There is an article/interview in the Boston Globe with Denver’s Archbishop, Most. Rev. Charles Chaput.  This is not quite prompt, since it refers to 17 March, but it was on the Globe’s site on the 29th.  From the blog of … Continue reading →

This is in about Archbishop Dolan’s reaction to the coming appearance of Pres. Obama at the Univ. of Notre Dame. 
From Milwaukee’s TMJ4.
Archbishop Dolan: Notre Dame Made a "Big Mistake"By Tim Lethlean
Archbishop Timothy Dolan appeared on Today’s TMJ4′s "Sunday Insight" … Continue reading →

I noticed this on Rinascimento Sacro.   The great Msgr. Bux has given a conference on the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council.
You can read it in Italian.

In a sort of op-ed cage-match, the Chicago Tribune has back to back editorials on the topic of Notre Dame University’s invitation to President Obama. 
One is in favor, the other against.
One is by Doug Kmiec, the other by George … Continue reading →

On a distasteful note, in Brisbane, Australia, the way-out-there Peter Kennedy is splitting a group even farther from Holy Church and taking it on the road.
My emphases and comments.
This is from ABC:
A controversial church congregation in South Brisbane has declared … Continue reading →

It is Passion Sunday.
From this onward our custom in the Latin Church is to veil statues and many images.
Are the images in your church veiled?
You might send photos (as attachments).

UPDATE:
In case anyone wonders why we veil statues and images, here … Continue reading →

Do any of you use an online backup service?
What are your experiences?

There is talk that the papal spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, may be replaced soon.
Fr. Lombardi is not only papal spokesman, but also head of Vatican Radio.  I believe he also has a job in the Jesuit curia.
No matter what… … Continue reading →

Most movies are garbage.
Some are good.
Few are worthy of being carried forward.
Which movies/films (not the same) would you desire to see a GOOD… GOOD sequel?
Off hand I can think of…
Master and Commander (NB: I have read everything.)
Finding Forester
Hero

It seems to me that we should have quite a bit of discussion of this dreadful development.
It would be a really bad idea for protesters to make asses of themselves, or disrupt the actual event at Notre Dame when the … Continue reading →

If you were a Cardinal of Holy Roman Church before they started hacking away at the cappa magna and eliminating this and that, … say you were Desiré-Félicien-François-Joseph S.R.E. Card. Mercier (+1926), Archbishop of Mechelen, Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in … Continue reading →

On an early episode of Battlestar Galactica, the new and embattled president observes that if the human race was going to survive, people better start having babies.
We know that a lot of priests and bishops are rather silent about contraception… … Continue reading →

His Eminence Daniel Card. DiNardo has something to say about the lifting of the SSPX excommunications and the visit of President Obama to the University of Notre Dame.
This is in the Texas Catholic Herald.
My emphases and comments.
A Shepherd’s Message
By … Continue reading →