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Because on the Internet, everyone can hear you scream!
At the risk of coming across as self-indulgent, I wanted to take a moment to expand on why I go by the name Codgitator, and how that shapes this blog. Almost eight years ago to this day, Dave Armstrong bestowed … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustine, books, Catholic nerds, grace, grace and truth, nerdistry, quotations
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Ignorance is bliss…
“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew Someone had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism WOW!, courtiers, exile, grace and truth, hermeneutic of ambiguity, hope and change, I can haz pope, Invisible Catholic, memoirs, sellouts, soft ultramontanism, solemn nonsense, sycophants, The Catholic Thing, This is why we can't have nice things
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Popes are like kids…
You never know what the next one will look like or how long he’ll live– you’re duty-bound to love, listen to, and grow with all of them, even when they make you mad– and yet you’re allowed to love some … Continue reading
Like a sore thumb…
“[1] I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship [την λογικην λατρειαν / ten logiken latreia]. [2] Do not be conformed to this … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Ents, Catholicism WOW!, grace and truth, indiffer, theology, theology of the body
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Day 9 of the Christmas Novena…
I wish you all (yes… all of you) a Merry Mary Christmas! May Christ be born anew in your hearts, ever under the patronage of St. Joseph and the most blessed Mother Mary! Opening Prayer: V. O God, come to … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Christmas, grace and truth, prayer, the Incarnation
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Commentating on orientating my readers…
I respect “the pope” because I respect Our Lord’s promises about the papacy. In the past I have admitted my harshness about Francis and his papacy, and I have dialed down my rhetorical excesses compared to how I felt in August … Continue reading
A follow-up on Our Lady of Doubts…
The issue is not the idea that Mary experienced dilemmas, woes, heartache, frustrations, etc. The central issue is simply that it is a deviation from Catholic tradition to say that, in the act of having such difficulties, Our Lady would … Continue reading
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Tagged Divine grace, grace and truth, not-so-solemn nonsense, Our Lady, the Incarnation, theosis, words
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Honest question…
What’s so bad about “bad popes”? For that matter, lest anyone think I’m surreptitiously banging on the Pope Francis drum again, my question applies to “bad clerics” in general. I’m talking about the kind of corruption and hypocrisy that Dante … Continue reading
“Thou art Peter…”
Here’s the deal. God made man in His own image (CCC 356 ff.), but mankind has fallen away from God in its very origin (CCC 385 ff.), and yet God has intervened to remake the same human nature in His … Continue reading
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Tagged #YOPO, grace and truth, honey badger pope, hope and change, Peronism, prayer works
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Cardinal Schönborn trumps local pastor, permits man in homosexual partnership to serve on parish council
Say what he will about the other fellow, but the Cardinal himself is way out of place. A cardinal sin, so to speak, gets a cardinal pardon. Such a contrast to the CDF document on homosexuality I just read and … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, grace and truth, homosexuality, Jesus, morality, Velvet Mafia
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