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Category Archives: The future and our choices
UPDATE: How I feel right now.
The other day I posted about how I feel these days, through a photo of a Solemn Mass being celebrated in the ruins of a church bombed in WW2. May I update? Here is how I still feel. Notice that … Read More
The sky is crying.
I had an eclectic mix playing and the windows down on my way to the Canon Law Conference that Card. Burke sponsors each year at the Shrine of Our Lady near La Crosse. As I pulled in at my destination, … Read More
“Cancel the Dublin gathering and instead lead a two-day procession of public penitence”
In Dublin, there is scheduled a World Meeting of Families, later this month. Is this a good idea right now? Given what is going on, is an autumn Synod on Young People (where homosexual stuff is sure to be soft-peddled … Read More
Signs of the times
Australia passes a law to require priests to violate the Seal of Confession. HERE Then L’Affaire McCarrick flares. Today I read that in India, a government agency, the National Commission for Women, wants the Catholic Church to abolish the Sacrament … Read More
NRO: The Latin Mass Endures.
From the National Review Online: Despite Misunderstanding, the Latin Mass Endures By LIAM WARNER The same riches that profited Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint Francis de Sales are available to Catholics today. Not a small group of people will … Read More
Cri de Coeur: calls for punishing action against bishops complicit in L’Affaire McCarrick
Today I read at Crisis a smart piece by Eric Sammons which argued that, because of the unaddressed, indeed covered up scandal of McCarrick … and others, just wait!… Catholics should address the problem of feckless bishops by withholding money: … Read More
We should tread carefully.
Comment moderation is ON. These days the gulfs that already yawn between different parties in the secular world as well as within the Church are becoming wider still. If there is any sort of controversy or disagreement, someone demands that … Read More
PODCAzT 163: 25 July 2018 – 50th anniversary of promulgation of ‘Humanae vitae’
Here is an audio offering in which I read the post, here-under. Hopefully this will allow more people to absorb a few of my poor thoughts on this important anniversary. Let’s start with a taste of the text… there’s some … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, PODCAzT, The future and our choices
Tagged contraception, Humanae vitae, Paul VI
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What Catholics do when the Church’s Body is being torn apart
We live in confusing times. Confusion racks the Church, like horses pulling limb in four directions. Confused faithful even wonder about the indefectibility of the Church or their continued membership. Confusion like this is a sign of the Devil’s work. … Read More
Can you imagine bishops doing something like this today?
Can you imagine more than a handful of bishops today doing something like this? In the days of the King’s Great Matter, only one bishop in England stood fast. Today at The Catholic Thing, Nicholas Senz has a good piece … Read More
