Category Archives: You must be joking!

SSPX ITALY condemns Pope Francis for visiting refugees – UPDATED – distorted news account?

UPDATE 18 July: There are some comments in the combox which help us get to what SSPX Italy really said.   Take a look and decide if Gazzetta distorted the story. ______________ From Gazzetta del Sud (their translation): Lefebvrists chide … Read More

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It’s Twofer Day!

Reason #6675 for Anglicanorum coetibus. But wait!  There’s more! Reason #367588 for Summorum Pontificum. Remember: We are supposed to be more like them, right?  

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When clowns attack

WARNING: This may make your eyes and ears bleed.  No.  Really. It is hard to know how to react to this.  I have so many thoughts and emotions at once. Preliminary observations: I think what you are going to see … Read More

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VIDEO: People offered chance to sign petition to help Pres. Obama repeal the “Bill of Rights”

Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of a Republic. Three words: Low. Information. Voters. Over at the Charles Carroll Society (on the Distributist side of the river, but… hey!) I saw this video: The … Read More

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Hijinx from the ACLU

More ALCU hijinx, from the site of site of KPEL radio: ACLU Of Louisiana Voices Opposition To Potential Lafayette Flags Ordinance LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL) — The executive director of Louisiana’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is cautioning against … Read More

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Catholic Health Ass. bends over for Pres. Obama’s HHS “compromise”

From Seattle Times.  Here is how the secular press views the bone-head BS stupid move of the Catholic Health Ass. When you hear the words Catholic Health Association you should start thinking: CANON 216 And now the news: Catholic hospitals accept … Read More

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Fishwrap gives Archbp. Weakland a pass on clerical sexual abuse of children

As I was slumming through the site of the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) I stepped in their piece about retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland’s role in the clerical sexual abuse scandals in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. I got to the end … Read More

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White House issues advice about shootings at churches – POLL

More great advice from the Obama Administration today. On the heels of a shooting at a Catholic Church in Utah (HERE), I spotted at RNS, that the White House has issued some advice for how to deal with shootings at … Read More

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Nancy Pelosi: late-term abortion “sacred ground”

LifeSiteNews: Catholic Nancy Pelosi: Issue of late-term abortions is ‘sacred ground’ WASHINGTON, D.C., June 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a question today from a reporter about a late-term abortion ban that is being proposed in Congress, Democratic Minority … Read More

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Of Star Wars and Immanentism and Birdcages and Elite Snobbery. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

In my talks I sometimes address the steady slide of many Catholics into Immanentism Lite.  They don’t exactly deny that God is transcendent, it’s just that they never give transcendence the slightest thought.  They have never had too, have they? … Read More

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