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Category Archives: The Drill
What does “manifest sin” mean when talking Communion and can. 915?
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! I received a question from a reader this morning: Without any regard for c. 915, which is the morally correct thing for a priest to do: give the Holy Eucharist to some he knows … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, The Drill
Tagged can. 915, can.916, Holy Communion, manifest, Prof. Peters
123 Comments
123 Comments
Phil Lawler on “The betrayal of Father Guarnizo”
Phil Lawler on CWN has a piece worthy of your attention today. Here are some excerpts: The betrayal of Father Guarnizo By Phil Lawler […] Bishop Knestout’s letter was entirely sympathetic to Johnson, entirely unsympathetic to Father Guarnizo. There was … Read More
Holy See Statement about SSPX and avoiding “ecclesial rupture of painful and incalculable consequences”
I thought something was coming! This is from the Holy See Press Office: COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING THE SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS X Vatican City, 16 March 2012 (VIS) – Given below is the text of a communique relating to the Society … Read More
Anti-Catholic bias and attacks on Holy Church from without and from within.
This is from Media Report: The Usual Suspects: NY Times, Dissident Priest Support Anti-Catholic SNAP With Falsehoods, Attacks on Church Anti-Catholicism in Action: The New York Times, Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, and SNAP The New York Times is again shilling … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse, Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged David Clohessy, Hell's Bible, National Catholic Reporter, NCFishwrap, NYT, SNAP, Thomas P. Doyle
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15 Comments
Obama gives Amish complete exemption. Catholics? Talk to the hand! Why? Why do you think?
A few days ago Sr. Mary Ann Walsh at the USCCB Blog posted this: Friday, March 9, 2012 Amish, Ok. Catholics, No. The Amish are exempt from the entire health care reform law. So are members of Medi-Share, a program … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged 1st Amendment, American Patriotic Catholic Association, anti-catholicism, Democrats, HHS, POTUS, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty, Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Media blog
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43 Comments
Pro-abortion bigot group attacks Catholics in Hell’s Bible paid ad. Catholic League explains.
From the Catholic League: FRONTAL ASSAULT ON CATHOLICISM MARCH 9, 2012 BY ADMIN Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Never has there been a more vicious anti-Catholic advertisement in a prominent American newspaper than the one in today’s … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, I'm just askin'..., New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, abortion, Catholic League, FFRF, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Hell's Bible, HHS, New York Times, Pres. Obama
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24 Comments
Prof. Peters examines development in the case of denial of Communion to aggressive lesbian
The Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, who does not have an open combox on his fine blog In The Light of the Law, has opined about the case in the Archdiocese of Washington DC, now infamous, wherein a lesbian Buddhist … Read More
UK: Homosexual Activist with a camera tries to intimidate priest in his pulpit
Our friends in the UK are more advanced in the kulturkampf that we are in the USA… but we are catching up fast. Furthermore, while I think public discourse may be a bit more rough-n-tumble in England, Americans are more aggressive … Read More
“right to privacy” now results in record keeping of contraceptives and abortion pills
Mark Steyn has an especially mordant column on National Review Online about the nation’s new contracepting sweetheart ( for lack of a better word), Sandra Fluke. This pair of paragraphs caught my attention. Steyn points to an ironic contradiction in … Read More
