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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
QUAERITUR: Lack of support shown to a convert.
From a reader: I joined the Church at this year’s Easter Vigil and am so glad to be Catholic. My family and most of my friends are very supportive, but there are a couple who are so derisive of my … Read More
Committed to Catholic teaching or “aspects” of Catholic teaching?
Pat Archbold has a hard hitting piece at his place about the President of Notre-Dame University, which as you remember gave the most aggressively pro-abortion President we have ever seen an honorary law degree. Here is the first part. I … Read More
Canadian teens stand up to heresy in their Catholic High School
The other day we learned from Archbishop Hon, the Chinese-born Secretary of Propaganda Fide, that an illicit episcopal consecration was averted, probably because the people stood against it. Here is another example of resistance “from below” properly offered in the … Read More
Hello Detroit! ACC UNDERWAY!
See who’s speaking! http://americancatholiccouncil.org/files/2009/05/ACC_convention_brochure_3-2011.pdf UPDATE: A priest friend just asked if the was a special cargo plane for the big puppets. UPDATE: Do the airlines charge extra for all the extra baggage the speakers are hauling around? UPDATE: Here’s Joan … Read More
DETROIT: 11 June – CALL TO HOLINESS CONFERENCE!
On Saturday, 11 June the annual Call To Holiness conference will he held in Livonia, MI near Detroit. Speakers include: Jeff Cavins Fr. Clement Machado, SOLT Paul Rondeau Raymond de Souza Johnnette Benkovic Fr. Edmund McCaffrey, OblSD Al Kresta Archbp. … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Call To Holiness, Detroit
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Of Richard McBrien and the persecution of the Catholic Church in China
The gentlemanly Sando Magister has a must-read piece today at his site Chiesa called: Bishops Or Mandarins? The Dilemma of the Chinese Church. Here is the introductory section of Magister’s piece, just to give you some context. Then I will … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Archbp. Hon, China, NCFishwrap, Richard McBrien
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Archbp. Nienstedt and the defense of true marriage
In this week’s number of The Catholic Spirit, the newspaper and site of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, His Excellency Most Rev. John Nienstedt has a column about the Minnesota Marriage Amendment, that is, a defense of real … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Archbp. Nienstedt, Archd. St. Paul and Minneapolis, Defense of Marriage, marriage, Minnesota Marriage Amendment, same-sex unions
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PRAYERCAzT/PODCAzT: Pentecost – the whole nine yards – WDTPRS POLL
I inflict my singing on you for most of this project. There is also a POLL. This is also PODCAzT 120. Quite a while back I started a PRAYERCAzT series, wherein I read and/or sang the prayers and readings for … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Canticum Clericorum Romanum, Epistle tone, Extraordinary Form, Gospel tone, liber usualis, Missa Cantata, podcast, preface, Solemn Mass, St. John Cantius, TLM, tonus ferialis, tonus festivus, tonus solemnior, tonus solemnis
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D. Toowoomba: the power of prayer and adoration of the Bl. Sacrament
From CNA about the troubled Diocese of Toowoomba, whence Bp. William Morris was removed for his heterodoxy ideas and less than optimal governance. A liberal tumult has been raised since and Bp. Morris has become a cause célèbre. In Toowoomba, … Read More
Card. Canizares with blunt speech and warnings in Spain
When is the last time you heard this sort of language from a Cardinal? From CNA: Moral conscience needed to overcome economic crisis, states Spanish cardinal Madrid, Spain, Jun 6, 2011 / 02:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Antonio Canizares has … Read More
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