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Category Archives: The Drill
Synod rule changes to be announced on Friday. Hold on to your socks.
From the Bollettino: Avviso di Briefing, 29.09.2015 [B0737] Si informano i giornalisti accreditati che venerdì 2 ottobre 2015, alle ore 11.30, nell’Aula Giovanni Paolo II della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede, il Cardinale Lorenzo Baldisseri, Segretario Generale del Sinodo dei … Read More
Was the election of Pope Francis “invalid” because Cardinals committed certain crimes?
Canonist Ed Peters looks into the issue of the excommunication incurred by a cardinal elector who “canvasses” for votes in the context of a papal conclave. HERE I won’t, here, get into Dr. Peter’s proposal that automatic (late sententiae) excommunication should … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Card. Danneels, Cardinal Electors, cardinals, latae sententiae excommunication, UDG 81
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16 Comments
Great analysis of the “spin” of last year’s Synod on the Family. Fr. Z rants.
Synod Fatigue is sure to be setting in now, if it hasn’t already. Just wait. It’ll get worse. But you must stay focused. Don’t tune out Synod news. “But Father! But Father!”, some will say, “It’s all too much! I … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Cri de Coeur, Goat Rodeos, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, Pray For A Miracle, Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Austin Ruse, Card. Baldissieri, Card. Kasper, Card. Sarah, Rigging The Synod, Synod of Bishops
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27 Comments
Not everything is “Rah! Rah! Francis!”, even in the MSM
There is a lot of energy swirling around and about the Holy Father’s visit to Cuba and, soon, to these United States. I’ve already heard MSM hype about how Francis is the pretty much the first Pope who has ever … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Francis, The Drill
Tagged George Will, Pope Francis, WaPo, Weekly Standard
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50 Comments
The Rolling Stone of Catholic journalism and MS Winters’ Fainting Couch
I bring to the readership’s attention a piece by Fr. Robert Sirico of Acton Institute. He responds to a ridiculous piece in Rolling Stone, in which Acton and he are mentioned. HERE Rolling Stone, that bastion of journalistic professionalism, declined … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged Acton Institute, fainting couch, Fr. Robert Sirico, Michael Sean Winters, Rolling Stone, Wile E. Coyote
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14 Comments
Bp. Morlino (D. Madison) on EWTN talks about SSPX
The other night the Extraordinary Ordinary, His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C Morlino, Bishop of Madison was on EWTN with Raymond Arroyo to discuss the recent changes made in Canon Law to the marriage tribunal process and matters concerning the … Read More
Posted in SSPX, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Morlino, D. Madison, Raymond Arroyo, SSPX, The Extraordinary Ordinary
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24 Comments
The press takes sides before the Synod starts
As Rome wakes up from the summer break, the war for the Synod has begun. Those who wish changes to Catholic doctrine have allies in the Catholic media and the mainstream media. You should be aware of what is going … Read More
Card. Burke’s address at Steubenville about the marriage and the Synod
At Steubenville, His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke gave an address tonight (Tuesday 8 Sept) which you all will want to watch or listen to. He and other speakers talk about the working document, the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Synod … Read More
Pope Francis has changed canon law procedures for “annulments”
Today we received the texts of the two Letters Motu Proprio from His Holiness Pope Francis which change the Codes of Canon Law concerning the procedures for declarations of nullity for both the Latin and the Eastern Church. The texts are … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged annulments, canon law, canonical process, declaration of nullity
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79 Comments
More about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing
More needs to be said about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing. As I wrote before, the Pope, in his letter to Archbp. Fisichella, did NOT say that the priests of the SSPX will … Read More
