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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
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Category Archives: The Drill
4 October 2023… what a day!
This is the anniversary the demonic idol worship in the Vatican Gardens. It was 2019… Sursum podices! In another post, I suggest several days of penance and reparation for this and the placement of a idol bowl on the altar … Read More
Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy follows up on his essay four years ago: “Pope Francis and Schism”
I’m still disappointed and annoyed at Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., for the inexplicable and, frankly, ignorant attack on the Traditional Latin Mass some time back, together with two other writers who ought to know better. Many of us … Read More
Card. Müller advises Bp. Strickland of Tyler NOT to resign.
At kath.net, the German site, there is a story that Card. Müller, former Prefect of the CDF and once Bishop of Regensburg, advises Bp. Strickland of Tyler NOT to resign. Excerpt: According to Catholic teaching, the Pope is by no … Read More
Adventures in Sunday Worship: St. Anne’s and the Season of Creation
My heart goes out to people who are constrained either to attend Sunday Masses at parishes where weird stuff goes on or have to drive great distances. My heart is broken for people whose shepherds deny them their Christian dignity by … Read More
Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, leaves La Civiltà Cattolica to become “Under-Secretary” at Dicastery for Culture and Education
La Civiltà Cattolica is a Jesuit run, Secretariat of State approved journal with semi-official status. Spadaro has been at LCC for 25 years, 12 as director. The “Dicastery” – that’s what Congregations are now called. All offices of the Curia were/are … Read More
Rumors of a forced-resignation attack on Bp. Joseph Strickland from ROME
In about mid-August I had heard that perhaps Bp. Strickland would be ousted by Rome in the first part of July. “I’ll believe it,” quoth I quietly but pretty much believing, “when I see it.” We heard about the visitation … Read More
QUAERITUR: Is there something wrong in Rome?
At The Catholic Thing today, my friend Dr. Robert Royal asks the elephantine – nay, rather, mastodontic question: Is there something wrong in Rome? The obvious answer is YES. Only a fool or fanatical ideologue (in the real sense) would … Read More
On airplane from Mongolia Francis is asked about the book “The Synodal (“walking together”) Process Is a Pandora’s Box: 100 Questions and Answers”. His response.
On the way back to Rome, Francis was slightly Mongolian grilled when asked about the book that is making waves The Synodal Process ((“walking together”)) Is a Pandora’s Box: 100 Questions and Answers which has a Preface by Card. Burke. … Read More
Posted in Pò sì jiù, SESSIUNCULA, Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Hard-Identity Catholicism, Synod
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CWR’s Carl Olson nails it
At CWR, Carl Olson took on some words of Francis to Portuguese Jesuits – we saw something about that elsewhere – published in La Civiltà Cattolica especially about US “backwardists” and we poor benighted American’s and “ideology”. Thus, he demonstrates … Read More
Views on the upcoming Synod (“walking together”)
At Crux there is a piece about a new booklet published on 22 August by TFP concerning the upcoming Synod (“walking together”). Card. Burke wrote the intro… Burke claims Pope’s synod will foster ‘confusion, error and division’ Keep this in … Read More
Number of Priestly Ordinations in Free Fall
A recent piece at the SSPX site deals with the “vertiginous” drop in priestly vocations in France, in particular, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. The figures they used are from the French bishops conference and other non-SSPX sources. The … Read More
Bp. Schneider: Prohibition of the Traditional Latin Mass is an Abuse of Ecclesiastical Power
If in baseball there was recently a perfecto, in the ecclesial world a certain bishop has been hitting dingers. I posted about the piece by Bp. Athanasius Schneider at The Catholic Thing HERE. Today I note that at One Peter … Read More
Historic numbers of defections from the Church in Germany
At CNA I saw something that shocked but didn’t surprise. German exodus: Half a million Catholics abandon Church in historic departure The Catholic Church in Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis, with more than half a million baptized Catholics leaving … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Germany
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11 Comments
Reminder: Moral injury of the clergy and laity
A couple years ago I posted about the psychological abuse of priests and the resulting Moral Injury. It is good to review this concept occasionally, and consider it in light of what is going on in the Church today. Moral … Read More
WDTPRS: Mass Prayers “Pro seipso sacerdote – For the priest himself” (1962MR)
This time of year many new priests are being ordained and, consequently, many priests observe their own anniversaries. In the traditional, Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite a priest can add orations for himself, Pro seipso sacerdote, on the anniversary … Read More
Two things: Part 3 of Bp. Huonder’s VIDEO and what Francis said to Jesuits in Hungary.
Two things. First, Swiss Bishop Vitus Huonder has released the third in a series of videos about the undeniable crisis in the Church. It is in German with subtitles. Put down or put aside other things. Click. Fold your hands and watch this … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II
Tagged Bp. Vitus Huonder
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16 Comments
New, grand SSPX church, Bishops, and Proof of Concept
At Crisis there is a piece by Eric Sammons entitled “Our Incurious Bishops“. The idea is this. The SSPX just consecrated a huge and beautiful church in Kansas. It was packed with precisely the sort of people bishops might like … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, SSPX, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Proof of Concept, SSPX
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29 Comments
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
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