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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Catholic Herald notes
In the digital edition of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, I saw a great pieces. First, and I think this is only on the full, digital edition and not on the website, there is an article by … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, REVIEWS
Tagged Ban Ki Moon, chapels, homosexuality, LENT, Msgr. Wadsworth, The Catholic Herald, UN
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11 Comments
Liberal social engineering is destroying us
National Review has a mordant piece by Mark Steyn. There are good points here. He links the so-called “social issues” (and if they go wrong, everything else must necessarily go wrong) and the partisan political mud fight, and the rapidly … Read More
QUAERITUR: What to expect for first Extraordinary Form Mass?
UPDATE 18 Feb 17:58 GMT: I received this from the person whose question sparked this entry: I’m the guy who left a question about what to expect a few days back. Turns out, I did go to the Extraordinary Form … Read More
Sickening example of what is happening in the USA at the highest levels of government
I felt a bit physically sick as I read this whole thing. I give only a part of it, below. Part of what makes me sick is the manifest death of reason together with ethics. It seems that liberal politicians … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Four Last Things, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Cardinal Newman Society, CNS, HHS, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Rep. Elijah Cummings
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31 Comments
Card-To-Be Dolan addressed the College of Cardinals and Holy Father
From CNA comes a report of what Card-To-Be Dolan of New York said to the College of Cardinals about the New Evangelization. [Read the whole thing here.] My emphases. Vatican City, Feb 17, 2012 / 12:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In … Read More
Sec. Sebelius already barred from Holy Communion under can. 915
I want to remind everyone of something that The Canonical Defender wrote on his fine blog. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, a major proponent of the Obama administration’s push to mandate contraceptive coverage regardless of religious conviction, is already barred from holy Communion … Read More
All 180 diocesan US bishops have issued a statement about Pres. Obama’s attack.
The young papist, Peters Fils, has been tracking the response of the US Bishops to Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment and, specifically, on the Catholic Church. He has good news. All 180 diocesan bishops have issued a statement … Read More
USCCB: “Seis cosas más que todos debemos saber sobre el mandato del departamento de salud y servicios humanos (HHS)”
From the USCCB Blog, the Spanish language version of what they have previously posted in English. 1. La disposición que ha creado tanto alboroto no ha cambiado para nada las cosas, sino que todo ha terminado como estaba. […] 2. … Read More
Catholic League on Sebelius’s admission before a Senate committee
Yesterday I saw video clips of Kathleen Sebelius, catholic Dem who as Pres. Obama’s patsy is implementing his anti-Catholic agenda, testifying before a Senate committee. She admitted that the Administration did not to any significant degree consult with the US … Read More
QUAERITUR: School principal orders girl not to wear a chapel veil during Mass
From a reader: My daughter attending Catholic school at our novus parish determined after reading 1 Corinthians that she should be wearing a chapel veil at Mass. She began wearing it at Sunday Mass two months ago. However, when she … Read More
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