiers and families, obedience and duty, discipline and inequality
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Same time of year! I wonder if Fr. Bugnini’s experts may not have run out of glue that day.
Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, … Continue reading
Catholic Military Archdiocese and Chaplains interfered with last Sunday by Pres. Obama’s Administration
Pres. Obama is at war with the Catholic Church.
On NRO, I read this:
Army Silenced Chaplains Last Sunday
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
February 3, 2012 4:58 P.M.
In Catholic churches across the country, parishioners were read letters from the pulpit this weekend from bishops … Continue reading
3 February 2012
SSPX Bp. Fellay says they say “No” to unity with the Holy See
On the site the SSPX seminary, St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, Minnesota, there is a sermon of SSPX Bp. Bernard Fellay for Candlemas. It is a real dissapointment, to say the least. Fellay said that the Priestly … Continue reading
2 February 2012
Starbucks endorses unnatural “marriage”. Buy Mystic Monk Coffee, not Starbucks.
Need another reason to buy Mystic Monk Coffee? As if my requests weren’t enough? As if helping Wyoming Carmelites wasn’t enough?
From LifeSiteNews.com:
In news that will come as a heavy blow to many coffee lovers, Starbucks has officially backed homosexual ‘marriage.’
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Blech.
You … Continue reading
1 February 2012
True marriage is for life
I enjoyed this story from CNA:
Winners of 2012 Longest Married Couple contest announced
San Bernardino, Calif., Feb 1, 2012 / 03:39 am (CNA).- The faith-based marriage enrichment program Worldwide Marriage Encounter has announced the 2012 state winners of its Longest Married … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged DOMA, marriage
11 Comments
26 January 2012
Again Governor of Maryland pushes same-sex marriage
From EWTN:
Maryland governor renews push for same-sex marriage
Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Catholic, has renewed his efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. Same-sex marriage legislation passed in the state senate last year but failed in the state house.
“More and more … Continue reading
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged homosexuals, marriage, One Man and One Woman, same-sex marriage
17 Comments
25 January 2012
QUAERITUR: The Leonine Prayers after Mass in the Ordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader:
I recently went to FOCUS student leadership summit and Curtis Martin, the founder, told the story behind the Leo XIII’s prayer to St. Michael. Well the students at the summit loved the prayer, and spontaneously started praying it … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged devotions, Leonine Prayers, Memorare, prayers after Mass
27 Comments
24 January 2012
NJ Bishops defend true marriage
I note with interest at the National Catholic Register (the Catholic one) that the bishops of New Jersey have issued a statement about same-sex “marriage”.
New Jersey Bishops Release New Statement on Marriage
Same-sex ‘marriage’ ‘is not marriage and should not be … Continue reading
19 January 2012
PODCAzT 126: Benedict XVI’s important address to US Bishops on Religious Freedom and the Church in the Public Square
In this PODCAzT we drill into an important address given by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 January 2012 to the bishops of Regions 4-6 in the United States.
This was Benedict’s second major discourse to US bishops who are making their ad limina … Continue reading
PODCAzT 126: B16 to US Bishop on the Church in the Public Square: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Emanations from Penumbras, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ad limina, bishops, freedom of religion, liturgy, public square, religious freedom, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, worship
3 Comments
17 January 2012
“’cause I get a … kick.. outta you” – unborn baby saves father’s life.
Who knows what quite bonds there are within the family?
Here is a Just Too Cool story right in the face of the emanations and penumbras crowd.
From Life Site:
January 16, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sara McDonald is 7 ½ months pregnant, but … Continue reading
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Just Too Cool, One Man & One Woman
Tagged Prayer for the Unborn, prolife
8 Comments
A Defense of Marriage Minute: Minnesota Style
In Minnesota an amendment to the state constitution has been proposed which would define and defend proper and true marriage. When the weather warms up again watch for St. Paul, Minnesota to become ground zero for this … Continue reading
