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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
QUAERITUR: Writing sins on a card and burning it instead of confession.
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! From a readerette: I went to church this wednesday to a Lent conference. The guest Father organized a “write your sins in a card, be absolved and burn your sins” ceremony. Is my understanding … Read More
Brick by brick in Madison: an Altar-ation! UPDATE
Remember the new, old altar in the chapel of the chancery of the Diocese of Madison? That altar has now been dedicated and used, by the local bishop His Excellency Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino. Some eye-candy. Pontifical Low Mass … Read More
QUAERITUR: Your SIGN SLOGANS for 23 March nationwide Religious Liberty Rallies
On Friday 23 March at 12 Noon there will be “Stand Up for Religious Liberty” rallies all over the USA. For rally locations click HERE. From a reader: I am planning on taking my children to the rally for religious … Read More
Brick by brick: Most seminarians would prefer the older, traditional rite
As you know, the plural of “anecdote” is “data”. And I have good “data” about the preferences of seminarians when it comes to the older or newer forms of the Roman Rite. Bishops and others in formation of seminarians should … Read More
“Cave-in Catholics”
Carl Olson at Catholic World Report has a good piece to which I direct your attention: The CWR Blog The Emptiness and Deceit of Cave-in “Catholicism” March 21, 2012 06:20 EST By Carl E. Olson “The Bishops speak for the Catholic … Read More
“Diocletian Hussein Obama”.
In another entry about Bp. Morlino’s sermon, a comparison is made between Cyrus and [insert powerful secularizing political figure here, e.g., Pres. Obama] with the point that no figure (e.g., Pres. Obama) can possibly win in the end when it … Read More
Bp. Morlino provides some reminders about why we “Rejoice”, in this 4th week of Lent.
Life got ya down? Irritated and depressed by the kulturkampf raging and the attacks of the Obama Administration on the freedom of all Americans? Laetare, Ierusalem! I have written before about His Excellency Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Four Last Things, Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Morlino, confession, Cyrus, Laetare, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, sacrament of penance, sermon
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Of SNAP, the Catholic League, Card. Dolan and fair treatment
I noticed on the blog of His Eminence Timothy Card. Dolan, who in his capacity as President of the USCCB has been called on to defend the rights of the Church in the midst of a deepening kulturkampf, a comment … Read More
Msgr. Bux to SSPX: “Come take part in this blessed future in which we can already foresee dawn, despite the persistent darkness. “
Monsignor Nicola Bux, a consultor to the CDF and to the Office of Pontifical Ceremonies, etc., (originator of what I call the Bux Protocol – which every priest and bishop should remember that people may invoke!) has written a letter to … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Ecclesiae unitatem, Four Last Things, Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged Benedict XVI, Bp. Felly, Bux Protocol, Dominus Iesus, Msgr. Nicola Bux, Pope of Christian Unity, schism, SSPX, St. Catherine of Siena, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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