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Category Archives: POPES
Another liberal writer turns on Pope Francis
The repulsively lefty Maureen Dowd has a piece in the Irish Times… it’s like a perfect storm, no?… in which she lays into Pope Francis. This is how the Liberal catholic Left will be talking about Francis before too long. … Read More
Summorum Pontificum. It won’t be stopped.
Here is some news to cheer you in these otherwise chaotic and troubling times. From HPR: Seven Years after “Summorum Pontificum”: Nearly 500 North American Churches Offer the Traditional Latin Mass For those Catholics who are seeking even more regular … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged 1962 Missal Romanum, diocesan priests, Missal of St. John XXIII, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
40 Comments
40 Comments
Pope Francis to UN delegation: “legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the State”
Today Pope Francis addressed a delegation of the UN – which I remind you is a principle agent for promoting abortion world-wide. Below please find the full text of Pope Francis’ address to the United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programmes … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Argentina, redistribution of wealth, UN, United Nations
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110 Comments
Are Catholics now too dazzled by the Pope? Can Popes be criticized?
Do you remember the scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited when Rex Mottram is being given his catechism lessons before he can marry Julia? The priest and Rex have this exchange: “Yesterday I asked [Mottram] whether Our Lord had more … Read More
Posted in Francis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Michael Brendon Dougherty, papacy
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56 Comments
What is Card. Baldissieri up to?
Edward Pentin, of the National Catholic Register, quoted an antipasto of an article in De Standaard (and HERE) about an interview with a Belgian publication, Tertio, given by Pope Francis’ head of the Synod of Bishops, Lorenzo Card. Balidissieri. Reportage … Read More
NEW BOOK: Joseph Ratzinger’s collected works on theology of liturgy!
UPDATE: PRE-ORDER ends soon. Release date 5 May! Ignatius Press has collected into one volume all of Joseph Ratzinger’s works on liturgy. It is available for PRE-ORDER at a reduced price. Hardcover for $26.38 rather than $34.95 (25% off). Click … Read More
Fishwrap piece reveals a dilemma for the ‘c’atholic Left
This is great! One of the perks of being on the road and having a semi-vacation from reading the interwebs and posting a lot is that I haven’t seen the National Schismatic Reporter very often. Today, however, something from Fishwrappy … Read More
APX on Detroit’s Archbishop attends mosque opening, says: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness”: “Meanwhile I’m watching a video on YouTube posted two days ago by a Detroit news station about the Archdiocese’s restructuring…”
