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- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “It’s interesting how I’m being accused of detraction today (by anonymous moralizing posters) when I simply state what were proudly…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Lurker59 The details I mentioned were not detraction both because the events were quite public at the time (Fr Pagliarani…”
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- on SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops: “I’m somewhat hearing, “Don’t become the late +Williamson.” I don’t doubt that the late Archbishop deeply regrets that particular consecration…”
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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Catholics… HA! Pathetic!
From Catholic Vote with my emphases: CATHOLIC CHURCH FAILS TO BEHEAD A SINGLE PERSON IN 2014 For the most intolerant and extreme religion in the world, this is a rather embarrassing statistic. It appears that the Catholic Church, widely recognized as the … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, The Religion of Peace
Tagged auto-da-fé, Islam, Religion of Peace
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16 Comments
German bishops pushing hard to overturn the Church’s doctrine
Over at The Spectator, Damian Thompson has a good summary piece. He recaps what happened at the last Synod of Bishop, where controversy over the Kasper proposals about Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried dominated the proceedings. Damian is … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged blackmail, Card. Marx, church tax, Communion, Damian Thompson, Die Kirchensteuer, divorced and remarried, German Bishops, Synod of Bishops, The Spectator
90 Comments
90 Comments
Fr. Rutler interviewed. Fr. Z rants.
Speaking of Hell’s Kitchen, over at CWR there is a dynamite interview with Fr. George Rutler, Pastor of St. Michael’s in Manhattan. He speaks on a range of issues, from the decision of the Church of England to “ordain” women … Read More
NYC cops assassinated. Remarks and prayers.
I am sad and angry about the assassination of two New York City police offers. I will remember them and their families in my prayers. There’s lots of blame to go around. First, the perp was a Muslim who posted … Read More
It’s. Another. Religion.
I was once in a parish with a school. I visited class rooms. I was asked to blessed the class rooms by the pastor. By way of explanation of what blessings are all about I wanted to make the distinction … Read More
“lingua latina bene calleant”
Many are the times that I have lamented the nearly complete disobedience to the Code of Canon Law and the expressed will of modern Roman Pontiffs about the Latin language. For example, the 1983 Code of Canon Law, can. 249, … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Cri de Coeur, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Vatican II
Tagged can. 249, Fr. John Hunwicke, John XXIII, Latin, OT 13, SC 36
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34 Comments
Pope: To attract people more easily tone down teachings, relax severity… NOT.
Recently I read this quote from Pope Leo XIII’s 1899 Letter (sometimes called Encyclical, sometimes Apostolic) on the heresy of Americanism Testem benevolentiae: The underlying principle of these new opinions [Americanism] is that, in order to more easily attract those who differ … Read More
Card. De Paolis on communion for divorced, remarried: “If approved, the consequences would be of unprecedented gravity.”
The outline of features for the next Synod of Bishops in October 2015, or Lineamenta, has been released. The Lineamenta is based on the last Synod’s final document, the Relatio Synodi. For the Relatio, the members of the Synod voted on each paragraph. According to the … Read More
Posted in Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Card. DePaolis, Communion, divorced and remarried, homosexuality, Lineamenta, Relatio Synodi, Synod of Bishops
34 Comments
34 Comments
Catholic League on anti-Catholic Minnesota Public Radio
From the Catholic League: Minnesota Public Radio Is A Scam December 10, 2014 Bill Donohue comments on Minnesota Public Radio: National Public Radio is no friend of Catholicism, but usually it tries to hide its bias. By contrast, Minnesota Public … Read More
Latin American Catholicism, the jury is still out
If we Catholics don’t know our Faith, we can’t live it. If we don’t know it, we can’t share it. As the old phrase says, “Nemo dat, quod non ‘got’!” If we are not knowledgeable, articulate and forthright in expressing … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Latin America, Samuel Gregg
22 Comments
22 Comments
Fr Jackson on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “People in 1054 did not realize that a definitive rupture had taken place. They assumed the excommunications were simply another…”
