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- Fr Jackson on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “People in 1054 did not realize that a definitive rupture had taken place. They assumed the excommunications were simply another…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “It’s interesting how I’m being accused of detraction today (by anonymous moralizing posters) when I simply state what were proudly…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Lurker59 The details I mentioned were not detraction both because the events were quite public at the time (Fr Pagliarani…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Fr. Kelly Just to clarify – I was responding to others saying the FSSP refused a bishop which was offered…”
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- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@WVC I too have just reread the May 5th Protocol and, even to the FSSPX, there is no promise of…”
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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
Bp. Matano (D. Rochester) ends decades illicit practice of “lay preaching”
For your Brick by Brick file. From the Democrat and Chronicle: Catholic diocese upends custom on homilies For the better part of 40 years in churches across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, clergy ceded the floor to laypeople for … Read More
Ecumenical consequences of C of E decision on women bishops (aka “wyshyps”)
On 5 June 2006, Walter Card. Kasper, then-President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, spoke to the Church of England members gathered for the Lambeth Conference. They were discussing, and were going to vote on, women bishops [aka … Read More
Malaysian Airlines 17, Death and You
The black boxes from Malaysian Airlines 17 might indicate that the pilots attempted a vain evasion. I doubt it. I suspect that exploding death was sudden. Who knows who may have survived the initial blast and remained conscious for some … Read More
“Thanks for your blog. It saved this seminarian from a particularly mortifying purification.”
From a seminarian: Just wanted to say a big “Thanks” for your blog. I was sure glad for the liturgical minutiae I’ve picked up here when I found a fly in the Precious Blood tonight after Mass. Your advice about … Read More
Voice of America on Holy Innocents in Manhattan: a vibrant Catholic community
There was another media story about Holy Innocents in Manhattan. This is the only parish in Manhattan which as daily Mass in the Extraordinary Form. It is a beautiful place with great people. As you know a commission in the … Read More
Great article in FIRST THINGS: Correcting Catholic Blindness. ACTION ITEM!
I must alert you to a piece at First Things by Sam Gregg: “Correcting Catholic Blindness”. Alas, it is behind a paywall. Alas, they made some other less worthy pieces available for free. That said, we have the option of … Read More
ASK FATHER: Anglican confession… valid?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: On my journey to the Catholic Church, just prior to deciding to join the Church we investigated a High Anglican church (most of ours are Low, and the High are much more Catholic in feel though … Read More
FOLLOW UP: Religious Freedom under attack in the US Senate – FAIL
The other day I urged you, in unity with the USCCB, to contact your Senator’s offices and express your opposition to the passing of S. 2578, the ‘Protect Women’s Health From Corporate Interference Act of 2014’. This would have gravely … Read More
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ASK FATHER: “The Body of ‘grace'”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am distressed. I went to mass today and received, as the priest said over and over, “the body of grace.” Don’t get me wrong, I love grace, but I was expecting the body of Christ. … Read More
Advice from a priest: use protection!
I am sure you remember my scare-warnings that, “It doesn’t happen to you, until it does!” One of the things you need to plan for is the protection of your electronic stuff, which we rely on a lot and often spend … Read More
Fr Jackson on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “People in 1054 did not realize that a definitive rupture had taken place. They assumed the excommunications were simply another…”
