What widgets do you hate?

The ones that ask me to buy stuff ... especially stuff that happens to be contrary to the faith. Also pages with actual songs are irritating. Playlists I like ...

Tradition and Traditionalism: The Theological Critique

Good discussion going on at Holy Whapping ... A little over my head (I, lest anyone get confused, am NOT a philosophy major) but interesting still.

The Catholic truth / teaching that "did it" for you

Depends on what time frame you are referring to. Its unchanging teaching on contraception opened me in a way that really set the stage for my eventual conversion. In the end though, its teaching on authority AND the historical ability to demonstrate it with 2000 years of rock solid unchangable truth is what did it. I will drag up some old posts or elaborate in the near future ...

Former advocate for female priests now explains Vatican's stance

"The tradition is traced to the will of Christ, not to decisions made by the church," Butler said last night at St. Joseph's Seminary, where she has taught for four years.

The church's teachings must be better explained, she said, because many Catholics see the all-male priesthood as a symbol of patriarchal power and sexism, and many more who stay silent are probably befuddled.

That is why the pope said quite firmly...

... I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful."

--Pope John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, May 22, 1994

Venice (FL) bishop forbids VOTF meeting

Espicopal spine alert ...