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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Card. Burke’s smashing @Buckfast_Abbey talk on Message of Fatima
There is a video of the talk, but the audio is really bad. So, I extracted the audio from the video and cleaned it up. Wanna hear it? It’s classic Burke and hard hitting. There is a LifeSite story about … Read More
The Steamroller of Ambiguity and the Long Term. Wherein @FatherZ rants.
Many these days feel a little helpless as the lib Steamroller of Ambiguity squishes sickeningly forward, reducing clarity to an amorphous goo of permissive self-justification. What can we do? Feel helpless no longer. You have at your disposal – 24/7 – powerful arms … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Leonine Prayers, prayer for vocations
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The recent Jesuit-run Boston College conference on ‘Amoris Laetitia’
The recent Jesuit-run Boston College conference on the reception of Amoris Laetitia in these USA seems to have been intended as a closed workshop on how to “struggle” (in the Cultural Revolution sense) against the Four Olds (in this case, Familiaris Consortio, … Read More
A “cri de coeur”: Fr Z responds with a strong suggestion.
I had a note, really a cri de coeur, from a reader who said that she feels as if she and other good and innocent people in the Church today are undergoing one terror attack after another against our Catholic … Read More
The Coming Storm
At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, I saw this: London commuters ran onto the tracks after a man began reciting Bible verses out loud Commuters on one of London’s busiest rail routes forced open the doors on … Read More
PODCAzT 156 – Josef Seifert on The Persecution of Orthdoxy
Today at First Things there is a powerful and persuasive piece by Josef Seifert, former Dietrich von Hildebrand Chair of Realist Phenomenology at the International Academy of Philosophy in Spain. It is clear that there is now a not so subtle … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Cri de Coeur, PODCAzT, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Josef Seifert
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REASON #1883 for Summorum Pontificum!
We need a fuller, wider more dedicated implementation of Benedict XVI’s great gift to the Church, Summorum Pontificum. Why? Via CARA on Twitter: US Catholics haven’t become more religiously active with age. Stay with habits of young adulthood. Other Christians … Read More
#LasVegasShooting – Wherein Fr. Z rants.
For some days now I have been avoiding watching news and news commentary shows, etc. So, through a look at my Twitter feed earlier today, I learned of the horrifying events in Las Vegas. The usual hysteria is now pouring … Read More
A hellish enemy is at work in the Church
On this beautiful Feast of our Guardian angels, we must remember the invisible role they inevitably play in our lives. On a plane of being that we humans cannot sense, the holy angels thwart the attacks of hellish fallen angels, bent on our … Read More
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