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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
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- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: July 2018
What priests can – with credibility – do in marriage preparation
The other day, Kevin Card. Farrell, formerly of Dallas and now of Rome, made a disparaging remark about pretty much every priest in the world when it comes to marriage prep. He said: “[Priests] have no credibility; they have never lived … Read More
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French stones and soutanes
As I do each year, I’ve been watching the Tour de France. When I was young, I did a bit of riding myself. The coverage is technically amazing and the scenery along the way is beautiful. It’s like a … Read More
US Association of Consecrated Virgins condemns confusing new rules from Holy See
This is interesting… in the wake of the Holy See’s confusing document on consecrated virginity. Ed Peter‘s wrote: Now, according to the plain terms of ESI, the Blessed Virgin Mary, archetype of virginity consecrated to God, would not be eligible for admission to … Read More
¡Hagan lío! in Poland. Young, and raising hell…. correction… razing Hell.
These days it seems as if every time I turn around, I receive news of another Pontifical Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite has been celebrated somewhere. I couldn’t be more pleased. Slowly but surely, we are witnessing the reintegration … Read More
Does “Beans” @MassimoFaggioli undermine ‘Humanae vitae’?
The war on the teaching of Humanae vitae continued today with an offering at ultra-liberal Commonweal by Massimo “Beans” Faggioli. Beans spends a lot of time on Twitter throwing out one inflammatory tweet after another as click bait. Faggioli takes … Read More
ASK FATHER: Mom baptized my child in the bathtub
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My five year old nephew, who wasn’t formally baptized as an infant (ie: with his parents’ permission, in a church, by a priest, etc). My mom baptized him in the bathtub (and didn’t tell anyone except … Read More
INTERESTING UPDATE – Pope Francis phones Gianni Vattimo, philosopher of “weak thought”
UPDATE 11 July: I received a fascinating email from a priest: In [Vattimo’s] book Credo di credere (his spiritual autobiography (reads like someone re-wrote Augustine’s Confessions after a healthy dose of laudanum), Vattimo writes that he prays the 1961 Breviarium … Read More
SSPX ELECTS NEW SUPERIOR GENERAL – UPDATED
UPDATE 12 July: An interview with the new SSPX Superior. UPDATE 11 July: Turncoat Tornielli at Inside Vatican has put a negative spin on this election, concluding that an “agreement is farther off”. How he gets to that conclusion is … Read More
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