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Category Archives: The Drill
Stop the whining LCWR. You aren’t the only group getting an extreme make-over.
Long-time lax catholics may not enjoy the resection and sutures the physicians of the CDF and the USCCB are applying to certain groups within Holy Church, but, as St. Augustine once preached, a doctor doesn’t stop cutting just because the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged formation, Ireland, Irish Church, LCWR, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, magisterium of nuns, priesthood, seminaries, Visitation
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21 Comments
ABNORMAL: the new “normal”
From the Catholic League: THE NEW ABNORMAL May 10, 2012 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: The new normal is yesterday’s abnormal: what was seen as bizarre, if not literally crazy, is now seen as normal. The converse … Read More
Nancy Pelosi, Doctrix of the Church, cites Theologian Obama and calls evil “good”
From CNS: Pelosi: Her Catholic Faith ‘Compels’ Her to Support Same-Sex Marriage [wp_youtube]xjo03WLTl3Y[/wp_youtube] By Christopher Goins May 10, 2012 Subscribe to Christopher Goins’s posts (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that her Catholic faith “compels” her … Read More
During their convention Dems will call for same-sex “marriage”
On the site of The Hill we read that during the upcoming Democrat convention, in which they will re-nominate the Evolver-in-Chief, the dems will try to insert a plank in the platform, probably the lower part of the platform, calling for … Read More
One of these days… QUAERITUR…
The 11 year cycle of magnetic forces within the Sun is producing more and larger conditions for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, blasts of charged particles that rocket away from the Sun at millions of miles per hour. From … Read More
Obama the Theologian invokes Christ while endorsing unnatural sexual acts, same-sex “marriage”. Fr. Z rants.
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! With the endorsement of the amendment for the State Constitution of North Carolina, I thought that the true “ground zero” for the same-sex debate would now be Minnesota. It will also now be every … Read More
ACTION ITEM! A TWITTER PROJECT REQUEST from Fr. Z
Catholics need to learn better how to use the new media, new tools of social communication, and social networking. (On that score, I renew my appeal that you please use early and often the sharing buttons on these entries. Thanks!) … Read More
Whooping Cough, again
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Do any of you remember that some months ago I mentioned in these electronic pages that Whooping Cough was making a comeback? Do you have young children? Get informed. And even if you are … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Linking Back, The Drill
Tagged Pertussis, Tetanus, Whooping Cough
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37 Comments
Joe Biden: Theologian!
A priest friend of mine, one of the 5 smartest people I know, has for many years referred to now Vice President Joe Biden as the dumbest man in the Senate. I have sometimes argued in favor of one or … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged abortion, VP Biden
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22 Comments
The Final Frontier of the Civil Rights Movement
One of the greatest victories of feminists and left – including their catholic dupes and water-carriers – was to divorce the issue abortion from civil rights (and in the context of the Church, social justice) and twist it instead into … Read More
