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Category Archives: The future and our choices
New Survey: 50 percent of US Catholics know what transubstantiation is
It may make a difference at which church these questions are asked. I read at Crux, Only half of US Catholics get Church teaching on Communion, study finds I know that where I am, people know and believe. ROME – … Continue reading
Concelebration, the rights of priests, and changing times
At NLM Peter Kwasniewski has a piece about how concelebration has been and still is being forced on priests. For some, this is almost a mania and you incur their wrath if you don’t con-comply. I say that concelebration should … Continue reading
Building recruits for the New catholic Red Guards!
From LifeSite. You can see what they are doing, even before the upcoming Synod is rigged. Let the rigging begin! EXCLUSIVE: Speakers at Vatican-run youth meeting call for women’s ordination, LGBT inclusion VATICAN CITY, July 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A … Continue reading
SSPX video of their amazing new US church project.
There is an amazing video available of an amazing project mounted by the SSPX in these USA. They are building a huge and beautiful new church. One of the things I find interesting about this video is the intelligent commentary … Continue reading
Posted in SSPX, The future and our choices
Tagged Fr. James Jackson, Nothing Superfluous, SSPX
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“Damn!”, quoth I. “That’s the spirit.” Coasties getting the job done.
Last night I saw on the news a video of a Coastie jump onto a moving surfaced submarine hauling narcotics to these USA and pound the hatch till it opened. “Damn!”, quoth I. “That’s the spirit. That’s an object lesson.” … Continue reading
The Church Militant and You
I had reason this morning to review what I might have written about our state in the Church in this earthly realm and I found this. It struck me as something that might be helpful, given what’s going on right … Continue reading
BOOK: The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity
Oh, boy. Several people recommended that I read this book. I’m reading it and it is bothering me a great deal even as it informs and confirms. The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity US HERE – UK … Continue reading
Posted in Our Solitary Boast, REVIEWS, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged anti-Mary, feminism, feminists
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Because of so much darkness, there has never been a better time to be a young priest
At Complete Christianity (a member of the new FOEDUS – League of Catholic Bloggers) Shane Schaetzel, a lay convert to the Church, wrote a post that I wish that I had written. Let me just say- as a forward to … Continue reading
UPDATE- A confluence of promptings leads Fr. Z to rant and to make a plea to bishops.
UPDATE: 1 July 2019 (Precious Blood) Concerning the video about the late Card. Bernardin (linked below) and my association with the novel Windswept House (which has identifiable real people as fictionalized characters), I bring an update. This is one of … Continue reading
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Card. Bernardin, exorcisms, Fr. Alfred Kunz, Windswept House
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