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- TheCavalierHatherly on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: ““obligationem assumo sequendi lineam positivam ad doctrinam interpretandam sub ductu Magisterii ne quis eam a reliquo sacro doctrinae Ecclesiae patrimonio…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Obedience that comes from servile fear isn’t the virtue of obedience. It is rather a form of vanity.”
- on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “the “formula of adherence” includes this requirement: “I accept the doctrine taught in No. 25 of the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen…”
- on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “@Fr. Jackson is right. And this is a point that matters to the possibility of reconciliation where it is needed.…”
- on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “So my reading of the whole situation is this: Leo/Fernandez intended, in the last proposed “dialogue,” to give the SSPX…”
- on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “The local bishop also has the authority to make LS excommunication the penalty for the lay faithful attending an SSPX…”
- on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “Not to worry… I hear that a certain bishop of a prominent see in the Southern U.S., well known for…”
- on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “Father, what do you make of the language in the DDF’s Procedure for Reconciliation of Priests and Lay Faithful Coming…”
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
PROXIMA b!
In a story via the ESO and APOD I have read about PROXIMA b That cool sounding name is the newly spotted planet orbiting the very closest star to your planet other than your yellow sun. Proxima Centauri can’t be … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Michael, Proxima b, Proxima Centauri, Voyage to Alpha Centauri
4 Comments
4 Comments
Screwtape’s letter to Bitterwench
C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters! Oft’ imitated. Never really rivaled. If you haven’t read this book yet…. what on your planet at you waiting for?!? US HERE UK HERE My favorite method to absorb Lewis’ window is the audiobook reading by John Cleese. … Read More
Benedict explains more about why he abdicated
From Crux we find some information from Pope Benedict about why he abdicated. On 30 August in Italy, an Italian biography of Benedict will be release. He did an interview head of this biography release. However, his book/interview will be released … Read More
Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, ready war.
Sometimes Leon Trotsky is given credit for saying that you might not be interested in war but war is interested in you. He didn’t say that, exactly, but it is nevertheless true. I have not infrequently challenged you readers to … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Cri de Coeur, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Semper Paratus, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Msgr. Charles Pope, war
30 Comments
30 Comments
Monstrous Soros spent $650K to tame US bishops
In one of the pretty good Musketeers of the ’70s, Card. Richelieu (Charlton Heston) is hoist on his own petard because of a carte blanche letter he gave to the femme fatale Milady. He does a momentary half face palm … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged corruption, George Soros
19 Comments
19 Comments
My View For Awhile: Inertia Edition
Inertia describes the tendency of bodies to resist a change in motion unless acted upon by outside forces. Bodies in motion tend to stay in motion while bodies at rest tend to stay at rest unless moved by some influence. … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z asks readers to offer the Fishwrap some constructive help
First, here is a link to something that I posted some time ago: HERE Once again the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) is stumping in favor of the ordination of women to the priesthood. This is what the Fishwrap does: they dissent from the Church’s … Read More
ASK FATHER: Only half-way decent parish near us is still not good. What to do?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: When my wife and I attend Mass at our regular parish, we have always made it a point to receive Communion from the priest. Recently, when we did so, the priest stopped my wife, looked her in the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged Communion, parish, row by row
66 Comments
66 Comments
New scientific study concludes NOT “born that way”
At the National Catholic Register there is a story sure to make the writers of the National Sodomitic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) have a conniption. Not ‘Born That Way’: New Scientific Analysis Questions ‘LGBT’ Orthodoxies A comprehensive new survey about sexuality … Read More
A proposal for wymynpriests
Via AlmanaccoDiRoma: On 22 August 1764, during the pontificate of Clement XIII, at Campo de’ Fiori, the hermit Giuseppe Morelli was hanged, guilty for having “celebrated 29 Masses with consecration without being a priest and for received alms from the faithful.” … Read More
Posted in Deaconettes, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged ordination of women, women priests
12 Comments
12 Comments
TheCavalierHatherly on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: ““obligationem assumo sequendi lineam positivam ad doctrinam interpretandam sub ductu Magisterii ne quis eam a reliquo sacro doctrinae Ecclesiae patrimonio…”
