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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
8 February 2012
UPDATE 169 US Bishops have protested Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on Catholics
Over at the young papist’s place, on Catholic Vote, Tom Peters is forming a list of US bishops who have responded to Pres. Obama’s blatant attack on the 1st Amendment and on religious liberty when while he openly refuses to … Continue reading
Pre-Lent! It’s time to start making your plan.
Septuagesima. ALREADY?!?
Pre-Lent is here. That means Lent begins in less than three weeks, 22 February this year.
It is time to make your plans for Lent.
You should start thinking about one or more mortifications (and consider something other than chocolate) as … Continue reading
7 February 2012
Dr. Peters (canonist) on Nancy Pelosi (public abortion absolutist)
The mighty Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, has posted on his excellent blog In The Light Of The Law a comment about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) statement that, as a Catholic, she will stand with the Obama Administration against the … Continue reading
Pres. Obama’s Axelrod says Catholics should SHUT UP AND COMPLY.
From WaPo and AP I just learned that Pres. Obama’s campaign director David Axelrod has said something revelatory about the administration’s ultimate goals.
Obama’s senior political adviser urges all sides in birth control fight to ‘lower our voices’ [Get that? It’s … Continue reading
Nancy Pelosi: ‘I am going to stick with fellow Catholics’ in Pres. Obama’s war on Catholics. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), catholic and openly an abortion absolutist, is from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but she spends most of her time in Washington DC. She has at least quasi-domicile in the Archdiocese of Washington DC.
She is Archbishop Niederauer’s … Continue reading
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", 1983 CIC can. 915, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged apostacy, Archbp. Niederauer, Archd. San Francisco, Archd. Washington DC, can. 915, Card. Wuerl, Nancy Pelosi, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
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ACTION ITEM! POLL ALERT! Should priests be able to change the words of Mass when they want to?
Do you remember this story from a couple days back? HERE.
Review: A priest was changing the words of Mass. He was corrected on more than one occasion by the bishop. The priest, having refused to change, offered his resignation which … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS
Tagged liturgical abuse, polls
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Another angle on kneeling for Communion
Michael Voris, of RealCatholicTV, has an interesting observation about something he saw in Nigeria compared to common practice in the USA.
Technorati Tags: Communion, kneeling, Michael Voris, Nigeria
Hugh Hewitt on Pres. Obama’s anti-Catholic card
Massive civil disobedience is the only response for Catholics of conscience. That and an absolute refusal to vote for the anti-Catholic president overseeing this Kulturkampf.
A WDTPRS favorite, radio guy Hugh Hewitt (listen to his show), has an column in The … Continue reading
6 February 2012
Card. Burke Encourages Catholics to Sign Online Petition to Stop the Birth Control Mandate
For Immediate Release
February 6, 2012
Press inquiries to: Megan Morris (913) 426-0002
Breaking News: Cardinal Raymond Burke Encourages Catholics to Sign Online Petition to Stop the Birth Control Mandate
San Diego, February 6, 2012: Cardinal Raymond Burke, Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty
Tagged Card. Burke, HHS, petition, Pres. Obama, religious freedom
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Starting to smell the coffee: Doug Kmiec writes to Pres. Obama
Richard III to Buckingham:
Because that, like a Jack, thou keep’st the stroke
Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.
I am not in the giving vein to-day.
(Richard III IV,ii)
Dcn. Keith Fournier obtained from former Amb. Doug Kmiec, Kmiec’s letter to Pres. Obama … Continue reading
Noonan opines on Pres. Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church
In the WSJ there was an op-ed by Peggy Noonan which bears review. Here is the last third (the rest is about Gov. Romeny and the GOP).
[...] President Obama just may have lost the election.
The president signed off on … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty
Tagged Peggy Noonan, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, WSJ
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More Leo XIII: on religious liberty and the tyranny of liberalism (read: Pres. Obama’s Administration)
The other day I posted a quote about civil authority and freedom from an encyclical of Pope Leo XIII called Diuturnum illud. I was happy to see that Bp. Slattery also quoted that enecyclical in his outstanding response to Pres. … Continue reading
5 February 2012
Pres. Obama to Catholic Church: “You may kiss my…”
I picked this up from the young Peters, who has been doing a great job of keeping track of developments.
A cartoon by Michael Ramirez:
And then there’s:
Technorati Tags: Pres. Obama, religious liberty
Triumph in Miami
On 2 February, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, there was a Pontifical Mass in Miami, celebrated by His Excellency Most Rev. Thomas Wenski.
Before I get to the liturgical eye-candy and some commentary on the meaning … Continue reading
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
