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Category Archives: The Drill
Card. Burke: Catholic colleges should require the required “mandate” for profs to teach
From the Cardinal Newman Society: Cardinal Burke Says Theologians’ Mandatum Should Be Required by Colleges, Disclosed to Students Theologians, Canonists Respond to Pope Benedict’s Call for Compliance Manassas, Va. – Catholic families have a right to know which theology professors … Read More
Sr Patricia Miller in op-ed canonizes St. Obama for his respect for religious liberty. No, really.
Joseph Goebbels advised that when telling lies, tell a big one and tell it often. Another approach is to jam so many distortions into so brief a space that they are too hard to refute in as short a period … Read More
In Minnesota: Marriage Amendment Supporters Lead Among Likely Voters
At a conference not long ago, I learned that, in Minnesota, only 2% of those polled were undecided. That means everything hinges on voter turn out. Now this comes from KSTP: SurveyUSA/KSTP Poll: Marriage Amendment Supporters Lead Among Likely Voters … Read More
Proposal and Counter-Proposals for Pope Benedict and the SSPX
I was sent a link to an article in The Remnant on the SSPX situation. The article contains the following statements: Instead of harassing Bishop Fellay to sign a doctrinal preamble, the Vatican should require every superior, university president and … Read More
Minnesotans! ACTION ITEM! Minnesota Catholic Conference asks help.
An ACTION ITEM in defense of true marriage. I received this: If you can help them do this, it is very important that you do. The results of the polling will give them a good list of people to make … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Defense of Marriage, marriage, Minnesota Catholic Conference, Minnesota for Marriage, Minnesota Marriage Amendment, One Man and One Woman
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SSPX Statement: We wait for the “serious debate” which will bring ecclesiastic authorities back to Tradition
At the SSPX site DICI we read the General Chapter Statement. Bottom line: Not negative, but clarificatory. They left the door open for more discussions under Archbp. Di Noia. You can read the whole thing there, but here is the … Read More
Of Anger Management, Benedict XVI and the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Z imagines dire things.
Do the SSPXers think that Pope Benedict is so patient and kindly that he would never withdraw his outstretched hand? Perhaps that is it. Maybe that is why they dawdle and find excuses not to accept what the Holy See … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, Four Last Things, Our Catholic Identity, SSPX, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged anger, Benedict XVI, schism, SSPX
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Analysis of NPR’s interview of LCWR Pres. Sr. Pat Farrell: like a 7-year old’s manipulative obfuscation
Sr. Pat Farrell of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (a subsidiary of the Magisterium of Nuns) did an interview with the liberal-leaning National Public Radio. Carl Olson of Catholic World Report deftly dissected Sister’s interview. Let’s see the first … Read More
United States of America: “Mission Territory”. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
For a long time the Church in the USA was under the aegis of the Holy See’s then Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, called now the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. This is why, for example, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Year of Faith
Tagged Benedict XVI, Black Liberation Theology, Marshall Plan, mission territory, Obama Administration, Pres. Obama, Propaganda Fide
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Fake open-mindedness, diversity, tolerance, otherness
I like this from The Catholic Thing: The Anti-Catholic Catholic By Randall Smith [who teaches theology at the University of St. Thomas, Houston.] Several weeks back, I published a column in this space suggesting that in our current pluralistic, multi-cultural … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged diversity, open-mindedness, otherness, tolerance
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