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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Card. Piacenza interviewed
On ZENIT there is part 1 of an interview with His Eminence Mauro Card. Piacenza, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy. I have heard Card. Piacenza speak several times and I was impressed. He has issued some good things as … Read More
Dr. Peter’s responds to Dr. Kreeft
I posted a piece by Peter Kreeft who opined that it would be good for one hundred anti-abortion-graphic-image-totin’ bishops to be thrown in jail as a witness against abortion. Among other consequences, the press could not ignore the message. I … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Linking Back, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, Ed Peters, Peter Kreeft
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CARA study on trends for parishes, Mass attendance
Over at the Fishwrap, their elder-dissenter Richard McBrien posted a column about shifts in Mass attendance. He works from a study about the “‘Supersizing’ the U.S. Catholic Parish Life” conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) … Read More
Bishops of England and Wales unveil their future priorities
It has happened int the past, that the Vicar of Christ has traveled to a place, was met with great enthusiasm, caused a bump, a wave in Catholic identity, and after a fairly short period of time everything went back … Read More
A reader’s story of an emergency room confession and advice to readers
From a reader: Yesterday (Friday) and I was rushed to the E.R. with a possible aortic dissection. It turned out that it was just muscle pain. I asked for a Catholic priest, and, to my great fortune, my regular parish … Read More
Anniv of Summorum Pontificum – Communiquè of the Holy See: Meeting between CDF and the SSPX
Today is the anniversary of Summorum Pontificum going into effect. What do you think of this? My emphases. I edited out the first two paragraphs, which were just background people already know, for the most part. ORIGINAL TEXT (which seems … Read More
A great newspaper op-ed by a priest on same-sex attraction
My dear old friend Fr. Jim Livingston, a priest of St. Paul and Minneapolis, has this to say about same-sex attraction. We are jumping in media res, but this is from the STrib: Some people can make the gay go … Read More
Benedict XVI on the benefits of kneeling before the Eucharist
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, the great parish priest of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, alerted me via his blog to something the Holy Father said during his trip this weekend to Ancona, Italy, for the Eucharistic Congress. The full … Read More
ACTION ITEM – POLL ALERT – legalization of euthanasia
On the site The Daily Telegraph in Australia there is a poll about the legalization of euthanasia. The poll box looks like this. And the results as of this writing are… You decide. UPDATE 21:52 GMT:
Bp. Davies (D. Shrewsbury): Pastoral letter on Pope Benedict’s visit, Friday abstinence, new translation
From ZENIT comes the text of a pastoral letter by the Bishop of Shrewsbury, England, Most Rev. Mark Davies. He issued it for the 1st anniversary of Pope Benedict’s visit to England. This pastoral letter is supposed to be read … Read More
Lurker 59 on Pagliarani and Leo at Tanagra: “Doing such requires hope, even a fool’s hope. The reason you don’t see a common place of individuals taking the…”
