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- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Schism at NSR?
Something curious is happening at the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap). Our pal Michael Sean Winters wrote about the Holy See’s hostile takeover of the LCWR in light of the keynote address to the LCWR given by Sr. Laurie Brinks. Sr. … Read More →
Pope Francis slaps down those who resist the Holy Spirit
Pope Francis has been saying Mass semi-publicly in the chapel of the Casa S. Marta, where he has been living. He has been giving a “fervorino” at Mass, that is, a brief, usually off the cuff, sermon. So far, there … Read More →
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What does Fr. Z really say? A response to critics on the left and the right.
Back on 2 April – which in blog years is like a decade ago – I offered a brief manifesto about how I think we ought to approach Pope Francis. In fact, there are any number of entries I have … Read More →
Unless you recover the words, you can’t recover the concepts.
When you change the words, you change the concepts. The liberal progressivist liturgical terrorist reformers were successful in changing our way of speaking about our sacred liturgical worship. For example, they made us – and no one asked them to … Read More →
Whose ecumenism?
Liberals are beginning to twit. They are just warming up, but soon it will be a grand mal twit. They are panicking about Pope Benedict and his provisions for Anglicans who, after their long nightmare with liberal on their side … Read More →
FOLLOW UP: McBrien’s “rather adolescently rigid” article… NCR readers react!
Notre Dame’s Richard McBrien says that "Eucharistic adoration, perpetual or not, is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward, not forward." You can read his sneering NCR article if you want or read it with my commentary HERE. A WDTPRS … Read More →
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Non-denial denials
His Hermeneuticalness has done us a service in translating from Italian a comment by the intrepid Andrea Tornielli. I turn the mic over to Fr. Finigan, but add my emphases and comments: Andrea Tornielli "le smentite che non smentiscono" … Read More →
Recent survey concerning the TLM: 2-1 of those with opinions favor a TLM option
A reader alerted me – mired as I was in the midst of computer battles – about a survey recently conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate of Jesuit run Georgetown University about the availability of the … Read More →
Justice Ginsberg originally thought Roe v Wade was about control of undesirable populations
With a tip of the biretta o{]:¬/ to Sancte Pater, I present this from Worldnet Daily. I was amazed… amazed to read this. LAW OF THE LAND Ginsburg: I thought Roe was to rid undesirables Justice discusses ‘growth in … Read More →
A study in how “nuance” is used to enervate
From the ultra-lefty National Catholic Reporter we have this piece.A Georgetown prof is trying…. [btw… nice tie, Father] … to offer a very nuanced position. The bottom line is that Catholics, especially bishops, are not sophisticated or wise unless they … Read More →
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