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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
ALERT PHOENIX! 26-27 August – Two talks you do NOT want to miss!
In the Catholic Sun, issued by the Diocese of Phoenix, I see advertised something that you do NOT want to miss if you are anywhere in the vicinity. Priest with Vatican, Phoenix ties to share Church’s wisdom in Scottsdale Fr. … Read More
Poll shows that 85% of American think photographers, bakers, etc., can refuse blatantly homosexual clients without fear of attacks
There are going to be challenges, costly challenges, to every business and industry… challenges that are actually systematic campaigns of bullying and intimidation. I saw this on the site of the National Organization for Marriage: 85% of Americans Say Christian … Read More
WDTPRS: 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time – When “virtues” are replaced by “values”.
Let’s look at the Collect for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare quod praecipis, id desiderare quod promittis, ut, inter mundanas varietates, ibi nostra fixa sint corda, ubi … Read More
Video message from a Bishop to Catholic teachers as the school year begins
Here is a video message from His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino to Catholic teachers in the Diocese of Madison. As teachers workshops wind up around the country, and as schools begin again, and as this Year of Faith … Read More
Something about immigration reform
Catholics (and all people of truly good will) cannot disagree about the evil of abortion, but we can disagree about immigration. The former is intrinsically evil, the latter is dealt with through contingent moral choices. We can disagree about the … Read More
St. Mary’s is getting a Continuity Makeover – VIDEO
My friend Fr. Greg Markey has gotten a spectacular renovation project going at his parish in Norwalk, CT. St. Mary’s is getting the “Continuity Makeover”. Another angle of the New Evangelization. Gosh! I wonder if, once it is done, they’ll … Read More
Institutional collapse: a fruit of Vatican II?
At Harvesting the Fruit of Vatican II Louie Verrecchio posted a provocative piece about Ralph Martin’s recent article about the Church’s institutional collapse since Vatican II. Here is a taste, and you can read the rest there. There is … Read More
OREGON: Govt. official: those who resist “gay” marriage must be “rehabilitated”
During the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976 – the time when the greatest damage was being done in the name of the Spirit of Vatican II) people were bullied into rejection of the sì jiù, the Four “Olds”: Old Customs, Old Culture, … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Archbp. Sample, Archd. Portland, bakers, Cultural Revolution, eliminating the four olds, homosexual activists, Oregon, Pò sì jiù, re-education, rehabilitation, self-criticism
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QUAERITUR: Of canonical digits and purifications
From a reader: Our priest does a fantastic job of guarding his thumb and index fingers once he has touched the Host. I was wondering if this is a symbolic gesture, as I have never seen our Eucharistic Ministers or Deacon wash … Read More
QUAERITUR: Pontifical Mass in the Novus Ordo?
From a reader: This may be a stupid question, but in the Novus Ordo, if a bishop of the diocese celebrates Mass, would it technically be defined as a “pontifical Mass” since he would be the pontiff? Not a dumb-question at … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged cathedra, faldstool, Novus Ordo, Ordinary Form, Pontifex, pontiff, Pontifical Mass, pontificalia, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, throne, Usus Recentior
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