Best definition of Excommunication I know Excommunication is when somebody (like these ladies) says to the Church “I’m not in communion with you anymore” and the Church says “You’re not in communion with us anymore.”

A reader responds to Dreher and Me The problem with how Dreher and NCR see this is that they are not looking at it in the historical context of the Church. We can’t expect the Pope who is the Bishop of Bishops to take an immediate actions to investigate, adjudicate, and reform — but there’s [...]

I wonder if the Psychics of America will be meeting in Dallas about this

Rod Dreher replies: The comments function is on the fritz again, so Rod writes to say: I think a lot of people are overreacting to what Keating actually said. Where does it say he has, or thinks he has, the actual power to get bishops to resign? All he has is the bully pulpit, and [...]

A wag writes: You wrote: “Anti-Catholics once claimed of JFK that a Catholic in the White House would take direct orders from the Vatican.” Gee, we can’t even get Bishops to take direct orders from the Vatican.

Hmmmm… He’s got a point and for the same reason that it’s dangerous to give Caesar a seat at the table in deciding how the Church is governed, it’s also dangerous to give him a seat at the table in deciding how Catholics should educate their kidlets.

When Liturgists Attack!

Betwixt and Between Rod Dreher takes the NCR to task for its piece on Frank Keating. Me, I’m conflicted. As I said yesterday, the basic problem is bishops who will not govern and who now stupidly have put themselves in the position of asking theologically ill-informed politicians and Clinton’s lawyer (Clinton’s lawyer!!!) to hold them [...]

Yesterday, Drudge has some headline declaring they will have a cure for AIDS in five years Today, New Scientist says they are just beginning the research. Lucky thing scientists aren’t subject to the ills of religion such as “hubris” or “false prophecy”. Richard Dawkins says so and he’s a scientist, so he should know. By [...]

Another piece about the curious affinity between Radical Islam and Socialism

Orwell and Islam …from a Norwegian blogger!

Interesting observations Got this from a reader (thanks to you guys for writing half my blog. Makes my life easier!): Lately I have been reflecting about the parallels between Islamism and Socialism. Perhaps the best way of approaching this subject is by way of illustration. First, let me quote a section from an article by [...]

Alert the Media! Shea and the Reformed Guys at Credenda/Agenda See Eye to Eye on Something

From the “Not Swift on the Uptake” Department Thanks to Whoever Paid the Man to get rid of the ad on my blog–whenever you did it. Somebody pointed it out to me today. I’m not what you’d call “vividly aware of sensory details”. But anyway, thanks!

Irresponsible Bishops to Caesar “Please take over management of the Church. We just can’t be bothered. What? No! We didn’t think you’d start trying to arrogate powers to yourself that aren’t yours! Oh dear! Do we have to actually govern the Church? But we don’t know how! We can’t be bothered! Oh, what do we [...]

Doug asks a reasonable question I’m aware of no doctrine concerning the wisdom of the hierarchy. The only thing approaching it is the extremely left-handed compliment of infallibility (which encompasses the laity too insofar as it addresses the sensus fidelium). And all Infallibility means is that the Holy Spirit will not let the Church define [...]

Milwaukee, of course.

More Zero Tolerance Stupidity By defining so narrowly what constitutes “abuse”, a jerk like Fr. Cliff Garner, who treats his flock with contempt and shouldn’t be a priest, gets the kid glove treatment while his betrayed and rightly outraged flock gets scoldings from some monsignor for daring to vent the fact that they feel betrayed [...]

The Council is failure and a mistake! We have to repeal it! The Council of Nicaea, I mean. Look, it’s the year 362. The Council was in 325. It’s been over 35 years since modernists rammed through their Trinitarian agenda which relied on terms like “homoousious” that were actually condemned by earlier synods in order [...]

It turns out Science has none of religion’s vices, according to Remarkably Simple-Minded Atheist Richard Dawkins None. No. Really.

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