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Category Archives: The Drill
What’s up at the southern border of these USA
This is one of most informative video clips I’ve yet seen about what’s going on at the southern border of these USA. Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The bit about the Honduran woman learning about how to get to … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged border, Honduras, illegal immigration
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18 Comments
Benedict XVI’s recent essay is a subtle correction of Amoris laetitia ch. 8
At Crisis find analysis by Richard A. Spinello of Benedict XVI’s recent explanation for The Present Crisis. The writer says that Benedict has, between the lines, criticized Amoris laetitia. I also, a couple says back, saw a piece arguing that … Read More
NEW BOOK from Martin Mosebach – Subversive Catholicism: Papacy, Liturgy, Church
German-born Martin Mosebach in an award-winning author who has penned works in many genres, novels, poems, and even opera libretti. He is an eloquent defender of our Catholic traditions and patrimony. If you haven’t yet read his exquisite The Heresy of … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, The Drill, Vatican II
Tagged Martin Mosebach
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6 Comments
ASK FATHER: The TLM’s Orationes Diversae and Oratio Imperata
UPDATE: My good friend Fr. Finigan has a post about Votive Mass which is sort of related to this. HERE ___ From a reader… QUAERITUR: In the Missale Romanum of the traditional Mass (1962), there is a section called “Orationes … Read More
ASK FATHER: Lutheran service more reverent than the Sunday Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m on vacation visiting my sister in Orlando. I try a new parish every time I come because they all seem to be lacking in reverence. (After Mass, I attended a Lutheran service with my sister’s … Read More
What priests – and you too – will have to deal with
I spotted this on Twitter. It’s not just the anti-Catholicism that comes from the outside that troubles us. More troubling is the anti-Catholicism from within. It has ever been so, since Judas sold the Lord. This is what faithful priests … Read More
A good article that explores what REAL clericalism is. UPDATED
UPDATE 10 May 2019: Fr. Longenecker has a post about different layers of clericalism. It is well written and has a good insight that builds on what I wrote, below. Go over there to get the full line of his … Read More
Posted in The Drill, Vatican II
Tagged Card. Heenan, clericalism, Evelyn Waugh, Vatican II
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12 Comments
Triumphant Renovationism – the ironic hypocrisy of the ‘c’atholic left
I am not a daily reader of Rod Dreher. However, today I was directed by someone to read something he wrote about a Russian Orthodox reacting to what we Catholics are doing. Let’s see. My emphases and comments. […] Looking around for … Read More
Posted in Both Lungs, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Rod Dreher, triumphalism
24 Comments
24 Comments
Latin and You. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Each year – in fact more than once each year – a serious problem for our enervated Catholic identity rises to the surface to demand our attention. The lack of Latin in the Latin Church. I am sure that there … Read More
