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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Hurray! Another Synod (“walking together”) of Bishops!
I’m sure you are all really excited about the prospect of another Synod (“walking together”) of Bishops! The last two Synods were so helpful for our Catholic identity and unity. This time the theme will be “Young People, the Faith … Read More →
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Card. Coccopalmerio: “Maybe we have to reflect on this concept of validity or invalidity. “
Just after I read a silly piece from the ridiculous Hans Küng over at the Fishwrap (National Schismatic Reporter) about completely rehabilitating Martin Luther, I flipped over to the National Catholic Register and saw Ed Pentin’s long interview of Card. … Read More →
Card. Burke goes to Guam – What’s up with that?
You may, by now, have read new stories about how His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke has been “sent to Guam”. He will preside over a canonical trial of a bishop who has been accused of sexual abuse of minors. This … Read More →
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Fr. Murray on Card. Coccopalmerio’s booklet defense of Communion for mortal sinners
I direct the readership to dash over to The Catholic Thing for a new column by my friend Fr. Gerald Murray. He drills into the booklet offered to the public through the intermediary of the Vatican Press by His Eminence … Read More →
The plural of anecdote is “data”
Disturbing data points have come to me in the last few days. First, I had a telephone conversation with a priest who described how the local bishop had removed the faculties of a number of priests pretty much because he … Read More →
What Do The Little Dots Really Say? Drilling into a distortion at America Magazine
UPDATE 7 Jan: Catch Fr. Hunwicke’s comments. HERE ___ Originally Published on: Jan 6, 2017 Sometimes libs try to pull one over on us by shaking and rattling the shiny object so that you don’t see what they are doing with … Read More →
Card. Kasper: It’s a scandal to deny Communion to adulterers
In the Augustinian Order today is the Feast of St John Stone, one of the 40 English Martyrs canonized by the author of Humanae Vitae. He died under Henry VIII opposing the original version of the Kasper Proposal. Speaking of … Read More →
Bishop calls for rituals to bless adultery and sodomy
What follows should make EVERY CATHOLIC angry. There is no left or right or anything else in this. If you are Catholic, this should make you angry. If you read Patheos, or Rorate, or Aletheia you should be angry and, frankly, alarmed. … Read More →
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How to pray the “Cursing Psalms” against our enemies
Saturdays are my field days. I field strip my computers (scan, defrag, update etc.), police the Cupboard Under The Stairs, do laundry, try to fill up a garbage bag or two (that’s satisfaction), police both the fridge (especially on a wake-up) and my conscience. Well, that last … Read More →
They don’t even try to hide it anymore: demonic ceremony for opening of new tunnel
From, from St. Paul to the Romans Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? Or distress? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or danger? Or persecution? Or the sword? (As it is written: For thy sake, we … Read More →
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