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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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Category Archives: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
A priest defends true marriage against the promoters of contrary-to-nature unions
I picked up from the excellent blog The Sensible Bond, authored by a gent in England. The video is about a priest in El Paso. The blogosphere is amazing. Fr. Michael Rodriguez spoke at a City Council Meeting about … Read More
LifeSite: A plea to U.S. Bishops: Please love enough to speak of the dangers of homosexuality.
LifeSite News has a piece by John-Henry Westen entitled: A plea to U.S. Bishops: Please love enough to speak of the dangers of homosexuality. Read the whole thing there, but here is the last part. […] The only answer that … Read More
Can Catholics preserve, for our own flock, true marriage?
One of the reasons I go on and on about a renewal of liturgical worship is without such a renewal, there can be no renewal of Catholic identity. And if we don’t have a strong Catholic identity within the Church, … Read More
Protest blasphemy
This came in my email from American Needs Fatima. Caution: blasphemous material. Please protest the Southern California Premiere of the blasphemous show Jerry Springer: The Opera, which is full of profanity, impurity and blasphemous content, such as The Crucifixion is … Read More
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When people say stupid things about the Church, can you respond? REVIEW: Michael Coren
This note from The Catholic League about the ignorant boor and failed-TV personality Keith Olbermann gives me a chance to talk about something else. But first, the note from The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue: OLBERMANN’S IGNORANCE IS APPALLING On last … Read More
Make popcorn, then read! Ed Peter’s eviscerates Maureen Dowd.
The Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, has drawn the ire of the Id of the Washington Beltway, the atrabillious Maureen Dowd. My emphases and comments: Sunday, June 19, 2011 Oh no! Maureen Dowd doesn’t seem to like me! America’s 43rd … Read More
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Fishwrap owes Bp. Finn an apology for their insulting analogy
The writers and editors of the National catholic Fishwrap owe Bishop Robert Finn an apology. Columnist Phyllis Zagano, whose skills in reading carefully and thinking through argument haven’t been entirely evident to me (for example in this), drew a moral … Read More
D. Kansas City-St. Joseph: press release about controversies
The secular press in Kansas City, MO and the ultra-liberal, doctrine-dissenting, KC-based National catholic Reporter have been busy trying to tear the guts out of the diocese and Most Rev. Robert Finn, bishop, but not yet martyr. From the site … Read More
Archbp. Nienstedt and the defense of true marriage
In this week’s number of The Catholic Spirit, the newspaper and site of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, His Excellency Most Rev. John Nienstedt has a column about the Minnesota Marriage Amendment, that is, a defense of real … Read More
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It is hard to believe that people can be this dumb.
Via CMR (you can read the rest there): Freedom of speech is DOA in the USA folks. A federal judge has ruled that nobody at a high school graduation can use religious terms like “prayer” and “Amen.” So, remember that … Read More
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