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- JonPatrick on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I’ll bet that 1% of sisters under the age of 40 are predominantly those in traditional orders.”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I wonder if the gentle prelate of Knoxville will try to stop people from seeing Ghost Soldier. It’s got that,…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Published on Aleteia :: 01/30/17 In his Regina Caeli message of Sunday, April 24, 1994, St. John Paul spoke of…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “The next page is Bedyngham’s “O rosa bella”, with a more dragonish pink-masked beast in several colors. Shrug. Anyway, the…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “That is from a heart-shaped (“cordiforme”) music book (“chansonnier”) of secular love songs, laid out for three or four male…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I have noticed this new strategy, of prelates asking for the NO to be celebrated reverently and according to the…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I wonder how the majority of priests, deacons, and bishops feel about several Catholics leaving Mass immediately after communion. No,…”
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Category Archives: The Drill
A sour article from The Tablet about possible reintegration of the SSPX
With my emphases and comments from the recent number of RU–486 (aka The Bitter Pill aka The Tablet) in the news section for… FRANCE Faint hopes on outcome of SSPX talks Tom Heneghan in Paris Christa Pongratz-Lippitt in Vienna CARDINAL … Read More
Archbp. Nauman responds to HHS Sec. Sebelius, pro-abortion Catholic
I found this at The Catholic Key: Archbishop Naumann Responds to Sebelius’ WaPo Interview Claim Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sat down for an interview with the Washington Post. When asked about last year’s request by Kansas City, Kansas … Read More
Canonist Ed Peters on Archbp. Burke on the Kennedy funeral
The other day I posted that His Excellency Most Rev. Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, spoke in Washington DC. He said in clear terms that Catholic politicians who publicly commit scandal by promoting immoral policies also contrary to … Read More
John Allen on upcoming SSPX Summit
My friend John L. Allen, the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded correspondent of the ultra-lefty dissenting National Catholic Reporter is a good analyst. In his weekly Friday letter he drills into the upcoming talks that are soon to begin between the SSPX … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged John Allen, John L. Allen, NCR, SSPX
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17 Comments
Finally getting around to it: Mickens of The Bitter Pill finds a TLM
In his Letter from Rome Robert Mickens of RU-486 (aka The Bitter Pill aka The Tablet) offers these observations about the older form of Mass and Pope Benedict’s "emancipation proclamation" Summorum Pontificum. Shall we have a look in the usual … Read More
Cincy: Teacher dismissed for support of women’s ordination (POLL ALERT)
Long time WDTPRS readers will remember the story from Cincinnati about how His Excellency Most Rev. Daniel Pilarczyk determined that a woman religious teacher dedicated to the cause of the ordination of women may not teach in that Archdiocese. There … Read More
Posted in POLLS, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Arch. Pilarczyk, Cincinnati, women's ordination
104 Comments
104 Comments
NCR instrumentalizes priest to attack his own bishop, Bp. Robert Finn
The editors of the ultra-lefty National Catholic Reporter once again show their spittle-flecked contempt for the diocesan bishop where their paper’s offices are located: Most Rev. Robert Finn, Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph. NCR published a letter from a priest … Read More
Cry Baby McBrien has better ideas for “Year for Priests”
Don’t be shocked. I may actually agree with some points in the following article from the ultra-lefty NCR by the liberal Richard McBrien, dissident priest employed by Notre Dame to teach, mirabile dictu, theology. Don’t be alarmed. Broken clocks are … Read More
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
JonPatrick on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I’ll bet that 1% of sisters under the age of 40 are predominantly those in traditional orders.”
