What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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Recent Comments:

• Sr. Joan’s precious insights on the upcoming encyclical (29)
  • Al: Joan C’s article is a pre-emptive strike to get people to ignore what the encyclical really says when it...
  • Daniel Cox: Wow! Reading her article is so…so…. Is it me or she an angry white chick? I get the distinct...
  • Athelstane: “…alternative approaches to the subject of abortion” translates to “Don’t...
• “What was missing was the crunching of popcorn and peanuts in the pews.” (34)
  • Patricia Gonzalez: Reading these comments, I got a strong sense of how pervasive the lack of reverence and the view...
  • dymphna: We have chatty 60 and 70 year olds but they are very quiet and other than their whispers it’s pretty...
  • Amy Chapman: There is crunching at some of the Masses I attend. The other week, I watched a two-year old polish off a...
  • Carlos: Well, in all parishes of the city where I used to live there are popcorn sellers in front of the church...
  • Mark: “They seem to imply that lay readers are tolerated but are not a good thing.” They are not ideal....
• Back in the day… forbidden books and seminarians (56)
  • catholicman: I heard from seminarians at SJV in St. Paul that they are required to wear cassocks for Sunday Mass...
  • Mark: “Yes, but many priests made it through to ordination who did not sneak out to learn the truth but had the...
  • David O'Rourke: WSXYZ: I believe that socially enforced conformity was a characteristic of the cultural revolution in...
  • Mark: “Allowing the modernists to show their true colours also resulted in the Econe affair from which we are...
  • Hidden One: I’d like to second Edward, as a recent convert myself.
• Doug Kmiec will be the new Ambassador to Malta (40)
  • Fr Sean Coyle: The US policy, like that of the Philippines where I live, to appoint as ambassadors people who are...
• The fruits of presidential “common ground” and “dialogue” (11)
  • Rancher: Obama’s definition of dialogue is that he talks and everyone does what he wants.