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- on Should bishops “quiz” confirmands?: “Following his homily, I and a good number of my 7th grade classmates were quizzed by the Bishop from the…”
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QUAERITUR: Examination of conscience and “Speaking against priests or consecrated religious”
From a reader: Hello Father! An examination of conscience asks, “Have I spoken against a priest, or against anyone consecrated to God? (This is a sacrilege).” I am not sure what constitutes “speaking against”, but I have made fun of … Read More
Quislings for Obama
Phil Lawler at CWN picked this up: On the web site of Catholics for Obama [Quislings for Obama] right above the story blasting critics of the Plan B contraceptive—you’ll find a photo of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, roaring with laughter, with a smiling … Read More
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Liberals only invoke their Catholicism when it agrees with their Leftism
Radio talk-show great Dennis Prager analyzes pro-abortion catholic VP Joe Biden’s abortion response during the debate. HERE. A taste…. Joe Biden’s Religion: Catholicism or Leftism? In the vice presidential debate, the two candidates, both Roman Catholics, were asked about their religious … Read More
The Tablet’s latest cowardly editorial
The Tablet (aka RU-486) has a really bad editorial about the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. The editorial is an example of cowardice. There are courageous liberals and cowardly liberals. Courageous liberals come right out and say “The … Read More
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The Tablet… losers!
Recently Fr. Tim Finigan gave a thoughtful talk to the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain about parallels/connections between the phenomena of “new movements” and the Catholic blogosphere. He is onto something. Even a cursory glance shows that both new … Read More
How liberals see the world: If you are pro-life you are now a racist.
If you are a liberal these days, you are losing most arguments that are based in facts. Liberals therefore are resorting to the ad hominem attack, which involves attacking the people they oppose instead of their positions. For example, I … Read More
Newt on the Democrat Party’s extremist abortion plank and on liberal bias
Here is a really interesting video. Newt Gingrich goes off on some liberals about tax-payer funded abortion and liberal bias on Meet The Press. I would still have liked to see him mop the floor with the incumbent. [wp_youtube]m–3So-MtsM[/wp_youtube]
Whence Big Puppets? Why do dissidents like them so much?
Did you see the article at Catholic World Report about “big puppets”? You know the ones. Whence Come These Puppets of Doom? August 21, 2012 “Liturgical puppets” have shown up in churches for years, but aren’t limited to Catholic venues—they … Read More
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Douthat’s NYT Op-Ed: Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?
From Hell’s Bible, aka The New York Times: OP-ED COLUMNIST Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved? [In this case I am in favor of euthanasia.] By ROSS DOUTHAT IN 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably controversial Episcopal bishop of Newark, … Read More
Liberal Media Bias: Networks refuse to report on Catholic suits against the Obama Administration
From Newsbusters by Brent Bozell with my emphases: The evening news broadcasts all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom. The May 21 editions of ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused … Read More
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Ethics group says babies are not “actual persons”, and killing them is fine.
In a straight line from Epicurus to Machiavelli to Descartes to Hobbes to Rousseau to Mill to Darwin to Sanger to your front door…. Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say Parents should be allowed to have their newborn … Read More
Reception of the new, corrected translation on college campuses
Most of the hand-wringing over the new, corrected translation of the Roman Missal was predicated on the notion that people are too stoopid to understand English. I must admit, however, when I read some of the articles after the 1st … Read More
Peter Kreeft on liberals: “A Catholic cannot be today what is called a liberal about abortion.”
From the Wisconsin State Journal we have a tale of the visit and speech given by Dr. Peter Kreeft at the Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Madison, where the H.E. Most Rev. Robert Morlino reigns. In the Spirit: Can … Read More
Herman Cain on Margaret Sanger, eugenicist/racist foundress of Planned Parenthood
Via Catholic Culture comes this: Journalists ignore Margaret Sanger’s eugenic theories November 03, 2011 When American presidential candidate Herman Cain denounced the eugenicist theories of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, liberal journalists rose to Sanger’s defense, claiming that … Read More
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Abortion as the ultimate liberal sacrament
I don’t remember who said that abortion was the sacrament of of the hardcore feminist. CMR has this. This is … hard. Many have long remarked that abortion is the Left’s one and only sacrament. Abby Johnson tells a story … Read More
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Suffer the little ones to learn Gregorian chant and Latin
Liturgical liberals usually run down the intelligence of people in the pews, saying among other things that Joe and Mary Catholic will not be able to understand the new, corrected translation, or quod Deus avertat, LATIN. “It’s toooo haaard!“, they … Read More
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