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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Lent begins in one week! Have you made your plan.
Updated: Lent begins in a week, 22 February this year. It is time to make your plans for Lent. You should start thinking about one or more mortifications (and consider something other than chocolate) as well as some corporal and/or spiritual … Read More
Sr. Keehan backtracks?
Sr. Keehan! GIVE BACK THAT PEN! It seems that Sr. Keehan’s Catholic Health Association, which in abandoning unity with the bishops gave cover to catholic dems so they could vote for Obamacare and get us now into the mess that … Read More
G. Weigel gets it about the Magisterium of Nuns and
On the site of National Review George Weigel has a piece about the bishops and Pres. Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church and the 1st Amendment rights of all Americans. Among other things he wrote: […] In his appearance on … Read More
“In order to avoid conflicts, they let the poison spread.”
“[I]t is true that the Church may never simply align itself with the “Zeitgeist” [spirit of the times]. The Church must address the vices and perils of the time; she must appeal to the consciences of the powerful and of … Read More
Pres. Obama’s war on religious principles
Did you see what the Food and Drug Administration did to an Amish farmer? The Washington Times reported, and I saw it again tonight on the news: The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Amish, FDA, HHS, milk
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Feedback from a reader about “Laundering Liturgical Linens”
From a reader: Thank you for recommending the little book “Laundering Liturgical Linens“. It has been a great help to me as a new sacristan with almost no training. This past Sunday I asked our priest if he would like … Read More
Washington State unnatural “marriage” bill will force churches to accommodate ceremonies or face penalties
In finem citius? From LifeSite: Washington governor signs gay ‘marriage’ bill February 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State has signed into law a gay “marriage” bill that will force church-owned facilities to accommodate homosexual ceremonies. Gregoire, … Read More
CNS: Villanova to Host Radical Militant Gay Rights Performer (and Member of an Anti-Catholic Group)
This is from the Cardinal Newman Society: Villanova to Host Radical Militant Gay Rights Performer (and Member of an Anti-Catholic Group) Villanova University, a Roman Catholic Augustinian University outside Philadelphia, has invited a militant gay rights performance artist to be … Read More
Faithful, sound orders and religious institutes for WOMEN?
Since it’s LOVE DAY, let’s get real. I have been asked this before, and I think we have covered it before, but… repetita iuvant. Really good, sound, faith, orders or religious institutes for women in the USA? England? Ireland? Canada? … Read More
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