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Category Archives: Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Obama gives Amish complete exemption. Catholics? Talk to the hand! Why? Why do you think?
A few days ago Sr. Mary Ann Walsh at the USCCB Blog posted this: Friday, March 9, 2012 Amish, Ok. Catholics, No. The Amish are exempt from the entire health care reform law. So are members of Medi-Share, a program … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged 1st Amendment, American Patriotic Catholic Association, anti-catholicism, Democrats, HHS, POTUS, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty, Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Media blog
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43 Comments
Bishop confirms 19 people at SSPX chapel. Can you say “Win Win Scenario”?
Our friends at Rorate have publicized that a French bishop, Most. Rev. Jean Bonfils, Emeritus of Nice went to an SSPX chapel in Ajaccio, Corsica and administered the sacrament of Confirmation to 19 people. It seems that the local SSPX … Read More
Pope Benedict: “Each confession … a step forward for new evangelization.” Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Every personal sin drags down the entire human race. Every sacramental reconciliation helps to build us up. We are in this together. I have incessantly hollered that no initiative of renewal (New Evangelization, etc.) will succeed if we do not … Read More
A reader’s first confession. Fr. Z congratulates and then rants.
From a reader: Just a quick ‘thank you’ for your posts on Confession. Went to first confession today (I’m a RCIA gearing up for the Easter Vigil). I was terrified. As a forty-something fella with a ‘chequered past’ my list … Read More
Why A Religious Model for the State Is Not Good
Ask everybody and they’ll all agree it’s a good thing priests don’t run the world. I agree with this view. I also believe it’s even better that members of religious orders don’t run the world, whether they are Sisters of Mercy … Read More
Pres. Obama owes you and me an apology!
Mr. President, you owe me and millions of American Catholics an apology. You apologized to Islamic extremists and other Muslims abroad and in the United States for something done against the Islamic faith by mistake. What you are doing to … Read More
QUAERITUR: Removal of Crucifixes from church during Lent. Fr. Z rants.
From a reader: At my parish, we have a tradition of taking down and stowing away the San Damiano Cross replica that hangs from the ceiling over our sanctuary. This year, I discovered the plenary indulgence for praying before a … Read More
PODCAzT 128: “Veterum sapientia”! 50th Anniversary. On Latin in the Church. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Nolite oblivisci hodie quinquagesimum esse anniversarium promulgationis Apostolicae Constitutionis Veterum Sapientia! Surely one of sorest points of our enduring shame as a Church is the way our shepherds have entirely ignored John XXIII’s Apostolic Constitution Veterum sapientia. It isn’t long… … Read More
Nancy Pelosi: ‘I am going to stick with fellow Catholics’ in Pres. Obama’s war on Catholics. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), catholic and openly an abortion absolutist, is from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, but she spends most of her time in Washington DC. She has at least quasi-domicile in the Archdiocese of Washington DC. She is Archbishop … Read More
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", 1983 CIC can. 915, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged apostacy, Archbp. Niederauer, Archd. San Francisco, Archd. Washington DC, can. 915, Card. Wuerl, Nancy Pelosi, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
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98 Comments
supercooper on What’s going on in Rome?: “Lord have mercy. I am thankful to God for a profound signal grace to keep me in the Catholic Church.…”
