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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
#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
50 Comments
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
24 Comments
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
40 Comments
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
@JamesMartinSJ – “It is stupefying that women can’t preach”, says the Jesuit. Oh, yeah? Here’s what’s truly stupefying.
Get a load of this… It is stupefying to me that women cannot preach at Mass. The faithful during Mass, as well as the presiders, are missing out on the wisdom, experience and inspired reflections of half of its members. … Read More →
PODCAzT 173: A darkly humorous look at the Amazon Synod’s Instrumentum Laboris
Today we hear an outstanding offering of William Kilpatrick who writes at Crisis. He has had a look at the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Synod of Bishops in Rome in October about the Amazon. He has nailed it. A … Read More →
Francis: Church Must Learn to Abandon Old ‘Traditions’
Today is the Feast of St. Vincent of Lérins. He bequeathed to the generations a few principles of identifying sound doctrine. I wrote something at length about that HERE. It might be a good idea to read that in tandem … Read More →
Posted in Francis, The Coming Storm, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Apostolic Tradition, tradition
43 Comments
43 Comments
Francis and the Deaconess Study Commission
At Crux Charles Collins (quondam Vatican Radio speaker) has some cleared-eye comments on recent remarks made on an airplane trip by Francis about the possibility of the ordination of women to the diaconate. In his view, and I agree, Francis … Read More →
Posted in Francis, Liberals, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged deaconesses, deaconettes, diaconate
2 Comments
2 Comments
Fr. Reader on WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?: “Thanks. Interesting because I have been reading it for many years, missing something.”
