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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Powerful denunciation of Traditionis custodes … by a bishop.
At Rorate, Peter Kwasniewski posted a translation of a powerful denunciation of Traditiones custodes – Francis’ Plessy v Ferguson attack on the Benedict’s Emancipation Proclamation Summorum Pontificum. The text is a workshop on what is wrong in Rome, what is right … Read More
Go to Crisis and read or listen to “A Time For Anger”
Stop what you are doing. Go to Crisis and read or listen to the brilliant offering by a young man named Clement Harrold. HERE A Time For Anger. Then come back. I look forward to your discussion here.
Card. Müller drills into Francis’ “Letter to Bishops” with “Traditionis custodes”
At The Catholic Thing there is a piece translated from the original German (by a good friend of mine, two, as a matter of fact), by Gerhard Ludwig Card. Müller. The former Prefect of the CDF examines Francis’ new Plessy … Read More
VIDEO: Measured remarks from a convert about “Traditionis custodes”
Brian Holdsworth, a convert who was involved in a strikingly liberal parish for a long while, eventually began a family and started thinking in a new way about the Faith. He made the entirely reasonable and predictable move to the … Read More
Posted in SSPX, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Traditionis custodes
Tagged Traditionis custodes
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A quick review of 16 July
I know that it can be perilous to line historical events up on a certain day and ponder their meaning, but – given the special circumstances – let’s do it anyway. Firstly, 16 July. In 1945 the first nuclear weapon … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged 16 July, Traditionis custodes
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First reactions to “Traditionis custodes”
Today, 16 July, is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. During the Amazonian Synod (“walking together”), it was at her church in Rome, near the Vatican, that the shrine to to the demon Pachamama was set up. Today, … Read More
Excellent piece today at Crisis: The War to Destroy the Eucharist
Do NOT miss this terrific article at Crisis by Jerome German: The War to Destroy the Eucharist. He treats the issue of withholding Communion from errant public figures but does so with amazing clarity. Tastes: […] We walk among saints and monsters. … Read More
ASK FATHER: Do priests who celebrate only in the vernacular really know what they are saying?
From a reader…. QUAERITUR: I recently discovered the SCDF declaration Instauratio liturgica (Jan. 25, 1974), which says that the meaning of a translated sacramental formula is that of the original Latin, understood according to the mind of the Church. Especially … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why are the Novus Ordo and the Traditional Latin Mass just two “forms” instead of two different “rites”?
UPDATE 9 July: You might go over to The Remnant and watch Peter Kwasneiwski’s talk at the Roman Forum on the issue I treat, below, and a lot more. One of the important points he makes is the ever-increasing ultramontanism … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Brick by Brick, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Greg DiPippo, idoneus, Peter Kwasniewski, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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In a time when 75% of US Catholics don’t believe in the Real Presence… NEWSFLASH!!!! … 75% of bishops vote to teach about the Eucharist!
Today the USCCB overwhelmingly voted yes to the drafting of a document about the Eucharist. Only 66% was needed to move that document forward and the approval garnered 75% of the bishops’ votes. Given that the Pew survey a couple … Read More
Posted in 1983 CIC can. 915, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged can. 915, Eucharist, USCCB
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