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Category Archives: Francis
Terrific Benedictine Monks of Norcia! Yes, great things are also going on and YOU can participate.
As we navigate The Present Crisis, let us not forget that there are wonderful things happening, too, by the grace of God and by fervent elbow grease. Isn’t that how we are meant to carry out our vocations? Grace and … Read More
#ViganoTestimony 3.0! Powerful response to accusations, points to crisis of homosexuality #sodoclericalism
Huge. Archbp. Carlo Maria Viganò has issued a third Testimony. It is a neutron bomb. First, at CNA we read that the present “Sostituo”, the 2nd in command in the Secretariat of State for matter within the Church, Archbishop Edgar Peña … Read More
The future of the Church (hint – NOT #Synod2018)
The demographics of the Church are on the move, at least in these USA. We will, in the next few years, witness a dramatic drop in numbers of those who bother with the Church at all. Everything will have to … Read More
2nd Sunday of October: Votive Mass of the Good Thief in prisons, jails, etc.
As you may recall, 25 March is also the Feast of the Good Thief who, as Fulton Sheen said, “stole heaven”. However, in your copies of the traditional Missale Romanum, in the back in the section on Masses for Various … Read More
The Negative Power of Silence
Perhaps you have the same reaction that I have. One of the things that provokes in me the worst sort of anxiety is being told that something is up, but not being told what it is. For example, you are … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, Ugolino
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“The roll was called, and it sounded like the gates of hell opened up.”
From PJMedia comes this insightful comment on the Left: Kavanaugh Foes Fill Senate Gallery With Sounds of the Insane I’ll charm the air to give a sound, While you perform your antic round. – MacBeth I was in the Senate … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Self-absorbed Promethean Neopelagians, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged Brett Kavanaugh, SCOTUS
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#Synod2018 – Wherein Fr. Z rants
“For God so loved the world that He did not send a committee.” “If I ought to write the truth, I am of the mind that I ought to flee all meetings of bishops, because I have never seen any … Read More
Division, division and more satanic division
I have over the last weeks watched the Kavanaugh hearings. This morning I listened to speeches of Senators before the cloture vote. The cloture vote passed and the vote to confirm Kavanaugh’s nomination to SCOTUS will take place in some … Read More
Crisis: “The Pope as Supreme Being”
Run, don’t walk, to read James Kalb’s piece at Crisis entitled: “The Pope as Supreme Being”.
The Power of Silence? Card. Sarah declines role on #2018Synod committee
LifeSite: Cardinal Sarah declines election to key committee at Vatican Youth Synod [“walking together”] VATICAN CITY, October 4, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Robert Sarah was elected last evening as a member of the Information Commission responsible for disseminating news on … Read More
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