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NancyP on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Our homilist commented on how, although it looked like Jesus was walking casually past John's followers, everything in Jesus' life...
Kathleen10 on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)We had an amazing Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form. Heaven must be something like the Mass we had today....
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ex seaxe on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doI can't get my head round the idiocy of translating Tempus per annum as Ordinary Time, my 1975 missal just...
Gab on LIVE VIDEO – 17 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – 2nd Sunday after EpiphanyOutstanding sermon, Father, have never heard the Wedding at Cana explained with such a thorough explanation. Thank you. I have...
SWP on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)Also we had a Sanctity of Life blessing of the Memorial Garden for Unborn Children after one of the masses...
SWP on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (NO – 2nd Ordinary)The homilist pointed out that one of the two followers of John the Baptist is identified as St. Andrew, but...
Sportsfan on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doThis coming week also has the anniversary of Roe versus Wade.
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KL on ASK FATHER: Can I be a Catholic AND a Libertarian?The problem with Catholic Socialists is that they ignore Church teaching on property. The problem with Catholic Libertarians is that...
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gaudete on Daily Rome Shot 50It's a very nice shot of the "Cappella del Transito di Santa Caterina da Siena" (Chapel of the Passage) in...
Clinton R. on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doThank you, Father. We are in a time of great turmoil and we need to beg the Lord for His...
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Gab on WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (TLM) & WDTPRS – 2nd Ordinary (NO): God knows our needs better than we doExcellent fervorino on the meaning and differentiation of Peace, Father!
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Gab on LIVE VIDEO – 16 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – St. Marcellus, Pope, Martyr (Intention: benefactors)Many heavy sighs from you during the Rosary, Father. I know that feeling all too well. I will offer Mass...
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- ASK FATHER: Baptism by immersion but water didn’t touch the head
- LIVE VIDEO – 11 Jan 2021 – 1200 NOON CST – Traditional Latin Mass – Votive for whatever necessity
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Tag Archives: Crux
How about this? “Cradle Catholics should speak less, listen more.”
Michael Sean Winters, the Wile e. Coyote of the liberal catholic Left at the Fishwrap, and hyper-liberal Massimo “Beans” Faggiolo at Villanova, and the papalatrous gnostic Austen Ivereigh at Crux have incited a little war on converts recently. According to … Continue reading
Crux tweets horrid image of Pope Francis, Pres. Trump… funded by @KofC
CRUX is funded by the Knights of Columbus. CRUX posted this image on Twitter concerning the meeting of Pope Francis and Pres. Trump. Link to Tweet HERE Knights of Columbus… is it time to cancel your insurance? Moderation queue is ON. … Continue reading
Canonist Ed Peters explains situation to Crux priest. Important info for priests, confessors.
The other day at Crux there was a piece by Fr. Paul Keller about a theoretical (Deo gratias) case study in which the writer – basing himself on the objectively unclear notions of Amoris laetitia Chapter 8 – figures out how to … Continue reading
Knights of Columbus bankroll Crux. Do @KofC also hold @Crux editorial positions?
I saw a piece at Crux today which left me disappointed. The piece in question is an opinion hit-job by Austen Ivereigh against anyone who dares to suggest that there are problems with Chapter 8 of Amoris laetitia. Ivereigh is a … Continue reading
John Allen on Summorum Pontificum: “Most Catholics who wanted access to the older Mass already had it”
Over at CRUX (now perhaps Crux 2.0? – the Boston Globe ended its life support – Zombie Crux? – the KofCs support it now, which I can’t get my head around… but I digress…), editor John L. Allen made an odd statement … Continue reading
Posted in CRUX WATCH, Liberals, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, You must be joking!
Tagged Crux, John L. Allen
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Two African Cardinals standing up!
In the lead up (already) to next October’s Synod, the continuation of last October’s wild ride with its bizarre rules, backroom maneuvers, and strange proposals, Africa (pace Card. Kasper) is coming into its own. I saw this at the National … Continue reading
ACTION ITEM – POLL – Card. Burke on Church becoming “feminized” UPDATE
Over Crux, the same-sex union between the Fishwrap and the secular Boston Globe (with all the same characters). There is a poll, on the left side.. scroll down. I, for one, agree. Make up your own mind. Results as of this writing… Perhaps … Continue reading
As The Synod Turns
Any one who looks at Catholic stuff on these interwebs today (and for the near future) is going to be inundated with Synod stuff. We have to be wary. Do you remember that, just before Benedict XVI abdicated, during an … Continue reading
Posted in CRUX WATCH
Tagged Crux, homosexuality, same-sex unions, Synod of Bishops, Synod of the Media
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Crux – Fr. Z’s initial observations
I have been watching the new initiative from the Boston Globe, with the involvement of former Fishwrap writer John Allen: Crux. I have some initial observations. Happily, it seems to me that Crux has the potential to make the National catholic Fishwrap irrelevant. … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, CRUX WATCH, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Boston Globe, Crux, Crux Watch, Lisa Miller, Margery Eagan, Michael O’Loughlin
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