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- CasaSanBruno on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Ubi caritas…. So much mercy since 2013.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Maybe the organizers can offer to bring their boyfriends.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Boy, certain folks REALLY hate Pope Benedict XVI… They must try to erase anything to do with Summorum Pontificum.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “They really do hate us. Where is our Holy Father in this? Is he knowingly allowing this cruelty? I can’t…”
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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Oath of The Supremes
The Constitution does not give any details about the Oath of Office to be taken by Justices of the Supreme Court. Article 6 covers oath: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and … Read More
Kmiec: Sotomayor’s experience trumps all
If you think that Judge Sotomayor’s nomination wasn’t planned to be another wedge between Catholics with a clear identity and those who are rather on the Catholic Lite side, here is Doug Kmiec’s take in the, where else, National Catholic … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Kmiec, SCOTUS, Sotomayor
24 Comments
24 Comments
Margaret Thatcher met Pope Benedict XVI
Sancte Pater informs us that … Margaret Thatcher met Pope Benedict XVI at the end of his weekly general audience today. The 83-year-old former British prime minister, who led the country from 1979 to 1990, had earlier in the day … Read More
My emphases and comments
I see more and more people are using the [Z-Method] in fisking texts! My emphases and comments, of course.
Fun! “iConfess”
With a biretta tip o{]:¬) to my friend John Sonnen of Orbis Catholicus…
“Curiosity”
This is fun! NEWS RELEASE: 2009-089 May 27, 2009 NASA Selects Student’s Entry as New Mars Rover Name PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student … Read More
Michael Novak rightly vents about L’Osservatore Romano
In National Review Online Michael Novak vents about the recent "Westpolitik" blunderings of L’Osservatore Romano. My emphases and comments. May 26, 2009, 4:00 a.m. All the Confusion Fit to PrintThe paper disappoints. By Michael Novak For several weeks now, L’Osservatore … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged abortion, L'Osservatore Romano, Michael Novak, Pres. Obama
48 Comments
48 Comments
Request of prayers for a new bishop: Most Rev. Lee Piché
In your charity, will you please pray for a friend of mine? Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Most Reverend Lee Piché as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Do Catholics need a dispensation to marry “non-Catholic” SSPXers?
Interesting. This is from a reader: Some French Bishops, according to this, are considering marriages between a SSPX faithful and another Catholic as a mixed marriage. Les mariages se multipliant en ces temps de printemps, il est désormais possible de … Read More
Wedges
It seems suddenly okay that a nominee to the Supreme Court be … *GASP* …. Catholic! On the website of The Boston Globe comes this on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to SCOTUS. My emphases and comments. Sotomayor would … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged Cathy Lynn Grossman, City of God, liturgy, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Sotomayor
52 Comments
52 Comments
CasaSanBruno on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Ubi caritas…. So much mercy since 2013.”
