Daily Archives: 13 June 2013

Nancy Pelosi: late-term abortion “sacred ground”

LifeSiteNews: Catholic Nancy Pelosi: Issue of late-term abortions is ‘sacred ground’ WASHINGTON, D.C., June 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a question today from a reporter about a late-term abortion ban that is being proposed in Congress, Democratic Minority … Read More

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, Throwing a Nutty, You must be joking! | Tagged , , , ,
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WISCONSIN: Legislation requiring ultrasounds

About one of the things pro-abortion advocates fear the most. From CBS58 in Wisconsin: Wisconsin Senate pass abortion bill, ultrasounds now required WISCONSIN — Wisconsin Senators have passed a bill that would require doctors to perform ultrasounds before performing an … Read More

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Of Star Wars and Immanentism and Birdcages and Elite Snobbery. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

In my talks I sometimes address the steady slide of many Catholics into Immanentism Lite.  They don’t exactly deny that God is transcendent, it’s just that they never give transcendence the slightest thought.  They have never had too, have they? … Read More

Posted in Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Pò sì jiù, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Throwing a Nutty, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, You must be joking! | Tagged , , , ,
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Schadenfreude and Reform of the Roman Curia

Years ago in the hall of the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio I ran into the then-Prefect Cardinal Ratzinger, who was always happy to chat and let me pick his brains. On one occasion, he quipped that he was glad that Peter … Read More

Posted in Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Francis, Lighter fare, The future and our choices | Tagged , , ,
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QUAERITUR: Distance of a priest’s valid consecration

From a reader: Dear Father – Like yourself I am not a fan of concelebration, but I would like to ask two questions. These questions came about in one of those after dinner discussions which come under the heading of … Read More

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Priests and Priesthood | Tagged , ,
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Document ready for close of Year of Faith

From Vatican Radio: Pope Francis: post-Synodal exhortation ready for Year of Faith’s close (full text) (Vatican Radio) The post-Synodal Exhortation on the new evangelization will be ready in time for the close of the Year of Faith. This was just … Read More

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Of Devils and Agencies and Metadata and You

Long before the scandal about government snooping and gathering of metadata broke, I wrote a post (HERE) about Pope Francis’ mentions of the Devil, the Enemy of the soul. Consider the way angels can gather “metadata” on us and build … Read More

Posted in Linking Back, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice |
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Spare the rod and spoil the chant!

Over at NLM (now under new management) there is a fun entry about the baculus cantoralis. The cliffnotes version: The Baculus Cantoralis, to give it one of its many names, is a large staff held by a Choirmaster or Cantor … Read More

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