Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity

BOOK REVIEW: Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family And Freedom Before It’s Too Late

Please use the sharing buttons!  Thanks! We are in a world-wide crisis that encompasses every sphere of our lives.  There is an economic, moral, religious and intellectual decline that threatens to bring down our respective countries.  We are deep within … Continue reading

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Benedict XVI explains to German bishops what the “pro multis” really says.

The Holy Father has explained to the bishops of German-speaking countries what the prayer really says. Just as the document Liturgiam authenticam required a revision the English liturgical texts, all the different languages need revision, including German.  You may recall that the … Continue reading

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Tweeting for the Magisterium of Nuns

The acolytes of the Magisterium of Nuns, such as Fr. James Martin, SJ, of America Magazine, are pretending that the Holy See’s effort to reform the the LCWR is about Republicans and politics, or about their “social justice” work. Fr. … Continue reading

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FREE BEER! No… really! FREE BEER. St. Paul, MN: ALERT for MEN! 8 May Argument of the Month

In my native place of the Twin Cities (St. Paul and Minneapolis) there is a parish whose patron is St. Augustine, a favorite of mine, where both Ordinary and, above all, Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite are used.  The … Continue reading

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Nuns Gone Wild: A Trip Down Memory Lane

Those of you who wonder why the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the American Bishops initiated a reform of the leadership of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), should take a little trip down memory lane. … Continue reading

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Democrat candidates in Connecticut favor forcing Catholic hospitals to perform abortions

Something we have to remember when considering the Obama Administration’s erosion of the 1st Amendment through the HHS mandate, is the element of what I call “creeping incrementalism”.   Each time some radical thing is proposed, even if it fails, … Continue reading

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WaPo politics writer, NYT, on the SSPX, LCWR, CDF, USCCB. Reading this may make you a little stupider.

WaPo has a story on the recent efforts of the CDF and USCCB to help the poor confused women of the LCWR to faithful, orthodox Catholicism. The piece was written by a political writer, the deeply confused, Melinda Henneberger in … Continue reading

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Liberals hurt children, attack priests and bishop, destroy parish school: Platteville, WI – FOLLOW UP

You may recall that I have written about a great group of priests in the Diocese of Madison (where the great Bp. Morlino reigns) called the Society of Jesus the Priest.  (See  HERE.) Liberals mounted a sustained attack on these … Continue reading

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Out with the bad air, in with the good. Another point about the LCWR and their future.

There is an Italian proverb that when a door closes a window opens elsewhere in the house. NCR’s McElewee is really burning up his keyboard as he posts notes on the Fishwrap‘s site. The latest picks up on what we … Continue reading

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LCWR having a bad day. Vatican Names Archbishop Delegate to continue watching LCWR and Network

Please use the sharing buttons!  Thanks! It is a bad day for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR… subsidiary of The Magisterium of Nuns). If the SSPX gets chilled Veuve, this one might get … dunno… a big chocolate … Continue reading

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