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Category Archives: Liberals
A few thoughts about changes to the Congregation for Bishops. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
A lot of you are asking by email my take on Pope Francis’ not confirming Card. Burke as a member of the Congregations for Bishops and for Saints. The fact is that the members of these Congregations are routinely shifted … Read More
Hell’s Bible and a Secular Apotheosis: another lesson in our “culture war”
At Hell’s Bible today (aka NYT) we have a good example of how twisted things are now. There is a front page article about the death of a pornographer, Al Goldstein, with a photo, and a shot of his pornographic … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged New York Times, NYT, pornography
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11 Comments
Cracks in the liberal adulation of Pope Francis
I have been saying that the Left will turn on Pope Francis. You can already see cracks in liberal unity appearing. The catholic Left is splitting. Just start reading carefully at Fishwrap. I was sent this cartoon by Matt Bors. I … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged liberals, Person of the Year, Pope Francis, POY, same-sex marriage, Time, women's ordination
14 Comments
14 Comments
Fr. Z on Fr. Finigan on the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate
His Hermeneuticalness, the mighty P.P of Blackfen, the Dean of Bexley, the indominable Fr. Timothy Finigan opines on the situation the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate are faced with. The Commissar appointed by the Prefect of the Congregation for Religious, João … Read More
Posted in Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Francis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Reading Francis Through Benedict, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Fr. Finigan, Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, João Card. Braz de Aviz, Pope Francis, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
50 Comments
50 Comments
Michael Coren on Popes who condemn “unfettered” capitalism
Michael Coren, the author of the recent title The Future of Catholicism, has a comment about a Pope who condemned “unfettered” capitalism. Keep in mind that “unfettered” capitalism is nowhere to be found. With that… from Coren on Mercatornet: I … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged capitalism, Michael Coren, Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum
25 Comments
25 Comments
GUN FREE ZONES! Funny.
A friend sent this. A funny way to make a good point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0obTU4AzM&feature=player_embedded I try not to use businesses which post these signs and I hope you don’t either. On that note, after Mass on Sunday a couple guys from … Read More
QUAERITUR: Deacon tried to intimidate me out of wearing the cassock.
From a priest reader: I recently spoke with the permanent deacon in our parish after he saw me hanging up my cassock after hearing confessions. He asked me, is the cassock again being proposed as normal attire for priests in the seminary? … Read More
Fishwrap attacks Francis AGAIN in the matter of women’s ordination
I have written before that the ordination of women is the flagship issue for liberals. So long as Pope Francis won’t change Church “policy”, he will remain in their dog house. Some conservatives frown when the Pope gets out over … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liberals, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Fishwrap, Jamie Manson, NSR, ordination of women, Pope Francis
18 Comments
18 Comments
You have GOT to be joking: Making the sacred as ugly as sin!
From a reader. I’ve visited Dresden in Germany yesterday and my first steps led to the Catholic cathedral. To my greatest horror and shock, I’ve discovered this monstrous “thing” in the side chapel. I have asked the lady working in … Read More
QUAERITUR: Am I being selfish for not reading at Mass?
From a reader: I am newly back to the Church (just over a year) and attend daily mass frequently (NO). [Great!] I have been approached twice now asking to either regularly do the readings or help out as a Eucharistic … Read More
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