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Poll Alert!

From Fr. Z’s blog: The dreadful TIME Magazine (dreadful when it comes to anything about the Catholic Church) is having a poll and you should participate From their site: The 2012 TIME 100 Poll Cast your votes for the leaders, … Continue reading

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I hate Latin!

In my parish, we have the Sanctus (Holy), Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) and the Acclamation of Faith (Mortem Tuam) in Latin at all of our sung Masses, and on Solemnities and Feasts, we sing the Gloria in Latin.  Our … Continue reading

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Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – for who?

So Nancy Pelosi said that Obamacare gurantees “Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Happiness”.  Isn’t that wonderful!  But for who?  Obamacare will be responsible for more abortions.  There will be selective treatment divvied out by a government board.  Death squads … Continue reading

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Cristiada

A new movie about Mexico in 1926.  Will this be the America of tomorrow?  It looks like a great movie. UPDATE: In the US, the movie will be called “For Greater Glory”

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Church of England still reject the monarch marrying Catholics

It’s hard to believe that the Church of England is still in the dark ages of bigotry!  An article in The Telegraph states that a group of Bishops are going to fight Government plans to allow the monarch to marry … Continue reading

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St. Anthony strikes again!

I have so many stories of how St. Anthony has found lost objects for me.  Back in 1980, a friend of our family, Cardinal Ciappi lost his ring when we were traveling with him through Italy  I asked and St. Anthony … Continue reading

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Vise President visits Our Lady of Guadalupe

There was a great little story on the Catholic News Agency about Vice President Joe bid en’s visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico.  He prayed and was very moved.  Here is part of the story … Continue reading

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We Hold These Truths II Spoken Word

Here is another great video with Fr. Claude Burns produced by Spirit Juice Studios.

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Sex as recreation

UPDATED (3/5/12 8:00 pm):  See below! You may have heard that Rush Limbaugh, used a certain word to describe a young woman at a Catholic college who is demanding they pay for her contraception.  She explained that she has frequent … Continue reading

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Compunction, punction, what’s your function?

The final blessing on Ash Wednesday has a word that left many people bewildered.  What in the world is compunction? It is a deep remorse for our sins. Our non-Catholic brethren would love this prayer.  Those who believe that we … Continue reading

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