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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Card. Burke on the HHS mandate: “There is no way to justify it. It is simply wrong.”
In an interview, Raymond Card. Burke has offered his view on Pres. Obama’s attack on religious liberty, his erosion of the 1st Amendment, his duplicitous, anti-Catholic… okay.. you get it. From Life News with my emphases: Thomas McKenna: “It is beautiful … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Priest says I was forgiven when I got into the confessional.
From a reader: I went to confession on Good Friday at my parish Church. I had a new Priest who I had never seen before, a Jesuit, [Oh dear.] young, [Oh dear oh dear.] from south Asia [Oh dear oh … Continue reading
U of Minn-Duluth hosts Holocaust event including aggressively anti-Catholic elements
From the Catholic League about a matter of spectacularly crass anti-Catholicism at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. The U of M is a land-grant institution funded by taxes. Therefore, public money is being spent on this anti-Catholic display. Furthermore, an institution … Continue reading
INDIA: Priest beaten, threatened with death by Hindus during Holy Week
While we concern ourselves with the monumental question of blessings during Communion (which, yes, it is wrong to do though it is not a matter of maximum weight in our scales of liturgical abuses), this is what is going on … Continue reading
Card. Dolan on Face The Nation
Timothy Card. Dolan, Archbp. of New York and President of the USCCB was on CBS’s Face the Nation. The transcript is here. I think that Card. Dolan and Archbp. Chaput may have different interpretations of then-candidate John F. Kennedy’s speech … Continue reading
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A priest on giving blessings at Communion time
I have in the past written about the wide-spread practice of giving blessings during Communion time. This is not to be done, because it is outside what is prescribed at this very important moment during holy Mass. Of course this … Continue reading
A Good Friday Liturgy intercession in the light of our current concerns
In light of the current circumstances we face as Catholics, as people of all faiths, and as American citizens, this is excerpted from the Good Friday intercession prayers in the Ordinary Form: IX. For those in public office Let us … Continue reading
Victorious couple pleases God and the holy angels and saints by returning to confession!
From a reader: Dear Father, Through your influence both my husband and I went to confession today. First time in 19 years for me, 24 years for him. It was AMAZING. We had to do some searching to find somewhere with a … Continue reading
A reader returns to confession after 15 years
From a reader: Your discussions of Confession helped me go to Confession for the first time in 15 years. It was a wonderful experience. I did memorize the Act of Contrition but I stumbled over it. Father helped me through … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: What to do about liturgical abuses?
I am under siege in email from frustrated people pouring our their tales of liturgical abuses, perpetrated or scheduled, for Holy Thursday. They ask “what am I supposed to do”? Most of the time, there is nothing we can do … Continue reading
