What? You thought you could just bring in some folding chairs and tables into the Sistine Chapel, as if it’s just your average parish hall, or something? Please.
CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO
We’re putting a floor in here, people! [Read more...]
The Real Reason the Conclave is On March 12th, and not March 11th…UPDATED
March 8, 2013 By 14 Comments
Foreign Made Ball Bearings Defunded, But the HHS Mandate is Paid For
March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
It worked in 2011. Why mess with success?
So much for the idea of using religious liberty as a bargaining chip in the sequester embroglio. Lost in all the excitement of Rand Paul’s filibuster in the Senate, CNS News reminds us that the Republican controlled House chugged along with business as usual. [Read more...]
When You Worship the Orgasm, Is Celibacy a Sin? (Tales from the MSM Catechism) UPDATED
March 4, 2013 By 5 Comments
Heresy!
Well that’s a no-brainer, citizen of the world. You betcha!
When The Orgasm is held in It’s rightful place (the center of our being), to forgo having them isn’t just weird, it’s downright sinful. [Read more...]
The MSM Catechism: Honor Thy Orgasm, And All The Kingdoms of the Earth Will Be Yours UPDATED
March 2, 2013 By 13 Comments
A message from the MSM sponsor…
Joe Six-Pack here with a short little post on the worlds’ fascination with the orgasm. Remember my little missive on the subject before? [Read more...]
Smallville Sends a Cardinal Off to the Conclave UPDATED
February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Justin Francis Cardinal Rigali, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, took wing today from the airport in Knoxville, Tennessee to gather with his peers in Rome for the conclave. [Read more...]
The Papal Twitter Account Will Close? PSYCH!
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
News like this always makes me go, “Huh?” What part of the simple procedure to hand off the Twitter account to a successor am I missing here?
Turns out, this “news” is more akin to an “off sides,” or a runner leaving the blocks before the pistol fires. [Read more...]
Pope Benedict XVI’s Title After Retirement Revealed…
February 22, 2013 By 1 Comment
German Bishops: Emergency Contraception in Case of Rape is Licit if the Pill Doesn’t Induce Abortion UPDATED
February 21, 2013 By 9 Comments
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany’s bishop’s conference gives a media statement before the German bishop’s annual meeting in Trier, February 18, 2013. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
As best as I can make out between two years of high school German and Google Translate, the bishops in Germany basically said that this decision was made in consultation with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Nine U.S. Senators Say Hobby Lobby Is Protected from the HHS Mandate By Law
February 20, 2013 By 6 Comments
And a couple of Representatives from the House too. And which law might that be? The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed into law way back in 1993 by President Bill Clinton.
The Becket Fund has the details, [Read more...]
Italian Cardinal: Cardinal Mahony Could Be Asked to Skip Conclave
February 19, 2013 By 3 Comments
The Cardinal Mahony story just got bigger than the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Here’s what the Washington Post shared earlier today,
VATICAN CITY — The controversy over Cardinal Roger Mahony’s vote in the conclave that will elect a new pope has now reached the Vatican, with at least one cardinal musing aloud that the former archbishop of Los Angeles should consider staying home. [Read more...]
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