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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Big Business Is WATCHING!
Two stories. Both alarming. First, apparently the group which secreted cameras and caught out Big Business Abortion (aka Planned Parenthood) has stung Twitter. HERE HIDDEN CAMERA: HUNDREDS of Twitter employees paid to view, mine your PERSONAL, PRIVATE posts NB: Not … Read More
ASK FATHER: If I confess to watching porn, must I say it was homosexual porn?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, recently the catechist at our parish said that, when making our confessions, we ought to mention anything that might aggravate or mitigate the gravity of our sins, so that the confessor can get a clearer … Read More
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Tagged confession, Courage, custody of the eyes, homosexuality, porn, pornography, sacrament of penance
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Wherein @MassimoFaggioli tosses another nastygram at the “rigorist” straw man
Massimo “Beans” Faggioli … what a puzzle. He seems to be bright, but he constantly tweets dopey things. The diocese in Albano, Italy is setting up a shelter for separated or divorced fathers who, having to pay monthly livelihood to … Read More
ACTON INSTITUTE is accepting applications for the $15K 2018 Novak Award
Here is a public service announcement. I received this from ACTON INSTITUTE: Now Accepting Applications for the 2018 Novak Award There is a little over two months left to apply for the Acton Institute’s esteemed Novak Award. The deadline to apply … Read More
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Tagged Acton Institute, Michael Novak
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2018 #MarchForLife – Annual TLM – “Nellie Gray Mass”
If you are going to be in the Washington DC area at the time of the March for Life, remember that there is an annual TLM at Old St. Mary’s. Saint Mary Mother of God Catholic Church Washington, DC Friday … Read More
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Today in the traditional Roman calendar is the Feast of the Holy Family. I think in most places today where the Novus Ordo is celebrated, you are probably observing Epiphany. It shouldn’t be Epiphany, which ought to be 6 January, … Read More
Fr. Murray on the Buenos Aires Bishops and the Pope’s affirming Letter
My good friend Fr. Gerald Murray has a helpful piece today at The Catholic Thing about the ongoing Amoris laetitia controversy. He offers some clarity about the interpretation by the bishops of Buenos Aires of the ambiguous content of Chapter 8. Subsequently … Read More
JUST TOO COOL: TLM missal in Braille
From the Catholic Herald: Extraordinary Form missal to be produced in Braille for the first time An Order of Mass for the older Latin form of the liturgy is to be produced in Braille in what is believed to be the first of … Read More
BLOCKED by the New catholic Red Guards. How about you?
In the last couple of days I’ve discovered that I’ve been blocked on Twitter by Fr. Thomas Rosica (@FatherRosica) and by Massimo “Beans” Faggioli (@massimofaggioli). I am not sure why I clicked on a tweet reference to Rosica, since I … Read More
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Tagged Fr. Thomas Rosica, Massimo Faggioli, New catholic Red Guards, Twitter
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Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
