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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Minnesota: In legal memo lawyer writes about “dirty Catholics”, “bigoted Catholic beasts”
From the Catholic League: ANTI-CATHOLIC LAWYER MERITS SANCTIONS Catholic League president Bill Donohue explains why the Catholic League is filing a formal complaint in Minnesota and Wisconsin against attorney Rebekah Nett (she is licensed in both states): On November 25, … Read More
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John L. Allen on a case in Ireland: a priest, falsely accused, but the press doesn’t make corrections
While I have posted some items about dreadful pieces in the Fishwrap, to be fair there is a good piece by my friend the nearly-ubiquitous John L Allen, Jr. about the persecution of a priest falsely accused of abuse of … Read More
Fathers… people will go to confession if you preach about it and then sit in the box!
From a reader: I finally went to confession after a long time away, and, today, I made the total consecration to Jesus through Mary. I am very happy and very grateful to you for all your posts about confession throughout … Read More
QUAERITUR: When priests and Catholics just don’t care enough to get it right.
From a reader: I am wondering what the difference of changing “one in being with the Father” to “consubstantial” is in the Creed? Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for being in line with the original Latin and most precise translation. However, … Read More
Bishops of Minnesota will be attacked in the press, betrayed by their erstwhile allies
You have seen the feeble attempt of some defenders of homosexual acts to equate the efforts of those who want unnatural “unions” to be recognize in law as if they were marriages with the civil rights racial efforts of the … Read More
Benedict XVI: “The only danger the Church can and should fear is the sin of her members”
Persecutors can kill our bodies. Only we can kill our own souls, extinguish the life of grace, separately ourselves for eternity from God. I saw this in the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald: The Church should fear the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Mixing Latin and English in the Ordinary Form
From a reader: Last Sunday I attended a Mass where the priest used one Latin phrase during an English-language Novus Ordo: he sang “Mysterium Fidei” after the Consecration. Is this permitted? Would that he had used more! Latin is the … Read More
QUAERITUR: With what level of voice should priests say those quiet prayers?
From a priest: A thought: In the rubrics of the Missal, would you agree that a change in a word signifies a change in action? Looking at the prayers that the priest says that are not directed to the congregation, … Read More
