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Category Archives: Hard-Identity Catholicism
Fr. Murray: degrees of unbelief in God and in his revelation
My friend Fr. Gerald Murray hit another dinger at The Catholic Thing. A tease… read the whole thing there. Cardinal Sarah and Our Silent Apostasy The book God or Nothing, a wide-ranging interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation … Read More
“I have confronted a few priests, as politely as possible, and hated every second of it.”
Most of us have have struggled at one point or another, often to the the point where a little trickle of blood emerges from the corner of our mouths, to bite our tongues during sermons. Listening to at best pabulum and … Read More
Is Christianity becoming a religion filled with cowards?
Go read the piece at Crisis: Has Christianity Become a Coward’s Religion? Sample: In such times it is right to wonder whether Christianity really has become a religion filled with cowards. Christianity is not a coward’s religion, for its truth … Read More
Vigil of Epiphany: Special Blessing of Water
Wonderful customs come with the Feast of the Epiphany. Epiphany is 6 January, by the way. On Epiphany we can bless gold, frankincense and myrrh. Bring all your spare, unblessed myrrh to your priest… and gold. Bring lots of spare … Read More
The Infant King’s great war cry!
It is still Christmas. That is, we are in the Octave of Christmas. Holy Church stops her counting of time for a bit so that we can rest with the mystery of the Incarnation and contemplate it from various angles. … Read More
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Altar girls and liturgy dominated by women: bad ideas
I’m Fr. Z.. and I endorse this essay by Rachel Lu at Crisis! My emphases and comments: In 1994, the Congregation for Divine Worship issued a letter officially specifying that it is licit for females to serve the altar in … Read More
ASK FATHER: Hindu service in my parish church! ANGRY!
From a priest… QUAERITUR: I’m a lowly parochial vicar at a parish whose pastor is people-pleaser. As I type this, there is a Hindu funeral ceremony going on in the nave of the church, at the foot of the altar. … Read More
ASK FATHER: Sunday obligation and Saturday vigil Masses, revisited
From a priest… QUAERITUR: I was not at peace with the Sunday-obligation-Saturday-evening question and answer. HERE Imagine a penitent: Bless me Father, for I have sinned. Three weeks ago I was leaving on a anonruise, which was for fun, but … Read More
Gerard Plourde on Thoughts about the collision of the Holy See and the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “While past statements by the SSPX clearly rejected Feeneyism, it appears that rejection of that position may no longer be…”
