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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?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
Archd. Washington DC, can. 915, Pelosi, transparency
This is how they roll. But remember, it is important to crush the people who want the Vetus Ordo. Not just the Vetus Ordo… the people who want it. Meanwhile… Nancy… The Washington Examiner asked the Archdiocese of Washington for comment on … Read More →
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More bad Latin from the new-fangled DDW (olim CDW)
At Fr. Hunwicke’s, there is an exposition of the Latin version of a new prayer for the Good Friday. Apparently now every passing cause has to be in the Good Friday prayers. This time it is, wait for it… victims … Read More →
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A picture is worth a thousand words. – UPDATED
A picture is worth a thousand words. This on 12 March 2022, the 400th anniversary of the canonization of Sts. Teresa of Avila, Phlip Neri, Isidore, Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola. At the altar of the great Jesuit church in … Read More →
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Thoughts on Francis’ claim that non-vernacular readings are “laughing at the Word of God”
Fr. John Hunwicke’s blog is a constant source of fascinating details, amusing invective, and inverting insight. Those first two may be obvious, but what do I mean by “inverting insight”? I mean that Fr. H has a keen ability to … Read More →
What is at the heart of the progressivist attacks on the Traditional Latin Mass and the accusations that people who want it are “against Vatican II”? Here’s what it is.
A little over a year ago, I read something from one of the foremost of the “self-promoting through papalotry” voices of the ecclesiologically progressive gang. It was alarming in its implications. What I had read was a claim that Vatican … Read More →
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Compare what Archbp. Roche said in 2015 to what he is saying now.
It is very hard to respect clerics who are just weathervanes, waving around, changing directions under the pressure of whomever is at the moment in power. Archbp. Roche, now in present role as Prefect of the CDW, now one of … Read More →
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Unpleasant but useful reading ALERT!
Today at Rorate I see two very useful pieces. First, Joseph Shaw, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society (join even if you are not in the UK) in which he eviscerates one of the most embarrassing of the papalatrous left, … Read More →
Wherein at the tail-end of 2021 Fr. Z reflects on the phrase “In cauda venenum”
There’s a pattern in papal and curial and chancery documents. In general, after the salutations and other blah blah, there follow status quaesitionis points which stand as the justification for the correspondence or decree. However, the business is nearly always … Read More →
I am in total awe of a piece posted – thank you – at Rorate. A monumental take down of Traditionis custodes and the Dubious Dubia using Francis’ own categorical declarations about freedom, conscience, clericalism, proselytizing, discernment. A Manual for Resistance.
Today, on the last day of this annus terribilis, I am in total awe of a piece posted – thank you! – at Rorate. HERE The writer was a lawyer in Buenos Aires, now a priest with a super CV. … Read More →
“I am a devout Catholic, but….”
From Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ: Herod was fearful that He Who came to bring a heavenly crown would steal away his own tinsel one. He pretended that he wanted to bring gifts, but the only gift he wanted to … Read More →
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