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- on ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “One thing my Novus Ordo parish started doing years ago was NOT having excessive announcements after communion. Why? We had…”
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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Observations about remarks by Cardinal-Elect John A. Dew
My good friend Fr. Gerald Murray has some observations and questions concerning remarks made by Most Reverend John A. Dew, the Archbishop of Wellington in New Zealand who is slated to become a Cardinal in the next consistory. People are … Read More →
What do the buzz words “social justice” mean?
Here is a note from Jonah Goldberg.
Posted in Liberals, The Coming Storm, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged redistribution of wealth, Social Justice
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Modern “art” in churches: the joy of the Enemy
I don’t know about you, but I can’t see any value in having this hideous thing in a church. This rubbish is now hanging in the Jesuitenkirche (Jesuit Church) of Vienna. No. Really. Corriere della Sera has the sad story. … Read More →
What’s up with the false English translation of the Synod’s Final Report?
Now that the 2014 Extraordinary Synod of Bishops has been over for a while, we have to start asking some questions about the synodal documents that emerged during the meeting, namely the midpoint report, or Relatio post disceptationem, and the … Read More →
VIENNA – Card. Burke calls on Catholics to “speak up and act”. Interview.
At Breitbart there is a new interview piece by Edward Pentin with His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke. As you will recall, during the Synod, Pentin was the one who outed Card. Kasper’s attitude toward the African Church. That was a … Read More →
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Olympian Middle, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Card. Burke, Card. Kasper, confession, divorce and remarriage, Edward Pentin, sacrament of penance, schism
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John Allen on Pope Francis’ targeting of conservatives, traditionalists
Over at Crux (and my jury is still out… sort of… well… maybe not so much), John Allen posted something about how it seems that, under Pope Francis, conservatives and traditionalists are under fire. Does Pope Francis have an enemies … Read More →
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, CRUX WATCH, Francis, Goat Rodeos, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Self-absorbed Promethean Neopelagians, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Bp. Livieres Plano, Bp. Mario Lliveri, Bp. Robert Finn, Card. Burke, Card. Piacenza, Crux, D. Albenga-Imperia, D. Ciudad del Este, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, enemies list, John Allen, Richard Nixon
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UPDATE: Did Card. Burke criticize Pope Francis? (Of course not, but the lexically challenged might not get that.)
Back on 17 October I posted a transcript of the now controversial interview Card. Burke did with BuzzFeed. HERE Those who read, can see what the transcript says. But people don’t always read. Dignitatis Humanae Institutute now weighs in about … Read More →
Not just new sins, but new categories of sins!
Fr. Hunwicke – whom I thank for the recently conferred title Archiblogopoios* – has done it again. He is on the proverbial roll. Here’s the whole thing… I can’t resist. Be sure to go over there, spike his stats, and read … Read More →
Posted in Liberals, The Drill, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Fr. Hunwicke, Synod of Bishops, tolerate though not accept
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13 Comments
ASK FATHER: “God’s Holy Church” not “His” – inclusive language
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Dear Father Z: You may have written about this before, but if so I’m not able to find your discussion of it. Where we say “His name” and “His Holy Church,” I have heard people, particularly … Read More →
Did no one know that when the MSM got hold of the ‘Relatio’, people were going to go bananas?
We continue to watch the spin and the spinning of the spin after yesterday’s Synod… what can we call it?…. debacle. Yes, debacle. The release of the Relatio post disceptationem, an unprecedented mid-point summary document, was a debacle. It … Read More →
Angelo Tan on 24 September: Of Our Lady of Walsingham, Our Lady of Ransom, and a prayer: “On the Descent of Our Lady of Mercy II Class feast for the Philippine Islands Prayer O God, through the…”
