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Not on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Before Vatican II You took vows as a Sub Deacon. Then a Deacon . Then an Ordained Priest. No “Lay…”
TheCavalierHatherly on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “@R2D Hoc disputo. Est lingua prolix mendaxque. Discendum est clericis dilucide cogitare.”
Bryan D. Boyle on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “The chin wagging and word salads will continue, as a previous commenter noted, until someone somewhere wearies of the constant…”
Geoffrey on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Now if only “Spiritus Domini” (2021) would be reversed…”
R2D on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “The untold great gift of the current pontificate is the expansion of English as an acceptable business language by the…”
EAW on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Like that old bishop our reverend host often quotes, I think more talk is not what we need, but there…”
Chicagiensis_Indianapolitana on Daily Rome Shot 1498 – URGENT VIDEO WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST BOTH *STUPID* AND *HERESY*: “I was a church organist and choir director for a number of years. Every year, without fail a visitor would…”
Fr. Reader on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “They will continue pushing until the end of time with this. Sooner or later they will get something like: Diaconate…”
Eoin OBolguidhir on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “A good response to those who kvetch about our all male hierachy is to remind them that the point is…”
fac on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “I attended a Novus Ordo funeral Mass the other day where there were not only three priests and a permanent…”
Fr. Reader on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “But… the mother in law of Peter was a deaconette! Just read Luke 4, 39! ??? ??????? ????? ????? ??????????…”
Loquitur on Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate: “Fr. Hunwicke (R.I.P.), wrote an important series of five blog posts showing how the primary apostolic understanding of deacons is…”
Mama Jean on ASK FATHER: Does a communicant have the right to receive communion from a cleric?: “Yes, but the question you are really asking boils down to lay Eucharistic Ministers. (I’m talking respectful, modest, faithfilled, reverent…”
revueltos67 on Daily Rome Shot 1498 – URGENT VIDEO WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST BOTH *STUPID* AND *HERESY*: “White to move and mate in 4 White’s strength is on the f file and will naturally be pushing the…”
johntenor on Daily Rome Shot 1498 – URGENT VIDEO WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST BOTH *STUPID* AND *HERESY*: “Not to add insult to injury, but I’ve heard “Mary Did You Know?” sung during the Good Friday Liturgy. It…”
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Tag Archives: SSPX
SSPX-USA Letter about Pope Leo XIV
The following is a letter on the election of Pope Leo XIV from Fr. John Fullerton, the District Superior of the Society of Saint Pius X in the United States. HERE My emphases and comments. Dear faithful, The election of Cardinal Robert Francis … Read More
SSPX to consecrate more bishops?
From the site Una Vox Italy: On 24 December 2023, the new issue of the Bulletin of the French Priory of Pointet, of the Society of Saint Pius Fraternity. [SSPX] Currently the Fraternity has 3 bishops: Mons. Bernard Fellay, 65 … Read More
How to view the SSPX.
This is interesting from Catholic Family News as a development of the SSPX’s great “proof of concept” project, the building and consecration of their beautiful, huge new church in Kansas, The Immaculata. “While regrettably the Church and the SSPX are … Read More
New, grand SSPX church, Bishops, and Proof of Concept
At Crisis there is a piece by Eric Sammons entitled “Our Incurious Bishops“. The idea is this. The SSPX just consecrated a huge and beautiful church in Kansas. It was packed with precisely the sort of people bishops might like … Read More
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Meanwhile, in Kansas
This is from 1 March but I just found it today. The SSPX is building an amazing church in Kansas. The altar was installed.
D. Albany: Large old church for sale – $100,000
It isn’t that unusual these days to see that churches are for sale, some of them splendid, all of them once beloved, paid for with the pennies and tears of generations that entrusted their mites to the diocese. It’s sad. … Read More
ASK FATHER: What is the status of SSPX weddings when the local bishop denies permission, delegation?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am from a town where the SSPX has recently established a vibrant chapel and has been extremely generous in providing Traditional Latin Mass and other Sacraments in the traditional rite. The local diocesan parish has … Read More
ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to contribute for a side altar at an SSPX chapel?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Is making a sponsorship to an SSPX church a sin, if one doesn’t support being in Schism. I have a deep love for Our Lady of Guadalupe for example and would like to support the side … Read More
SSPX. As I was saying….
I read something familiar at LifeSite in a piece about Bp. Athanasius Schneider’s remarks about the SSPX. I have often explained in these electronic pages that… There is no question that the Mass celebrated is in a Catholic Rite. The … Read More
ASK FATHER: Should I go to an SSPX chapel for the sake of my family or stick with a parish where things aren’t as good?
Say someone is convinced that the Vetus Ordo is a better channel for living our Catholic identity in this vale of tears. While not doubting that the Novus Ordo is a valid rite and not wholly ineffective, just not as … Read More
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