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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Internal forum/confession and reporting crimes to the state
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, parish priest in Brighton at St. Mary Magdalen has a very good entry on his blog. To a degree it represents also some of my own reflections in the last few days. Let’s have a … Read More
Weigel’s piece in First Things… then Fr. Z rants
Preface: I urge priests and bishops reading this to at the very least skip to the last part if you think you don’t have time to read the whole. _____ George Weigel has a piece in First Things which merits … Read More
Time For Some Fair and Balanced Reporting on Clerical Sexual Abuse
We’ve all seen that for weeks now, and especially during Holy Week, Catholics have been subjected by the secular and liberal catholic media to yet another onslaught of old stories about the Catholic Church and clerical sexual abuse. Once again, … Read More
“The impossibility of any real renewal, as long as they remain in power.”
If in following all the other great news about the Church these days you happened to miss this, take some time and have a look at Sandro Magister’s new piece about the Legionaries of Christ. Legionaries. The "Nomenklatura" That Must … Read More
The leader of Planned Parenthood thanks the liberal nuns
Before reading more, read this if you haven’t done so already: A magisterium of nuns Now from CNA with my emphases and comments… Planned Parenthood head thanks religious sisters for ‘critical support’ of health care bill Washington D.C., Mar 27, … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The future and our choices
Tagged Planned Parenthood
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I am angry and sad about this new round of exposure of sins and crimes
I have been struggling through the day with this post. I haven’t known precisely what to do about my anger. The online edition of Hell’s Bible, in its relentless hectoring of the Catholic Church (ignoring the prosecuted sins of other … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
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Gerald Warner’s thunder about the abuse scandal and what caused it
The Telegraph offers this by Gerald Warner (Gerald Warner is an author, broadcaster, columnist and polemical commentator who writes about politics, religion, history, culture and society in general.) My emphases and comments: Catholic sex abuse scandal: time to sack trendy … Read More
Good clear talk about health care debate issues – useful!
I complained the other day that neither side in the Catholic field, the USCCB nor the dissidents, had adequately explained the presumed barrier – or lack thereof – or unacceptable weakness thereof – between federal money and the procuring of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged CNA, health care reform, Richard Doerflinger
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A magisterium of nuns
In this matter of contingent, prudential judgments, whose judgment will in time prove to have been the more prudent? The Catholic bishops with pro-life groups or their opposition, the LCWR and CHA and NCR, etc? I happen to think the … Read More
