Category Archives: The Drill

In the face of this sort of revolt, what does one do?

I am torn between, on the one hand, pity for these men whose priesthood and ministry was tainted from the onset by bad formation and poor leadership and, on the other, contempt for them as arrogant quislings. From Vatican Insider: … Read More

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Benedict XVI’s Sermon for Corpus Christi: Jesus in our midst is the “beating Heart” of the home, city, country, territory

When I was in seminary, the faculty spoke with contempt of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and treated seminarians with such a devotion with suspicion and fear.  One of the things we heard was “Jesus said ‘Take and eat’ not … Read More

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CNS: State Department Purges Religious Freedom Section from Its Human Rights Reports

The US State Department is run by the surrogates of The First Gay President, Mr. Obama, and they take his order. Maybe religious liberty is not a human right after all? From CNS: State Department Purges Religious Freedom Section from … Read More

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Photographer refuses to shoot same-sex thingy. Bullying ligation ensues. First liberties eroded.

Priests and bishops will be targeted by homosexuals activists as victims in harassing court cases.  Proponents of unnatural acts will bully – through litigation and threats of litigation and even violence – bully clergy into doing things that are contrary … Read More

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Man in “coma” cries when he hears fiance’s voice on the phone

With a tip of the biretta to CMR: A young man who’s been in a coma for a months started crying when his parents put the phone to his ear so he could hear his fiance. Wow. This is pretty … Read More

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Kusunda

Created things pass away. Here is an interesting I found at dictionary.com: Obscure language isolate will die with this woman Seventy-five-year-old Gyani Maiyi Sen is the only native fluent speaker of Kusunda in the world, and linguists are rushing to … Read More

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QUAERITUR: Confessions during Mass – revisited

From a reader: This past Saturday, I experienced several of the issues you have written about regarding going to confession. Seeing it was getting late in the afternoon, I attempted to go to confession at the parish nearest where I … Read More

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QUAERITUR: Is water blessed with the newer rites really holy water?

From a reader: I’ve heard it claimed that holy water blessed via the new rite isn’t true holy water since the new rite doesn’t include prayers of exorcism; in other words, according to the person telling me this, such water is merely “blessed … Read More

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A request to bloggers about the the phrase “Magisterium of Nuns”

Please use the sharing buttons!  Thanks! I have a request to make of all Catholic bloggers. Whenever you write anything about the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, try to work in the phrase “Magisterium of Nuns“.  I don’t care if … Read More

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LCWR is planning how not to obey

From the site of Vatican Radio: Statement by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain in response to the LCWR statement Following the May 31 statement by the national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR ) concerning the assessment that … Read More

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