Category Archives: THE SACRAMENTS

CANON LAW SIMPLY REFLECTS THE THREE REALITIES OF SACRAMENTAL MARRIAGE

!!!! CARDINAL KASPER LEST SO MAY WORDS COMPLICATE A SIMPLE QUESTION by Dr. Edward Peters Catholic discipline that precludes holy Communion for divorced-and-remarried Catholics rests on three simple points. Assuming the specifications and nuances that should flesh out these points, … Continue reading

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GILBERT KIETH CHESTERTON SAID THAT HE BECAME CATHOLIC IN ORDER TO GET RID OF HIS SINS

!!!! In classical Latin culture, a Genius was a guiding spirit given to individuals from birth (gignere), enabling them to have special insights. It can be confused with ingenium, a power from within, not one that is endowed from without. … Continue reading

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HUMANAE VITAE REVISTED WITH A VENGEANCE

!!!! Christ and the Woman of Samaria, Paolo Veronese 1550 Why the gathering storm over divorce might be worse than was that over contraception . Interesting parallels are being suggested between, on the one hand, Paul VI’s dithering over contraception in … Continue reading

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BRAVO ARCHBISHOP ALEXANDER K. SAMPLE, ARCHBISHOP OF PORTLAND, OREGON

!!!! Archbishop Alexander K. Sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-x6odm8Sc

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EXPECT A MAJOR HURRICANE NEXT OCTOBER NAMED “KASPER”

!!!! Kasper Changes the Paradigm, Bergoglio Applauds The no-longer-secret text of the bombshell talk that opened the consistory on the family. With the indication of two paths of readmission to communion for the divorced and remarried. According to the example … Continue reading

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SATAN’S AGENT, JOHN CORNWALL, IS AT IT AGAIN, THIS TIME ATTACKING SAINT POPE PIUS X

!!!! POPE PIUS X DISTRIBUTION FIRST HOLY COMMUNION How wrong is John Cornwall’s attack on Pope St. Pius X? Let me count the ways. . by Dr. Edward Peters . Warning: It always takes longer, sometimes much longer, to correct mistakes than … Continue reading

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THE LORD MAKES HIMSELF PRESENT ON THE ALTAR IN ORDER TO ENABLE US TO SHARE IN HIS ACT OF SELF-SACRIFICE

!!!!   How to Enter into the Time and Space of God Pope Francis makes a surprise break with his silence on the liturgy. “It is the cloud of God that envelops us all,” he says. And he calls for … Continue reading

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WHEN IS A SECOND ‘MARRIAGE’ NOT A MARRIAGE

!!!! The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the “banns” or “bans” (from a Middle English word meaning “proclamation,” rooted in Frankish and from there to Old French[1]), are the public announcement in a Christian parish church of an … Continue reading

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TWO DATES TO REMEMBER, THE DAY YOU WERE BORN AND THE DAY YOU WERE BORN AGAIN IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

!!!! The Baptism of Christ Artist Andrea del Verrocchio & Leonardo da Vinci Year 1472-1475 A DATE TO REMEMBER By George Weigel http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/02/a-date-to-remember Papal approbation being no bad thing, I was delighted to learn that Pope Francis, in a homily … Continue reading

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WAS HENRY THE EIGHTH RIGHT ALL ALONG? ASK ST. THOMAS MORE, ST. JOHN FISHER AND ST. EDMUND CAMPION

!!!! SAINT EDMUND CAMPION http://www.churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2014-02-07

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