More about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy...
More needs to be said about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing. As I wrote before, the Pope, in his letter to Archbp. Fisichella, did NOT say that the...
View ArticleExplaining the Year of Mercy “abortion forgiveness faculty”
For the Year of Mercy the Holy Father has given to all priests the faculty to absolve from the censure that is incurred by the crime (not just sin) of successfully procuring an abortion. This has...
View ArticleA proposal for the Year of Mercy: ban Communion in the hand
Dom Mark Kirby of Silverstream Priory posted at his blog Vultus Christi an idea which I endorse. Reacting not only to the hideous sacrilege committed by an “artist” in Pamplona, Spain, but also to...
View ArticleTurning St. Peter’s Basilica into a projection screen for climate change...
UPDATE 8 Dec 2015 GMT: I pulled up the live stream of the webcam over St. Peter’s Square. The facade of San Pietro… I am trying to imagine what St. Peter would think about this. Based on his anger...
View ArticleSpeak badly of Pope Francis and incur automatic excommunication… NOT.
During the Year of Mercy – which I guess already began, at least in Africa, but which is going to begin sometime tomorrow in Rome and then some days later elsewhere – certain confessors are to be...
View ArticleCrossing the threshold of … mercy
Pope Benedict enters St. Peter’s Basilica through the newly opened Holy Door. Share/Bookmark
View ArticleSandro Magister reinstated at Holy See Press Office
You might recall that Sandro Magister was stripped of his credentials at the Holy See Press Office. They have been reinstated. At the risk of making a post hoc ergo propter hoc error, I note that his...
View Article“Mercy, not magic”. Year of Mercy Doors are NOT a substitute for confession
From CNS: Mercy, not magic – Archdiocese of Bombay clarifies Holy Doors and the Jubilee Mumbai, India, Jan 26, 2016 / 04:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archdiocese of Bombay issued a clarification last...
View ArticleRobert Micken’s Lutheran conversion may be complete
It seems that Robert Micken’s Lutheran conversion is complete. HERE You recall that Mickens was fired by The Tablet because of his horrid online denigration of Benedict XVI. HERE Recently, Archbp....
View ArticleProcession in Rome with the bodies of Sts. Padre Pio and Leopold Mandi?
The other day Fishwrap‘s Mickens, channeling his inner Luther, scurrilously dissed Catholics for venerating the relics of saints. HERE Pope Francis had the bodily remains of two great Capuchin...
View ArticleCard. Burke on attending SSPX chapels: only when “absolute necessity”
At the Deus Ex Machina Blog there is a video of a presentation given by Card. Burke (bow low here) on the occasion of the publication of his book Divine Love Made Flesh in Polish. Included at the blog...
View ArticlePOLAND: Eucharistic miracle! Bleeding Host is human cardiac tissue
Detail from Daniel Mitsui’s new image of the Sacred Heart! I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a less than enjoyable time for a while now. That said, in this time I have also hardened my resolve in...
View ArticleMore about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy...
More needs to be said about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing. As I wrote before, the Pope, in his letter to Archbp. Fisichella, did NOT say that the...
View ArticleExplaining the Year of Mercy “abortion forgiveness faculty”
For the Year of Mercy the Holy Father has given to all priests the faculty to absolve from the censure that is incurred by the crime (not just sin) of successfully procuring an abortion. This has...
View ArticleASK FATHER: Year of Mercy indulgence when no chance of confession
From a reader… I’m a shut-in in a rural area. EMs bring me Communion on Fridays. Confess once a year (prev. yrs ago @ 2 wks). Really no way to confess @ 3 wks for Plenary Indulgences (Priest has 3...
View ArticleWISCONSIN: Bishops to perform Act of Entrustment of the Faithful of Wisconsin...
The Year of Mercy is drawing to a close. In the Litany of Loreto, we invoke Mary under the title of Mother of Mercy… Mater misericordiae. On the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary, the bishops of Wisconsin...
View ArticleASK FATHER: Does the St. Gertrude Prayer release 1000 souls from Purgatory?
We are in that sweet-spot period when we can gain wonderful indulgences for Poor Souls and we are still within the Year of Mercy. So… …GET TO WORK! From a reader… QUAERITUR: My husband and I were...
View ArticleASK FATHER: Will SSPX priests be able to absolve validly after the Year of...
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’ve been searching through the Internet, and since I’ve found absolutely nothing regarding this matter, I’ve thought I might as well just send this question to you so that...
View ArticleCould Pope Francis reconcile SSPX TOMORROW, Monday after Year of Mercy’s...
I, as many others, have over the last couple weeks wondered whether or not Pope Francis would extend beyond the Year of Mercy the opportunity for penitents to seek out priests of the SSPX for...
View ArticleMore about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy...
More needs to be said about this whole Pope Francis, SSPX lack of faculties, Year of Mercy confessions thing. As I wrote before, the Pope, in his letter to Archbp. Fisichella, did NOT say that the...
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