G. Herbert to the rescue:

“Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

Thimk about it. [sic]

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How’s that “when we get around to it”? Punishment may be delayed but will be draconian.

Feisty lady at The Crescat: “If brought up on charges of being a Catholic I hope there’s enough evidence to convict me.”

This site wants to be better known. It’s a hell of a — I mean heavenly — site. Sparkling, insightful, stimulating, stuff reads well. Other than that, not much.

Sometimes it’s a fun thing to do mass.

An argument against it:

If the Sacred Liturgy is the “summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed” (SC [Vatican 2 on liturgy], 10), the handling of the Body of Christ by the non-ordained is the pit from which all and every single liturgical abuse ontologically flows.

Because if God present in the Most Holy Sacrament is treated as “crumbs” and “dust”, then reality vanishes and all that remains, in appearance, are empty and ridiculous symbolisms – and no wonder people do not respect these, change them at will, and expect them to adapt to one’s own preferences.

Priest used to hold fingers this way, once they had touched the  host.

It’s part of the desacralization process.

One very sharp fellow, this Cornell law prof:

You need no better example of the political corruption of our mainstream media than the page 1 headline at The Washington Post.

Illinois Catholics, a Defense of Marriage department is coming to your diocese.

Psst. Tell Chicago’s Catholic New World. They might want to pick up on this story.

Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, and the American insert about getting along with Muslims.

Father Pavone suspended? Not exactly.