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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Summorum Pontificum. It won’t be stopped.
Here is some news to cheer you in these otherwise chaotic and troubling times. From HPR: Seven Years after “Summorum Pontificum”: Nearly 500 North American Churches Offer the Traditional Latin Mass For those Catholics who are seeking even more regular … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged 1962 Missal Romanum, diocesan priests, Missal of St. John XXIII, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
40 Comments
40 Comments
Card. Burke with do’s and don’t’s of parish, church closures
Hearts can break when churches close. But if the church cannot be repaired, or if people are not paying the bills… what to do? Sometimes they must close. However, I think there are many case in which a church does … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Card. Burke, parish closures
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22 Comments
Are Catholics now too dazzled by the Pope? Can Popes be criticized?
Do you remember the scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited when Rex Mottram is being given his catechism lessons before he can marry Julia? The priest and Rex have this exchange: “Yesterday I asked [Mottram] whether Our Lord had more … Read More
Posted in Francis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Michael Brendon Dougherty, papacy
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56 Comments
Ed Peters on Card. Kasper on Pope saying half of marriages are not valid
The distinguished canonist Ed Peters writes about the reckless comments made by Card. Walter Kasper the other day at Fordham University. My emphases and comments. Even if the pope said it, it was reckless to repeat it Cardinal Kasper, in a lengthy … Read More
What is Card. Baldissieri up to?
Edward Pentin, of the National Catholic Register, quoted an antipasto of an article in De Standaard (and HERE) about an interview with a Belgian publication, Tertio, given by Pope Francis’ head of the Synod of Bishops, Lorenzo Card. Balidissieri. Reportage … Read More
Divorce, remarriage, Communion. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Let’s make this clear from the start. People are going to sin. Nevertheless, we must uphold doctrine. This is what is going to happen with the divorce/remarriage Commmunion thing. The Holy Father, Pope Francis, will eventually uphold the Church’s teaching … Read More
Bp Campbell’s Press Release: “I have not closed down Protect the Pope.” ACTION ITEM!
ACTION ITEM BELOW! Take a second and click HERE. Over the last few weeks we have watched the developing circumstances surrounding the blog Protect The Pope, run by an English permanent deacon, and the Diocese of Lancaster. HERE Most recently I … Read More
Venice Day 9 – Of St. Athanasius and risotto
This morning we had our Mass at Santo Stefano, quite beautiful though dark on this dark, gray, rainy day. Some Tintoretto… you know… same ol’… Okay, forget about the Tintoretto. It poured incessantly for the whole morning and way … Read More
Posted in On the road, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged St. Athanasius, Venice
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17 Comments
GUEST POST: About water boarding and the drowning of souls
In the wake of Sarah Palin’s remarks about water boarding terrorists as a kind of “baptism” (an image I think is at least tasteless and even verges on blasphemy) I received this interesting email: While Palin’s comments were ill-advised and … Read More
Catholic pro-marriage speech repressed at Notre Dame
More news from the school that gave the most aggressive anti-Catholic pro-abortion politician we have probably ever seen an honorary doctorate in law (of all things). From the TFP site: Young Catholics Not Welcome at the University of Notre Dame … Read More
WVC on The Big Lie of Mr. Cricket: “@ProfessorCover Have you ever read the little book by Michael Davies called “Liturgical Time Bombs in Vatican II”? He makes…”
