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Category Archives: The Drill
Are Christ’s mission and Holy Church well-served by “me-tooism”?
My friend Fr. Tim Finigan, His Hermeueticalness, has written with a touch of irony about the recent launch of the Holy Father’s Twitter account, @pontifex. Among Father’s observations is an amusing bit about how the Holy See’s explanatory announcement of this Twitter … Read More
REVIEW: A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey. “If you want to be a hero, you can be.”
In another entry I mentioned a new book by Fr. Robert Sirico called A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey. US paperback HERE and Kindle HERE. UK paperback HERE Kindle HERE. Here is a blurb from the book: Do you feel like something big is missing … Read More
Summus pipiabit Pontifex!
FOLLOW UP: 3 December: His account is up and running: @Pontifex Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! On Monday we will find out what the Pope’s new Twitter handle is. There will be a press conference in Rome on … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, New Evangelization, The Drill, Year of Faith
Tagged Benedict XVI, pipiatio, polls, pope, tweet, Twitter
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32 Comments
CDF Prefect Archbp. Müller: “the hermeneutic of reform” is “only possible interpretation”
My old pastor, the late Msgr. Schuler used to say that “You can go into the ditch on either side of the road, left or right. Either way, you are still in a ditch.” This has been my concern about … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, Year of Faith
Tagged aggiornamento, Archbp. Müller, Benedict XVI, December 2005, discontinuity, heresy, hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture, hermeneutic of reform, SSPX, traditionalists
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39 Comments
Fr. Sirico: Politics isn’t the solution to our economic problems
CNA has an article about my friend Fr. Robert Sirico of the Acton Institute (btw… Acton University: June 18 – 21, 2013). My emphases and comments. Rome, Italy, Nov 29, 2012 / 01:33 pm (CNA).- The solution to the ongoing economic … Read More
Media misquoting the Holy Father’s new book
There is a little bit of a controversy about a a couple points from the Holy Father’s new book which really isn’t much of a controversy at all. If you don’t have the book please use one of my links … Read More
Curran Fishwraps Häring. Groovy!
Fishwrap tapped one of their darlings, former-Catholic theologian and dissenter Charles Curran, to write an encomium of the late Fr. Bernard Häring, CSsR, whose “proportionalist” legacy in moral theology is decidedly mixed. First, Curran in his piece, reputedly about Häring, winds … Read More
QUAERITUR: Clarity about Pius XII’s cool Thanksgiving Friday indult
I’ve been getting a lot of questions by email from people in these USA who want to know about the indult that Pius XII gave to Americans to eat meat on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Rorate looked at that HERE, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged 1966, friday, indult, penance, Pius XII, Thanksgiving Day
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Duhhhh…. Nice try, Fishwrap!
It seems that the National catholic Fishwrap took exception to my little dig. Heh heh. Michael Sean Winters got all excited and thought he scored a point. He is baiting me, of course, but I’ll take the bait this time. … Read More
“There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall…” Farewell, Roy Bourgeois!
From The Sound of Music: There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple too And up in the nursery an absurd little bird Is popping out to say, “Cuckoo” Regretfully they … Read More
