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QUAERITUR: I found a Host at my mother’s house. Wherein Fr. Z rants a little.
From a reader:
While visiting my parents’ home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom’s prayer table.
I forget what it was … but out of the corner of my eye, … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, O'Brian Tags, Our Catholic Identity, Preserved Killick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Year of Faith
Tagged can. 1367, Communion in the hand, graviora delicta, host, latae sententiae excommunication, sacrarium
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Women-priest fakers allow Protestants to define who Catholics are. There must be consequences.
When anti-Catholic ecumenical atrocities take place, Catholic bishops should act.
Here is an example which calls for consequences.
From WTAX in Kentucky:
Kentucky woman ordained as priest in defiance of Roman Catholic Church [Note either the carelessness or the bias? She was not ordained … Continue reading
Mr. Roy Bourgeois gets his letter
I detect in myself a touch of schadenfreude as I read of this new at the site of the Fishwrap, whose editors have pressed poor Roy to their collective bosom for so very long.
Bourgeois receives official Vatican letter dismissing him from … Continue reading
Posted in Benedict XVI, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged deaconesses, Fishwrap, graviora delicta, Maryknoll, ordination of women, Roy Bourgeois, women deacons, wymyn
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“There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall…” Farewell, Roy Bourgeois!
From The Sound of Music:
There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say, “Cuckoo”
Regretfully they tell us but firmly they … Continue reading
Video interview of Msgr. Charles Scicluna: “words of fire”
My friend Greg Burke, the Rome correspondent for Fox News, scored an interview – video interview – with Msgr. Charles Scicluna of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who handles graviora delicta cases.
Vatican Prosecutor: Pope Showed “Frustration and … Continue reading
Posted in Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children
Tagged Fox News, graviora delicta, Greg Burke, Msgr. Scicluna
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America Magazine: Pastor Apologizes for Vatican’s “Insensitive” Words
From America Magazine with my emphases and comments:
Pastor Apologizes for Vatican’s "Insensitive" WordsAugust 18, 2010James Martin, S.J.
A pastor in Oak Park, Ill., has apologized to the women and women religious of his parish for the Vatican’s "insensitive and harsh … Continue reading
US Catholic goes to the zoo about the new “graviora delicta” norms
You perhaps won’t be surprised if Bryan Cones of the über-liberal US Catholic threw a little nutty about the CDF’s new norms concerning graviora delicta, "exceptionally serious crimes".
Here is the piece in all is wondrous weirdness with my emphases and … Continue reading
Some comments on the new norms concerning Graviora Delicta
The Holy See has revised some norms concerning "exceptionally serious" crimes against faith and morals.
All the delicts will be handled by the tribunal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Besides the Church’s three great tribunals (Segnatura, Rota, … Continue reading
Interview with the CDF’s “prosecutor” of priests who commit “graviora delicta”
Sandro Magister has on his site today an English text of an interview with Msgr. Charles Scicluna, an official of the CDF, who handles the cases of priests who commit graviora delicta against minors.
Let’s have a … Continue reading


























