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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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- 8 May – Happy Feast of Mary… under which title?
- 8 May – Indulgence for the Supplication to Our Lady of Pompeii (twice a year)
- ROME 26/5– Day 44: I didn’t expect roses.
- REVIEW: New biography of the late and truly great Michael Davies
- WHEREIN FR. Z offers a new project: rescue, restore a spectacular set of vestments – UPDATED
- ROME 26/5– Day 43: Res clamat Domino
- If “full communion” with Rome requires full acceptance of ALL of Vatican II, then, by that standard, many Catholics are lacking “full communion”
- “The law speaks of brotherhood and fatherhood. Many priests experience managerialism and abandonment.”
- Be sure to take in Diana Montagna’s “Substack” today
- ROME 26/5– Day 42: Keeping up my end
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Category Archives: Throwing a Nutty
Freedom: the right not to be offended?
From CMR: Sorry UK. It’s all over. Either emigrate out of there or be assimilated into the stale horrific world of rampant political correctness. This is amazing. And by amazing I mean sad yet completely predictable. A pub singer named … Read More
QUAERITUR: 1st Communion denied child with cerebral palsy
Remember, if it is Easter, it is time for news stories that make the Church look bad. I was alerted to this by a reader and it brings up a good question: Please note this short hit piece dished out … Read More
I’ll bet you thought Jesus died for our sins. HAH! NCR has a new angle.
It is hard to know what to do when you see a “catholic” site post something that is simultaneously heretical and thoroughly dopey. Do you ignore it? Do you post about it and therefore drive traffic to it? This is … Read More
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When agendas trump logic
One of the worst pieces of reasoning I have seen in a while…. almost as bad as that recent stupid piece in TIME about the new translation . Get a load of this, from the Telegraph. First homosexual caveman found … Read More
“But… for Wales?”
This is fascinating. NCFishwrap is urging support of one of their darlings, the Hon. Doug Kmiec, Attorney General for Wales…. er um… Ambassador to Malta. You will remember that Amb. Kmiec argued that Catholics could vote for pro-abortion candidates. Amb. … Read More
How it all goes wrong. So very wrong. So sad.
What happens when you go wrong: From the pen of Roy Bourgeois, M.M. Rev. Edward Dougherty, M.M., Superior General Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers P.O. Box 303 Maryknoll, NY 10545 April 8, 2011 Dear Father Dougherty and General Council, Maryknoll has … Read More
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NCFishwrap, Sr. Fiedler, Fr. Bourgeois… what could go wrong?
The National Catholic Fishwrap continues in it open dissent against the Church’s formally and irrevocably defined doctrine concerning ordinary of males only, as in only men, exclusively men, no women, not even wymyn. We have seen Sr. Maureen Fiedler before. … Read More
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Archbp. Sheehan (Santa Fe), his Pastoral Letter on Cohabitation, a liberal reaction, and my interlinear rant
H.E. Most Rev. Michael Sheehan Archbishop of Santa Fe, NM has issued a Pastoral Care of Couples Who are Cohabitating. Archbp. Sheehan had this letter read in all parishes of that Archdiocese. I think this pastoral letter could be seen … Read More
The face of homosexual anti-Catholicism to come
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami had an editorial letter in the Miami Sun Sentinel in defense of true, natural marriage. Wenski’s note was dignified and measured. He began: Those who see “same sex marriage” as progress towards a more “tolerant” … Read More
Dissident Irish priests whinge about new translation, again, after meeting with Irish Bishops
The dissenting Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland, whom we treated here, are having a nutty over the decision of the Irish Bishops Conference not to conform to dissent but rather conform to will of Rome. These members of the … Read More
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