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Category Archives: The future and our choices
GERMANY: Catastrophic! USA next? @USCCB bishops meeting and YOU. ACTION ITEM!
An image to consider. Two rays extending from the same point get farther and father apart the longer they extend. If the one ray is the trajectory of Christ’s true Church, then the other ray, that departs from it, … Read More
SCOTUS Justice RBG falls, breaks ribs, hospitalized
According to accounts, 85-yr old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg had a fall, broke some ribs, and is not in the hospital. While one mustn’t wish ill on another, it could be that this episode might prompt in the Justice some … Read More
“I had the image of a bishop sinking head downward…. sinking… sinking… clawing at the heavy miter on his head”
Even as I stared at the title of the piece I am about to recommend, this passage from Luke about millstones came to mind. I had the image of a bishop sinking head downward…. sinking… sinking… clawing at the … Read More
Fr. Z muses: repression of Catholic speech and what we can do about it.
Right now we are told that transparency and dialogue are important. When the Synod (“walking together”) opened, Francis called for openness, dialogue, even criticism, saying, “all to speak with courage and parrhesia (candour), that is combining freedom, truth and charity…. Only … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Mao Zedong, samizdat, Tall Poppy Syndrome, Thrasybulus
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14 Comments
VIDEO: A reaction to a first Traditional Latin Mass
This is pretty interesting. Here is a thoughtful young man with his observations about participating at a Traditional Latin Mass for the first time.
“It is just a building.” – UPDATE: Like Planned Parenthood selling off baby parts.
UPDATE 5 Nov 2018: Here’s the deal. I’ve been thinking about this demolition thing. It’s not just a matter of demolishing a church and then selling the property. What happens is that scavenger experts come in and inventory all the … Read More
Run, don’t walk, to read it. Summary view of the 2018 Synod (“walking together”)
At the UK’s (and soon to be also USA’s) best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, you must… I repeat MUST… read George Weigel’s biting postscript on the 2018 Synod (“walking together”). HERE Weigel’s is the first of several postscript “letters” posted … Read More
Posted in Synod, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged 2018, George Weigel, Synod
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5 Comments
ASK FATHER: TLM workshops for U.S. diocesan priests with no EF Mass experience and marginal Latin?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I spoke with our parish priest today and he is open to attending a Latin Mass Workshop. Will you please recommend a workshop(s) for a young, U.S. diocesan priest with no EF Mass experience and marginal … Read More
“Synodality” as new model (i.e. permanent revolution) imposed on #Synod2018
I am in Rome while the 2018 Synod (“walking together”) is slouching towards its predicted, rigged conclusion. I think we all knew that there would be shenanigans before the end. They’ve come now not single spies, but in battalions. Tweets … Read More
Posted in Synod, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Rigging The Synod, Synod, synodality
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12 Comments
The collapse of Dutch Mass attendance
This came via a reader. Agensir.it: Netherlands: religious belonging and attendance still decreasing. Only 6% of those who say they are Catholic attend Sunday Mass 51% of Dutch people over 15 years of age do not belong to any Church … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Mass attendance
18 Comments
18 Comments
excalibur on Daily Rome Shot 1650: shocked but not surprised: “It is possible that the house insurance may pay for a new roof. If not, sell the house as is,…”
