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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Card. Burke’s smashing @Buckfast_Abbey talk on Message of Fatima
There is a video of the talk, but the audio is really bad. So, I extracted the audio from the video and cleaned it up. Wanna hear it? It’s classic Burke and hard hitting. There is a LifeSite story about … Read More
25th Anniversary of the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. St. John Paul II approved the provisional text in June 1992 and it was promulgated on 11 October 1992, which is also the anniversary of the … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Catechism of the Catholic Church, CCC, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia
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14 Comments
PODCAzT 157: Pius XII – Ingruentium malorum – On reciting the Rosary
National Catholic Register on 1 Oct 2017 had a terrific article which brought to my attention again an 1951 Encyclical of Pius XII 1951, Ingruentium malorum, on the recitation of the Rosary. The article by Joseph Pronechen is rightly called prophetic. As … Read More
ASK FATHER: Considering moving to a Ukrainian Catholic Parish
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I attend a NO parish and am considering moving to a Ukrainian Catholic Parish for a variety of reasons but mainly because I am attracted to the Divine Liturgy and the beautiful traditions they have held … Read More
REASON #1883 for Summorum Pontificum!
We need a fuller, wider more dedicated implementation of Benedict XVI’s great gift to the Church, Summorum Pontificum. Why? Via CARA on Twitter: US Catholics haven’t become more religiously active with age. Stay with habits of young adulthood. Other Christians … Read More
The young DO embrace Tradition: a new VIDEO from Los Angeles
There are those who right now are running down the Traditional Roman Rite, the intentions of Pope Benedict, and, worst of all, the people who desire them. These poor negative complainers are stuck in their own ideology. They seem genuinely afraid of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Archd. Los Angeles, FSSP
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12 Comments
7 Oct – Polish bishops urge 1 Million Poles to pray Rosary at border in honor of historic defeat of Islam
The other day in Madrid, I got to see the Juan of Austria’s personal pendant which flew on his ship at the Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571. That victory, under the aegis of the Mother of God, was a … Read More
Moving feedback from a “gay” reader
This is the kind of note that make all the flak worthwhile: A thousand times, thank you for your blog. I’m a Catholic in no small part because of this blog. When I first entered the Church ten years ago, I fell … Read More
A young writer tries to figure out Pope Francis’ harsh words for “traditionalists”
A couple of days ago Amerika Magazine, a Jesuit organ, there was a rather thoughtful piece by a young man about his experience of the Vetus Ordo, the Extraordinary Form, the “Tridentine” form of Mass in the Roman Rite. Here is … Read More
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