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Quote from: Neil Obstat (May 7, 2013, 10:59 pm)

Quote from: Crediting "father-hewko.html", sspxbvm (May 7, 2013, 10:25 pm)

AMBIGIOUS LANGUAGE--THE DEVILS QUICKSAND

Very good!  Is there a date or a location for this?

I share your interest in having enough details, so I'm able to provide proper citations, especially when needed to answer the argumentative, the dubious, or naysayers.

Quote from: sspxbvm (May 12, 2013, 10:53 pm)

He wrote it.  It wasn't a sermon.

I haven't even tried to keep track of whomever on CathInfo would be counted among Fr. Hewko's supporters, factors, or agents.  So is your certainty based simply on an assumption that a style with so many in-line citations would be awkward to present as a sermon?  Or that an example using 7 numbered excerpts is way too much to expect the faithful in the pews to absorb?

Upon further review, "TRUTH or Consequences" appears to be the standing title of a blog by Fr. Hewko, at the URL (i.e.: Web-address) already given in the original posting of this topic in CathInfo.  

I'd be inclined to cite his current entry or item thus:

Quote from: recommendation by AlligatorDicax

Fr. David Hewko (n.d.): "Ambigious language--The Devil's quicksand".  TRUTH or Consequences, <http://www.ourladysresistance.org/father-hewko.html>.  As saved on ______ ___, 2013.

Note italics used for the title of the blog itself, as for any hard-copy serial publication (e.g.: a newspaper); quotation marks used for each headline (i.e.: title of entry or article); and the parenthesized "n.d." to signify the exasperating "no date" as published (i.e.: posted).

Curious visitors to that Web-site might already have noticed that entries in the "FATHER HEWKO ARCHIVES" do bear exact dates above their headlines, nicely printed (albeit in the illogical order that prevails in the U.S.A.).

Perhaps someone who knows Fr. Hewko would be so kind as to encourage him to ensure that his most recent postings also bear a date somewhere, without waiting for them to appear in the "ARCHIVES"?

In fairness, the absence or presence of a date might not have been a decision by Fr. Hewko.  (Nontechnical readers are welcome to skip the remainder of this paragraph.) The Web site, which seems to be under the control of someone other than him, is generated or operated using something called "dragndropbuilder.com".

•  It's possible that some designer there made a misguided decision that the best way to make the site's content look "fresh" for new visitors was to remove any evidence that the current blog entry might be, say, a week old, or a month old, to wit: Delete the date!  Fascinatingly, no date is even present among the nondisplayed information that's stored in the HTML from which the Web page is displayed.  Alas, it's not at all unusual for Web-site designers to get obsessed with what's artsy, "edgy" or "kewl", while ignoring information that's actually useful to Web-site visitors.
  
  Nevertheless, Fr. Hewko could easily circuмvent limitations imposed by this blog software or Web-page design program.  

All he has to do is end each of his future blog entries with an unobtrusive line giving its date in the terse international-standard style, e.g.: "[2013-05-09]" for Ascension Thursday.

Note *: Named as if it's the Web site of some commercial enterprise, but it oddly lacks an obvious main page.