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Category Archives: The Drill
More from John Allen on Msgr. Marini and Benedict XVI
This is a companion piece to Mr. Allen’s interview with Msgr. Guido Marini, the papal MC. My emphases and comments. Liturgist: Pope aims to ‘propose’ practicesMar. 03, 2010By John L Allen Jr ROME — For the better part of five … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Benedict XVI, John L. Allen, Msgr. Guido Marini, Reform of the Reform
17 Comments
17 Comments
John Allen interviews Msgr. Marini: Pope Benedict proposes rather than imposes
When my friend the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded John L Allen does an interview, it is usually a good one. Try to overlook the fact that he writes for dissenters’ central, the ultra-liberal fishwarp, the National Catholic Reporter. There is a … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill
Tagged John L. Allen, Msgr. Guido Marini, Reform of the Reform
10 Comments
10 Comments
PODCAzT 99: Archbp. Chaput’s Houston Speech on The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life
On Monday evening, 1 March 2010, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver gave a speech at Houston Baptist University called “The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life”. The lecture was presented in coordination with the Pope John Paul II Forum … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Archbp. Chaput, Denver, Houston, JFK, podcast, PODCAzT
10 Comments
10 Comments
Literally brick by brick: the new FSSP chapel
Your the Brick by Brick file from the Journal Star with my emphases and comments. Consecration at Denton seminary to celebrate ‘crown jewel’ By ERIN ANDERSEN / Lincoln Journal Star Sitting atop a hill in Denton, Our Lady of Guadalupe … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Bruskewitz, chapel, Denton, FSSP, Lincoln, Nebraska, Roman Rite
31 Comments
31 Comments
McBrien urges priests to disobey and resist translation
That darling of the ever more elderly dissident set, NCR‘s Richard McBrien has a new whine about the new English translation of the Roman Missal… which is coming whether the liberals like it or not. My emphases and comments. The … Read More
“broadcast” to “narrowcast”
In the National Catholic Register (which you can distinguish from the other NCR because the Register is Catholic), there is an offering by our friend and recent recipient of a WDTPRS coffee mug Fr. Dwight Longenecker about priests and blogs… … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged blogs, broadcast, Fr. Longenecker, internet, narrowcast, National Catholic Register
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7 Comments
Revolting liberals: against the new translation
Liberals are fomenting revolt. They are revolting against Pope Benedict XVI, and the bludgeon they are using right now is the new translation. More and more we are catching whiffs of a rather rank dissent in the ranks of liberals … Read More
Not every valid Council was a fruitful Council.
"Not every valid council in the history of the Church has been a fruitful one; in the last analysis, may of them have been a waste of time. Despite all the good to be found in the texts it produced, … Read More
Understanding what really happened to Church music: a glimpse
Liberals want to control the history, the narrative, of what happened during and around the Second Vatican Council. They have had an iron grip on that narrative for years. In recent times, even before the election of Pope Benedict, the … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged CIMS, Consociatio Internationalis Musicae Sacrae, Jeffrey Tucker, sacred music
8 Comments
8 Comments
“Vatican Tempests. The Academy for Life Puts Its Neck on the Line”
Everyone… read this. I just finished it on the Italian site and then found it in English. This is about the civil war in the Pontifical Academy for Life over remarks made by Archbp. Rino Fisichella about a case of … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged abortion, Archbp. Fisichella, Card. Bertone, Card. Levada, CDF, L'Osservatore Romano, Pontifical Academy for Life
13 Comments
13 Comments
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