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Category Archives: GO TO CONFESSION
From contact to shots fired in 3 seconds
This is the Sword of Damocles that hangs over the heads of law enforcement officers, who deserve our thanks. Here is an amazing video of how cops can go from contact to shots fired in 3 seconds. The reader who … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, GO TO CONFESSION
Tagged LEOs, sacrament of penance
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Flowchart
I very much liked this tweet… In case you need a flow-chart to help you arrive at the obvious conclusion… pic.twitter.com/W5dkuES7xc — SuperNerd Media (@SuperNerdMedia) February 15, 2019
PODCAzT 170: Card. Müller – Manifesto of Faith: “Let not your heart be troubled!”
Gerhald Ludwig Card. Müller, former Prefect of the CDF, has issued a “Manifesto of Faith”. It has a title reference of “Let not your heart be troubled!” (John 14:1). You can get the text HERE. The idea clearly is that … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Faith, fides qua creditur, fides quae creditur, Gerhard Ludwig Müller
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Public penance and public reparation
The other day, Archbp. Vigano, bless him, issued a public letter in which he calls for disgraced Theodore McCarrick publicly to repent. I have on various occasions opined that bishops should prostrate themselves in the steps of their cathedrals in … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Sin That Cries To Heaven
Tagged D. Rouen, penance, reparation
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Advent Penance Service Idiocy
From a friend. WARNING TO MALE READERS: Simply reading the text in the images, below, may compromise your testosterone level. Imagine what reading aloud might do. This idiocy was perpetrated on the People of God at a parish. It … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liberals, SESSIUNCULA, You must be joking!
Tagged penance service
35 Comments
35 Comments
Priests and bishops who are probably going to Hell
There is a good piece at Crisis today about the Sacrament of Penance. It touches on many issues, including availability of confession times, some poorly formed confessors who don’t acknowledge certain sins as sins, and the lack of support some … Read More
ASK FATHER: Absolution from a heretical priest and then going to Communion
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Today I went to confession during Sunday Mass at my parish (Novus Ordo, run by a religious order) [Why do I smell trouble?], and even though the priest (not the parish priest) said “I absolve you”, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Could the Church make “communal services” the norm for the Sacrament of Penance?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, In John 20:22-24, it says “And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you … Read More
Strange Signs, the End Times and YOU
What times we are seeing. Benedict abdicated and lightning struck the dome of St. Peter’s. A Jesuit is elected. A Jesuit, who trashes the symbols of office and sows confusion. Catholics vote for pro-abortion politicians. Total eclipses draw an X over … Read More
FEEDBACK: “I went to confession for the first time in nine years tonight.”
I suspect that most of you readers know that I often shout at you: GO TO CONFESSION! I did so yesterday, several times. This morning I received this. From a reader: I wanted to thank you for always pushing confession. … Read More
WVC on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “It’s hard not to conclude the Synodal Church is the Ape of the Church.”
