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Tag Archives: identity
10 September 2011
MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN – REVIEW: Mark Steyn – After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
I am reading Mark Steyn’s brilliant After America: Get Ready for Armageddon.
USA book click here.
USA Kindle book click here. (Text-to-Speech enabled)
UK book click here. UK doesn’t have a separate Kindle version yet.
Readers in the USA, this is a good book. … Continue reading
20 March 2010
REVIEW: New book by Aidan Nichols: Criticising the Critics
UPDATE 20 March: I am getting emails from people asking how they can get the book I was reading on the airplane yesterday (see that entry). I am reposting this entry for their benefit.
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ORIGINAL entry 7 March.
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Earlier this week I … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, REVIEWS, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Aidan Nichols, identity, modernism, Tracey Rowland
11 Comments
21 November 2009
Wherein Fr. Z rants about our Catholic identity and dangerous times
In another entry, about the priest/penitent privilege and a state’s violation of the same we read:
I don’t believe it is likely that secret eavesdropping on conversations between priests and penitents is a growing trend in this country, but the … Continue reading
7 July 2009
An important paragraph in “Caritas in veritate”
I am still absorbing the encyclical, and I don’t want simply to toss snippets around. But I am being hammered in e-mail to make some comments about the encyclical.
First, perhaps not much new is in the first part. The … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Benedict XVI, Caritas in veritate, encyclical, identity, Marshall Plan
33 Comments
9 June 2009
America Magazine: English should supplant Latin as Church’s official language
From the Jesuit run America with my emphases and very time-pressed comments:
Ave atque Vale The case for replacing Latin as the official language of the church Thomas G. Casey | AMERICA, JUNE 8, 2009
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Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged identity, Latin, tradition
101 Comments
25 April 2009
Third SSPX Rosary Crusade: 12 million rosaries for….
From the "Letter to Benefactors" of the SSPX from SSPX Superior Bp. Bernard Fellay.
Some of the usual stuff, some very good points and finally a great idea.
My emphases and comments.
LETTER TO FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged crisis, crusade, Fatima, Fellay, identity, rosary, SSPX
113 Comments
23 April 2009
Kicking it up a notch: our Catholic identity – Fr. Z rants
A reader alerted me to a letter of His Excellency Most Reverend R. Daniel Conlon, Bishop of Steubenville about Friday penance.
This is post on the website of the Diocese of Steubenville and the letter was to be read before or … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Classic Posts, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged crisis, fasting, friday, identity, penance, rubrics, Steubenville
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