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Mawwage

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"Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam. And wove, twue wove, wiww fowwow you fowevah…So tweasuwe youw wove,…" – The Impressive Clergyman

Today I watched a beautiful Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy in which my friend, and occasional cohort in blogging crime, Jerry Nora, entered into the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. I wish him and his wife, Krystia, all the happiness in the world. May God bless them with a marriage that sanctifies them, unifies them, and provides them with many children.

Due to in part to this blessed event, I have a mildly polemical point to make. Continue reading →

Sacramental Marriage

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Steven Kesslar, a friend of mine
and future priest, has cobbled together a treatise
on “Whether a marriage which is not consummated can, this fact notwithstanding,
be valid and sacramental.”

It was conceived as the result of a nerdy theological discussion we and some other
folks had after a bible study. Since such discussions are a common occurrence, I
wouldn’t be surprised if Steve writes some more monographs. 😉

Real Men

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A New Breed of Priest; My Kind of Priest

In general, … the “John Paul priests” are less supportive than older colleagues of optional celibacy, women priests, the democratic elections of bishops and greater lay leadership, according to numerous surveys. They show less tolerance for dissent against church teachings. And they are more apt to favor greater use of Latin prayers, special vestments, bells and other traditional touches to restore a sense of sacredness to the liturgy ….

Pray that more good young men like these join the priesthood.

Wah

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Join me and listen to the feminists throw a hissy fit over the Vatican document
on male and female roles. You can cut the B.S. with a knife.

The
Vatican should practice the feminism it preaches (Catherine Pepinster)
The Catholic
Church Issues Attack on Feminism, but Espouses Feminism Too (feministe)
On This Day
Of Worship . . . (DebWire)
Smite
Me (journalesque)
Lord,
won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz? (Kathryn Cramer)
Barefoot
and pregnant (pesky’apostrophe)
(Commonweal) More
on Cardinal Virtue (Echidne of the Snakes)
The
Vatican, men, and women (Noli Irritare Leones)
The
Church and women (Mouse Words)
Shocker
of the day: Vatican isn’t a feminism fan (feministing.com)

And just for fun:
‘Buffy,’
the pope & the new feminists

Job Requirements

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Bishop to Lay Ministers: Sign Oath

“If he (the bishop) is going to exclude anyone who has any doubt about a church teaching, he’s going to exclude 100 percent of the membership of the church, including
himself. He has to be a human being, the same as me, and I have doubts about some
of the church teachings,” Dolezal said.

I just love how dissenters put all teachings on the same level. If you have a problem
with celibate-only clergy, you’re not a heretic. Supporting homosexuality, female
clergy, and abortion are much more serious. There are also different kinds
of doubt. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

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