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Category Archives: The Drill
ND’s McBrien: Eucharistic Adoration “is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward”
In many places where perpetual, or even frequent, Eucharistic Adoration has been made available, there have been great benefits. But Richard McBrien of Notre Dame is against Eucharist Adoration. In his latest piece for the dissenting, ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter … Read More
Portland, ME: Staggeringly inept comments on the Pope’s Summorum Pontificum
We are coming up on the 2nd anniversary of the implementation of the Holy Father’s "emancipation proclamation" Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. You would that that, by now, enough time had passed for Holy Church’s shepherds to have at least sifted … Read More
Smart TV, Stupid TV, social propaganda and accents
I am going to ramble for a moment. I have been working my way through episodes of The Eleventh Hour (there are only four) with Patrick Stewart. Once again we see a BBC show which has a strong social agenda. … Read More
Sean Card. O’Malley responds to critics of his decisions about the Kennedy funeral
The Archbishop of Boston, Sean Card. O’Malley, has a blog. The Cardinal was recently a highly visible participant in the funeral Mass for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), a decades long promoter of abortion rights. The Cardinal, no surprise, … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Linking Back, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
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TIME Magazine’s liberal spin of the resignation of Bp. Martino (D. Scranton)
The resignation of Bp. Joseph Martino as Bishop of Scranton raised some eyebrows. The eyebrows probably arched with the simultaneous resignation of the Auxiliary of Scranton. Bishop Martino cited health problems. I think we need to take him at his … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged abortion, Bp. Martino, Scranton, TIME Magazine
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Fr. Sirico: Sen. Kennedy and also cultural Catholics whoe “relinquish the substance of the faith if it gets in the way”
On the site of National Review our friend Fr. Robert Sirico has an obituary for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Kennedy the Catholic [Rev. Robert A. Sirico] I only met Edward Kennedy once. I had been invited to visit then-senator … Read More
America writer attacks critics of Sen. Kennedy: don’t mention his abortion record
In the lefty Jesuit weekly, something called America, there is a strong attack on, well, pretty much anyone who didn’t think that late Sen. Kennedy was just the bees knees. Singled out for a pouring of the choicest liberal acid … Read More
Archbp. Chaput on Obamacare: promoting abortion is not “common ground”
Archbp. Chaput has stepped up once again about the Obama Administrations proposals for "health care". Here is the Archbishop’s column. REMINDER: During his speech at the Notre Dame Debacle, President Obama referred repeatedly to "common ground". My emphases and comments. … Read More
Bp. D’Arcy on the Notre Dame Debacle… this is not over
I was told by an American bishop not long ago that, as far as the USCCB was concerned, the Notre Dame Debacle is not over. Read the article by Bp. D’Arcy in America. From CNA with my emphases and comments. … Read More
