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Whatever.

I don't know what you seem to think I'm thinking, but at least you referred to the Federalist article. That would be a good representation of his thinking when I heard him talk a month ago. I'll leave it at that.

The doctor disagrees. Even Catholic medical practice would disagree, particularly on ectopic pregnancies

Yes. Maybe, but that is never the intent. Yes. And he also considers the option of waiting with careful medical monitoring, until the baby is viable. He is not a proponent of intentional feticide, which is a good definition of abortion.

Abortion is an intentional feticide. A medically necessary early delivery is not an intentional feticide even if the baby might die anyway. I am amazed that you cannot follow the doctor's distinction.

He IS saying that no abortion is medically necessary. That there is no medically necessary abortion. The direct quote from the link is: “As an obstetrician-gynecologist who used to provide abortions early in my training, I know that intentional feticide is never necessary even in the...

You misinterpret. “As an obstetrician-gynecologist who used to provide abortions early in my training, I know that intentional feticide is never necessary even in the worst-case scenarios,” he said. Perhaps you have never met the man to understand exactly what his take is. It is that...

“As an obstetrician-gynecologist who used to provide abortions early in my training, I know that intentional feticide is never necessary even in the worst-case scenarios,” he said.

It’s not how you start Lent but how you finish it. Lent is a time of spiritual growth. If you were already at ascetic perfection how would you grow in Lent? You are a better Catholic than you know. Do not be harsh with yourself about any failings. Pick yourself up and give it a new shot. You...

Apology accepted. The 1962 version of the TLM is the approved one. The only difference between 1962 and the prior version is in the addition of St. Joseph. So if one has an earlier Missal from the 1900’s and adds in St. Joseph’s name it is my understanding that would have also worked. The TLM...

Pastors get it from two directions. They live in fear of displeasing the handful of major donors who keep the parish afloat financially. So they dare not displease them even if they have to keep quiet about certain things. And they live in fear of displeasing their bishop. They could easily be...

Being able to watch a liturgy seems like a useful thing to prepare you. It would be a valid mass and you should be welcome but if it’s all in Romanian or in Slavonic or something you may be at a little bit of a loss.

It’s a very popular day but not one we HAVE TO attend. I still have a Minnesota attitude about winter storms even though I’m in a somewhat wimpier area now. But I get it that sometimes it’s just dumb to go out. We are asked to do the possible heroically but not the impossible.

Mine isn’t a ‘one bomb’ scenario.

True. But then you never know if they follow the Gregorian calendar or Julian calendar or are that special group of really old calendrists. And who is in or out of communion with whom this week. We all have our problems. My parish church hosts a Byzantine congregation which I have yet to...

I'm sure the military will do OK with EMPs. Will my car be a brick? If my car isn't a brick will the gas pumps be bricks? Will my bank be a brick? Will my grocery store sell me food if their cash registers are bricks? Will my washing machine be a brick? Will my furnace be a brick? Will my gas...

That's a dark twist. But it sounds like a good bishop.

Yup. It would take four or five to actually blow up every chip in the lower 48. To be really sure one would want to use a dozen.

In part, but there WAS more to it, and that 'more' involved a cross-fertilizing of liturgies. If bringing the SSPX back was the whole of it there would have been no need or point in allowing the TLM for any and every priest who wanted it. The SSPX is in an awkward sort of communion at the...

I wholeheartedly agree. Not everyone would, but I do. Parishes should try to implement Sacrosanctam Concilium as written and intended to the extent they are able and allowed. And then lobby for further reform of the reform. Eventually it would be my preference to get back to the letter and the...