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Category Archives: The Drill
ASK FATHER: Validity of absolution and reception of Communion in the state of grace
In light of several missives I’ve received – probably because of news about a recent confusing document – I reiterate hereunder what the Church holds to be true about the Sacrament of Penance, or Reconciliation. From Ott’s Fundamentals of Catholic … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged contrition, sacrament of penance
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Old Mass – New Mass. A few comments and a video.
I saw again videos from Mass of Ages. They are very good and I recommend them. I’m puzzled by their choices of whom to speak with. But… hey. This is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen … Read More
MUST SEE VIDEO: Dcn. Keith Fournier (of Tyler) interviewed about Bp. Strickland the man, the bishop, the situation of Tyler
If you don’t know who (permanent) Deacon Keith Fournier is, you ought to. He had a distinguished lay career and then clerical ministry (of some 30 years). About five years ago, he and his wife uprooted and moved from the … Read More
Full marks plus an extra kudo to Jesuit Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ. for his comments on “Eucharistic Revival”
I give full marks plus an extra kudo to Jesuit Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ. His article at Catholic World Report is OUTSTANDING. How many times have I here urged GO TO CONFESSION! Have I not again and and begged priests … Read More
Card. Müller makes some terrific points about what a Synod (“walking togther”) is and must never be
At First Things there is a really helpful piece by Gerhard Card. Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and a present participant in “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity”. Card. Müller gives some background to … Read More
Synodality (“Walking Togetherity”) and “tesserae”
Looking at the Synod (“Walking Together: “W-T”) from as far as I can manage while being in Rome and as close as I need to be because I simply have to, the image that comes to mind is tied sack … Read More
When they say it is NOT about redistribution of power, it’s about redistribution of power.
LifeSite today looked at what the participants of “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” are discussing and it fits with what I have written before. The true content of the “W-T” is the process itself. The aim is to make “W-T” a … Read More
Apart from the process itself during “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” is something in particular being pushed?
The point of the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” is the process itself. The process is the content, the message. That does not mean that there are not sidelines, some of them dominant. One of them is the normalization of … Read More
EXPLICIT: Impose “synodality” (“walking togetherity”) and the other stuff will follow
This is from Catholic Vote. Everyone, I’ve been saying all along that whatever “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” might produce in terms of texts or recommendations for some papal document, none of that makes a difference. The real content is … Read More
In 2011 the World Council of Churches was pushing the demon Pachamama
I saw something interesting in an XTweet about the demon idol Pachamama and its being venerated in the Vatican Gardens and scandalously carried into St. Peter’s and an associated demon cult bowl being placed on the main altar. The X … Read More
Venerator Sti Lot on A Tale of Two Cardinals: unity in diversity v. unity in uniformity: “It is not clear from Ad Vaticanum what the relationship is between Niwa Limba’s article and Cardinal Rober Sarah’s interview…”
