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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “I don’t believe God will allow either of those to happen in the Church He founded. Were either of those…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Unfortunately that vocal minority will keep pushing until they win their two goals – ordination of women and Church acceptance…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: ““One of them insists that the ordination of the deacon is ” ad ministerium ,” not ” ad sacerdotium “”…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@TheCavalierHatherly and R2D Perhaps the Church should require all Catholic blogposts and comments to be written in Latin or Greek.…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@R2D They should be forced to speak Latin. If they can’t, they shouldn’t say anything. This would greatly reduce the…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “Synodality: Listening to a vocal minority of elite homosexual Germans hostile to the Catholic faith.”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Sorry fr, the unicode link did not work for me”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@ TheCavalierHatherly: eh, if you have a choice between Italian and English for writing international documents, just about nobody would…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Before Vatican II You took vows as a Sub Deacon. Then a Deacon . Then an Ordained Priest. No “Lay…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@R2D Hoc disputo. Est lingua prolix mendaxque. Discendum est clericis dilucide cogitare.”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “The chin wagging and word salads will continue, as a previous commenter noted, until someone somewhere wearies of the constant…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Now if only “Spiritus Domini” (2021) would be reversed…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “This is more of a question than a comment. What sort of woman, do you suppose, advocates of women priests…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “The untold great gift of the current pontificate is the expansion of English as an acceptable business language by the…”
- on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Like that old bishop our reverend host often quotes, I think more talk is not what we need, but there…”
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Tag Archives: ACLU
Tolerance is over
The world is going nuts. I have often felt a bit like Cassandra, but … Cassandra was right. Here is another take. From the pen of John Zmirak at The Stream with my emphases and comments: The expected Supreme Court decision imposing … Read More
WaPo on Planned Parenthood and ALCU suing in Wisconsin
Pay attention to the language in “news” reports from the MSM. There is often a rhetorical battle being waged at the level of word choices. Background on the Wisconsin story HERE. From WaPo: Planned Parenthood, ACLU sue Wisconsin over abortion … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
Tagged abortion, ACLU, language, MSM, Planned Parenthood, Rhetoric
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It’s Winter Festival time!
I was walking by a building in Manhattan last night and saw in their lobby a Christmas tree, a menorah, and an Islamic crescent moon. “Where’s the parity in that?”, quoth I.
Federal court allows company to ignore HHS mandate
From The Hill: Federal court allows company to ignore birth-control mandate [When will these newsies get that this isn’t a “contraception mandate”.] By Sam Baker A federal court said Friday that a Colorado-based company does not have to comply with … Read More
Good piece by Catholic League on links between Obamacare, HHS mandate, and ACLU
Be sure to review and file away for reference this piece from the Catholic League: OBAMA ENLISTS ACLU TO WAR ON CATHOLICS April 4, 2012 On April 3, Catholic News Service published a story on an internal memo from the … Read More
Federal judge rules as unconstitutional Catholic pro-life provisions in Trafficking Victims Prevention Act
From CNA: Pro-life provisions in US bishops’ grant ruled unconstitutional By Kevin J. Jones Washington D.C., Mar 28, 2012 / 04:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A federal judge sparked criticism after he ruled unconstitutional the government’s accommodation of pro-life beliefs in … Read More
The strangest thing I have read in a long time
From CMR comes something so breathtakingly absurd that I wondered if I wasn’t looking at a 1 April post. My emphases. In what has to be the stupidest idea the ACLU has ever had (and that’s really saying something) they … Read More
ACLU shoves its forceps into Bp. Olmsted’s head
The ACLU apparently believes in freedom for their pet causes, such as the free aborting of babies, but not religious freedom for Catholics. I read on LifeSite: ACLU targets Phoenix bishop for opposing hospital abortion by Kathleen Gilbert NEW YORK, … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Daily Rome Shot 1499: “I don’t believe God will allow either of those to happen in the Church He founded. Were either of those…”
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