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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
“Let the Jesuits come to me. With hands in the air and without algorithms.” Fr. Z says: Let the Jesuits GO TO CHINA.
When I was a little kid I used to look forward to morning cartoons. Even as an adult I always turned to find The Far Side before the box scores. Now we must content ourselves with jokers like this. In … Read More →
The “Great Progressive Propaganda Machine”, Totalitarian Agendas, Incrementalism, and YOU – Wherein Fr. Z rants
I don’t want to know anything about film and stage actors personal lives or, usually, vapid thoughts. Laura Ingraham had a good phrase for the screeching pop tarts: “shut up and sing”. If I go to a movie, I just … Read More →
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying?, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
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Tagged creeping incrementalism, Jennifer Roback Morse, totalitarianism
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20 Comments
Vatican allows blaspheming Netflix to advertise on building
Does this seem right to you? Advertising on a Vatican-owned building. #Netflix #TheTwoPopes pic.twitter.com/mnFReMDpqE — Cindy Wooden (@Cindy_Wooden) December 16, 2019 What is the problem? Netflix has a show which is horrifically blasphemous, timed for Christmas – the bastards – … Read More →
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged blasphemy, Netflix
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38 Comments
Note the twisted moral logic of those in power today
Here is a classic example of what is going on in the Church on the highest level. Follow the argument. My emphases. From Crux: ROME – A leading Vatican official says he would “hold the hand” of someone who was … Read More →
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Pò sì jiù, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged Vincenzo Paglia
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23 Comments
#AmazonSynod -1st attack on the Priesthood: The Cassock
Throughout history, anti-Catholicism and anti-clericalism has specifically targeted the cassock for a great share of its fear and hatred. In some places the cassock could get you killed. Today as the Amazon Synod opens – during which we fully expect … Read More →
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, Synod, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged 50 Ways To Rig A Synod, Card. Baldisseri, cassock, Synod, Synod on Amazon
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50 Comments
ASK FATHER: Did Francis say something heretical about God and our sins?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: You always [write] about going to confession and that’s great! But I read in a Catholic Herald article that in a speech about confession Pope Francis said that God ‘forgets’ our sins. How can that be? Is … Read More →
Posted in Francis, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged absolution, confession, Francis
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24 Comments
Mind-blowing profundity at the reconstituted John Paul II Institute 2.0
Sometimes I like to post lighter fare on a Friday. But today, I am so moved, so overwhelmed and thunderstruck with awe, that I must share this quote. Honestly, folks, I’m gobsmacked. I’m all at sixes and sevens. We once … Read More →
Posted in Lighter fare, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, John Paul II Institute
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40 Comments
“The Church of priests is coming to an end.” What’s really going on.
At Settimo Cielo long time vaticanista Sandro Magister posted something that should make everyone stop, breathe for a while, and consider options. Context: In October there will be a meeting of the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, during which the … Read More →
“LaCI and Beans” back at it again! Attack US Bishops for their enthusiastic implementation of law
Go to radical-liberal, anti-tradition La Croix International, (LaCI) run by a cadre around openly-“gay” (and HERE) Robert Mickens. Mickens, you will recall, is so filled with animus for John Paul II and Benedict XVI that he lost his place with the … Read More →
The Catholic Church to Jesuits of Amerika: “No one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”
THIS – at Америка – speaks for itself. Dean Dettloff. Who? HERE I note in particular another of his offerings: “Christian Socialism: The Fusion of Faith and Revolution”. Here’s a quote from his piece: Communist political movements the world over … Read More →
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged America Magazine, Communism
16 Comments
16 Comments
maternalView on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 12th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th Ordinary): “I appreciate the Mass intention for today. I needed it. It’s the one year anniversary of my mother’s fall and…”
