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Category Archives: The future and our choices
“There will be some friction points along the way, but they will begin to integrate. That’ll be something to see.”
I have long observed that a demographic sinkhole is opening up under the Church here in these USA. The fact is that lots of “nones” will stop even pretending to embrace the family religion. Also, the inexorable movement of time is … Read More
Blunt message from Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf. Jewish, liberal, feminist, homosexualist. Not a name that you would think to see on this blog. However, a reader sent me an email with about an video interview she gave about what is going on in the world … Read More
29 June 1972. Paul VI says, “the smoke of Satan has entered the Church of God”
Fifty years ago today, 29 June 1972, Paul VI uttered those amazing words. He knew that something was not going right. Not at all right. Thus Paul VI: “… We would say that, through some mysterious crack—no, it’s not mysterious; … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged smoke of Satan
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A look at Peter’s Pence
I just saw the Vatican’s Annual Disclosure about Peter’s Pence or Obolo di San Pietro for 2021. The collection is taken up around the world around the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. It is intended to provide means for … Read More
Worship Prefect interviewed.
At Vatican News we find an interview with the Prefect of Worship, whom Francis designated as a Cardinal, Archbp. Arthur Roche, once of Leeds and less-than-successful head of ICEL. Roche is an inveterate enemy of the Roman Rite, the Vetus … Read More
Posted in B as in B. S as in S., The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Archbp. Roche
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“A dogmatic reference-point for the continual renewal and growth of God’s People”
The trend over the last few years, from “high atop the thing”, has been to distance Cult, Code and Creed (worship, discipline and doctrine) from anything that happened before 11 October 1962. Marked for special treatment is whatever came out … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Council of Trent, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, John Paul II
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New Decree from Rome cuts the legs from under bishops and strangles new religious groups in the crib.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t it once a project of Francis to decentralize some of the power from the Roman Curia out to the local Churches? I have this nagging memory that local bishops were to have … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged religious communities
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“Restorers”! “Against the Council”! “MAKE IT take root”! What are they really saying?
It strikes me that relative newcomer around the Holy See Press sector, listed as CNA‘s “senior Rome correspondent” – which as I get older strikes me as amusing – Hannah Brockhaus should rethink her priorities. Francis had an audience with … Read More
Posted in Francis, Just Too Cool, Liberals, New catholic Red Guards, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II
Tagged Francis, Jesuits, Vatican II
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The gnostic ways of Francisism on full display
Fishwrap (aka the National Sodomitic Reporter) has been too creepily disgusting lately even to peruse lately, what with the list of for the upcoming consistory. However, a friend did some toxic-waste diving and came up with an observation about one … Read More
What US Churches could look like. What would it take?
#Iraq On June 3, 2022. 172 of our children, 99 boys and 73 girls, received the first #HolyCommunion in #Baghdida #Qaraqosh The region that was heavily attacked by Isis militants a few years ago to exterminate Christians, scream out loud … Read More
