Category Archives: The Drill

WDTPRS POLL ALERT! (This might get things going.)

I love the title of this entry.   No, not the title of this entry… but Damian Thompson’s title on the entry where he posts Michael Voris’s latest. Lesbian-hugging Marxist nuns have reduced US parishes to nuclear wasteland, Catholic pundit tentatively … Read More

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“God’s Pit Bull”

His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke has been underscoring the interplay of civil law and the Church’s canon law.  Last summer he organized a conference on that very subject. This will be more and more important as the Church and state … Read More

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Pope Benedict’s Message for the 44th World Day of Peace

Five years later, I still consider Benedict’s XVI’s first Message for the 39th World Day of Peace to be one of his important documents.  It give you a concise view of his thought about what true peace is. The Holy … Read More

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The Phoenix Hospital conflict and the Magisterium of Nuns

The Motley Monk has best summary I have seen so far (here and here – I am integrating his work here, but you should go there and read) of what is going on with the dust-up in Phoenix, Arizona between … Read More

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Hurray for President Obama!

Did you ever think to read that here? President Obama’s approval rating may be at an all time low, but today for me he ticked up a notch! POTUS signed a critically important world-changing piece of high impact legislation of … Read More

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St. Haggai, prophet, and a note about a calendar

Many Old Testament figures are accounted as saints by the Catholic Church. Today is the commemoration of St. Haggai, one of the twelve prophets of the Old Testament. Here is his entry in the Roman Martyrology: 1. Commemoratio sancti Aggaei, … Read More

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What’s going on with the Legionaries of Christ?

At Sandro Magister’s place there is an article about what is going on with the correction of the Legionaries of Christ.  Here is the preamble: ROME, December 16, 2010 – The order is binding. All the houses of the Legionaries … Read More

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What is going on in China?

In all seriousness. John Allen, the nearly ubiquituous, fair-minded writer for the ultra-lefty NCR has a piece about what is going on in China. Crackdown in China takes church ‘back to the time of Mao’ by John L Allen Jr … Read More

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Archd. Washington DC: homosexual activist “catholics for Equality” is NOT Catholic

This is from LifeSite: D.C. Archdiocese shoots down rumor Cardinal Ok’d event with ‘Catholic’ gay group BY KATHLEEN GILBERT WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington has reaffirmed the illegitimate status of Catholics for Equality, … Read More

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O, the poor sisters!

From the Fishwrap… Vatican must hear ‘anger and hurt’ of American nuns, official says by John L Allen Jr on Dec. 07, 2010 ROME — Rome must acknowledge the “depth of anger and hurt” provoked by a visitation of American … Read More

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