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- Lurker 59 on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@Phil_NL2 Permit me to be a brief interloper. In protestantism, there is a conflict between the regulative principle of worship…”
- on SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels: “I noticed quite a few new faces at our 8 am Diocesan Latin Mass Parish. Fr talked about Increase in…”
- on SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels: “I am one who has been blessed to have a Diocesan Traditional Community with normal Mass times for the past…”
- on SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels: “The Gospel passage as Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph comes to mind, Luke 19:40, “…He said: ‘I say to you,…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 6th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 14th Ordinary) 2026: “NO Mass. Father’s homily focused on yesterday’s 250th anniversary of Independence Day. He said that gaining freedom from the king…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@Phil_NL2 Thanks for the response. I think I understand your nuance, but I don’t really thing it amounts to much…”
- on SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels: “I wonder how this will turn out because as I was listening to a sermon from SSPX Asia this morning,…”
- on IMPORTANT expert canonical exam of the DDF SSPX Decree: It does NOT excommunicate SSPX priests or faithful who attend Masses, or change the practical canonical position of faithful seeking SSPX sacraments.: “To echo other commenters, yes, the ugly part is that the perception of the judgment’s effect will overwhelm any of…”
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Category Archives: You must be joking!
Jesuits, the College of the Holy Cross, cowardice and blasphemy
UPDATE 29 March: A friend at Holy Cross wrote: Thanks for posting on the Holy Cross blasphemy. A clarification: Elinor Reilly, the courageous student who exposed Liew’s publications in a “Fenwick Review” article (the paper was founded by Fr. Paul … Read More
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven, You must be joking!
Tagged blasphemy, College Holy Cross
44 Comments
44 Comments
How bad was the Three Days of Darkness this year?
How bad was the Three Days of Darkness (3DD) this year? It seems that the LA Religious Ed Conference hits new nadirs every year, and there is no end in sight. Couple the heterodoxy, the teachings offensives to pious ears, … Read More
Lettergate produces a casualty: Msgr. Viganò. Well… not quite.
Lettergate has produced a casualty… another casualty, the first being the Truth. Or did it? The Prefect of the Secretariate for Communications, Msgr. Dario Viganò – who so botched the the handling of the pro-Francis booklet roll out by unscrupulously slicing … Read More
Card. Kasper: homosexual relationships are analogous to marriages
Card. Kasper, ladies and gentlemen. The Gift that Keeps on Giving. From LifeSite: Cardinal Kasper: Homosexual unions are ‘analogous’ to Christian marriage [Sure! Both of them involve carbon-based life forms!] March 14, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Walter Kasper, whose … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Sin That Cries To Heaven, You must be joking!
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, Card. Kasper, homosexuality
14 Comments
14 Comments
Alexa gizmo laughs randomly. Creepy.
Do you have one of those Alexa gizmos? Brrrrrrr! No thanks. At Engadget I read: Alexa is randomly laughing, and it’s creepy as hell (updated) Mercifully, Amazon is fixing it. If you have an Alexa-powered device, you’d be forgiven … Read More
BRAZIL: Did these bishops allow women to concelebrate Mass?
A reader alerted me to this from fratresinunum.com about bishops in Brazil who allow two women to concelebrate Mass with them. It is in Portuguese. Not my translation: Two women “concelebrated” the Mass with bishops of the CNBB. Is this … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, You must be joking!
Tagged Brazil, D. Osório
25 Comments
25 Comments
Promoted by @JamesMartinSJ – Jesuits have yoga in church sanctuary at a school
Take a really good look at this, at a Jesuit site on Facebook. This is yoga in the sanctuary of St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan, which also has a well-known High School. In view is a door that … Read More
Sam Gregg takes off the gloves: Bp. Sanchez Sorondo on China
Sam Gregg, director of research at Acton Institute, has a strongly worded piece at Liberty and Law about the seriously bizarre remarks from Argentinian Bp. Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, presently the head of both the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical … Read More
An Armenian bishop “ordains” a deaconette
My inbox is being pelted with a story that some Armenian Orthodox bishop in Tehran “ordained” a female deacon. For example HERE and HERE. To which I respond: Ho hum. First, I’m not sure that we care much about a … Read More
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", Deaconettes, You must be joking!
Tagged Aime G. Martimort, Armenians, deaconettes
11 Comments
11 Comments
Lurker 59 on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “@Phil_NL2 Permit me to be a brief interloper. In protestantism, there is a conflict between the regulative principle of worship…”
