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- Benedict Joseph on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Lurker59: “Rome tends to be more afraid of schism than heresy. ” There be the problem in a nutshell. God…”
- on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “I also pray for this situation. May a last minute resolution be found!”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D You said, “He is not Catholic who disagrees with the Church of Rome in the doctrine of the faith.”…”
- on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “@Geoffrey “ends justifies the means” implies there’s something intrinsically immoral about consecrating bishops. Which there isn’t. And the fact of…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Discerning Altar Boy I heard this as a rumor, and I continue to hope it is just a rumor. Because…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “My interest in these events is primarily in relation to the Catholic East and Orthodoxy. My support for the East…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “The SSPX needs bishops to function and it has only two bishops left. Unless at some point they have consecrations…”
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Tag Archives: SCOTUS
The Final Frontier of the Civil Rights Movement
One of the greatest victories of feminists and left – including their catholic dupes and water-carriers – was to divorce the issue abortion from civil rights (and in the context of the Church, social justice) and twist it instead into … Read More
Fordham Feminist: You will be assimilated!
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! It is almost as if Jesuit-run entities, such as universities and magazines, were at war with the US Bishops. I picked this up from the Cardinal Newman Society which keeps an eye on what’s going … Read More
Pres. Obama’s problematic proclamation for National Day of Prayer (3 May)
In the wake of Pres. Obama’s direct attacks on the 1st Amendment both in its religious liberty clause and freedom of speech clause, in the wake of the Pres. Obama’s bungling of the Chen Guangcheng Affair, I read this on CNA: … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, Employment Division v. Smith, freedom of speech, freedom of worship, HHS, National Day of Prayer, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Sherbert v. Verner, Supreme Court
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17 Comments
“If it wasn’t for health care…”
The nice UPS gal swooped in with a review DVD from First Run Films about the late Archbishop Oscar Romero. I’ll probably watch it tonight. In our brief chat, I mentioned how impressed I was that UPS and FedEx can move … Read More
SCOTUS unanimous decision upholding religious liberty, “ministerial exception”
My mind returns to the moment in Pres. Obama’s State of the Union Address when he chose to scold the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, while they sat and, from decorum and custom, could do nothing … Read More
Fr. Z about, and to, Mr. Gingrich. Implantation? Not conception?
How many times have we heard that presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is smart? I would pay money to watch a debate between Mr. Gingrich and Pres. Obama. People can convert, grow, change, mature, etc. … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged abortifacient, abortion, GOP 2012, implantation, judges, Mark Levin, newt, Newt Gingrich, POTUS, Pres. Obama, prolife, SCOTUS
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52 Comments
Ominous signs: religious liberty and our Catholic identity
“Secularizing trends, including the expropriation of Church goods and the elimination of privileges, frequently lead to “a profound liberation of the Church from forms of worldliness.” – Benedict XVI in Freiburg, Germany. For years I have been harping on a … Read More
Chilling: SCOTUS hears case touching on right of Churches to self-determination, “ministerial exception”, discrimination
From CWN: In argument before the Supreme Court on an anti-discrimination case, the solicitor general—representing the Obama administration—said that the government would uphold the right of the Catholic Church to preserve an all-male priesthood, [NB:] but only “because the balance … Read More
TOWNHALL: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville?
This is an excellent piece from Townhall. Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville? Ken Blackwell Columnist, Townhall.com Daniel Webster was the most famous lawyer of his day. In 1819, the “Godlike Daniel” stood before the U.S. Supreme Court and … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged anti-catholicism, Belmont Abbey, Charlotte Allen, Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College, Franciscan University, HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, kulturkampf, Obamacare, POTUS, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Steubenville
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29 Comments
NCFishwrap getting it wrong about abortion and capital punishment.
Over at the National catholic Fishwrap, Jamie Manson has flung herself headlong into another error. I won’t torment you with a fisking of the whole article. Suffice it to say that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is said to have … Read More
Benedict Joseph on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Lurker59: “Rome tends to be more afraid of schism than heresy. ” There be the problem in a nutshell. God…”
