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Category Archives: The Drill
Questions raised by Nostra aetate about the Christian God and Muslim Allah
Under another entry a commentator said: It’s also about time that Catholics start repudiating those sections of Nostra Aetate referring to Muslims. Let’s have a look at the relevant paragraph of Nostra aetate. 3. Ecclesia cum aestimatione quoque Muslimos respicit … Read More
The Savior’s chalice is forever precious and His hands are ever sacred
His Hermeneuticalness has an interesting post concerning the new corrected translation. Let’s jump in media res: In the combox of the post "Telling the truth – a new corrected translation", Lawrence the Roman writes concerning the new corrected ICEL translation … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, New Translation, The Drill, Throwing a Nutty, WDTPRS
Tagged chalice, cup, Fr. Finigan, praeclarus calix
30 Comments
30 Comments
Ground Zero Mosque: a “Rabat”, not a “Cultural Center”
Some time ago, at the recommendation of the great Fr. Welzbacher of St. Paul, I read Andrew McCarthy’s The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. It was an excellent preparation, or propaedeutic, for the controversy over the … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Amir Taheri, cordoba, Ground Zero, Mosque, Rabat
58 Comments
58 Comments
NCR’s latest Magical Liturgical Mystery Tour
On the site of the National Catholic Fishwrap, Eugene Kennedy, ex-priest and humanistic psychologist, attacks the "reform of the reform". He is actually attacking the new translation of the Roman Missal. His piece is so turgid that it is hard … Read More
Wholly Ours
In a conversation with a friend today it became clearer and clearer to me how the Second Vatican Council’s document on liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, is entirely the property of … on the side of the traditional/conversative argument. The usual narrative … Read More
On remarks of a priest and his bishop in El Paso
Fr. Michael Rodriguez, a priest of the Diocese of El Paso, offered an op-ed piece to the local secular newspaper. It was printed on 2 August 2 in the El Paso Times. Here is the piece by Fr. Rodriquez with … Read More
SSPX Bp. Williamson v. The Pope of Christian Unity
It seems that SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson is a bit worried. To his latest piece, which I received by email from a reader, I add my emphases and comments. Before we start drilling, however, here are a few points to … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Williamson, SSPX
74 Comments
74 Comments
Fr. Breen retracts his dissenting statement made on his video
I note on the site of CMR that the priest in the Diocese of Nashville, Fr. Joseph Breen, who posted a video some time ago containing his own dissident statements. The diocesan bishop, H.E. David Choby, gave Fr. Breen an … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Choby, conscience, Fr. Breen, magisterium, Nashville
38 Comments
38 Comments
NCR’s John L. Allen on African symposium about dangers of Western Secularism
Here is a fascinating piece by John L. Allen, who sadly is still writing for the National Catholic Reporter. In his posting Allen shows both his worth as a Catholic journalist along with his own positions. He conveys useful information … Read More
Expert comments on the music for a Papal event in England
At The Chant Cafe my friend Jeffrey Tucker, a distinguished Church musician, has a few trenchant comments about some of the music for an even during the upcoming Papal Visit to England. My emphases and comments: Damian Thompson reports on … Read More
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