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Category Archives: The Drill
Prez of Planned P’hood, Speaker Pelosi’s former staffer, attacks bishops
I picked up from the young Papist that Cecile Richards – President of Planned Parenthood, the eugenics inspired organization originally intended to kill off black people – said in pages of Hell’s Bible that the US bishops are ideologues because … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Cecile Richards, health care reform, Nancy Pelosi, Planned Parenthood
22 Comments
22 Comments
John Allen takes a look at Archbp. Burke
My friend John Allen, the fair-minded nearly ubiquitous columnist of the otherwise ultra-lefty fishwrap National Catholic Reporter, has an interesting piece about His Excellency Most Rev. Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura. When Archbp. Burke was brought to Rome … Read More
Bp. Donald “Ineffable” Trautman’s jihad against the new translation [Fr. Z POLL]
This entry also includes a little project for you readers and a POLL at the end. His Excellency Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, aided and abetted by the ultra-liberal anti-Roman National Catholic Reporter, continues his perennial jihad. The aging imam … Read More
Posted in New Translation, POLLS, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, WDTPRS
Tagged Bp. Trautman, Liturgiam authenticam, translation, USCCB
64 Comments
64 Comments
John Allen analyzes Pope Benedict’s outreach to SSPX and Anglicans
My friend John Allen, the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded columnist of the sadly ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter has good analysis in his regular Friday piece. Let’s have a look with my emphases and comments. Benedict’s ongoing battle against secularismby John … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged John L. Allen, The Pope of Christian Unity
13 Comments
13 Comments
Archbp. Nienstedt (Archd. StP/Mpls) on new translation
In The Catholic Spirit, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Archbishop Nienstedt has something to say about the upcoming changes to the translations of the Roman Missal. My emphases and comments. Changes in the language of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, WDTPRS
Tagged Archbp. Nienstedt, Liturgiam authenticam, translation
32 Comments
32 Comments
A bishop gets it: doing things is not necessarily active participation
I have written before in these electric pages about His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Vasa, Bishop of Baker Oregon. He has a column in The Catholic Sentinel, the instrument of the Archdiocese of Portland and the Diocese of Baker. His … Read More
The enemy of my enemy?
The wonderful and persistent Anna Arco of England’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has an amusing observation about Mo Dowd’s Sunday contribution to anti-Catholic bigotry. Thus, Anna: It is a rare occasion that finds Fr John Zuhlsdorf of What … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, The Drill
Tagged America, Anna Arco, Maureen Dowd, Michael Sean Winters
12 Comments
12 Comments
Wherein Bp. Trautman runs down new translation and Fr. Z responds
In the Catholic Review of the Archdiocese of Baltimore comes this CNS story. On 22 October His Excellency Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie, gave a talk at Catholic University of American in which he ran down the … Read More
The Nuns’ Story?
I predicted that the left would go into a grand mal twit. Today’s number of Hell’s Bible has the perfect example. The New York Times continues to showcase Maureen Dowd, whom I stopped reading a long time ago. But several … Read More
“The Anglican experiment is over.”
I once knew limerick, a clean limerick that began something like… There was once Bishop of Chichester,who three times repeated things, which is ter… I don’t remember the rest. But I did find this interesting from the Telegraph with my … Read More
