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Category Archives: The Drill
Worthy reading. More Pachamama and more from Archbp. Viganò.
At the Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last week (HERE with VIDEO), you could tell that quite a few of the congregants were unfamiliar with the Traditional Mass by the fact that they sang the Pater … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Modern Martyrs, The Drill
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Fr. David Nix, Fulton J. Sheen, George Weigel
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8 Comments
They pretend it’s about language, but in reality it’s about content.
My good friend of many years, Msgr. Hans Feichtinger, has an excellent piece today at Crisis. He puts his finger directly on the problems flowing from Germany and on the whole environment that spawned the Amazon Synod (“walking together”). Many … Read More
Some reading for the road
As I prepare to make a trip, I find good reading is available. First, from The Catholic Thing: Drawing Bright Lines by David Carlin I’m an old man, and though I hope, and on certain days even go so far … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, Jansenism, John Henry Newman, Unigenitus
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Wherein Fr. Z maps weird things, connects dots, rants a lot, and offers an ACTION ITEM!
Yesterday evening I wrote about “creeping incrementalism” which can manifest in different ways, namely, the slow removal of things, until something is changed, and the slow addition. Think of removing grains from a heap of sand until there is now … Read More
UPDATED: United Nations published environment, population control children’s book called “Pachamama”
Do you know about the so-called “Sorites or Heap Paradox”? Imagine you have a heap of sand. You begin one by one to remove the individual grains of sand. One by one. QUAERITUR: At what point is that collection of … Read More
Archbp. Viganò speaks: “We are in the grip of a religious chaos of gigantic proportion….” – a “satanic plan”
For all of us Catholics, the landscape in the Holy Church is becoming darker by the day. The ongoing progressive offensive portends a real revolution, not only in the way the Church is understood, but also in the apocalyptic images it … Read More
QUINQUENNIUM ALERT – Robert Card. Sarah
In general, appointments in the Roman Curia tend to be ad quinquennium… for a five year period. In ancient Rome, five-year periods were important for census taking, etc.: a lustrum.* As it turns out, His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah, was … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged lustrum, quinquennium, Robert Card. Sarah
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Ritual bowl for demonic Pachamama placed on St. Peter’s altar at closing Mass of #AmazonSynod
Robert Moynihan is a long-time vaticanista. In his latest “Letter #59, 2019: In plain sight“, he looks into the pagan element worked into the closing Mass of the Amazon Synod (“walking together”). We had speculated about whether or not the … Read More
Bp. Schneider on today’s “vacuum of prayer and adoration”. Fr. Z makes a plea to bishops and priests.
From his terrific new book… Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age US HERE – UK HERE With my emphases: SCHNEIDER: The whole crisis in the Church, as seen after the Council, was manifest in an incredible inflation of … Read More
A priest opines on the effect of optional priestly celibacy
I received this from a priest friend who, for reasons that are riotously obvious these days, desires anonymity. He reflects on the discussion of optional celibacy that the Amazon Synod is sure to push. Of course the Germans, who are … Read More
Venerator Sti Lot on What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Ave Maris Stella (Feasts of the B.V.M.): “I wonder if there is a conscious echo of the imagery in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 – “it is an ever-fixed…”
