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- Christopher M on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “We held a Twitter space this evening and prayed the rosary for the church, the Holy Father and the SSPX.…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “No one is mentioning the elephant in the room. Rome wants the SSPX to explicitly state that the Novus Ordo…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul: “Thanks to the Archconfraternity for all their efforts and hello to The World’s Best Sacristan(TM)! It was fun to spot…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “In his very interesting 25 June One Peter Five article, “When Pope Leo Allowed Illicit Episcopal Consecrations”, Father Matthew Dimock,…”
- on ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins: “I remember being told Venial sins are forgiven during the penitential rite of Mass.”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Honestly, the number of olive branches both publically and privately that have been offered to the SSPX since JPII has…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Regarding the accusation that the SSPX is guilty of “neo-Feeneyism,” it is worth considering that the recent SSPX Profession of…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D The SSPX doesn’t wholesale reject NA. That is why they could and were going to sign the 2011 Doctrinal…”
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Category Archives: Benedict XVI
Save The Liturgy – Save The World: a gloss on observations of Card. Cañizares
Regular readers here may… just possibily… recall that I drone on and on about what I think is Pope Benedict’s "Marshall Plan" for revitalizing Catholic identity after the devastation caused over the last 40+ years. The Holy Father has, I … Read More
And now for this lighter note… about SSPX Bishop Williamson
Pain is a matter of perspective and priority. You cease to think of your headache if you hit your thumb with a hammer. After the last couple of weeks of slime in the MSM, how pleasant it seems – by … Read More
“Pray for the Pope” store – buttons and other stuff
REQUEST: If you have ordered or received some of these buttons or mugs, etc., could you send photos? Also, send a note if any of these has started or helped a conversation! ___ In light of the attacks on Pope … Read More
Request to readers: good hashtags for Twitter about recent controversies
To readers who use Twitter: If some of you are paying attention to Twitter feeds about the topic of how the media is handling the recent round of controversies, or the topic of the controversies themselves, could you post some … Read More
Oremus pro Pontifice button
A friend here in NYC gave me one of the "Oremus pro Pontifice" small buttons!
“How does Benedict fix this mess?”…. Can he “fix” it?
John XXIII, when confronted by problems, at a certain point famously said, "Sometimes I just kneel down and say, Lord, it’s your Church, I am going to bed". Much of what is going on today involves Christ being crucified once … Read More
Benedict XVI’s Easter Sunday sermon: humanity is in a profound crisis
The Holy Father’s Easter Sunday sermon with my emphases and comments: Cantemus Domino: gloriose enim magnificatus est."Let us sing to the Lord, glorious his triumph!" (Liturgy of the Hours, Easter, Office of Readings, Antiphon 1). Dear Brothers and Sisters, I … Read More
Benedict XVI’s Easter Vigil sermon
The Holy Father’s Easter Vigil Sermon with my usual emphases and comments: Dear Brothers and Sisters, An ancient Jewish legend from the apocryphal book "The life of Adam and Eve" recounts that, in his final illness, Adam sent his son … Read More
LOCK AND LOAD! LUTHERAN CLARITY about the attacks on Pope Benedict!
There is a spectacular examination of the recent attacks on Pope Benedict – the Pope of Christian Unity – and on the Church by a LUTHERAN theologian on a Lutheran site, Logia, a Lutheran theological journal. It is long but … Read More
Posted in Pope of Christian Unity, The Drill
Tagged John Stephenson, Joseph Ratzinger, Logia, Pope of Christian Unity
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Benedict XVI’s Holy Thursday, Mass sermon
The Holy Father’s sermon for the Mass of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday. Pope Benedict teases out three sayings from the Lord’s discourse at the Last Supper in the Gospel of John. 1) "This is eternal life, that they … Read More
Christopher M on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “We held a Twitter space this evening and prayed the rosary for the church, the Holy Father and the SSPX.…”
