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Category Archives: The Drill
Does “Beans” @MassimoFaggioli undermine ‘Humanae vitae’?
The war on the teaching of Humanae vitae continued today with an offering at ultra-liberal Commonweal by Massimo “Beans” Faggioli. Beans spends a lot of time on Twitter throwing out one inflammatory tweet after another as click bait. Faggioli takes … Read More
INTERESTING UPDATE – Pope Francis phones Gianni Vattimo, philosopher of “weak thought”
UPDATE 11 July: I received a fascinating email from a priest: In [Vattimo’s] book Credo di credere (his spiritual autobiography (reads like someone re-wrote Augustine’s Confessions after a healthy dose of laudanum), Vattimo writes that he prays the 1961 Breviarium … Read More
A mosque at the site of the Battle of Tours!
I saw a really interesting video at Jihad Watch. It is about the building of a mosque at the site of the super-important Battle of Tours, 25 October 732, where Charles “the Hammer” Martel routed the Islamic invaders. A mosque … Read More
POTUS, SCOTUS and “Judicial Humility”: a useful tip from @Judgenap
UPDATE: Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice. Check out the WSJ piece about the group to which Judge Amy Coney Barrett belongs. ___ Originally Published on: Jun 29, 2018 I’ve been looking at the list of the SCOTUS candidates from … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged Andrew Napolitano, judicial humility, Justice Thomas, POTUS, Pres. Trump, SCOTUS
22 Comments
22 Comments
PRESS RELEASE from Fr. Frank Phillips of @SJCantius
I’ve been following and posting about the horrid situation of Fr. Frank Phillips, CR, founder of the Canons of St. John Cantius and now-former pastor of the homonymous parish in Chicago. My previous post HERE Phillips accomplished astonishing things there … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Archd. Chicago, Canons of St. John Cantius, Fr. Frank Phillips
13 Comments
13 Comments
Speaking of homosexuality and Jesuit homosexualist activists…
Speaking of homosexuality and Jesuit homosexualist activists… From The Catholic Thing we have: De-homosexualizing the American Church He makes a good argument about the urgent need to de-“gay” the American Church. His solution is dead wrong. From Crisis we have: … Read More
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Drill
Tagged Fr. James Martin SJ, homosexualists, homosexuality
26 Comments
26 Comments
Keep your eyes and ears open for “lived reality” language
At Fishwrap there are a couple things today which exemplify the starting point of the Left. First, I note a revealing comment by the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left. MSW wrote, inter alia, about the recent death of … Read More
UPDATED: Provincial recommended Fr. Frank Phillips of @SJCantius be restored as superior general of the Canons
In the case of Fr. Frank Phillips, CR, the founder of the Canons of St. John Cantius, removed by the Archbp. of Chicago from his pastorate… Phillips, was accused of misconduct involving adult men. He was removed as pastor of … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Archd. Chicago, Card. Cupich, Fr. Frank Phillips, Resurrectionists
19 Comments
19 Comments
Silly piece at Fishwrap aimed at the new Oratory in @DetroitCatholic
There is an amusing piece at Fishwrap by the strongly biased liberal Peter Feuerherd about a parish in Detroit which has been given over to the formation of new Oratory. Oratories are popping up all over, probably as an unconscious … Read More
