At Least On Sunday – “Gaudete” Sunday: Advent – joyfully penitential or penitentially joyful? — By: OnePeterFive

This lovely liturgical season of Advent is more than a sentimental journey to the side of the manger with an ox and an ass and some straw strewn around for ambience.  We Christians fast before our feasts with vigils and with whole seasons.  Advent, dressed in violet and not white, is therefore penitential.  We sing…

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When “Inclusive Accompaniment” Means Police Brutality — By: OnePeterFive

Probably everyone reading this knows by now that Pope Francis has been very tough on Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, removing him from his see without due canonical process. The main reason, it seems, is that Strickland has outspokenly criticized the constant stream of doctrinal and disciplinary novelties that have marked the present pontificate….

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