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- Lurker 59 on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “My interest in these events is primarily in relation to the Catholic East and Orthodoxy. My support for the East…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “The SSPX needs bishops to function and it has only two bishops left. Unless at some point they have consecrations…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: ““The Church is open to a path of dialogue and understanding that the Holy Spirit can make possible and fruitful.”…”
- on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “@WVC, Respectfully, you’re arguing against a position I have not taken. For the record, I believe “Traditionis Custodes” was a…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “I have heard it directly from high-ranking members of the Fraternity that they don’t want a bishop, because they are…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “This article sums my thoughts up surprisingly well. It even touches on another dynamic at play: the Vatican accepting the…”
- on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “Father, I join you in your prayer. While have no affection for the SSPX and have never attended even one…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@TheCavalierHatherly Aside from the fact that your response is trying to skirt around the very obvious answer which is, “No,…”
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Category Archives: The Drill
Deluded wymyn playing dress up
Ultra-liberal, double-standard riddled NPR has a puff piece about women pretending to be priests. From the onset, let’s be clear. No woman can ever be validly ordained a priest. No what they say or do, they can only ever simulate … Read More
Darning with faint praise?
A priest friend forwarded me a blurb from the Dan Schutte Newsletter. St. Louis Jesuits Honored Jubilate Deo Award Each year since 1996 the National Association of Pastoral Musicians bestows the Jubilate Deo Award on a musician who has made … Read More
Hello Detroit! ACC UNDERWAY!
See who’s speaking! http://americancatholiccouncil.org/files/2009/05/ACC_convention_brochure_3-2011.pdf UPDATE: A priest friend just asked if the was a special cargo plane for the big puppets. UPDATE: Do the airlines charge extra for all the extra baggage the speakers are hauling around? UPDATE: Here’s Joan … Read More
D. Kansas City-St. Joseph: press release about controversies
The secular press in Kansas City, MO and the ultra-liberal, doctrine-dissenting, KC-based National catholic Reporter have been busy trying to tear the guts out of the diocese and Most Rev. Robert Finn, bishop, but not yet martyr. From the site … Read More
Archbp. Nienstedt and the defense of true marriage
In this week’s number of The Catholic Spirit, the newspaper and site of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, His Excellency Most Rev. John Nienstedt has a column about the Minnesota Marriage Amendment, that is, a defense of real … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Archbp. Nienstedt, Archd. St. Paul and Minneapolis, Defense of Marriage, marriage, Minnesota Marriage Amendment, same-sex unions
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16 Comments
QUAERITUR: Why don’t priests use the Apostolic Pardon for the dying?
From a reader: I understand that the Sacrament of the anointing is not the same as the apostolic pardon. Why is it that some priests do not say those words for this pardon and give both the blessing and the … Read More
Critics of the new, corrected translation would have, back in the day, resisted also the King James Bible
It is often said, by liberals, that because in ancient Rome there was a shift from Greek to Latin for the Roman liturgy, and since Latin was the vernacular back then, we should abandon Latin now and use the vernacular … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged 1611, Douai Bible, Gas Board English, King James Bible, liturgical translation, Miles Coverdale, new corrected translation, r, Rachel Boulding, Richard Dawkins, William Tyndale
32 Comments
32 Comments
The Archbishop of Glasgow on the Holy Father’s provisions in Summorum Pontificum
All day long people have been filling my email with requests for me to react to the opinions of His Excellency, nay rather, His Grace, Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow, who has spoken about the Holy Father’s provisions in Summorum … Read More
The challenges of moving from print to digital
From Catholic Culture comes this. My emphases: Vatican newspaper: reflections on future of Catholic publishing In an essay that appeared in the June 6-7 edition of L’Osservatore Romano, the director of the Madrid-based Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos reflected upon the … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged digital, L'Osservatore Romano, print, publishing
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14 Comments
McBrien: Pope does not have full authority in the Church
The National Catholic Fishwrap is still running down Pope Benedict and defending Bp. William Morris, formerly of Toowomba, Australia, present cause célèbre of Catholic liberals. The latest Fishwrap writer to use the ineffective and doctrinally odd Australian bishop to bash … Read More
Posted in The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Bp. Morris, D. Toowoomba, Fishwrap, Richard McBrien
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74 Comments
Lurker 59 on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “My interest in these events is primarily in relation to the Catholic East and Orthodoxy. My support for the East…”
