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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
QUAERITUR: Posture when tabernacle door is opened.
From a reader: I have searched everywhere and I cannot find norms for what are the appropriate postures of the faithful when the tabernacle door is opened in Church, outside of Mass, for a communion call, etc… in a Church. On one hand … Read More
A note to confessors about confessions and keeping your voices QUIET
I have had some encouraging email lately about people returning to the Sacrament of Penance after a long period. This sort of news makes continuing this blog worth the labor. Also, some people send concerns about the way the sacrament … Read More
Card. Piacenza to seminarians:”Your will probably be the first generation that will correctly interpret the Second Vatican Council”
On 4 October the Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, His Eminence Mauro Card. Piacenza (I have liked this guy for a long time) gave a talk to seminarians in Los Angeles. The whole text is on the site of … Read More
“Your continuous plugs for going to confession finally wore me down.”
From a reader: I read your blog everyday, sometimes twice (!), and your continuous plugs for going to confession finally wore me down. I went to confession for the first time in four years several weeks ago, and I returned … Read More
MN Catholic Conference: Catholic leaders will not be silenced (STrib editorial)
I was alerted to this on the site of the Minneapolis STrib. This is from the Minnesota Catholic Conference and it is worth your attention: Catholic leaders will not be silenced Article by: JASON ADKINS Updated: October 4, 2011 – … Read More
7 October: prayers as SSPX leadership considers what the Holy See has offered
Several people who receive email from the SSPX have received this message and have in turn forwarded it to me. I share it with you. “Dear Brothers, On October 7, feast of our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, victorious … Read More
An October observation: “If you get lost…”
October is a month dedicated in a special way to attention to one of our greatest Catholic devotions which is one of our greatest spiritual tools, the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On that note, in a … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Card. Amato, October, rosary
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Gralloching a priest at a wedding reception
From Creative Minority Report with my emphases and comments: A Priest Lost In Translation by Pat Archbold Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:36 PM Comments What could possibly make a priest so angry? I went to a wedding in New Jersey … Read More
How are the Germans and Italians preparing new, corrected translations.
Over at Chiesa, the gentlemanly Sandro Magister has posted about German and Italian bishops and the issue of new, corrected translation of the Missale Romanum. However, the piece is not by Magister. It is anonymous… signed “***”, which I think … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged AAS 66 (1974) 98-99, PRO MULTIS, Prot. n. 467/05/L
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St. Francis on priests
From The Testament of St. Francis: “…the Lord gave me, and gives me still, such faith in priests who live according to the rite of the holy Roman Church because of their orders that, were they to persecute me, I … Read More
