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Category Archives: The Drill
US 20 year high for vocations to priesthood
There is a video interview on Wall Street Journal about a new book which explains that vocations to the priesthood are at a 20 year high. The interviewer is surprised! She wanted to know if the Church be being more … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged priesthood, Priests, seminarians, vocations
22 Comments
22 Comments
Bp. Tobin on Nelson Mandela’s “shameful promotion of abortion”
This is from NBC10 in Providence: Tobin: Mandela’s support for abortion ‘shameful’ PROVIDENCE – The Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence weighed in on Nelson Mandela’s death by calling his support for abortion “shameful.” Bishop Thomas Tobin, in a statement posted Sunday … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Fr. Z KUDOS, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Bp. Tobin, D. Providence, Nelson Mandela
15 Comments
15 Comments
An observation for Mr. Novak on Pope Francis and “trickle-down” in EG 54
I note that Michael Novak has tackled the issue of the Pope’s comment on economics in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium. He had an interview with National Review. Alas, I think Mr. Novak got a couple things wrong. In a … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Drill
Tagged "trickle-down", Evangelii gaudium, free market, Michael Novak, Pope Francis, translation
39 Comments
39 Comments
Effects of the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act
There has been some heated discussion about how the USCCB did or could have been more or less supportive of Obamacare… which we should really all be calling the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act, perhaps with a quizzical twist of “uptalk”. Over … Read More
Posted in Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, USCCB
20 Comments
20 Comments
BLECH! *splik* BLECH! GAK!
I read this at the BBC and it disgusts me. I believe it. Men! Talk like men! More men speaking in girls’ ‘dialect’, study shows More young men in California rise in pitch at the end of their sentences when … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged BBC, effeminacy, effeminate clergy, uptalk, war on boys, war on men
42 Comments
42 Comments
Fishwrap attacks Francis AGAIN in the matter of women’s ordination
I have written before that the ordination of women is the flagship issue for liberals. So long as Pope Francis won’t change Church “policy”, he will remain in their dog house. Some conservatives frown when the Pope gets out over … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Liberals, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Fishwrap, Jamie Manson, NSR, ordination of women, Pope Francis
18 Comments
18 Comments
Andrew Napolitano reacts to Pope Francis comments on economics
I am close to being done with Pope Francis Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium. Let’s remember that it is not an encyclical. It is not even an Apostolic Letter. It’s only an Exhortation. It is, however, an Exhortation which has some … Read More
“Antinomianism in high places” – Canonist Ed Peters on divorce, remarriage, Communion
From Prof. Ed Peters, canonist, and his blog In The Light Of The Law – which has not an open combox. Antinomianism in high places is still antinomianism We live in pervasively antinomian times, and basic unawareness of law is all around … Read More
Fox News opinion piece BLASTS Pope Francis as “the Catholic Church’s Obama”
It seems that not everyone in the MSM is an adoring fan of Pope Francis. This is an … interesting op-ed on the site of Fox News, which is, yes, pretty much MSM now: Pope Francis is the Catholic Church’s … Read More
Why don’t as many men go to church as women?
Today is the 50th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium. What great fruits the liturgical reforms have produced! Jammed churches, long confession lines, full schools, lots of weddings and baptisms, convents bursting, seminaries churning out priests as fast as they can be … Read More
