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- ROME 26/6 – Day 76: Brooklyn Bound
- ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Corpus Christi (transferred)
- ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 72: hot (Novena Day 3)
- ROME 26/6 – Day 71: Real Corpus Christi (Novena Day 2)
- “…the young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”
- I am not making this up. Could it explain about clerics from a certain country?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 69-70: Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – DAY 1
- ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid
- ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Trinity Sunday
- ROME 26/5– Day 65 & 66: better late than the other thing
- ASKING FOR A FRIEND: Faithful Catholic Medical Doctors in South and East Ontario, CANADA
- WDTPRS – Trinity Sunday: Are you beautiful at Mass?
- REPOST ASK FATHER: How to make a “Trinitini” Martini for Trinity Sunday and avoid committing heresy?
- ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.
- OLDIE PODCAzT 59: St Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s Pentecost sermon
- Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville
- How did we get HERE?
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- ROME 26/5– Day 62 & 63: NEWS
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
- 26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 59 & 60: A lovely view
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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A dialogue of Our Lord and the editior of the National Schismatic Reporter
My friend Fr. Martin Fox, distinguished priest of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, on his blog The Bonfire of the Vanities has today an instructive dialogue between Our Lord and the editor of the Fishwrap, the National Schismatic Reporter, Tom Fox (Greek … Read More
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Benedict XVI on Vatican II: Council of the Fathers v. Council of the Media
Today during his annual meeting with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, of which Benedict is still the Bishop, the Holy Father spoke about the Second Vatican Council. Not my translation, but my emphases and comments: [T]here was the … Read More
Pres. Obama says he “couldn’t be prouder” of NARAL and Roe v Wade
Here’s a note of special interest to Catholic quislings who supported President Obama in both elections. From LifeSite: Obama tells NARAL activists to ‘celebrate’ Roe, says ‘I couldn’t be prouder’ of them WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – President … Read More
Hopeful vibrant continuity v. the grim liberal watchmen
Over at Views From The Choir Loft there is a good post about music, and Latin, and our heritage in the Latin Church. The writer is Dr. Peter Kwasniewski who teaches at Wyoming Catholic College. Vatican II says that “care should … Read More
NSR: Making Church history up as they go!
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, the journal of record for heretics and schismatics everywhere (aka Fishwrap), there is an article by one Richard Gaillardetz, the “Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College”, ostensibly about women, ordination and … Read More
Are you pro-life? You may be considered a terrorist by the Obama Administration.
From LifeNews: ‘Pro-life paradigm’ motivates domestic terrorism: West Point report BY BEN JOHNSON WEST POINT, NY, February 4, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study published by West Point’s anti-terrorism center claims the “pro-life paradigm” is a motivating factor in domestic terrorism. … Read More
Putting the well-deserved spotlight on Irish dissident Fr. Tony Flannery
At this site Renew America the Australian author Eamonn Keane has done us a great service by summarizing many points concerning the Irish heretic Fr. Tony Flannery, who has been under scrutiny by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the … Read More
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What’s Pres. Obama promoting now?
The First Gay President, as Newsweek dubbed him, once promoted infanticide. What’s he promoting now? Obama encourages Boy Scouts of America to end ban on gays WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Sunday encouraged the Boy Scouts of America to … Read More
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More about Obamatax – Will families be ready to pay $20k per year?
More about From CNSNews: (CNSNews.com) – In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be … Read More
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