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Category Archives: The Drill
LifeSite: Obama as Provocateur of Catholic Dissention
I am sure some of you recall that during the Notre Shame debacle I repeated constantly that Pres. Obama was trying purposely to subvert the Catholic community. Some of you said I was crying "Wolf!". This is from Lifesite: Architect … Read More
Good clear talk about health care debate issues – useful!
I complained the other day that neither side in the Catholic field, the USCCB nor the dissidents, had adequately explained the presumed barrier – or lack thereof – or unacceptable weakness thereof – between federal money and the procuring of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged CNA, health care reform, Richard Doerflinger
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3 Comments
A magisterium of nuns
In this matter of contingent, prudential judgments, whose judgment will in time prove to have been the more prudent? The Catholic bishops with pro-life groups or their opposition, the LCWR and CHA and NCR, etc? I happen to think the … Read More
How to write a news piece on the German abuse scandal and the Pope’s involvement
We have seen in the MSM some dreadul stories trying to lead readers to think the worst about the Pope without any real evidence. Insinuation at its worst, for it concerns not just a person, but a sacred person. Here … Read More
CNS: “‘Catholic’ Health Ass.” backs bill, USCCB says NO!
From CNS with my emphases and comments: CHA backs health bill; bishops reiterate objection to abortion wording By Nancy Frazier O’BrienCatholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — "Despite the good" that proposed health reform legislation "intends or might achieve," concerns about … Read More
WSJ: A different tone of coverage about the German scandal
You know that the MSM is clicking and smacking their spittle-flecked chops at the chance to bite at the Pope. The Times and the NYT and AP are good examples of twisted coverage which aims at guiding the reader to … Read More
“Tolerance goes both ways, Boulder”
We have been following the controversy in Boulder, CO where a homosexual activst lesbian "couple" attempted to force a child (sadly) in their care into a Catholic school knowing that the Archdiocese had a policy not to accept such children. … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Chaput, Boulder, Fr. Breslin, homosexuals
30 Comments
30 Comments
CWN: US bishops oppose Senate health reform bill, clarify Politico
This morning I heard on one of those start-up-the-day TV shows (some news mixed with the mind-numbingly inane) that the Catholic bishops had in some way endorsed the proposed health care legislation for the US despite the obvious funding of … Read More
Mr Hoopes replys to Mr Zmirak’s reply to Mr. Hoopes’s reply to Mr. Zmirak
Literature is full of re Mr. John Zmirak started this here. Tom Hoopes responded. Zmirak responded to Hoopes. My role? just think of me as "Fr. Tom Servo" commenting on the whole thing. I posted on first pieces and in … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged John Zmirak, Thomas Hoopes
52 Comments
52 Comments
Zmirak responds to Hoopes, Fr. Z does Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
There is a bloggy debate going on between Mr. Zmirak and Mr. Hoopes. Rather, it turned into a debate. Zmirak started the ball rolling it with a piece in Inside Catholic. Hoopes responded on the National Catholic Register. I posted … Read More
TheCavalierHatherly on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “The obelisk outside the building was originally built by Thutmose III, and contains dedications from subsequent pharoahs. If you follow…”
