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- Gregg the Obscure on Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!: “Thank you Fr. Z! should cloud cover cooperate, this will be splendid.”
- on Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”): “I can’t help but associate the word “Synod” with “Monad.” I’m a little at loss as to why exactly this…”
- on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “I am not retired but I wanted to build on Professor Covers suggestion: Huntsville Alabama sounds reasonable and cost effective.…”
- on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “Retirement? It is not the business of those journeying on the synodal path to take rest and respite of this…”
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- on Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”): “That was refreshing. The soft, blurred edges of novel and undefined words, like synodality, need to be clarified and defined.…”
- on Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”): “I like both the snarky definition which describes the current reality, and the unsnarky definition which returns the synodal process…”
- on ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.: “There will be no ‘stable’ diocesan TLMs going forward. The goal is to eliminate them. The FSSP and ICKSP will…”
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Card Levada makes pointed comments about LCWR
The nearly ubiquitous John L Allen, Jr., still and sadly writing for the Fishwrap, reports for the same the following. I insert some emphases and comments: Vatican official warns of ‘dialogue of the deaf’ with LCWR [a subsidiary of the … Read More
SSPX Bp. Fellay in Rome to receive Pope Benedict’s decision about the Doctrinal Preamble. PRAY!
Three people have come up to me with questions. I am getting text messages on my phone. It seems SSPX Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay is in Rome to meet with officials of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith … Read More
Acton U Update. Tuesday
This morning began with Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form followed by breakfast. During breakfast – and this is a great advantage to these days – a little gang of clergy (Catholic Orthodox Methodist) and two laymen had a good … Read More
Priest sentenced to 30 hours community service for ringing church bells
Hard to believe this happened in Poland. But then again, I’ve heard that Poland is barely still Poland. Via the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, comes this via Reluctant Sinner: According to recent reports, Fr Andrzej … Read More
Acton University 2012 begins
After a gap of a couple years, I am again participating at Acton U. Once again, the logistics are like clockwork and the participants, from everywhere, interesting and charming and faithful. Tonight after our supper (where I am as I … Read More
Vatican talks with LCWR leadership – ‘open and cordial’
From CNA: Vatican City, Jun 12, 2012 / 11:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has described talks with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious [a subsidiary of the Magisterium of Nuns.] as open … Read More
Not Just Too Cool but Super Too Cool
I will do more about this later, since I am in a moving bus, but this news got me worked up. Some has discovered 29 unknown sermons of the 3rd century Alexandrian theologian Origen. The intrepid Tornielli in Vatican Insider … Read More
Fishwrap on the heaving thronging pro-LCWR rally!
Jamie Manson, whose mentor … mentrix?… when obtaining the coveted MDiv at Yale was RSM Sr. Margaret Falrey, the highly-noted author about “self pleasuring”, is aflutter in the Fishwrap that tens of people showed up in NEW YORK CITY for … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns
Tagged CDF, Jamie Manson, LCWR, Nun Justice, Sr. Margaret Farley
12 Comments
12 Comments
Pres. Obama’s commitment to abortion results in open hypocrisy
Even as The First Gay President seeks through mandates imposed by the unelected minions of his administration to repress the consciences of Catholics and others, in defending an abortion issue he uses the conscience card. From LifeNews: […] In 2010, … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty
Tagged Pres. Obama
3 Comments
3 Comments
What are YOU doing to defend your religious liberty? No. Really. What?
The First Gay President, Pres. Obama, and his administration have been eroding our first liberties. He is attacking the First Amendment, this time through the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS). The most aggressive pro-abortion president in history is … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, Fortnight for Freedom, HHS, HHS mandate, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, The First Gay President
29 Comments
29 Comments
Gregg the Obscure on Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!: “Thank you Fr. Z! should cloud cover cooperate, this will be splendid.”
