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Category Archives: The Drill
The Mysterious Case of CCC 2358 on objectively disordered homosexual inclinations
This is an unusual post. First, I must preface this that some one sent me information about this recently, but I can’t remember who it was, I’ve looked for the email. So, someone found this before I did. I would like … Read More
“Whatsoever new and unheard-of doctrine you shall find to have been furtively introduced” is “permitted as a trial”.
When confusing things happen that leave people upset, legitimately, I have often written that that we should stay calm. This is for several reasons. Each horrid thing that clerics do or strange thing they say is further proof that this … Read More
Pius XII: coercive power, death penalty NOT “conditioned by historical circumstances” for they have “a general and abiding validity”
I was recently reminded of a 2013 article at Crisis by Fr. George Rutler about capital punishment” “Hanging Concentrates The Mind”. Among other things in his piece, Rutler writes of the guy I wrote about yesterday, Mastro Titta, the official … Read More
“HEY! Wait for me!” Latin of change to CCC 2267 about capital punishment now available.
You have to wonder who is running things. Some of you of a certain age will remember going to the circus and seeing the classic clown car. A tiny car would zoom out into the light and an impossible, Newtonian … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged capital punishment, CCC 2267, death penalty, Latin
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40 Comments
A Gatherum Omnium: Fr. Z comments on lots of today’s stories
There is so much going on today, allow me to signal to you some things that I found interesting, but have not the time to comment upon comprehensively individual posts. Here is a Gatherium Omnium with my pointed comments. I … Read More
“Cancel the Dublin gathering and instead lead a two-day procession of public penitence”
In Dublin, there is scheduled a World Meeting of Families, later this month. Is this a good idea right now? Given what is going on, is an autumn Synod on Young People (where homosexual stuff is sure to be soft-peddled … Read More
QUAERITUR: If something is in the Catechism, do I have to give in, believe it even though it is different from what the Catechism taught before?
I am getting questions from lots people about Pope Francis’ move to change the Church’s doctrine concerning capital punishment. QUAERITUR: If this is in the Catechism, do I have to give in and believe it even though this is different … Read More
Pope Francis changed the Catechism about the death penalty. What next? Wherein Fr. Z opines.
I wonder if the recent move of the Holy Father to change the text – the teaching of the Church – of the paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about the death penalty will generate enough buzz to … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The Coming Storm, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, capital punishment, Catechism of the Catholic Church, death penalty, development of doctrine, John Henry Newman, Juan Manuel de Rosas, lived experience, Pope Francis, Realities are more important than ideas
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75 Comments
Cri de Coeur: calls for punishing action against bishops complicit in L’Affaire McCarrick
Today I read at Crisis a smart piece by Eric Sammons which argued that, because of the unaddressed, indeed covered up scandal of McCarrick … and others, just wait!… Catholics should address the problem of feckless bishops by withholding money: … Read More
Who is behind that “Lovely, drippy, syrupy TLM and vocation video” and how are they being treated?
Yesterday I posted about a lovely video made in Italy, which clearly and in a positive light presents traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite and the priestly vocation. Because it was so well done, I did a little digging around about … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged Archd. Ferrara-Comacchio, Fraternità Sacerdotale Familia Christi
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Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
