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- Kathleen10 on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “Amen and yes, please Lord, to all the prayers for his soul and for his family and friends. I am…”
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- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “adriennep- Sorry to hear about your liturgical desert. Oregon gets better, at least liturgically, as you go North. I believe…”
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- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “I give this author credit for noticing and trying. He does reference far and wide yet he does not even…”
- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “But I can’s see how the mechanics of that works out, given that each pope, if he elevates others heterodox…”
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Burn, Baby, Burn!
Two stories of burning, which meet our approval. First, from BizPac: Former Obama groupie burns her 2008 campaign T-shirt; tells off ‘criminal-in-chief’ Saying she was once among President Obama‘s “most hysterical supporters,” Carey Wedler wants the world to know she … Read More
Pope Francis AGAIN: “Who am I to judge?”
The Pope used again, on 17 March, the phrase “Who am I to judge?” in an informal, off-the-cuff context: his daily fervorino at his private Mass during which he says nothing that forms a part of his Ordinary Magisterium. At … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Spike the stats for an oppressed blogger! ¡Vaya lío!
Everyone, please do me a favor. This is a simple ACTION ITEM! ¡Vaya lío! Visit the blog Protect The Pope. Spike the traffic over there big time today. Even if it is just for a brief hit-and-run look-see. Click HERE! Tens … Read More
An appointment to the English episcopate.
Scripture says: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: as it hath pleased the Lord so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. In this case, in England, it is more a case of the Lord … Read More
Three Days of Darkness concludes, Gaia, appeased, rumbles approvingly
I posted the other day about the opening rite of the Three Days of Darkness, the “REC” (aka wreck) or Religious Ed Congress in Los Angeles, actually in Anaheim. HERE There was, as one wag applied to the screen-shot I … Read More
Francis is shaping the role of Pope Emeritus
There is a 14 March ZDF video interview in German with Archbp. Georg Gänswein, the Prefect of the Pontifical Household and, simultaneously, particular secretary of Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus. The interview reinforces my view that Pope Francis wants Benedict XVI to … Read More
More about the silencing of a Catholic blogger
As you know, an English Catholic deacon of the Diocese of Lancaster who was a blogger was silenced by his bishop. HERE My friend the Dean of Bexley, the P.P of Blackfen, His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Timothy Finigan, distinguished English blogger … Read More
¡Vaya lío! Another church gets a new Communion rail!
The other day I posted about the installation of a new Communion rail in the Church of St. Mary in Pine Bluff, WI. HERE Now I read that a new rail will be installed in St. Joseph’s Church in Macon, … Read More
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Archd. Philadelphia : the spread of Flash “Mass Mobs” to help dying parishes
Remember the news about Mass Flash Mobs in Buffalo, NY? HERE and HERE In many cities there are beautiful but languishing parish churches. Some people are stirring things up to help put them back on the map, inject some life … Read More
How tiny liberal loon crank groups provide cover and distraction for larger, more dangerous initiatives.
In Religion Dispatches which is associated with USC, Patricia Miller opines. Who is Patricia Miller? She is described on the page: Patricia Miller is the author of Good Catholics: The Battle Over Abortion in the Catholic Church. She has written … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why is the back of Father’s vestment raised at the consecration?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have been wondering why the servers lift the priest’s chasuble during the consecration. From the sources that I could find, it was an old practice to help the priest because the chasubles were heavy. Is … Read More
Lent, Gator Meat, and You… and I
In this week’s digital edition of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, I saw this cartoon: Not a lot of gators in Ol’ Blighty, except perhaps plodding around in the offices of The Bitter Pill, but I think we are … Read More
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My View For Awhile: home again edition
Having sampled “Nakatish” Meat Pies, and having jawed endlessly with clerics, and having delivered talks and having mactated the Victim in a solemn manner, I head home to a colder clime. My thanks to the nice people I met in … Read More
“In varietate concordia”, E pluribus unum” and “In necessariis unitas”
In the slimy, slithery scrawl of the head of catholics for Choice to Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times – HERE) cites a Latin phrase “in varietate concordia” which he renders as “unity in diversity.” What the writer, dissident Jon … Read More
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‘c’atholics for Choice and Can. 915
The head of the faux-catholic, pro-abortion, Soros-funded “Catholics for Choice”, Jon O’Brien, ought to be publicly corrected by our bishops in these USA and then denied Holy Communion according to can. 915 until he publicly recant his spiritually dangerous positions. … Read More
Bp. Egan (D. Portsmouth): denial of Communion can be act of mercy, love
It is time for happy and articulate culture warriors to rise up and speak out. The Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Most Reverend Philip Egan, explained clearly what every bishop and priest ought to be able to repeat in public with … Read More
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The 3 days of darkness – underway
The Religious Ed Conference is being perpetrated in Los Angeles. Watch LIVE…. it’s a hoot. Right now they are dancing with bowls of burning stuff while singing about themselves. I haven’t heard any mention of Jesus yet. It’s a real … Read More
Will reaffirmation of teaching on divorce and Communion be ignored?
At his fine canon law blog, canonist Ed Peters, sober, offers a rather scary view of a scary trend. He has no combox over there. Why the gathering storm over divorce might be worse than was that over contraception Interesting … Read More
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Kathleen10 on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “Amen and yes, please Lord, to all the prayers for his soul and for his family and friends. I am…”
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