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Category Archives: The Drill
Priests, holiness, and avoiding a spiritual peril
I am getting a lot of email and phone calls about something in the news recently about accusations made against a priest. I don’t know enough about the case in question to offer anything other than my sincere hope with … Read More
Dr. Peters, Fishwrap, and non-excommunications
I have written about the great example set by Norma Jean Coon, who has rejected all involvement in the whole ordination of women thing. I have also written about the Fishwrap writing on Mrs. Coons. Now Canonical Defender has jumped … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, The Drill
Tagged can. 1378, can. 1379, Dr. Peters, Norma Jean Coon
8 Comments
8 Comments
Bad groups within and without and knowing who our friends are
Remember distinctions of ad intra and ad extra when it comes to matters that concern the Church? Remember my posts about the “Magisterium of Nuns”? Remember how the “Catholic” Health Association gave cover against the local bishop to a “Catholic” … Read More
Fishwrap finally reports on courageous Norma Jean Coon
Remember Norma Jean Coon? She is the courageous woman who repudiated her simulated “ordination” in the wymynpryst thingie and has cut all her ties with the wymin, as she works with the CDF for the lifting of the excommunication she … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Linking Back, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged D. San Diego, Norma Jean Coon, women's ordination
33 Comments
33 Comments
Sensible examination of SSPX/Rome talks
Over at The Sensible Bond, which I have recommended before, there is a very strong entry about the SSPX and who gets to judge what Catholic doctrine is. Here is something of what you can find at The Sensible Bond, … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, The Drill
Tagged Sensible Bond, SSPX
33 Comments
33 Comments
News about the Instruction on Summorum Pontificum
The intrepid Andrea Tornielli has on his blog a note about the upcoming Instruction for Summorum Pontificum. Here, in my fast translation, is the heart of the matter. […] Above all, the instruction confirms that the Motu Proprio is universal … Read More
Posted in SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Instruction, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
38 Comments
38 Comments
REVIEW: Some thoughts about the Pope’s new book – part II
For Part I go HERE. I have read an advance copy of the new, second volume of Benedict XVI’s book, Jesus of Nazareth. The new book will be released worldwide for Lent 2011, with a date of 10 March. Just … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, REVIEWS, The Drill
Tagged Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, last supper, todah meal
23 Comments
23 Comments
Card. Burke and Card. Cañizares: liturgical abuse weakens the faith
Here is a story you won’t find over at the National Catholic Fishwrap… which is getting absolutely creamed in the Reader’s Choice Awards voting for Best Catholic Newspaper. NCFishwrap is polling dead last, and I mean dead fish at 4%. … Read More
REVIEW: Some thoughts about the Pope’s new book – part I
I have been reading the new, second volume of Benedict XVI’s book, Jesus of Nazareth. A preview copy was sent to me by the publisher. I have been circling back over various passages which impedes my forward progress. I am … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, REVIEWS, The Drill
Tagged Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, LENT
25 Comments
25 Comments
Catholic Herald (UK) – Wm. Oddie opines about Pres. Obama
From William Oddie of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald comes this strong opinion piece about the President of the United States. I generally dismiss transatlantic views of any POTUS. This commentary, however, caught my attention because it … Read More
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