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Category Archives: The Drill
Where does “reconcile” come from? UPDATES
I received a couple notes about where the word “reconciliation” comes from. Odd. Anyway, rather than write it all out here is a page from a dictionary of Latin etymology, Ernout Meillet. It derives from ancient words for “call”. Look … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Cupich, Etymology, reconciliation, St. Isidore of Seville
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VIDEO: Wherein Card Arinze explains “conscience”
The mighty Francis Card. Arinze gave a video interview to LifeSite. He reminds everyone of what real primacy of conscience is in the Church’s teaching. He clarifies that we have the responsibility to have a properly formed conscience. We cannot simply claim … Read More
Sam Gregg: Intrinsic Evils, Final Realities, and the Synod
At CWR, Sam Gregg has a good piece of analysis. Samples… It was inevitable. Any discussion about marriage and the family during a synod of Catholic bishops was always going to involve questions of morality. Just as the furor around Humanae … Read More
Posted in Synod, The Drill
Tagged conscience, intrinsic evil, Samuel Gregg, Synod of Bishops
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EWTN (Fr. Murray) analysis of Synod from a couple days ago.
It is interesting, today, to watch the World Over analysis of the Synod from a couple days ago. Special attention, please, to Fr. Murray’s comments.
The Left seems to win constantly. What would happen if…
At Radical Catholic there is a post about Newark’s Archbp. Myers’ recent letter to his priests about the fact that people in mortal sin shouldn’t receive Communion. To what point have we finally arrived when a bishop has to send … Read More
Card. Sarah: “We find ourselves between ‘gender ideology’ and ISIS”, apocalyptic beasts… demonic origin
What Nazi-Fascism and Communism were in the 20th century, Western homosexual and abortion Ideologies and Islamic Fanaticism are today. Thus, Card. Sarah. Robert Card. Sarah is Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and an amazing fellow. Read his great new … Read More
#Synod15 notes – ‘Status quaestionis’ after Week 1
The on-again, off-again status of a Final Report is still up in the air. However, today it was announced that there will be a Final Report. So, we are “on” again. UPDATE: HERE Also, concerning the 13 Cardinals Letter™, as … Read More
Great analysis of some Synod issues – VIDEO
On EWTN my friend Fr. Gerald Murray is doing analysis of the workings of the Synod. He made some outstanding observations yesterday. NB: If you need a recommendation to watch it, Fishwrap‘s MS Winters viewed the program from his Fainting Couch … Read More
CDF priest comes out of the closet and makes demands. He’s fired.
On the eve of the Synod, a homosexual priest working for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and teaching at a university in Rome publicly announced himself to be a homosexual and that he has a “companion”. He took … Read More
It’s as if Francis had met with the homophobic dictator Kim DaeVis
UPDATE: Go to the bottom to see what Pope Francis responded on this issue to a reporter during the flight from these USA back to Rome. ORIGINAL Published on: Oct 1, 2015 @ 13:26 Yesterday I posted about reactions to the … Read More
