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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
ASK FATHER: Who is a member of the Church?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Who is a member of the Roman Catholic Church? Is baptism all that is required? What about people baptised into the RC Church who later in life do not believe in some of the teachings of … Read More
Ex Africa semper aliquid … antiqui!
What you failed to read at the National Sodomotic Reporter is that the presidents of Africa’s conferences of bishops met in Accra. Card. Sarah, one of my favorites, was there. They met in the open, by the way… not in … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Synod, The Drill
Tagged Africa, Card. Sarah, divorce and remarriage, Synod
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5 Steps of Persecution
Life Site picked up on something that my friend Msgr. Charles Pope posted on his blog. HERE You should see this. Here is a mere sample: It is rare that a respected segment of American life would become vilified and … Read More
Wisconsin Senate passes bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks.
I just watched the video stream of The Extraordinary Ordinary, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of Madison, offering the opening prayer of the Wisconsin Senate on a day when the Senate voted to ban abortion after 20 weeks. The prayer … Read More
ASK FATHER: I’d like to be EMHC for nursing homes but not during Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have a question that has been troubling me lately and I hope that you can answer my concern. There is a monthly roster that is posted at our parish to let the Extraordinary Ministers of … Read More
ASK FATHER: Confession before conversion
From a reader… I just read through your “ASK FATHER: Can non-Catholics go to confession?” post. For me, as a convert who was validly Baptized outside the Church, and because I had a horrific first Confession experience, it begs the question of when … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can I attend an invalid SSPX wedding?
From a reader… ok — so I get that according to cannon law, since sspx marriages are not “canonically approved’, they are not valid. My God- daughter, and my CLOSEST friend’s daughter is getting married in the fall by an sspx priest. She … Read More
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – COLLECT (2002MR)
In 1246, Robert of Thourotte, Bishop of Liège, Belgium, had instituted in his diocese the feast now known as Corpus Christi at the request of an Augustinian nun Juliana of Cornillon, who composed an office for it. In 1264, Pope … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged Corpus Christi
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ASK FATHER: Viewing of bodies in church in front of Blessed Sacrament
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I was wondering on how the practice of having viewings before a funeral Mass in Church began? It seems that this practice is becoming more and more common. It seems to me that church viewings are inappropriate because … Read More
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