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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Help from Chinese readers? Act of Contrition.
From a Chinese reader who asks for help: I am a Chinese Catholic and many of our prayers are translations from some original Latin edition. One of the most beautiful is the traditional Act of Contrition which is still commonly … Read More
FSSP Diaconate
Deacon By Deacon. His Mightiness, Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of the Diocese of Madison (aka “The Extraordinary Ordinary”), descended upon Nebraska recently to ordain men of the Fraternity of St. Peter to the holy diaconate. Photos HERE. Note… … Read More
Card. Caffarra on upcoming Synod, Communion for divorced and remarried
At ZENIT there is a translation into English of the wide-ranging interview given by Carlo Card. Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, about the upcoming Synod and the issue to be addressed. It was originally in Italian in Il Foglio. You should read … Read More
ASK FATHER: Lying during confession
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is it a mortal sin if one accidentally lies in Confession about a venial sin? You cannot “accidentally” lie. A lie is a deliberate distortion of the truth. It cannot be an accident. People can makes mistakes, … Read More
29-30 March: Francis announces days of penance and prayer for Rome
Pope Francis talks about going to confession. He talks about confession a lot. As a matter of fact, he talks about more than his predecessors did. Now comes this. From CNA: Vatican City, Mar 23, 2014 / 06:38 am (CNA).- … Read More
Posted in Francis, GO TO CONFESSION, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged confession, sacrament of penance
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17 Comments
Of True Grit and SLAP and getting to work
Remember my post Dear Traditionalists? I wrote: “It’s ‘grind it out’ time.” Here’s some grit for your grinding. I saw this interesting post from SLAP (Survivors of Liturgical Abuse in Parishes), linking to Regina Magazine. There is a post called … Read More
Tensions in the Catholic blogosphere. Wherein Fr. Z opines.
Some discussion is arising in the Catholic blogosphere about, well, the Catholic blogosphere. This week, for example, the UK’s still best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has an opinion column: Bishops and bloggers: there is a way out of … Read More
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
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/10-11 – Day 33: All Souls: “Bruised: appliances tied to the Internet I recall something I read a few years ago, that someone hacked a guy’s…”
