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Category Archives: The Coming Storm
What’s the solution?
We need to Vatican II harder! If only we had even more catechesis about Vatican II! And MORE synodality and, now, “pastorality”! The advocates claim Vatican II hasn't had its springtime effect yet because it hasn't been properly implemented just … Read More
Sunday Sermon Notes… ON STEROIDS. Wherein Fr. Z posts a must listen sermon from his old friend Fr. A
In the swampy Hell Hole that was St. Paul Seminary in the 1980s Fr. Z and Fr. Robert Altier were classified as the Alpha and Omega. He endured persecution … to his present point, not a little from cowardly bishops. … Read More
“They can always hurt you more.”
I was looking around on the blog for things I had written about Doctor of the Church St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Today is his feast. I found something I wrote in 2022 about the FACT that… “They can always hurt … Read More
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This has me concerned because personnel is policy.
This has me concerned. Now we read this. SCANDAL: Pope Leo appoints pro-female ordination and pro-LGBT consultors to the Vatican’s religious life dicastery. Appointees include Sister Patricia Murray, who has pushed women’s priesthood and addressed the “pain” and “woundedness” of … Read More
Bp. Schneider: “Danger!”
At LifeSite Bp. Scheider has commented. Bp..Scheider (and I) were at the Augustinianum in Rome, the Patristic Institute. He knows something about the ancient Church (and so do I). Bishop Schneider: ‘Nothing more dangerous for religion’ than liturgical ‘interference’ The … Read More
A Tale of Two Cardinals: unity in diversity v. unity in uniformity
On 2 August Ad Vaticanum published the remarks of Card. Sarah about the Traditional Latin Liturgy of the Roman, Latin Church. Read it there, but here’s a summary of the piece with my added emphases and comments (aka “zisking”). Essentially, … Read More
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