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Daily Archives: 9 January 2009
Perigee Moon and GLOBAL KILLER COMET!
Just kidding.
But we will have a wonderful Full Moon!
Space Weather News for Jan. 9, 2009http://spaceweather.com
APPROACHING COMET: [AARRRGHHH!] Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3), discovered in 2007 by a collaborative team of Taiwanese and Chinese astronomers, is swinging around the sun and approaching … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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A conversion reexamined
As a convert from Lutheranism and as a priest, I am interesting in how other priest-converts from Lutheranism got where they are today.
In the wake of the death of Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, on the web site of First Things … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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The “Gravitational Pull”
One of the fruits of Summorum Pontificum whereby His Holiness liberated the older form of Mass, will be the "gravitational pull" it will exert on the way the newer form, the Novus Ordo is celebrated.
Fully aware that the plural of … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Chatter about restructuring of Pont. Comm. Ecclesia Dei
I have mentioned before, more than once, that it was likely the Pontificial Commission Ecclesia Dei would be assumed into the structure of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments. If some other arrangement can be made … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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I don’t think this will be everyone’s first question…
Let’s nobody go there, okay?
Confession… use it!
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Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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22 Jan: Washington DC – March for Life
The Papist has some information about the upcoming March for Life.
The 2009 March for Life is only a couple weeks away. I’m beginning to plan out which events I’ll be attending/covering. My coverage last year was well received and I … Continue reading
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