Category Archives: The Coming Storm

Facebook: 58 new “gender” choices. Blech.

Posted on 13 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This would be funny, if it weren’t so bizarre, twisted and sick. From ABC: Here’s a List of 58 Gender Options for Facebook Users Facebook introduced dozens of options for users to identify their gender today – and although the … Read More →

Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, You must be joking! | Tagged gender, Númenor
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The Party of Death: Iowa Dem says colicky (crying) baby is reason for abortion

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From LifeSite: The Iowa House of Representatives passed a bill recently to ban telemed abortions – abortions done with the dangerous RU 486 drug where the abortion clinic prevents a woman from seeing the doctor in person. During the debate on the … Read More →

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Liberals, The Coming Storm, You must be joking! | Tagged abortion, cholic, Democrats, iowa, RU-486, telemed abortions
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Harvesting Conciliar “fruits”: half of adults polled think Harry Potter and Hunger Games could be Biblical

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

It often seems that, these days, the odds are never in our favor. I take time out from my furious conference preparation (on art coming up in Detroit) to present something that only confirms the great fruits of Vatican II and the … Read More →

Posted in Benedict XVI, Liberals, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II, You must be joking! | Tagged Catholic education, dissent, fruits of Vatican II, Gregory Baum, Harry Potter, Jesuits, Thomas Groome, Vagina Monologues, Vatican II
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Have the civil rights of any group (besides the unborn) been trampled by U.S. courts more than Catholic priests?

Posted on 12 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is being torn limb from limb by the hyper-liberal MSM in the Twin Cities. There are some clerical abuse cases in the spotlight right now. It is a kind of perfect hideous storm. … Read More →

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse, Goat Rodeos, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The Religion of Peace, Wherein Fr. Z Rants | Tagged anti-catholicism, Archd. St. Paul and Minneapolis, clerical sexual abuse
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Bp. DiMarzio: Obama proposes what is “shameful and criminal in the eyes of Almighty God”

Posted on 11 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Fr. Z kudos to Brooklyn’s bishop Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio. It is dated, but it is good, and still relevant. With a biretta tip Pewsitter and to Veneremur Cernui I saw this at CNSNews: Catholic Bishop: Obama Is ‘Proponent’ of … Read More →

Posted in Brick by Brick, Emanations from Penumbras, Fr. Z KUDOS, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged abortion, Bp. DiMarzio, D. Brooklyn, HHS mandate, Pres. Obama, religious freedom
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Legatus awardee John Smeaton: bishops should deny Communion to pro-abortion pols

Posted on 11 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From LifeSite we find little coverage of the Legatus Summit I just attended: Deny communion to pro-abort politicians: Legatus pro-life award winner to world’s bishops ORLANDO, FL, February 10, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The annual Legatus Summit, held this year at … Read More →

Posted in 1983 CIC can. 915, Be The Maquis, Cri de Coeur, Emanations from Penumbras, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged can. 915, John Smeaton, Legatus, politicians, SCUP
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Rome intervenes to keep open church slated for closing

Posted on 10 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

When parish churches have to be closed, heartbreak ensures. But do churches have to be closed? I have seen some instances where viable places were shut down, with the concomitant hurt and anger, for no very good reason that I … Read More →

Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Cri de Coeur, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Vatican II | Tagged Archd. New York, bills, closing church, D. Buffalo, D. Cleveland, parish closures, paying the bills, tithing
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Overlord State put us in FEMA camps? Nahhh… it’ll never happen. Well… maybe never…

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From ABC: Scalia Says Internment Ruling Could Happen Again U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told law students at the University of Hawaii on Monday that the nation’s highest court was wrong to uphold the internment of Japanese-Americans during World … Read More →

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm, The Drill | Tagged 2nd amendment, FEMA, internment camps, Justice Scalia, Korematsu v. United States, SCOTUS
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WISCONSIN: Homosexualists attack states’ rights to define marriage

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

What do you think of this objective headline from Bloomberg? Wisconsin’s Criminal Gay-Marriage Ban Challenged by ACLU Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was sued by four same-sex couples seeking the right to marry in the state and to overturn a law … Read More →

Posted in Liberals, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices | Tagged homosexuality, liberals, same-sex marriage
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Priest denies Communion to openly co-habitating lesbians

Posted on 5 February 2014 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A friend sent me a note with a link to an article on a Kansas City, MO, news site. I wrote on this a few days ago, but am just returning to it now. The note from my friend included … Read More →