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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Support Bishop Finn: proposal for prayers, penance against the attacks of Hell.
Again, in regard to the dust up in the Diocese of Kansas City -St. Joseph, over at SERVIAM there is a very good proposal, couched in the no-nonsense language we like around here at WDTPRS. In Support of Bishop Finn … Read More
Card. Pell: “Young people don’t see the Catholic Church as being inevitably in decline”
Remember the Tumult in Toowoomba? Bp. Morris, removed from governance of the diocese after years … strange stuff? From CNA: Cardinal Pell says Bishop Morris sacking ‘a tragedy’ but also ‘a useful clarification’ By David Kerr Sydney, Australia, May 28, … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Morris, Card. Pell, D. Toowoomba
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Benedict XVI entrusts Italy to the Blessed Virgin. Fr. Z rants
You may have seen this yesterday. POPE ENTRUSTS ITALY TO VIRGIN’S PROTECTION VATICAN CITY, 27 MAY 2011 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Benedict XVI presided over the praying of the Rosary together with the … Read More
True ecumenical gesture: Catholics, Orthodox together give Pope new Papal Tiara – WDTPRS POLL
UPDATE 26 May 0305 GMT: From a reader: Seeing today’s post on the new tiara made me remember that there is a list in the papal Caeremoniale Romanum of the days, other than the Pope’s coronation, when the tiara is … Read More
Methodist “ordination” in Liverpool’s Catholic Cathedral cancelled
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, comes this news. Archbishop calls off Methodist ordinations By David V Barrett on Wednesday, 25 May 2011 The controversial proposed ordination of Methodist ministers in Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral in July has … Read More
Weigel about the huge ( ____ ) in the John Jay Report.
Did you see the analysis by George Weigel about the John Jay Study? I am just getting to it. Weigel makes good points for National Review Online. My emphases and comments. May 19, 2011 4:00 A.M. Priests, Abuse, and the … Read More
Bishops of England and Wales on the New Corrected Translation
The bishops of England and Wales are asking that a Pastoral Letter about the new, corrected translation of the Roman Missal be read on Sunday 29 May. I noticed it on the blog Caritas in Veritate of my friend Fr. … Read More
QUAERITUR: Altar girls dressed as clerics. What to say?
From a reader: What would be a proper response to a priest who not only allows his female altar servers to wear the black cassock and white surplice, but also tells the parishioners that it is perfectly acceptable to do … Read More
QUAERITUR: A convert hungry to learn more
From a reader: Now that I have been a Catholic for one year, I am finding that I am still thirsting for info on Catholic doctrine. I read all I can but at almost 60 I am finding it overwhelming. … Read More
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