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The Embarrassed College of the Holy Cross
My friend Fr. Martin Fox, at his blog Bonfire Of The Vanities, writes today about a Catholic college for the Holy Cross, hence, College of the Holy Cross. He picked it up from NRO. They are wringing their hands over maybe changing … Read More
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Head of the Jesuits doubles down on his “no one had a tape recorder” remarks
We recent read the words of the Superior General of the Jesuits (them, again) which effectively emptied Christianity of its content. HERE and HERE and HERE Fr Arturo (“Doctrine is a word that I don’t like very much”) Sosa Abascal is now back … Read More
Maltese Bp. Scicluna: The Church’s teachings on contraception has softened
UPDATE 10 April: A friend in Rome texted me that he had heard that Malta Today retracted the article about Scicluna. I went to look at found this. The story was still indexed, but you couldn’t reach it. ___ ORIGINALLY Published … Read More
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Papal Preacher’s 5th Lent Sermon was about the Protestant Reformation
FYI… Via CWN: Papal preacher devotes Lenten sermon to Protestant Reformation Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the Capuchin Franciscan friar who has served as preacher to the papal household since 1980, preached his final [5th] sermon of Lent 2017 to the Pope and … Read More
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Tinkeritis: Screwing around with, screwing up, liturgical translations
You may have heard that there is an initiative underway to “review” or “study” vernacular translations of the texts of Mass and the norms according to which they are to be prepared as given in Liturgiam authenticam. This would be … Read More
The German Church: Nuts
In our day we finally gone beyond the decades long, post-Conciliar scandal of priest against priest when it comes to sacramental discipline. We have now reached bishop against bishop and conference against conference. If you are in one diocese or … Read More
Is there a “schism”?
I pay scant attention to Patheos, but for a couple contributors. This caught my eye after a frequent commentator here alerted me. Fr. Dwight Longenecker wrote, with my legendary emphases and comments: Headlines last week were proclaiming that a group of cardinals believe … Read More
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CQ CQ CQ – Ham Radio Thursday: Vatican Radio’s suicide based on bad econ and bad info
First, the bad news. From Sandro Magister on the sad sad sad blinkered decision to shut down Vatican Radio’s shortwave operations. There was a big stir over the post from Settimo Cielo [HERE and HERE] on February 20 about the … Read More
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Head of the Jesuits: “Doctrine is a word that I don’t like very much”
Yesterday I posted an entry with the title: Has the head of the Jesuits jettisoned doctrine and the words of the Lord in Scripture? The General of the Jesuits effectively said that doctrine has no fixed meaning and that we … Read More
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I am too angry for words. Wherein Fr. Z… grrrrrr
I am so angry I could spit. There are already so many problems with modern baseball… now this. Is the Novus Ordo age of baseball upon us? From Hot Air: Another bad idea from MLB: Intentional walks will now be … Read More
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