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Tag Archives: D. Knoxville
Diocese of Knoxville: Because… communion and unity… and Peter and Paul… and the Holy Spirit!
Here’s the raw material. Highlights… my emphases: […] In light of this knowledge, I wish to share a bit of background. Shortly after I was named Bishop-Elect of this beautiful Diocese, I received communication from the Dicastery for Divine Worship … Read More
DANG! ACTION ITEM! Fr. McTeigue swings the axe! Make this go viral.
Make this go viral. Use my social links. Do it. Let’s use our collective power. We still have it, don’t doubt. Transcript: Maybe this has happened to you. I know people that this has actually happened to. You may know … Read More
D. Knoxville – The Pogrom Continues
This paragraph is in the letter that a pastor of a parish in the Diocese of Knoxville where the TLM is shortly to be suppressed as part of the ongoing pogrom. The final Mass in the Extraordinary Form to be … Read More
@BishopStika responds to @FatherZ, who responds in turn. And feedback about yesterday’s furious post.
Yesterday, I expressed my anger at the selfish jackasses who verbally abused a woman working the switchboard of a US diocese because that diocese’s bishop, Most. Rev. Richard Stika of Knoxville banned Communion on the tongue due to COVID-1984. He … Read More
Posted in Linking Back
Tagged Bp. Richard Stika, Communion on the tongue, coronavirus, D. Knoxville
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24 Comments
Wherein a furious Fr. Z gives selfish, cruel jackasses a piece of his mind
In the wake of stories of bishops banning, or attempting to ban, Communion on the tongue for as long as Coronvirus threatens… how long with that be?… I wrote a few blog posts on the matter. Today, I’ve looked around to … Read More
@BishopStika issues a Decree for @knoxdiocese and people react. Wherein Fr. Z makes an entreaty
___ Originally Published on: May 11, 2020 at 19:42 I has come to my attention via LifeSite that His Excellency Most Rev. Richard Fr. Stika, Bishop of Knoxville on 6 May issued a DECREE (it says “decree”) which says, inter … Read More
Bp. Stika (D. Knoxville) on true human ecology, Planned Parenthood, trauma
Reading the news around the Catholic world you would think that prelates and priests and lay faithful alike are going absolutely loony about climate change. Since Laudato si’ it seems as if those who read selectively have been rushing lemming-like to … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras
Tagged Bp. Richard Stika, D. Knoxville, human ecology, Planned Parenthood
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15 Comments
Archbp. Kurtz, as a “moderate”, fully supported the Traditional Roman Rite
I hope the libs at the NSR are celebrating Archbp. Kurtz’s support, as a “moderate”, of the older, traditional form of the Roman Rite. True “moderates” are also true “traditionalists”. Our long-time reader, friend, benefactor, commentator here Henry Edwards guides … Read More
Reditus on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Corpus Christi (transferred): “I have started going to an SSPX chapel nearby (scouting out candidate catacombs). In the sermon this Sunday (Corpus Christi…”
