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Category Archives: The Drill
QUAERITUR: Is “I absolve you” alone sufficient for validity?
From a reader: Dear Fr. Z I recently went to confession, the priest said everything correctly (atleast, im pretty sure he did anyway) up until the part where he is suppose to say “I absolve you of you’r sins.” but, … Read More
USCCB Media Blog: anti-Catholic bias at HHS (Obama Administration)
Over at the USCCB’s Media Blog, Sr. Mary Ann Walsh has an interesting post. Here is the first part. This gives us another example of how the war on the Catholic Church is manifesting itself in the public square: HHS … Read More
PRC CR & CTA – “Rebellion is Justified!”
Immediately after reading a story about Call To Action, I found an article at the History Blog about the discovery in some forgotten box of rare paper-cut posters from China’s Cultural Revolution. One of the posters… is entitled Eliminating the … Read More
Bp. Conley on “atheocracy” and growing hostility to religion
From CNA: Dallas, Texas, Nov 8, 2011 / 06:11 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Increasing hostility to religion and growing restrictions on religious expression are “the biggest challenge the pro-life movement faces,” Bishop James D. Conley told a benefit for a Dallas … Read More
NY Daily News on new, corrected translation. WDTPRS POLL ALERT!
At The New York Daily News there is a piece about the new, corrected translation and there is a POLL which you should use. My emphases and comments. Catholic Church unveils strict Latin translation, biggest change to Mass in 40 … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, POLLS, The Drill
Tagged Holy Innocents, New Translation, New York City
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14 Comments
Account of participation for the first time at Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form
At a blog called Having Left The Altar (a reference to a quote from St. Frances of Rome, a favorite of mine) there is a refection on a first experience of the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass in the Roman … Read More
Pres. Obama objects to FDR’s D-Day prayer at the World War II Memorial
A reader alerted me to the following. I cannot say that I am surprised. Obama Administration Opposes FDR Prayer at WWII Memorial By Todd Starnes Published November 04, 2011 | FoxNews.com Republican lawmakers and conservative activists are expressing outrage after … Read More
A seminarian’s New York Post op-ed on the new, corrected translation
From the New York Post comes an op-ed from a seminarian for the Archdiocese of New York who used to be a writer for the Post. Critical mass A priest in training explains why the Vatican is changing Catholic worship … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged John Wilson, New Translation, New York Post
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25 Comments
Herman Cain on Margaret Sanger, eugenicist/racist foundress of Planned Parenthood
Via Catholic Culture comes this: Journalists ignore Margaret Sanger’s eugenic theories November 03, 2011 When American presidential candidate Herman Cain denounced the eugenicist theories of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, liberal journalists rose to Sanger’s defense, claiming that … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged GetReligion, Herman Cain, left-wing journalists, liberals, Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood
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18 Comments
It seems diocesan bishops can ordain using the older rite of ordination after all!
Here is something that merits attention. As you might recall, the clarificatory document about Summorum Pontificum from the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” entitled Universae Ecclesiae indicated that the Pontificale Romanum was to be used for ordinations only by those groups … Read More
