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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Card. Kasper on the talks between the SSPX and the Holy See
Apparently our Catholic identity is involved. This is from Reuters with my emphases and comments: Vatican talks with splinter group difficult By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters) – Vatican talks with a controversial splinter group have been difficult and … Read More
A woman religious, making sense
On National Review Online Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews a religious sister who has her head screwed on in the right direction. Sister Prudence Allen, RSM clearly is on the right side of things. It is her model of woman religious … Read More
QUAERITUR: the obligation of priests to dress as priests in public
From a reader: In my former parish, the pastor wears his collar only during "business hours" (he gave a class in his jeans) and very rarely off parish grounds. I suggested that wearing his clerics around the town (we live … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged black suit, cassock, clerical attire, Roman collar
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76 Comments
Archbp. Nienstedt (Archd. St. Paul & Minneapolis) defends marriage
A few days ago the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, H.e. Most Rev. John Nienstedt, had an op-ed piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune in support of a defense of marriage amendment to the Minnesota Constitution. You can find … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged Archbp. Nienstedt, marriage, Minnesota
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29 Comments
Good shepherds do not flee from the wolves.
Five years ago Pope Benedict sat down to preach at the first solemn "inaugural" Mass of his pontificate. Inter alia he said: One of the basic characteristics of a shepherd must be to love the people entrusted to him, even … Read More
Finding a fellow traveller… no coincidence! Fr. Nichols on secularism
I found a great quote toward the end of Fr. Aidan Nichols new Criticising the Critics, which I wrote about here. This would be a good book to own and read carefully. Order from Amazon UK click HERE. "Secularization is … Read More
The UK’s Foreign Office and John 15:18
A couple days I noticed a story in the Daily Telegraph about the memos circulating in the UK’s Foreign Office about the Pope’s upcoming visit. Here is a taste. Ministers apologise for insult to Pope The Government has apologised to … Read More
Bp. Slattery’s Sermon in Washington DC – unforgettable
Here is the audio of Bp. Edward Slattery’s marvelous sermon at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Amazing. Bp. Slattery, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, stepped up and made himself available to be celebrant for the Pontifical Mass in the older, traditional … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Classic Posts, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, Sermons, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Slattery, Oklahoma, Tulsa
48 Comments
48 Comments
Should seminarians still keep their heads down about being, say, Catholic? Still?
In my US seminary days, we had to hide going certain places, such as parishes where the priests believed in One God, Creator of heaven and earth, etc. One of my classmates was thrown out because he had a statue … Read More
Internal forum/confession and reporting crimes to the state
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, parish priest in Brighton at St. Mary Magdalen has a very good entry on his blog. To a degree it represents also some of my own reflections in the last few days. Let’s have a … Read More
Venerator Sti Lot on Insult to the Mother of God in Spain (video). But remember! The TLM is the problem!: “So, what have the Diocesan Bishop, Arturo Pablo Ros Murgadas, and his Archbishop, Jesús Sanz Montes, said about this?”
