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Category Archives: The Drill
White House issues advice about shootings at churches – POLL
More great advice from the Obama Administration today. On the heels of a shooting at a Catholic Church in Utah (HERE), I spotted at RNS, that the White House has issued some advice for how to deal with shootings at … Read More
Posted in POLLS, The Drill, The future and our choices, You must be joking!
Tagged gun control, Obama Administration, poll, White House
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172 Comments
DISGUSTING
Direct from the triumph of his anti-religious comments in Ireland, Pres. Obama thrills again. At American Spectator I picked up this encouraging gem. Obama never fails to enlist children in his secularist crusades, whether at home or abroad. Last week … Read More
“When ‘Guitar Masses’ became a chew toy between traditionalists and progressives
There is a smart and well-written article at The American Spectator on liturgical music by Patrick O’Hannigan, whom I have mentioned before. The piece is longish, so here are a few bits to whet your appetite. Can Liturgical Music Be … Read More
What is “lobby” all about in the Vatican “gay lobby” chatter going on?
There is a lot of chatter on the interwebs about the whole “homosexuals in the Vatican” thing. This has been so obvious to me for so long that it isn’t news. It also makes me angry, and not in a … Read More
Hunger Bones
I recently saw a movie called Hunger Games (another in a long troop of dystopian movies/books). I guess the movie is part of a series, because I saw a preview of another movie… which figures. There is great restlessness in … Read More
Posted in TEOTWAWKI, The Drill
Tagged Hunger Games, Jennifer Lawrence, TEOTWAWKI, Winter's Bone
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30 Comments
Want a TLM in your parish? Here is how it was done in one place!
I have written a few times (since the election of Francis – for example HERE) that it is time to push forward in the implementation of Summorum Pontificum. People who have been wringing their hands or resting on the laurels … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Benedict XVI, Bp. Jugis, D. Charlotte NC, Fr. Reid, Holy Innocents, La Voz del Pueblo, Pope Francis, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Of Devils and Agencies and Metadata and You
Long before the scandal about government snooping and gathering of metadata broke, I wrote a post (HERE) about Pope Francis’ mentions of the Devil, the Enemy of the soul. Consider the way angels can gather “metadata” on us and build … Read More
CWN: Liberal group sees ‘McCarthyism’ in criticism of CCHD
Some topics are like the proverbial “third rail”. Touch it and DIE. In the case of some topics, touch it and those involved in the thing you are touching KILL YOU. Wellllll… they aggressively go after you from positions of … Read More
Voris video on Vatican II’s built in vagueness
Here is a video from Michael Voris in his usual non-committal, indifferent, ambiguous, vague, tepid, ho-hum style. o{];¬) I will remind the readership that in the greater arc of the Church’s history, Vatican II wasn’t all that important. It is … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II
Tagged Card. Kasper, Michael Voris, Vatican II
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68 Comments
External (TLM) Observance of Corpus Christi on Sunday… yes? no?
Today I had qualms… qualms I say… about the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost for the traditional celebration of the Roman Rite. Why? “External celebration”? One of the long-time readers here posted in a comment (tossing some of my words … Read More
