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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
That smudge.
Ash Wednesday is around the corner. In the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, the lovely and persistent feature-writer Anna Arco has an article with comments about that ash-smudge. Don’t rub off your ashes, urges bishop By Anna Arco … Read More
Lent begins in one week!
For Latin Church Catholics the beginning of Lent comes in one week with Ash Wednesday. Are you ready? Do you have a plan for your Lent? Be prudent as you plan and don’t bite off too much at the beginning. … Read More
Dr. Peters: indefatigable vivsectionist – CONTINUED and UPDATED
ORIGINAL: Published on: Feb 26, 2011 Dr. Ed Peters, canonist, may be able to add “indefatigable vivsectionist” to his CV if he keeps up this pace. A few days ago, he exposed problems in a statement from the Diocese of … Read More
Chicago Pro-Life Flash Mob!
From a reader: CHICAGO – A pro-abortion “Walk for Choice” rally was held in downtown Chicago’s Daley Plaza on Saturday, February 26, 2011. Participants of the “Walk for Choice” were protesting HR Bill 3 which limits taxpayer funding for Planned … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Emanations from Penumbras, Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Chicago, flash mob, HR Bill 3, pro-life
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29 Comments
Concerning ashes.
Today is Sexagesimus Sunday. Ash Wednesday is but a week and a half away. “Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.” I am sure you are making your plans for your Lenten practices. No, really… … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, LENT, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Ash Wednesday, ashes, LENT, palms. Palm Sunday
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11 Comments
Creepy homosexual demonstration at Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral
Really creepy people. It is very creepy to disrupt legitimate worship services. They are cowards, too. You can bet they wouldn’t do this at a mosque. And to think that Rahm Emanuel will soon be mayor there. From LifeSite News: … Read More
A clarification about my statements concerning SSPX bishops
Whenever I post something about the SSPX, and I mention that the priests and bishops of that Fraternity are suspended, I get loads of email protesting that they aren’t. They are. Sorry. That said, I sincerely hope and pray that … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged bishops, Christus Dominus, SSPX
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100 Comments
“a te numquam separari permittas”
I just completed an article for The Wanderer. In this week’s offering I delved into the first of the priest’s possible preparatory prayers before Holy Communion during Mass. In this preparatory prayer we find the phrase “a te numquam separari … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged Dhuoda, hell, Holy Communion, St. Alphonsus Liguori, Thomas a Kempis
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10 Comments
An act of defiance by a priest
From the Minneapolis STrib comes this. The featured cleric, Fr. Michael Tegeder, pastor of St. Edward’s in Bloomington, MN, has been a source of dissent in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis for years. We have seen him here … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Archbp. Nienstedt, Archd. St. Paul and Minneapolis, Fr. Tegeder, lay preaching, Redemptionis Sacramentum
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