Category Archives: The future and our choices

Traditional rite of Confirmation

I received some nice photos of Confirmation in the older form of the Roman Rite administered by His Excellency Most Rev. Michael Burbidge, Bishop of Raleigh. There is so much to like about this one. WDTPRS kudos to Bp. Burbidge … Read More

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CNS: State Department Purges Religious Freedom Section from Its Human Rights Reports

The US State Department is run by the surrogates of The First Gay President, Mr. Obama, and they take his order. Maybe religious liberty is not a human right after all? From CNS: State Department Purges Religious Freedom Section from … Read More

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Photographer refuses to shoot same-sex thingy. Bullying ligation ensues. First liberties eroded.

Priests and bishops will be targeted by homosexuals activists as victims in harassing court cases.  Proponents of unnatural acts will bully – through litigation and threats of litigation and even violence – bully clergy into doing things that are contrary … Read More

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SSPX Bp. Fellay on the danger of inventing an idea of the Church that appears ideal.

Cindy Wooden of CNS did an article on comments made by SSPX Bp. Fellay on their site DICI.  I found this on the site of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald. After some introductory remarks about the present … Read More

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Rosaries forbidden in a school because they are “gang signs”.

For your Just Too Dumb file: MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 15-year-old Coon Rapids student says he wears a rosary as a necklace to feel close to his grandmother, who is suffering from breast cancer. But the Anoka-Hennepin School District told … Read More

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Kusunda

Created things pass away. Here is an interesting I found at dictionary.com: Obscure language isolate will die with this woman Seventy-five-year-old Gyani Maiyi Sen is the only native fluent speaker of Kusunda in the world, and linguists are rushing to … Read More

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LCWR is planning how not to obey

From the site of Vatican Radio: Statement by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain in response to the LCWR statement Following the May 31 statement by the national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR ) concerning the assessment that … Read More

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Our personal convictions must translate into action in the public square.

London is decorated for the Queen’s 60th Jubilee. Apart from the decorations and public ceremonies, two things which will stand out from the observance of these 60 years. First, yesterday at the Brompton Oratory after the principle Mass, celebrated for … Read More

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Bp. Davies (D. Shrewsbury) defends marriage: politicians who give lips service to the family must now act

Pres. Obama, The First Gay President, is not the only one undermining our first freedoms. We have been keeping an eye His Excellency Most Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury (south of the River Mersey next to Liverpool, the southern … Read More

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The average age of the LCWR is…

…74. 73s!

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