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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
QUAERITUR: Are Sundays part of Lent?
From a reader: Someone told me that it is wrong to do penance on Sundays during Lent. Are Sundays part of Lent? The “forty days” seem to be the week days only. Also, we hear that every Sunday is like … Read More
May they all be given special thorns until they come around.
This is what Huffington Post is offering on 24 February from the pen of the self-amused Larry Doyle. Larry Doyle is supposed to be a humor writer, a humorist. He writes for sophomoric TV shows. I don’t know if he … Read More
Reader Feedback: To priests who hear confessions.
From a reader: Reverend and dear Father: I would like to thank you and all priests. Because of your blog and other priests’ blogs on the net I have gone to a full and complete confession for the first time in … Read More
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Tagged confession, feedback, reconciliation, sacrament of penance
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QUAERITUR: Books for singing the Novus Ordo Mass in Latin
From a reader: I know that the Liber Usualis and the Graduale are the two main places to find the appropriate chants for any given feast day in the Extraordinary form of the Mass, but I was wondering where one … Read More
Saturday confession reminder
It is Saturday during Lent. Please think about going to confession. You might consider offering to give a ride to someone who is shut-in or without transportation.
Pres. Obama owes you and me an apology!
Mr. President, you owe me and millions of American Catholics an apology. You apologized to Islamic extremists and other Muslims abroad and in the United States for something done against the Islamic faith by mistake. What you are doing to … Read More
“America Magazine ran away, bravely ran away, away!”
I saw this by Matthew Archbold on the site of the Cardinal Newman Society about America Magazine‘s role in defending the Church against Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment: ARCHBOLD: America Mag Bails on the Fight for Religious Liberty Run … Read More
QUAERITUR: No Stations observed on Fridays of Lent because that’s against Vatican II?
From a reader: I am searching for a Church near me to pray the Stations of the Cross this Lent. A few do not have the Stations during Lent until a week before Holy Week. Another stated that while the … Read More
Dumb liberal idea #3464: Removing Holy Water during Lent
Some of you have been to church already this Lent. Some of you will go tonight for Stations of the Cross. All of you will go on Sunday. Each year we are seeing a lessening of liturgical stupidity, as those … Read More
