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Category Archives: The Drill
CNN insinuates that Archbp. Vigneron “dialed back” his words about promoters of same-sex marriage and Holy Communion
There is a deeply flawed, perhaps even mendacious, piece on CNN about Archbishop Vigneron’s comments about Catholics who promote same-sex marriage and reception of Holy Communion. I posted about that HERE. The CNN article suggests, implies, hints, that the Archdiocese … Read More
Fishwrap’s Winters responds
Over the National Schismatic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters has responded to something I wrote HERE. Winters is mostly wrong about things, but he occasionally right and, when he is, I have happily said so here. Winters opens with a little … Read More
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Tagged Fishwrap, Michael Sean Winters, NSR
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Archbp. Vigneron: Catholics who push same-sex marriage should not receive Communion
A regular commentator here, the distinguish canonist Ed Peters, was quoted in an interesting article in the Detroit Free Press. Archbp. Vigneron made a clear statement about receiving Holy Communion if you advocate same-sex marriage. This is in the Freep: … Read More
Pope Francis’ sermon for his “enthronement” at St. John Lateran
Pope Francis took possession of his cathedral church today. As Bishop of Rome his cathedral is the Basilica of St. John Lateran. The Mass today was for his “enthronement” (Italian “insediamento”). I think that we might have a new challenge … Read More
Obama Admin in Army Reserve brief lumps Catholicism in with Al Qaeda, Hamas, KKK
I call it “creeping incrementalism”. Liberals will state or propose something outrageous. There is an outcry against it. They back done. They wait for awhile. They do it again. There is an outcry, but the outcry isn’t quite as … Read More
For Fishwrap, El Pueblo knows best!
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters has a supremely naïve piece (for which I hope he was paid by the word). Winters lays out a grand plan for Pope Francis to reform the Roman Curia and why. … Read More
Dippy coverage from Reuters on Pope Francis’ General Audience
It is hard to imagine how wrong newsies can be… and then you run into the abysmally twisted report from Reuters about what Pope Francis said today in his Wednesday audience about women. Pope stresses “fundamental” value of women in … Read More
A diocesan “morality clause” in Louisiana
Bp. Vasa has had a bumpy ride in Santa Rosa in implementing a provision that teachers in Catholic schools not live or teach in open violation of Catholic teachings. Now I see that in the Diocese of Lafayette, a Catholic … Read More
What’s this you say? Popes are *not* above the law? Analysis at Commonweal.
Seen at the site of Commonweal. This is great! You watch… now that a liberal publication has put out something like this, pretty soon other liberals will be okay with talking about exactly what we have been discussing. The difference … Read More
One look at Pope Francis’s first Holy Week. Fr. Z responds with brief manifesto.
Many people don’t know that Pope Francis planned to write his thesis on Romano Guardini, the distinguished theologian and liturgist who had a profound influence on Joseph Ratzinger. Ratzinger even named one of his most important books with the same title … Read More
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
