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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Bp. Vasa: excommunication can be appropriate
More from the ever interesting Bishop of Baker, H.E. Most Rev. Robert Vasa. My emphases and comments: Excommunication is a declaration of acts that severs ties By Bishop Robert Vasa BEND — During the course of this past year there … Read More
ASIANEWS: Underground Bishop of Xiwanzi dies, security tightened for funeral
Lest we get too involved with our oh-so-difficult problems in our parishes or dioceses…. From AsiaNews: Underground Bishop of Xiwanzi dies, security tightened for funeralby Zhen Yuan Although the area is under heavy snow, thousands of faithful are expected for … Read More
Positive news about the talks between the SSPX and Holy See
The always interesting Rorate as well as the experts of liturgical eye-candy NLM, not to mention the Italian site messainlatino.it all get my biretta tip for this. I share it here to make it known to a wider group of … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Ecclesiae unitatem, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Alfonso de Galarreta, SSPX
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32 Comments
Pro-abortion Speaker Pelosi gives more public scandal
A reader alerted me to an interview in the execrable Newsweek with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), pro-abortion but self-named "Catholic". You might remember some of her scintillating theological explanations about how she justified promoting abortion. Here is a bit … Read More
In Belleville, Bp. Braxton takes a stand on kneeling (POLL ALERT)
On the site of a newspaper in SW Illinois, St. Louis, bnd.com there is an article about the Bishop of Belleville, Most Rev. Edward Braxton. It seems that in one of the parishes in the diocese of Belleville, people are … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Belleville, Bp. Braxton, kneelers, kneeling
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35 Comments
KABLAM! An unforeseen consequence of Anglicanorum coetibus
Well well…. Anglicanorum coetibus is a gift that keeps on giving. Anglicans are asked to respond to certain challenges in order to come into Catholic Communion. They must make choices about who they desire to be. To be Catholics, and … Read More
Women and veils for church revisited
From time to time I post something about women and chapel veils, head coverings, mantillas… call ’em what you like. Lively discussion inevitably results. I was alerted to this by a reader. It may be of some interest to female … Read More
Are we Catholics relevant in the world?
Italian vaticanista Paolo Rodari has a good piece (in Italian) on his site. It had been published in Il Foglio. This is about comments of the retired but not retiring former Vicar of Rome, His Eminence Camillo Card. Ruini. … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged Card. Ruini
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