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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
The Church in Germany is crashing and burning
Via EWTN. This is nothing but grim: German bishops release new figures: fewer churchgoers, parishes, and priests Figures released Friday by the German bishops’ conference draw a bleak picture of the ongoing decline of Catholicism in Germany. However, the head … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Germany
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90 Comments
ASK FATHER: Future spouse doesn’t want kids to attend Novus Ordo, but I do.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am engaged to a girl who was raised attending a SSPX chapel her entire life. We will be married by a diocesan priest in the traditional form. She is unsure whether she can receive communion … Read More
ASK FATHER: I have no one to ask to be godparent for my baby.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a baby due in a few weeks and it is, of course, my responsibility to baptize him promptly in the Catholic Church . I have attended the required class and paid the fee at my parish; … Read More
Rosary Crusade before 100th anniversary of apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima
From the SSPX website: Bishop Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X announced another Rosary Crusade as a spiritual preparation for the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima. [This is a serious anniversary.] … Read More
ASK FATHER: It seems like the Catholic Church is disappearing!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I the better part of 60 years old and have been concerned for a number of years that the Roman Catholic Church is literally disappearing. With the last article I read, I’m fairly certain it’s gone. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Be The Maquis, Cri de Coeur, Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged homosexuality, modernism, Modernism 2.0, Save The Liturgy Save The World
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33 Comments
PODCAzT 147: Fulton Sheen on Patriotism
At The Catholic Thing I saw excerpts of a piece by Fulton Sheen on Patriotism. As I have done in the past, I’ll read the whole thing for you. Recently, I read for you his essay on how we have … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The future and our choices, The Religion of Peace, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Communism, fascism, Fulton Sheen, Hillary Clinton, Nazism, patriotism, patriots, Pres. Obama, Sebastian Gorka
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Archbp. Carroll’s “Prayer for Government”
Fathers, you might want to have everyone pray this after Mass on 4 July and other major public holidays. This, and other prayers, are deeply needed today. The following prayer was composed by John Carroll, Archbishop of Baltimore, in 1791. … Read More
Luke Welborn on “Oaf For A Day!”: “Let’s compromise; re-open our TLM on condition my wife preaches”
