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Category Archives: The Drill
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
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
Austrian MP tells it like he sees it. KABLAM!
Here is an amazing piece of video from the Austrian Parliament. Austrian MP Ewald Stadler speaks to the position of the Turkish Ambassador and tells off some of his colleagues. During this, he addresses the lack of outrage when a … Read More
Doubling it up in TV commercials
I have noticed a recent trend in TV commercials. It seems that companies are joining forces to have their products in one same commercial. For example, yesterday, I saw a Jeep in a new video game. I saw a diamond … Read More
Check out VIS article on Card. Ratzinger’s efforts against child abuse
Today in the VIS there is an English rendering of the article I mentioned yesterday from L’Osservatore Romano. CARDINAL RATZINGER AND REVISION OF CANONICAL PENAL LAW VATICAN CITY, 2 DEC 2010 (VIS) – Given below is the text of an … Read More
Deacon’s Q&A about Extraordinary Form to create unity in multicultural parish
Here is an offering from the Catholic Sentinel, the twice monthly publication of Oregon Catholic Press, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland. Rev. Mr. Cummings answers a question. Why is the Latin Mass not offered more? [Scottish-born, Irish-trained] … Read More
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Tagged multiculturalism, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Benedict’s Christ is not a teddy bear: Analysis by Samuel Gregg
My friend Samuel Gregg of the Acton Institute is one of the smartest writers, commentators I know. He has a very good piece on the blog of the Acton Institute about Pope Benedict’s book-length interview which goes beyond the Condom … Read More
Critics and criticisms of Benedict XVI and his condom comments
Sandro Magister, Italian Vaticanista, has a thought provoking piece today which deals with criticisms of Pope Benedict XVI and what he said offered by his supporters. I’ll include here just the first part. Go to Magister’s site for the whole … Read More
What’s up with the chant notation for singing prayers in the new Missal?
This is from my friend Jeffrey Tucker’s The Chant Cafe Last February (it seems like years ago), InsideCatholic ran my article called Pay to Pray: The Church’s Simony Problem. Based on years of thought and research, I took aim at … Read More
Wikileak-ed diplomatic cables about the 2005 election of Pope Benedict
The Italian daily La Stampa had an article yesterday about the US diplomatic documents leaked on the internet. In this case, they concerned the papal conclave of 2005. The highlights of the article. Before the election the staff of the … Read More
ThePapalCount on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Fr Z — this is an excellent piece. Great teaching. Thanks for this.”
