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Daily Archives: 16 December 2010
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Via CMR: Abortion giant Planned Parenthood released its 2008-2009 Annual Report. And the news is horrific. Red State reports: Behind the colorful graphics and happy faces is a stark number: Planned Parenthood received $363 million in government grants and contracts … Read More
Time Magazine’s dopey and erroneous remarks about Pope Benedict
Time Magazine chooses, usually poorly, some “person of the year”. Time this year included Benedict XVI among “people who matter”, indicating his “Highs” and “Lows”. Time usually gets things about the Catholic Church wrong. I suspect they do that on … Read More
European court: Ireland’s abortion laws breach human rights
The European Court of Human Rights seems to think that abortion is a human right. From The Catholic Herald: European court rules that Ireland’s abortion laws breach human rights By Michael Kelly on Thursday, 16 December 2010 The European Court … Read More
Hurray for President Obama!
Did you ever think to read that here? President Obama’s approval rating may be at an all time low, but today for me he ticked up a notch! POTUS signed a critically important world-changing piece of high impact legislation of … Read More
QUAERITUR: recording my own confession
From a reader: Under stress, my mind goes blank. I find Confession really stressful, so therefore can not mentally absorb the advice of the priest nor remember hardly anything he says afterwards. I feel I am missing a lot of … Read More
New Nuncio for Great Britain
I know we must suspend judgment… but… From His Hermeneuticalness: I had prepared a post to put up when the Vatican Bollettino announced that the new Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain is Archbishop Antonio Mennini. However, the Tablet has now … Read More
R.I.P.
My digital thermometer, has died. I thought it just needed a new battery. It served me well for many years.
QUAERITUR: absolution without any confession
From a reader: There is a parish in our diocese that offers a rather unique penance service with no individual confession offered. A penance service is held and people simply file up in a line, say to the priest “I … Read More
WDTPRS Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent: We’re all going to die!
This Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. In the 1962MR it was one of the prayers for Ember Saturday of Advent. The cutting, snipping experts of Fr. Bugnini’s Consilium decided in their wisdom to add a word, salutari, for … Read More
You, too, can write like a Pope!
I know that some people out there, in the real world or the blogosphere… certainly no one here… writes as if she had magisterial authority. She may consider herself to have the same authority as, say, popes or bishops. You … Read More
If lay people “assist” at Mass, what does the priest do? Fr. Z rants.
A reader sent me a link to a blog I had never seen, Priest’s Secretary for an especially irritating entry. The entry wasn’t irritating because the blog itself is loony. Rather, the story recounted in the entry was loony, and … Read More
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What’s going on with the Legionaries of Christ?
At Sandro Magister’s place there is an article about what is going on with the correction of the Legionaries of Christ. Here is the preamble: ROME, December 16, 2010 – The order is binding. All the houses of the Legionaries … Read More
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