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Category Archives: The Drill
PODCAzT 158: Catholicism and Capital Punishment
Pope Francis recently made statements about capital punishment which are the cause of much discussion. While invoking “development of doctrine” he seems to contradict established Church teaching about the death penalty. It is as if His Holiness would harmonize these two statements: Capital … Read More
Boston College Amoris Laetitia Agitprop Workshop and Schrödinger’s Cat
I wrote about the first installment of coverage of the agitprop workshop going on at Boston College about issues concenring Amoris Laetitia. HERE It seems to me, having read something about the second round (including the talk about Jesuit Fr. … Read More
Well-prepared Catholics raise questions. Responses? “Shut up!”, they explain.
People are swift these days to talk about their “rights”. I sometimes get a little nervous when “rights” are invoked in the Church, because often “rights” means “I didn’t get what I wanted”. Clarity is needed regarding “rights”. At his … Read More
Posted in Canon Law, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged can. 212, correctio filialis, Ed Peters
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17 Comments
PODCAzT 156 – Josef Seifert on The Persecution of Orthdoxy
Today at First Things there is a powerful and persuasive piece by Josef Seifert, former Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair of Realist Phenomenology at the International Academy of Philosophy in Spain. It is clear that there is now a not so subtle … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Cri de Coeur, PODCAzT, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Josef Seifert
4 Comments
4 Comments
DEVASTATING
Read every word, top to bottom. HERE The moderation queue is ON. UPDATE: Alas, some of the comments over there leave quite a bit to be desired.
More dreck at Fishwrap
At Fishwrap (aka the National Schismatic Reporter) there are a couple of dreadful reads. Shocking, right? First, Jesuit Thomas Reese wrote (at the horrid RNS), about how more conservative Catholics are now “cafeteria Catholics” because they disagree with Pope Francis. … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The Drill
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, correctio filialis, Fr. Thomas Reese, in cauda venenum, Michael Sean Winters, MSW, Wile E. Coyote
11 Comments
11 Comments
Kwasniewski instructs @MassimoFaggioli about real “rupture”
Recently Massimo “Beans” Faggioli has attempted to stir up a pingle and, with it, attention for himself, by denigrating our Catholic Tradition – nay, rather – by denigrating the people who desire our Catholic Tradition. His latest clickbait shtick, which … Read More
Re-reading Martimort on Deaconesses. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
In once wonderfully Catholic Austria, the silly season is in swing. The new bishop of Innsbruck, Most Rev. Hermann Glettler, said that he supports the ordination of women to the diaconate (which is impossible) and Holy Communion for the divorce … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Deaconettes, The Drill
Tagged Aime G. Martimort, deaconesses, deaconettes, diaconate
20 Comments
20 Comments
Pope Francis comments on ‘Amoris laetitia’ with Columbian Jesuits
In the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald (which sports my regular column in the print edition – SUBSCRIBE!), there is republished a note about comments made by Pope Francis about reading Amoris laetitia. The Pontiff spoke off-the-cuff to some Columbian … Read More
excalibur on I am not making this up. Could it explain about clerics from a certain country?: “Where do they find these guys? Off, off Broadway? Or off, off the Midway?”
