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Category Archives: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
U of Minn-Duluth hosts Holocaust event including aggressively anti-Catholic elements
From the Catholic League about a matter of spectacularly crass anti-Catholicism at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. The U of M is a land-grant institution funded by taxes. Therefore, public money is being spent on this anti-Catholic display. Furthermore, an institution … Read More
INDIA: Priest beaten, threatened with death by Hindus during Holy Week
While we concern ourselves with the monumental question of blessings during Communion (which, yes, it is wrong to do though it is not a matter of maximum weight in our scales of liturgical abuses), this is what is going on … Read More
CATHOLIC BLOGGERS! ACTION ITEM! POLL ALERT! Time Magazine on Card. Dolan
Bloggers! Please pick this up. You don’t have to link to me. Just DO IT. Solidarity! The dreadful TIME Magazine (dreadful when it comes to anything about the Catholic Church) is having a poll and you should participate. From their … Read More
30 March: USA: Day of prayer and fasting for Religious Liberty
From the Catholic Sentinel: US bishops set March 30 as day of prayer, fasting for religious liberty Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops have urged Catholics and “all people of faith” across the nation to observe March 30 … Read More
Federal judge rules as unconstitutional Catholic pro-life provisions in Trafficking Victims Prevention Act
From CNA: Pro-life provisions in US bishops’ grant ruled unconstitutional By Kevin J. Jones Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2012 / 04:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal judge sparked criticism after he ruled unconstitutional the government’s accommodation of pro-life beliefs in … Read More
Bp. Morlino on the mission of lay people in the public HHS mandate battle. Wherein Fr Z rants.
Some music to accompany my preliminary rant. Read while listening. [wp_youtube]TVjDP0vlem4[/wp_youtube] I have seen sharp criticisms launched by lay people against bishops whom they accuse of being weak in the public debate about Pres. Obama’s attacks on the religious … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Dogs and Fleas, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged abortifacients, abortion, Bp. Morlino, contraception, D. Madison, health care, HHS, laity, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, vocation of the laity
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38 Comments
FNC: Hemmer interviews Obama surrogate: hijinx and anti-Catholicism result
I saw on FNC Bill Hemmer’s interview of two talking heads, Monica Crowley (conservative pundette) and Christopher Hahn (former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer D-NY). I hope they post the video of this surprising exchange. The wonks were reacting to … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Bill Hemmer, Christopher Hahn, contraception, FNC, HHS, Monica Crowley, Pres. Obama, religious liberty, Sen. Schumer, sex
22 Comments
22 Comments
John Allen’s outstanding talk on the world-wide war on Christians
I have been waiting for the video of the closing “liturgy” of the L.A. Three Days of Darkness … Religious Ed Congress. In looking for it, I found a video of a talk by my friend the nearly ubiquitous John … Read More
ACTION ITEM ALERT! Pres. Obama, through a minion, attacks Catholic chaplains once again.
Everyone should know what the Obama Administration is doing to Catholics this time. I received my most recent copy of the magazine/bulletin of the Archdiocese for Military Services called Salute (that link will bring up a pdf of the article I am … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Dogs and Fleas, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged AMS, anti-catholicism, Archb.Broglio, Archd. Military Services, Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, freedom, homosexuality, military chaplains, Pres. Obama, reliigious liberty, same-sex marriage
32 Comments
32 Comments
WDTPRS Tuesday 5th Week of Lent: bittersweet
In the Tridentinum and in the 1962 Roman Missal this prayer is listed for Tuesday after Passion Sunday as the Oratio super populum. It also has roots in the Gelasian. COLLECT Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, perseverantem in tua voluntate famulatum, ut in diebus nostris et merito … Read More
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