Category: Short Reflections
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Why Modernist Catholic Intellectuals Fail to Fascinate Me
A random person accused me of not being fair to a priest who did something very inappropriate at the altar. His concerns may be reasonable, and he has good arguments, but his approach is very hypocritical (to my way of thinking). He wants me to be fair to the priest, but he does not want…
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Note to Pope Francis
Your Holiness, You confuse many people when you try to justify a scandal using another scandal. It’s a scandal for an ordained minister to intentionally bless anyone (a businessman, a homosexual couple, a proabort politician, etc.) who does not resolve to change especially when there is no effort on the part of the minister to…
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When Truth Becomes a Destructive Lie
The eighth commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves is a divine mandate for Christians to represent the truth in our relationship with others. Meaning, representing God, who is the truth, and who wills the truth. (CCC 2464) It’s a commandment of “love,” but it is interesting that in the catechsim, the entire chapter that…
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Tayabas Basilica Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary
At the moment the Minor Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel inTayabas City is celebrating its 35th anniversary with the apostolic nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown. Mass will start at 10:00 a.m. As expected, it is a No-ID-no-Entry Mass. It’s the same scenario I observed when I attended huge celebrations at Manaoag, Pangasinan, and in Pakil,…
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Suggested Formula When Blessing ‘Irregular Unions’
Fr. Charles Murr shared ananecdote that is worth sharing. His friend Cardinal Édouard Gagnon was hypocritically asked for a blessing by a nun who was so wicked. The good cardinal asked the woman to kneel down, and he gave her a blessing in the form of a warning to remind her of the gravity of…
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The Wicked Pope John XII and Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans
This is an image depicting Pope John XII being thrown from a window by the angy husband of the woman with whom he had “irregular” relationship. I was just reflecting. If this wicked pope had lived in our times, he would have been just as happy with Pope Francis’ Fiducia Supplicans. He was an adulterer,…
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