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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Planned Parenthood abortion zealot spits in the face of a Romney supporter
From Life News: Planned Parenthood Protestor Spits on Romney Supporter by Steven Ertelt A Planned Parenthood protestor [in other words a pro-PP protester = a zealot for PP] who purposefully mingled in with supporters of Mitt Romney at a Wisconsin … Read More
Rep. Ryan to Catholics: act before religious freedoms are eroded
From CNA: Paul Ryan urges Catholics to act before religious freedoms erode Presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says Catholics must act now to protect their right to religious freedom from being diminished in American society. “This is a … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged 1st Amendment, Affordable Care Act, anti-catholic, HHS mandate, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama Administration, Obamacare, Obamatax, preferential option for the poor, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Rep. Paul Ryan, Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, solidarity, subsidiarity
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Catholic Herald: The Church should make life harder for Catholics
Here is something for us all to think about as we approach the Year of Faith. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, comes this good reflection. It is on their regular site, but can be found in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, GO TO CONFESSION, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged confession, Eucharistic fast, Holy Days of Obligation, Latin, liturgy, Michael Jennings, sacrament of penance, standing, vernacular
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Rep. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand
Lefty-catholics and Fishwrap readers are having a spittle-flecked nutty over Rep. Paul Ryan. Fishwrap today compared Ryan to Dr. Kevorkian. You will no doubt be hearing from some of them that Ryan is a “Randian” and “Objectivist”, that is, an adherent to … Read More
A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
For your Brick by Brick file. In another entry I answered a question from a lay person who desired to pray for a priest as he learns the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass at the request of his bishop. It … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith
Tagged Bp. Morlino, D. Madison, Extraordinary Form, Marshall Plan, seminarians, seminaries, TLM, Universae Ecclesiae
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QUAERITUR: Prayer for a priest as he is tasked to learn the TLM
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! From a reader: Fr. Z- During his homily this weekend, my pastor stated that our bishop asked him to learn to say the TLM so that he can say mass for a group of … Read More
Card. Burke on Summorum Pontificum and worship as the key to reform. Fr. Z rants and agrees.
His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke, in this video interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN, in commenting on Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum speaks to something that I have been harping on incessantly for years. I have been saying that we must … Read More
Quinque Puncta … Five Points To Be Recited Usefully
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! If we don’t know who we are as Catholics, and if we don’t keep firmly in mind our common Christian vocation to holiness, we will not be able to fulfill our particular vocations and … Read More
French prayer to oppose gay unions
From The Irish Times: French prayer to oppose gay unions The French Catholic Church will revive a centuries-old custom next week with an updated national “prayer for France” opposing the same-sex marriage and euthanasia reforms planned by the new Socialist … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged euthanasia, French Catholic Church, King Louis XIII, New Evangelization, Prayer for France, same-sex marriage, SSPX
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24 Comments
“There is only one problem in the whole world….” Wherein Fr. Z has a mini-rant.
“There is only one problem in the whole world: restoring spiritual sense in people. Showering on them something like a Gregorian chant.” – Saint-Exupéry Simple? Too simple? Perhaps. Faith is the last thing that sinners lose, after charity, first, and … Read More
