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- TWF on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “If your position is that a Latin, ad orientem, chanted Novus Ordo Mass that uses the Roman Canon and plenty…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “@OKC Catholic Dad & @prayfatima I don’t understand the cope that’s being employed here, but y’all are clearly not seeing…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “Roma247 writes: “The SSPX claims to believe that the Novus Ordo is a valid Mass. But then they write articles…”
- on 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.: “I hope that the next pope, or the one after that…will do a permanent fix, setting up a permanent, irrevocable…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “OKC Catholic Dad: I echo your sentiments and am getting bothered by all the images that are floating around portraying…”
- on Card. Koch, Prefect for Christian Unity, makes observations about the SSPX: “Yes, overturning TC should be done. It effectively escorted people away from “diocese approved” traditional Mass locations right into the…”
- on 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.: “Always thought, must begin with the unification of the calander of the vetus and novus ordo. . Rome and tradition…”
- on Card. Koch, Prefect for Christian Unity, makes observations about the SSPX: “I did not mean to be pejorative. That’s the term of art that was in general use when I was…”
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Category Archives: GO TO CONFESSION
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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11 Comments
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
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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
ASK FATHER: If I am in the state of mortal sin, is there any point in praying?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Thank you for the good work you do through this blog. I check it once or twice daily, because I always look forward to your insightful and incisive commentary. May I ask: If I am in a state … Read More
ASK FATHER: Priest attacked me for how I made my confession.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Today, I went for confession to the capuchins like I usually do. The priests there tend to be great confessors. However, today I had quite a bad experience. I confess in kind and number and I … Read More
TWF on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “If your position is that a Latin, ad orientem, chanted Novus Ordo Mass that uses the Roman Canon and plenty…”
