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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Denver priest ‘pulls out the big guns’: TLM outside Planned Parenthood
Here is something Life News to stir the heart. Fr. Joseph Hearty. OORAH! Denver priest ‘pulls out the big guns’ on Planned Parenthood: says Mass on the street outside clinic BY CHRISTINE DHANAGOM Mon Apr 23, 2012 DENVER, CO, April … Read More
BOOK REVIEW: Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family And Freedom Before It’s Too Late
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! We are in a world-wide crisis that encompasses every sphere of our lives. There is an economic, moral, religious and intellectual decline that threatens to bring down our respective countries. We are deep within … Read More
Tweeting for the Magisterium of Nuns
The acolytes of the Magisterium of Nuns, such as Fr. James Martin, SJ, of America Magazine, are pretending that the Holy See’s effort to reform the the LCWR is about Republicans and politics, or about their “social justice” work. Fr. … Read More
FREE BEER! No… really! FREE BEER. St. Paul, MN: ALERT for MEN! 8 May Argument of the Month
In my native place of the Twin Cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis) there is a parish whose patron is St. Augustine, a favorite of mine, where both Ordinary and, above all, Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite are used. The … Read More
Democrat candidates in Connecticut favor forcing Catholic hospitals to perform abortions
Something we have to remember when considering the Obama Administration’s erosion of the 1st Amendment through the HHS mandate, is the element of what I call “creeping incrementalism”. Each time some radical thing is proposed, even if it fails, … Read More
WaPo politics writer, NYT, on the SSPX, LCWR, CDF, USCCB. Reading this may make you a little stupider.
WaPo has a story on the recent efforts of the CDF and USCCB to help the poor confused women of the LCWR to faithful, orthodox Catholicism. The piece was written by a political writer, the deeply confused, Melinda Henneberger in … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Blatteroons, Dogs and Fleas, Magisterium of Nuns, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged dumb, LCWR, magisterium of nuns, Melinda Henneberger, SSPX, WaPo
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Liberals hurt children, attack priests and bishop, destroy parish school: Platteville, WI – FOLLOW UP
You may recall that I have written about a great group of priests in the Diocese of Madison (where the great Bp. Morlino reigns) called the Society of Jesus the Priest. (See HERE.) Liberals mounted a sustained attack on these … Read More
Out with the bad air, in with the good. Another point about the LCWR and their future.
There is an Italian proverb that when a door closes a window opens elsewhere in the house. NCR’s McElewee is really burning up his keyboard as he posts notes on the Fishwrap‘s site. The latest picks up on what we … Read More
LCWR gripes about being accountable to the CDF and USCCB
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Fishwrap today has an interesting bit of news about the LCWR’s recent developments. As you know, those meanies at the CDF and USCCB are actually going to hold the LCWR’s leadership accountable for their doctrinal … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Magisterium of Nuns, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged accountability, Fishwrap, LCWR, magisterium of nuns, NCR, USCCB
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Joe in Canada on WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): snatched up into invisible love: “A priest saying the NO Mass could choose to sing it, even in Latin. But a priest offering a low…”
