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Category Archives: The Drill
RI: Priest tells pols that he will inform parishioners about their immoral votes on legislation
The culture wars are getting hotter. “Social issues” will remain key issues in the next couple election cycles in these USA, which will probably cause a couple train-wrecks for Catholics and for libertarians… and even for Catholic Tea Party members. … Read More
UK Vicarette with obscene car sticker involving the Lord’s Name
Can I get your take on this one? I am not going to include images. They would just invite comments all by themselves. Keep in mind that the “blech factor” is going to be pretty high in this article. From … Read More
WSJ cartoon against Bp. Morlino with a workshop on the WSJ’s lack of professionalism
Again and again we see liberals and the MSM (virtually all liberal) cherry-pick a quote of Pope Francis and then run with it as if, by itself, it actually means something profoundly in harmony with their liberal agenda. I saw … Read More
More on the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate and the Vetus Ordo (TLM)
From Inside the Vatican (my emphases): Minority within Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate wanted to scrap the Old Mass ANDREA TORNIELLI VATICAN CITY The decision to appoint a commissioner to oversee the Congregation of Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate and … Read More
Voris on Francis, off-the-cuff remarks, and the MSM
Here is Michael Voris on the “Who am I to judge!” line from Pope Francis on the airplane. He puts his foot wrong in calling Msgr. Ricca a bishop (he isn’t) but that doesn’t change the substance of what Voris … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged Michael Voris, MSM, Pope Francis
58 Comments
58 Comments
Getting Shakespeare WRONG
As some of you know, I am a great fan of The Bard. (For example, HERE. I really must get back to that some day.) I saw at Saint Austin Review a piece by Joseph Pearce which struck a nerve. … Read More
HuffPo: You can’t be a Republican (who hate and mock the poor) and a Christian
At HuffPo there is a stunningly dopey headline over a stunningly dopier opinion piece by someone named Larry Atkins, whom I don’t recall ever having heard of before. Headline: Why Would a Christian Want to Be a Republican, in Light … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, The Drill, The future and our choices, You must be joking!
Tagged "the poor", Pope Francis
36 Comments
36 Comments
A tactic
We are starting to see more often now the heterodox attack orthodox defenses of Catholic doctrine as “turning against the poor”. In the combox here, under a post about Bp. Morlino, someone tried to slither in a snarky implication that … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Archd. Chicago, Card. George, CCHD
22 Comments
22 Comments
Wherein Fr. Z offers kudos to Jamie Manson and shares her pain
It isn’t often that I can give “Fr Z Kudos” to the Fishwrap’s Jamie Manson (openly lesbian activist, mentored by Sr. Margaret Farley, and darling of the LCWR). In the wake of Pope Francis’ comments on the airplane about homosexuals … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Jamie Manson, NCR, Ordinatio sacerdotalis, ordination of women
85 Comments
85 Comments
Sue in soCal on ROME 26/10– Day 09: very cool and a rare restaurant review: “You are in my daily prayer list, Fr. Z. Get well!”
