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Fr. Blake: “What we have failed to do is prepare our people for any battle over this issue.”

Posted on 8 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

One dimension of the international kulturkampf is the promotion of unnatural unions as if they were “marriages” and the introduction of legislation to force these unions to be recognized as such, even in the face of reason.  After legislation is … Continue reading →

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CL: Lefty “catholics” shilling for Pres. Obama

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From The Catholic League:
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:
The Catholic left is so deep in the tank for Obama that they are working publicly to undermine the bishops. First a little background.  [cf Magisterium of Nuns]
On March 2, … Continue reading →

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HOUSTON 9 March: Mass and Prayer Rally during Pres. Obama’s campaign stop

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I like this approach.
The pro-abortion, pro-infantide, anti-Catholic, anti-1st Amendment Pres. Obama – about whose scantily documented past we really don’t know very much – will be in Houston… fund-raising on the pretext of doing something “presidential”.
The Archdiocese, on the other hand, is … Continue reading →

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“The Church will become small and will have to start afresh …”

Posted on 7 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Back in 1969 theologian Joseph Ratzinger made some comments about our Catholic future.  They were included in his  Faith and the Future published by Ignatius Press in 2009.
The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or … Continue reading →

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Why A Religious Model for the State Is Not Good

Posted on 4 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Ask everybody and they’ll all agree it’s a good thing priests don’t run the world.
I agree with this view.
I also believe it’s even better that members of religious orders don’t run the world, whether they are Sisters of Mercy or, lemme … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday of Lent – our new spiritual view

Posted on 3 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is the Collect of the 2nd Sunday of Lent, a new composition for the Novus Ordo based on a precedent in the Liber Mozarabicus Sacramentorum.:
Deus, qui nobis dilectum Filium tuum audire praecepisti,
verbo tuo interius nos pascere digneris,
ut, spiritali purificato … Continue reading →

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Common ground?

Posted on 3 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Via the great Vincenzo:

Remember his promises at Notre Dame?  The hopes of Card. Cottier?  The excuses of Doug Kmiec? The panting of L’Osservatore Romano?
Don’t forget that Vincenzo has the Pius Clocks!

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Bp. Lori responds for USCCB to America Magazine’s cave in on Pres. Obama’s HHS attack

Posted on 2 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Jesuit-controlled America Magazine recently caved in to the Obama Administration in the matter of Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment and on the Catholic Church.  In their role as a pipe for the Magisterium of Nuns, the magazine undercut … Continue reading →

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A more cheerful One Child Policy!

Posted on 29 February 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

If Pres. Obama has his way, this will coming to a neighborhood near you.
From the Beeb:
China to overhaul ‘threatening’ one-child slogans
By Viv Marsh
BBC News
China is to overhaul the sometimes threatening slogans used to enforce its one-child policy, the authorities have … Continue reading →

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A sermon explaining what Pres. Obama is doing.

Posted on 29 February 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A good sermon on 5 February 2012 by Fr. Sammie Maletta at St. John the Evangelist Parish in St. John, Indiana.
You will not regret the 11 minutes you spend.

Good job, Father.
WDTPRS kudos.

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