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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
Interesting Glen Beck video
Several people sent me a video of Glen Beck talking about “The Vatican”. He is a bit out of his depth in how he speaks about the workings of the Church and higher levels of leadership, but he gets around … Continue reading
Holy See Statement about SSPX and avoiding “ecclesial rupture of painful and incalculable consequences”
I thought something was coming! This is from the Holy See Press Office: COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING THE SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS X Vatican City, 16 March 2012 (VIS) – Given below is the text of a communique relating to the Society … Continue reading
Obama Admin’s HHS kills Texas women’s health program because State prohibits money to help Planned Parenthood
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks!Planned Parenthood, founded by the eugenicist Margaret Sanger to kill off black people, the mentally challenged and other societal undesirables, now has one objective: make money from the death of babies through as many abortions … Continue reading
23 March “Stand Up for Religious Liberty” rallies
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! On Friday 23 March at 12 Noon there will be “Stand Up for Religious Liberty” rallies all over the USA. Click here for rally locations.
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged rally
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Anti-Catholic bias and attacks on Holy Church from without and from within.
This is from Media Report: The Usual Suspects: NY Times, Dissident Priest Support Anti-Catholic SNAP With Falsehoods, Attacks on Church Anti-Catholicism in Action: The New York Times, Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, and SNAP The New York Times is again shilling … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse, Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged David Clohessy, Hell's Bible, National Catholic Reporter, NCFishwrap, NYT, SNAP, Thomas P. Doyle
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Help this group which helps priests in need. A Lenten almsgiving choice.
I received an appeal from Opus Bono Sacerdotii, an organization which gives help to priests who are in difficulties. They wrote saying: We have a dozen priests we cannot help at this time who need your prayers. They are in … Continue reading
Five wounds inflicted on Christ’s Mystical Body through our liturgy
Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan gave a speech on 15 January 2012 in which he listed “five wounds” of the liturgical mystical body of Christ. His whole address is on Paix Liturgique. His basic premise is that the rupture in our liturgical … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Schneider, Communion in the hand, continuity, five wounds, Latin, lay ministry, liturgy, offertory prayers, rupture, Sacrosanctum Concilium, versus populum, worship
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Obama Admin to force a $1 abortion surcharge on your insurance payments
Pres. Obama lied to Card. Dolan. Don’t forget that. Time and time again the White House makes sounds using words that, to reasonable, rational speakers of the English language mean one thing, but actually mean something else. Again, I come … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Emanations from Penumbras, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 1st Amendment, abortion, anti-catholic, Card. Dolan, Common Ground, HHS, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
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Obama gives Amish complete exemption. Catholics? Talk to the hand! Why? Why do you think?
A few days ago Sr. Mary Ann Walsh at the USCCB Blog posted this: Friday, March 9, 2012 Amish, Ok. Catholics, No. The Amish are exempt from the entire health care reform law. So are members of Medi-Share, a program … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged 1st Amendment, American Patriotic Catholic Association, anti-catholicism, Democrats, HHS, POTUS, Pres. Obama, religion, religious liberty, Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, USCCB Media blog
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