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Petition to Notre Dame Pres. Fr. Jenkins: Please drop the charges again pro-lifers
From TFP Student Action: URGENT petition to Notre Dame: Please drop the chargesBy TFP Student Action September 10, 2009 The 88 outspoken pro-lifers peacefully walked onto Notre Dame’s campus in May to be the voice of the unborn – when … Read More
The Problem With Toning Down the Rhetoric – And Why We Probably Won’t Do It
The Problem With Toning Down the Rhetoric – And Why We Probably Won’t Do It Some of my Catholic friends have been urging me and others on the Catholic right to tone down the rhetoric when it comes to discussing … Read More
Posted in Caption Call, Classic Posts, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, civil rights, desegretation, Fr. Jenkins, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama, Rhetoric, segregation, Selma
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Fr. Z to Card. Cottier: Check your facts!
The Italian monthly 30 Giorni published an article purportedly by His Eminence Georges Card. Cottier, 87, the former papal theologian under the late Pope John Paul II. In 2005 Card. Cottier retired at the age of 83. Was Fr. Wojciech … Read More
Posted in I'm just askin'..., SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged 30 Giorni, abortion, Card. Cottier, John Allen, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama, UN
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John Allen on Pres. Obama and Miguel Diaz
From the National Catholic Reporter, the ultra-left wing dissenting weekly, the nearly ubiquitous John L. Allen has some obervations about Pres. Obama and future Ambassador Miguel Diaz. My emphases and comments. With Diaz nomination, Obama passes major Catholic test [Passes … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged Ambassador, Diaz, John L. Allen, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama
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Rodari interviews Vian on what he is up to with L’Osservatore Romano
It has been hard to explain why in the page of L’Osservatore Romano we have seen sch poor judgment about the case of Notre Dame and Pres. Obama. Notre Dame chose to bestow an honor on the most pro-abortion President … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged abortion, L'Osservatore Romano, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama, Vian
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L’Osservatore Romano… what the…?!?
Many…many.. of you are asking me via e-mail what one earth is wrong with L’Osservatore Romano. The Vatican’s newspaper published a decidedly dopey article on the visit of President Obama to Notre Dame. The singularly grossest aspect of the decidedly … Read More
Bp. Finn (D. KC, MO) on Notre Dame, Obama’s speech
The Catholic Key blog of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has an interview with His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Finn, the excellent bishop of the same. He opines on the visit of Pres. Obama to Notre Dame. Here are … Read More
Fr. Jenkin’s intro for Pres. Obama
Here is the text of Fr. Jenkin’s introduction of Pres. Obama at the commencement ceremony on Sunday 17 May. This introduction sounds oh so right, in a gooey sort of way, but it is oh so wrong in many others. … Read More
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Tagged Jenkins, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama
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Bp. Trautman on Notre Dame and Pres. Obama
WDTPRS has been hard on the liturgical translation views His Excellent Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie. Here is his statement on the scandal at Notre Dame. It is posted on the site of the Diocese of Erie. … Read More
Anxious NCR editorial – They KNOW they are losing and they are terrified!
The ultra-left-wing National Catholic Reporter has an editorial in which they reveal their darkest fear: …the goalposts have shifted in the U.S. episcopacy in the past decade – and they have swerved in a decidedly rightward tilt on both the … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, dissent, NCR, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama
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Some polling on Notre Dame and Pres. Obama
The left-wing, progressivist Catholics tend to follow polling data more than the Church’s Magisterium when it comes to certain hot button issues. I wonder what they do with the latest Rasmussen Poll about the reaction of Catholics the the scandalous … Read More
Thomas Reese, SJ “Memo to Bishops: Most Catholics Aren’t Listening”
From The Washington Post we have this slithery piece from Thomas Reese, SJ: Memo to Bishops: Most Catholics Aren’t Listening THIS CATHOLIC’S VIEW By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. During the 2008 presidential campaign, there was a steady drumbeat of opposition … Read More
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Tagged Notre Dame, Thomas Reese
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Deplorable “Catholic Democrats” deplore Amb. Glendon
I am all for an identifiable Catholic presence in the public square. That said, this group is becoming more and more divisive: Catholic Democrats. Here is their latest defense of Notre Shame, which involves the denigration of Amb. Mary Ann … Read More
PODCAzT 83: St. Augustine on the challenge of remaining faithful
In this simple PODCAzT, we will pry open St. Augustine’s sermon to newly baptized Catholics. He talks to them about the hardships they will face in remaining faithful under the onslaught of temptations presented by the unfaithful. In s. 376A … Read More
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Tagged Augustine, Divine Mercy Sunday, Notre Dame, podcast, PODCAzT
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