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Category Archives: The Drill
A note about The Tablet
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, the p.p. of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, posted this about The Tablet (aka The Bitter Pill). Keep in mind this may be hard to substantiate. Shops seem to be closing all over Brighton, more … Read More
What’s in a name? A lot, as it turns out.
Once upon a time a couple liberals got really mad at me when I suggested that a Christian saint’s name might be a good thing for their little stupor mundi, rather than the trendy abstraction with an incomprehensible spelling. My … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged baptismal names, names
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126 Comments
When heresy leads to apostacy
Who is Addison Hart? And why should we care? Addison Hart was an Anglican who joined the Catholic Church. Now, he is leaving the Church and sliding back into the Anglican communion. I hear they have some job vacancies right … Read More
“Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” and the CDF
I believe you all know that recently the “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” policy (DADT) for the US Military was overturned. Also, last Sunday His Eminence Donald Card. Wuerl was interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday and was … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Card. Wuerl, Chris Wallace, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Fox News Sunday, homosexuals, military
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What were the biggest stories of 2010?
What were the biggest Catholic stories of 2010? Let’s get some suggestions and then maybe I can organize a poll for some voting.
Another Vatican website quirk concerning Summorum Pontificum
Under another entry in the combox, our friend iPadre pointed out that, at the time of this writing. on the Vatican website, the Supreme Pontiff’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum is still provided only in Latin and Hungarian. Languages equally comprehensible … Read More
Pages removed from Vatican’s online 1960 “Acta Apostolicae Sedis”: Rubrics of Breviary and Missal
The Vatican website’s OCR copy of AAS 52 has blank pages for pp. 593-740. John XXIII’s new code of rubrics, “Rubricae breviarii et missalis Romani,” is on pp. 622-42. Those inclined to look for conspiracies might wonder whether someone were withholding this … Read More
A natural law argument
I bring to your attention an exchange between Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George, on the one hand, and Barry Deutsch on the other, and then the response of Girgis, Anderson and George. Click HERE. At issue … Read More
One of the dumbest things I have read about Bp. Olmsted and St. Joseph’s formerly Catholic hospital
Via The Motley Monk I picked up this statement the President of Catholics for Choice, Jon O’Brien. Even if you are not sure what to think about Bp. Olmsted (D. Phoenix) declaring that Sr. McBride was excommunicated for her approval … Read More
QUAERITUR: Permanent deacons and the Roman collar.
I have had a number of questions from permanent deacons about the use of clerical dress, either in a liturgical setting or as street clothing. After consulting a trustworthy canonist, I will respond to them all here. In 2009, the … Read More
