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- Fr. Reader on ASK FATHER: Can I be godparent of the child of a Lutheran couple?: “Oh, yes, i agree to be the godfather, and I will make everything that is in my hands to make…”
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- on 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.: “@TonyO, Unless I’m mistaken, the Apostolic Administration in Brazil already does something like this. They provide priests to offer the…”
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Category Archives: The future and our choices
The path we are on. A book that might help explain things.
If you want a book which can shed light on the trajectory we are on, from a philosophical view point, try 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t Help by Benjamin Wiker. It is also … Read More
Irony. Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood addressed the KKK but the Obama Administration says that Catholics who defend marriage are like racists.
In another entry I posted about Archbp. Dolan’s letter to Pres. Obama warning him and his administration to back off from their project to equate those who defend true marriage with racists, as if the proponents of same-sex unions held … Read More
Notre Dame’s Fr. Jenkins and a different view of Pres. Obama
In 2009, the President of the University of Notre Dame, Fr. John Jenkins, actively participated in, promoted and defended, in the bestowal of an honorary doctorate in Law on the most aggressively pro-abortion President of the United States we have … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Linking Back, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged dogs and fleas, Fr. John Jenkins, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, Notre Dame, POTUS, Pres. Obama, Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent., White House
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24 Comments
Archbp. Dolan issues a warning to Pres. Obama: Stop attacking marriage and religious liberty!
I found this to be pretty interesting. I urge you to read the whole thing. It is perhaps the best presentation of the issues I have seen in a brief form. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York City has sent, … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Archbp. Dolan, Defense of Marriage, DOMA, Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, homosexuality, marriage, POTUS, Pres. Obama, same-sex unions, USCCB
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Minnesota Catholic Conference and Archd. STP/MPLS says “Catholics For Marriage Equality MN” is NOT affiliated with Church
I direct now your attention to the website of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and their Office for Marriage and Family. The Archdiocese made this apparent on the front page of their website. As you may recall, His … Read More
Bp. Thomas Doran (D. Rockford) on kneeling for Holy Communion… heh heh…
In this last week’s edition of The Wanderer, we read a reprint of a column by Most Rev. Thomas Doran, Bishop of Rockford. I believe it was originally on the site of the diocese on 2 September 2011. My emphases … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Doran, D. Rockford, distribution of Communion, GIRM 160, Holy Communion, kneeling
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23 Comments
QUAERITUR: Latin and languages in seminary
From a seminarian: I am a seminarian from the southern region of the US. Here at seminary, there are many guys, I myself included, who are more traditionally minded who enjoy Latin and orthodoxy. Others however, see that the hispanic … Read More
Benedict XVI “walked through the ferocious pack of media dogs without losing his composure”
Read this whole thing. From CNA comes this about the Pope’s visit to Germany. A highlight: “(D)amage to the Church comes not from her opponents but from uncommitted Christians.” And also, “The Pope gave appropriate directions. The fate of the … Read More
LATINUM ITER MONTANUM … WYOMINGENSE
My friend Prof. Nancy Llewellyn of Wyoming Catholic College sent the following: Since you’re a fan of Wyoming and a strenuissimus fautor of Latin, I thought you might be interested to know that the Latin Program here at WCC has … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, The future and our choices
Tagged Wyoming Catholic College
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4 Comments
Common gesture of reverence in unity with… whom?
This again. From a seminarian somewhere in the depths of Canada comes an excerpt of text from an insert on the new, corrected translation prepared for parish bulletins (my emphases): “The third change is related to approaching Communion. As each … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged Holy Communion, kneeling
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Fr. Reader on ASK FATHER: Can I be godparent of the child of a Lutheran couple?: “Oh, yes, i agree to be the godfather, and I will make everything that is in my hands to make…”
