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Tag Archives: graviora delicta
KC, MO: anti-Catholic atrocity scheduled before Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
When anti-Catholic atrocities take place, Catholic bishops should act. I read in the Kansas City Star (a McClatchy paper), that some “Lutherans” are going to host a sacrilegious, fake catholic “ordination” of a woman by the usual wymyn suspects. HERE It … Read More
Posted in ACTION ITEM!, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, You must be joking!
Tagged D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, ecumenical dialogue, ecumenism, ELCA, graviora delicta, Lutherans, ordination of women, sacrilege, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, wymyn
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28 Comments
It’s a terrible thought: dying excommunicated…
I want you to stop for a moment and do something: Right now… try to imagine what goes through the mind of a soul during her first 15 seconds in Hell. The realization of where you are… “This can’t … … Read More
Head of Austrian “We Are Church” Excommunicated
Here is something that the Fishwrap won’t be happy to report. German sources report that Pope Francis, the first Pope who ever smiled, the first Pope who ever kissed a baby, the first Pope since … well, some nice Pope … Read More
QUAERITUR: I found a Host at my mother’s house. Wherein Fr. Z rants a little.
From a reader: While visiting my parents’ home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom’s prayer table. I forget what it was … but out of the corner of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, O'Brian Tags, Our Catholic Identity, Preserved Killick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Year of Faith
Tagged can. 1367, Communion in the hand, graviora delicta, host, latae sententiae excommunication, sacrarium
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43 Comments
Women-priest fakers allow Protestants to define who Catholics are. There must be consequences.
When anti-Catholic ecumenical atrocities take place, Catholic bishops should act. Here is an example which calls for consequences. From WTAX in Kentucky: Kentucky woman ordained as priest in defiance of Roman Catholic Church [Note either the carelessness or the bias? … Read More
Mr. Roy Bourgeois gets his letter
I detect in myself a touch of schadenfreude as I read of this new at the site of the Fishwrap, whose editors have pressed poor Roy to their collective bosom for so very long. Bourgeois receives official Vatican letter dismissing him … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged deaconesses, Fishwrap, graviora delicta, Maryknoll, ordination of women, Roy Bourgeois, women deacons, wymyn
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36 Comments
“There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall…” Farewell, Roy Bourgeois!
From The Sound of Music: There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall And the bells in the steeple too And up in the nursery an absurd little bird Is popping out to say, “Cuckoo” Regretfully they … Read More
Video interview of Msgr. Charles Scicluna: “words of fire”
My friend Greg Burke, the Rome correspondent for Fox News, scored an interview – video interview – with Msgr. Charles Scicluna of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who handles graviora delicta cases. Vatican Prosecutor: Pope Showed “Frustration … Read More
Posted in Clerical Sexual Abuse
Tagged Fox News, graviora delicta, Greg Burke, Msgr. Scicluna
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14 Comments
America Magazine: Pastor Apologizes for Vatican’s “Insensitive” Words
From America Magazine with my emphases and comments: Pastor Apologizes for Vatican’s "Insensitive" WordsAugust 18, 2010James Martin, S.J. A pastor in Oak Park, Ill., has apologized to the women and women religious of his parish for the Vatican’s "insensitive and … Read More
US Catholic goes to the zoo about the new “graviora delicta” norms
You perhaps won’t be surprised if Bryan Cones of the über-liberal US Catholic threw a little nutty about the CDF’s new norms concerning graviora delicta, "exceptionally serious crimes". Here is the piece in all is wondrous weirdness with my emphases … Read More
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