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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
ASK FATHER: I still wonder if my first marriage was “real”.
Life is messy, my dear readers. We make mistakes. We get get up. We go forward, living with the consequences as best we may. God sees clearly the whole truth and cannot be fooled about anything. We, on the other … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged annulment, marriage
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4 Comments
Lent, Gator Meat, and You… and I
In this week’s digital edition of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, I saw this cartoon: Not a lot of gators in Ol’ Blighty, except perhaps plodding around in the offices of The Bitter Pill, but I think we are … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z's Kitchen, Lighter fare, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged alligator, crocodile, gator
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19 Comments
‘c’atholics for Choice and Can. 915
The head of the faux-catholic, pro-abortion, Soros-funded “Catholics for Choice”, Jon O’Brien, ought to be publicly corrected by our bishops in these USA and then denied Holy Communion according to can. 915 until he publicly recant his spiritually dangerous positions. … Read More
Bp. Egan (D. Portsmouth): denial of Communion can be act of mercy, love
It is time for happy and articulate culture warriors to rise up and speak out. The Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Most Reverend Philip Egan, explained clearly what every bishop and priest ought to be able to repeat in public with … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Bp. Philip Egan, culture wars, D. Portsmouth, denial of Holy Communion
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38 Comments
Will reaffirmation of teaching on divorce and Communion be ignored?
At his fine canon law blog, canonist Ed Peters, sober, offers a rather scary view of a scary trend. He has no combox over there. Why the gathering storm over divorce might be worse than was that over contraception Interesting … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged canon law, divorce, Ed Peters, marriage
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44 Comments
For the New Evangelization: New Altar Rails!
I have written of Fr. Richard Heilman and the adjustments he is making to the sacred liturgical worship in his parish of St. Mary in Pine Bluff. Remember how he hauled the table altar out of church and switched entirely … Read More
ASK FATHER: Sign of Cross an abuse during Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our priest is giving us liturgical direction every Sunday during lent. Last Sunday he said we should not cross ourselves after the confiteor when he says the prayer of absolution. He said this was an abuse and the only time … Read More
Some misconceptions
Someone sent me a PDF of a flyer from the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Florida promoting a series of talks on Sacrosanctum Concilium. Hopefully the talks will be great. The flyer, however, isn’t so great. There are a … Read More
Lent, Alligators and You – Revisited
Once again, someone wrote to ask me if it is okay to eat alligator on Friday during Lent. Is this a put on? Is this a joke? Of course it’s okay to eat alligator! And crocodile, if you have some. … Read More
VIDEO: Sermon for Archbishop Sample’s 1st Pontifical Mass – MUST SEE
“When Summorum Pontificum came out, and the Holy Father said this is one of the forms of the Latin Rite, the Extraordinary Form, I said ‘I’m a bishop of the Church, I must know this rite!’ And I encourage my … Read More
