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Category Archives: The Drill
“Brain death” apparently not so dead as some would like
Be sure to read what I have posted in the past about PVS patients, people in a “Persistent Vegetative State”. HERE Especially, I urge you to look at this article. Read everything and THINK about end of life decisions. And remember… … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged brain death, persistent vegetative state, PVS
39 Comments
39 Comments
5 Facts about the Little Sisters of the Poor SCOTUS case
From the Becket Fund For Religious Liberty: Dear Friends, The world watched while the Pope, during his US tour, made a surprise visit to the Sisters “in support of the Sisters’ legal fight.” As you may know, on Holy Wednesday, … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Religious Liberty, SCOTUS, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, HHS mandate, Little Sisters of the Poor, Obamacare, Obamatax, religious freedom, religious liberty, SCOTUS
8 Comments
8 Comments
It’s not an urban legend, it’s a LIE: Paul VI did NOT give permission to nuns to use contraceptives.
The other day Pope Francis, in the infamous post-Mexico airplane presser, said: Paolo VI – il grande! – in una situazione difficile, in Africa, ha permesso alle suore di usare gli anticoncezionali per i casi di violenza. … Paul VI … Read More
ASK FATHER: Canons, Monsignors, and the Institute of Christ the King
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I know that the priests of the Institute of Christ the King nowadays take the title “Canon” and that Monsignors Wach and Schmitz are, well, Monsignors. Recently I have heard a few people independently doubt this, … Read More
Posted in Mail from priests, The Drill
Tagged Annuario Pontificio, canons, canons regular, Institute of Christ the King
17 Comments
17 Comments
Fr. Rutler on Card. Kasper and the Germans: “Modernists are people who do not believe what they believe.”
Run, don’t walk, to Crisis to see Fr. George Rutler’s latest. HERE. The German bishops, theologians and Card. Kasper are front and center. Here are some of my favorite moments… […] The social consequences of German idealism were hymned in … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Drill
Tagged Africa, Card. Kasper, Charles Péguy, Fr. George Rutler
9 Comments
9 Comments
“Mercy, not magic”. Year of Mercy Doors are NOT a substitute for confession
From CNS: Mercy, not magic – Archdiocese of Bombay clarifies Holy Doors and the Jubilee Mumbai, India, Jan 26, 2016 / 04:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archdiocese of Bombay issued a clarification last week after WhatsApp users in Maharashtra were … Read More
Pope Francis: “there cannot be confusion between the family desired by God and every other type of union”
The other day His Holiness Pope Francis gave the annual address to the Roman Rota. HERE The Rota, the Tribunal Apostolicum Rotae Romanae or Apostolic Tribunal of the Roman Rota is the Church’s highest appellate court. It takes its name from the round … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Francis, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged indissolubility, marriage, matrimony, Roman Rota
7 Comments
7 Comments
“I have confronted a few priests, as politely as possible, and hated every second of it.”
Most of us have have struggled at one point or another, often to the the point where a little trickle of blood emerges from the corner of our mouths, to bite our tongues during sermons. Listening to at best pabulum and … Read More
