The Blown Call That Will Live in Infamy in New Orleans – WSJ

Joe Buck and Troy Aiken were at the mike when fans, angry at the blown call favoring LA, “began to throw things on the field, with a public-address announcement pleading for them to stop.”

Nothing from them about that. Fox Sports’ pair, supremely turn-off-able except when you absolutely must have an explanation of what’s happening on-screen, typically went dumb on the subject.

The Shaming of Karen Pence – WSJ

Lady Gaga and the like have nailed the VP’s wife for teaching in a private Christian school that holds for marriage being only for man and wife.

Ugly stuff. Read it if you can take it.

But who said this on the radio in 2004?

“I’m a Christian, and so although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”

Barack Obama, that’s who.

So why are so many eager to cast the first stone against Mrs. Pence and not Mr. Obama? Because everyone knew when Mr. Obama spoke he didn’t really mean it; his position was taken out of political calculation. Mrs. Pence’s sin is that she really believes what she says.

And she better shut up about it.

Former vicar: Vatican already knew about sexual abuse allegations against Argentine bishop

Poor Vatican people CANNOT get stories straight.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan 20, 2019 / 12:38 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In an exclusive report from the Associated Press, the former vicar to Argentine Bishop Gustavo Oscar Zanchetta said that the Vatican had had information about sexual abuse allegations against Zanchetta for several years.

This contradicts a Vatican statement made just weeks ago in which they said that they had only gained knowledge of sexual abuse allegations against Zanchetta a few months ago.

The devil makes them do this.

U.S. and North Korean Spies Have Held Secret Talks For a Decade – WSJ

When spooks meet, strange things happen.

WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence officials have met with North Korean counterparts secretly for a decade, a covert channel that allowed communications during tense times, aided in the release of detainees and helped pave the way for President Trump’s historic summit last year with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

And before that, the end of missile testing? An important foreign-policy achievement by this POTUS.

THE OTTAVIANI INTERVENTION II — Summary dismissal in 1969 of the New Order of the Mass

Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground

Objections summarized:

Among other points, the Study [by theologians convened by ranking cardinal at recently completed Vatican 2] maintains that the faithful “never, absolutely never, asked that the liturgy be changed or mutilated to make it easier to understand.”

“On many points,” the study says, “it has much to gladden the heart of even the most modernist Protestant.”

Furthermore, “the definition of the Mass is thus reduced to a ‘supper’.” “The altar is nearly always called the table.”

“The instruction recommends that the Blessed Sacrament now be kept in a place apart …as though it were some sort of relic.”

“The people themselves appear as possessing autonomous priestly powers.” “He [the priest] now appears as nothing more than a Protestant minister.”

For these and many other reasons, the Critical Study concludes that to abandon our liturgical tradition in favor of a liturgy “which teems with insinuations or manifests errors against…

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