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Category Archives: The Drill
“Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King…”
As I read in the Huffington Post: […] Most people think [Martin Luther King, JR] would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. … Read More
A blogger’s conversion to altar rails and kneeling for Communion (POLL)
Deacon Greg Kandra has had a bit of a conversion about altar rails. Here is a taste. Okay. I’ve changed my mind. It’s time to bring back the altar rail. Hey, I’m as surprised as anyone else that I feel … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged altar rails, Dcn. Kandra, Holy Communion, kneeling, reverence, sense of the sacred
113 Comments
113 Comments
Pres. Obama declares – no kidding – “Religious Freedom Day”
I must have walked through the wrong door and into Bearded-Spock Universe. This isn’t a joke. Here is the link to the site of the White House. Read the language carefully. It’s supposed to be “Religious Freedom Day”, but the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged “Religious Freedom Day”, 1st Amendment, HHS mandate, Obama Administration, Pres. Obama, The First Gay President, White House
34 Comments
34 Comments
SCOTUS to hear case about Pres. Obama’s eligibility
Can you imagine the constitutional problems/crisis? From minutemennews.com Supreme Court Opens Door to Obama Eligibility Challenge on February 15th Chief Justice John Roberts Schedules A Case Regarding Obamas Forged IDs to be Heard in Conference Before the Full Supreme Court. … Read More
Posted in Religious Liberty, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Pres. Obama
48 Comments
48 Comments
Welcome to Sodom
A priest friend shared this, taken from the Pastor’s Page of Our Lady of Lourdes in Bethesda, MA: Pastor’s Letter Welcome to Sodom. Yes, that is what Maryland has now become. Sodom with its neighbor Gomorrah was a city of … Read More
Video by Hollywood stars about guns followed by the reality check video
Don’t you wish sometimes that you never… I mean never… saw or heard Hollywood stars when they weren’t actually in a show or movie? Some of these people are getting into the gun-control issue. Strikes me as a bit hypocritical. … Read More
Posted in The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged 2nd amendment, gun control, Hollywood, hypocrisy, violence
16 Comments
16 Comments
Did Jesus tell the Apostles to buy weapons? Yes. To use them?
I have been thinking through the “gun” controversy. I am also thinking about what it means for me, a priest. For example, what does a concealed carry weapon (CCW) mean for a priest versus for a layperson? Some people will … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, Semper Paratus, The Drill
Tagged 2nd amendment, CCW, concealed, gun control, Luke 22, St. Ambrose
24 Comments
24 Comments
Anti-Catholic appointment to Connecticut Supreme Court
Liberals work to warp society and to undermine the Catholic Church from within and without, through creeping incrementalism. They introduce some odd ball scheme, it gets shot down. They have bumped the paradgim a little bit toward their goal. They … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged creeping incrementalism
18 Comments
18 Comments
Obamic Irony
After the sad election last November, the President joked around with Barbara Walters on ABC about his daughters being surrounded by guns all the time. I am sure that, as a father, he thinks that’s a mighty fine perk. His … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged 2nd amendment, guns, Secret Service, self-defense, The West Wing
13 Comments
13 Comments
Getting some terms and issues right in the “gun control” debate
The present gun-control debate is being carried out in the MSM and blogsophere mostly by people who don’t know what they are talking about. “Assault weapons!”, they cry, while running in circles. “Eeek! Eeek! We have to DO SOMETHING!” Let’s see … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged AK-47, AR-15, assault rifle, assault weapon, gun control, guns
30 Comments
30 Comments
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”
