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on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “In all candor, Father, that’s the least objectionable part of the article.”
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on Crisis: Will today’s shepherds provoke a schism as they have in the past?: “The Latin Mass community of which I am a part is as close to a “hybrid” parish as I think…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “Fr. Reese’s comments are infuriating. When he says that no one grasps Aristotelianism in the 21st century, he sounds like…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “That’s about as clear as mud! What exactly does he believe happens at the Consecration of the Mass? Is the…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): ““Thomas Aquinas used Aristotelianism, the avant-garde philosophy of his time” Controversial, not avant-garde. And it was controversial because of his…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “So, first, forget transubstantiation. Better to admit that Christ’s presence in the Eucharist is an unexplainable mystery that our little…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “”Second, remember the purpose of the Eucharist is not to worship Jesus.” I just don’t understand that sentence.”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “Forget about the article–What is going on with the picture at the top of the article? A priest is distributing…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “lol So much wrong with the full article that it is just silly. FYI, Fr. Reese, though I am sure…”
on These folks could teach Moray eels a thing or two about slippery twisting. (Yes, this features a Jesuit.): “Council of Trent condemned that position explicitly.”
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ASK FATHER: Blessings that are not in Latin? Wherein Fr. Z rants at length.
I received a somewhat convoluted note about blessings, which contained several implicit questions. I will tease out the essence. He can’t find a priest to bless things in Latin and it would be very far to drive to find one. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Latin, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged blessings, goop, Holy Name, religion, Rituale Romanum, Traditionis custodes
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Card. George on liturgical translation
At Amerika there is an interview with Francis Card. George, the out-going Archbishop of Chicago. Among the various questions put to him, this one, with the answer caught my special attention. My emphases and comments: You were prominent in … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged Card. George, ICEL, justice, religion, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, translation
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FANON! Wherein Fr. Z rants, opines, predicts.
I did everyone a big favor today. This morning I decided to leave the computer off and simply say my Office, say Mass, have some breakfast without concerning myself with any news or voicemail or email. Whenever I do this, … Read More
Posted in Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, My Favorite Posts, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith
Tagged Benedict XVI, canonization, fanon, justice, propaedeutic, religion, signa et res, St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Synod of Bishops
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WDTPRS Thursday 5th Week Lent (Prayer over the People): of spewing, pointless running, and the virtue of religion
Please use the sharing buttons! Today’s “Prayer over the people”, at the end of Mass in the Ordinary Form, was originally in a truncated form in various manuscripts of the Gelasian Sacramentary. However, I eventually found it also in a … Read More
QUAERITUR: Are Mormons Christians?
From a reader: I have a friend who is Mormon and she claims that they are indeed Christian but something in me says they are not. She claims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and her Lord and … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged baptism, Battlestar Galactica, Christianity, divinity, God, Mormonism, Mormons, religion, Trinity
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ACTION ITEM! VOTE! An annual award for Catholic websites.
Help, please? WDTPRS is a finalist for Best Catholic Blog in About.com’s Readers Choice Awards. Click HERE to go to the page to VOTE. You may vote once per day…. actually once per 24 hour period. 24 hrs after your … Read More
Obama gives Amish complete exemption. Catholics? Talk to the hand! Why? Why do you think?
A few days ago Sr. Mary Ann Walsh at the USCCB Blog posted this: Friday, March 9, 2012 Amish, Ok. Catholics, No. The Amish are exempt from the entire health care reform law. So are members of Medi-Share, a program … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged 1st Amendment, American Patriotic Catholic Association, anti-catholicism, Democrats, HHS, POTUS, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty, Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Media blog
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QUAERITUR: Seminary monitors seminarians’ email, surfing. Wherein Fr. Z administers tough love.
In the USA huge strides have been taken back toward sanity in the Catholic Church’s seminaries. The “biological solution” is having its way with the liberals and modernists who have dominated chanceries and seminaries for decades. Though some hang on … Read More
Of Ordinariates, the SSPX, and the gravitational pull
Benedict XVI, the Pope of Christian Unity, has made it possible by his provision in Anglicanorum coetibus, for Anglicans to enter into Holy Church in new Ordinariates. Their liturgical traditions are being codified and approved by the Holy See and … Read More
The Obama Administration is organizing…. WHAT?!?
I saw something worthy of Germany in the 1930’s in today’s Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times): White House Works to Shape Debate Over Health Law By ROBERT PEAR Published: March 9, 2012 […] On Wednesday, White House officials … Read More
American Bishop receives kudos from the Pope for reordering sacraments
This should cause some discussion! From CNA: Bishop Aquila receives Pope’s praise for reordering sacraments By David Kerr Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2012 / 03:58 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo said he is delighted to have first-hand … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged baptism, Bp. Aquila, confirmation, D. Fargo, Eucharist, religion, sacraments of initiation
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CL: Lefty “catholics” shilling for Pres. Obama
From The Catholic League: Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: The Catholic left is so deep in the tank for Obama that they are working publicly to undermine the bishops. First a little background. [cf Magisterium of Nuns] … Read More
HOUSTON 9 March: Mass and Prayer Rally during Pres. Obama’s campaign stop
I like this approach. The pro-abortion, pro-infantide, anti-Catholic, anti-1st Amendment Pres. Obama – about whose scantily documented past we really don’t know very much – will be in Houston… fund-raising on the pretext of doing something “presidential”. The Archdiocese, on the other … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged 1st Amendment, abortion, anti-catholic, HHS, Pres. Obama, religion
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“The Church will become small and will have to start afresh …”
Back in 1969 theologian Joseph Ratzinger made some comments about our Catholic future. They were included in his Faith and the Future published by Ignatius Press in 2009. The church will become small and will have to start afresh more … Read More
Why A Religious Model for the State Is Not Good
Ask everybody and they’ll all agree it’s a good thing priests don’t run the world. I agree with this view. I also believe it’s even better that members of religious orders don’t run the world, whether they are Sisters of Mercy … Read More
WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday of Lent – our new spiritual view
Here is the Collect of the 2nd Sunday of Lent, a new composition for the Novus Ordo based on a precedent in the Liber Mozarabicus Sacramentorum.: Deus, qui nobis dilectum Filium tuum audire praecepisti, verbo tuo interius nos pascere digneris, … Read More
Common ground?
Via the great Vincenzo: Remember his promises at Notre Dame? The hopes of Card. Cottier? The excuses of Doug Kmiec? The panting of L’Osservatore Romano? Don’t forget that Vincenzo has the Pius Clocks!
Bp. Lori responds for USCCB to America Magazine’s cave in on Pres. Obama’s HHS attack
Jesuit-controlled America Magazine recently caved in to the Obama Administration in the matter of Pres. Obama’s attack on the 1st Amendment and on the Catholic Church. In their role as a pipe for the Magisterium of Nuns, the magazine undercut … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Fr. Z KUDOS, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, abortifacients, America Magazine, American Patriotic Catholic Association, Ella, HHS, magisterium of nuns, Pres. Obama, religion
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