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Category Archives: POPES
Benedict XVI says he never told anyone the publication of the Third Secret of Fatima was incomplete
There has been a bit of a dust up in the last days about the Third Secret of Fatima. Was the whole of the Third Secret truly released? Some say that it wasn’t. One blog recently posted some claims about … Read More
Reason #74 for Summorum Pontificum
This was sent by a priest friend. “OUCH!” doesn’t quite capture my reaction. Let me preface your viewing by saying that the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite is not susceptible to this sort of madness. BTW… the real … Read More
“demonic gender ideology”
Another note in the wake of the wonderful National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. During his speech, Card. Sarah referred to “demonic ‘gender ideology’“. I think we should all start using this description whenever the topic comes up. From the LifeSite report … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes
Tagged demonic gender ideology, gender theory
13 Comments
13 Comments
Wherein Fr. Z rants
Over and over, wrong and wrong again; with the Church not speaking to the world from her wisdom, but the world teaching the Church a lesson in its foolishness, and the Church going along, like the puny kid in the … Read More
I am pretty tired of this B as in B, S as in S.
A few inflammatory points by way of introduction. First, there are those who say that many of the problems in the Church today can be traced back to the influence of a kind of “jansenism” impressed during formation in seminaries way back … Read More
Card. Müller’s remarks on ‘Amoris laetitia’ – some analysis
We must deal soberly with the ramifications of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia. Despite some of its advantages, the document has problems. A friend sent an email with some interesting analysis, which I am reworking and posting hereunder. Sandro Magister … Read More
Posted in Francis, One Man & One Woman, The Drill
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Card. Müller, Footnote 351
16 Comments
16 Comments
It’s time to scare the hell out of kids – POLL
Here’s an idea… require all students at Catholic schools to attend a course taught by an exorcist. In Spain…. Students at Spanish college forced to take exorcism class A publically funded college [!] in Spain has told students that it is … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Four Last Things, Hard-Identity Catholicism, New Evangelization, POLLS
Tagged exorcism
37 Comments
37 Comments
For Francis, the Church’s doctrine is subordinated to the primary value of mercy
If you, like I do, suffer from Amoris defetiscenia, you might be clicking past pieces you see about the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation. I confess that I have to fight the temptation to tune out and just ignore the document and its coverage. Alas, … Read More
Posted in Francis, Synod, The Drill
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, mercy, Monica Migliorino Miller, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation
23 Comments
23 Comments
“All members of the Church… have the duty to ask for an authentic interpretation.”
At the Italian site Corrispondenza romana we find a longish reaction to Amoris laetitia from His Excellency Most Reverend Athanasius Schneider. The text is in Italian, but eventually it will be translated in full (but not by me and not today). Here … Read More
The Hermeneutic of Ambiguity
From a comment under an entry here… When enumerating the various hermeneutics for reading documents: the hermeneutic of continuity or the hermeneutic of rupture, they, apparently, forgot to include the hermeneutics of ambiguity. A priest friend sent this. UPDATE: … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: Priest says the consecration of the chalice over the host: “Darby: 1) Yes 2) No”
