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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Reason #645795 for Summorum Pontificum
The nearly ubiquitous John L. Allen Jr., columnist for the ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. My emphases and comments. The Vatican’s Marriage Quandary Fewer Americans get annulments. Is it because fewer are getting … Read More
Unreconstructed Ossified Manualists unite!
I was recently chatting with a priest friend and the issue of “manual theology” came up. For a long time much of the theological formation of priests came from “manuals” for dogmatic theology and moral theology. Among the famous manual … Read More
Lent is around the corner – start planning
This upcoming Sunday is already Septuagesima. Did you realize that Lent begins on 9 March? Do you have a plan for your Lent? Here is a suggestion for part of your Lenten preparation. The second volume of the Holy Father’s … Read More
Catholic Church in Ireland is collapsing?
Our Lord promised that Hell would not prevail against the Church He founded. He didn’t promise the Church would prevail in Ireland. The Holy Father wrote in his letter to Catholics in Ireland that they should do penance in more … Read More
PODCAzT 116: Toward a true ecumenism
NB: iTunes users… I found that there was a second enclosure buried in the post which screwed up the feed. Let me know if you are getting this on iTunes. Ecumenical dialogue has been much on my mind these days. … Read More
Archbp. Nienstedt’s letter to editor about legislation, taxes and abortion
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune on7 February printed an editorial calling for no new limits on abortion rights. My emphases and comments with editing. Reject new limits on abortion rights If ending a pregnancy is legal, income should not be a barrier. … Read More
Philadelphia
It’s time for more purification. Are you ready, Philadelphia? It is time for us all to get tough and bear this Cross in the face of the mysterium iniquitatis. Get down on our knees and pray and do penance. The … Read More
QUAERITUR: Why is the Protestant “For the kingdom, the power, the glory…” in our Catholic Mass?
A reader asked: One of the things I like about the TLM [Traditional Latin Mass] is that we don’t have to pray like the Protestants Our Father. Isn’t the fact that Bugnini and crowd put “For the kingdom, the power, … Read More
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Why we needed Summorum Pontificum: Reason #746589
A reader alerted me to this. I am not making this up. From Inquirer.net of Luzon in the Philippines: Nuns dance to get recruits in Baguio City By Elmer Kristian Dauigoy Inquirer Northern Luzon BAGUIO CITY—Never too old for “Toyang.” … Read More
A Papal Nuncius with sharp words about bishops who resist Summorum Pontificum.
Yesterday we saw with the help of Rorate and Messa in Latino that an Italian bishop had some things to say about other bishops who resist Pope Benedict’s visions and provisions. Today, our friends at NLM clue us in about … Read More
ProfessorCover on Germans… “for many” in the Consecration formula, rather than “for all”: ““The problem is… as I see it… the approval of translation of sacramental forms is reserved to the Roman Pontiff…”
