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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
QUAERITUR: Tattoos
From a reader: Dear Father – can you please advise if it is ok to have a tattoo. My son who is 18 would like to have a tattoo in latin, via, veritas et vita. I have searched the web, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged tattoos
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122 Comments
QUAERITUR: Priest follows new translation but continues to say “for all” rather than “for many”
From a reader: My pastor uses the new translation of the Mass with the exception of the words “for many” at the consecration. He continues to use the words “for all.” I find that this bothers me. I would appreciate your opinion on … Read More
Fishwrap’s Sr. Maureen Fiedler uses her ruler on those pesky Wisconsin Bishops!
Readers want me to fisk one of our favorite contributors to the National Catholic Fishwrap, the perennial Sr. Maureen Fiedler. Alas, I two tags for Sister, the other is here. This week Sister has knuckle-slapped the Bishops of Wisconsin … Read More
The Bold And The Beautiful
I have been mulling over the recent support given by the Catholic Theological Society of America to Sr. Margaret Farley. Let’s be clear about a large slice of the group. There is in the CTSA a serious percentage of self-legitimating … Read More
Sr. Farley SPEAKS or “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”
From NCFishwrap: Vatican-criticized nun addresses fellow theologians Jun. 10, 2012 By Joshua J. McElwee ST. LOUIS — Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley addressed for the first time publicly Friday evening the Vatican’s harsh criticism of one of her books, saying it … Read More
Your Corpus Christi Processions Reports
Did you participate in any processions? Any newly revived processions? Give us a report of what you saw and heard.
In the face of this sort of revolt, what does one do?
I am torn between, on the one hand, pity for these men whose priesthood and ministry was tainted from the onset by bad formation and poor leadership and, on the other, contempt for them as arrogant quislings. From Vatican Insider: … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Four Last Things, Goat Rodeos, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Archbp. Zollitsch, D. Freiburg, divorce, Germany, Holy Communion, marriage, remarriage
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Hysterical attacks on a bishop who did something entirely normal
I am passing this along as is: Bishop under fire for pictures Alain Castet, Bishop of Luçon, in the Vendée, was in Germany on May 12 for an event. The images of him there have now become known: the pictures that … Read More
A Saturday Thought
During our Latin Mass Conference this afternoon, soon-to-be Fr Hunwicke, said something very sensible in his excellent talk. Every time you go to confession, you make it easier for others to go. You make it easier for priest to hear … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged confession
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23 Comments
Benedict XVI’s Sermon for Corpus Christi: Jesus in our midst is the “beating Heart” of the home, city, country, territory
When I was in seminary, the faculty spoke with contempt of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and treated seminarians with such a devotion with suspicion and fear. One of the things we heard was “Jesus said ‘Take and eat’ not … Read More
