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Monthly Archives: May 2009
21 May 2009
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Posted in Just Too Cool
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QUAERITUR: a bunch of stuff
From a reader many questions.
General Tip: If you hope for a serious answer, send one question. After that I start to lose attention and get silly.
Thanks you for your website. It’s the third thing I read every evening. You have … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, SESSIUNCULA
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Moscow …. wait for it… TLM…. !
Our friends at Rorate have the news… which I read twice to be sure…
The next ‘approved’ Traditional Latin Mass will be on May 31 (Pentecost), but usually it is offered every 1st Sunday of the month, at 1700 H (5:00 … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick
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Name that speaker!
What major public figure recently said this:
"At the heart of Paul’s effort in Athens was an appeal to reason. He did not seek to impose his beliefs, nor exploit anxiety or fear. Rather he had learned that his faith in … Continue reading
Posted in I'm just askin'...
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QUAERITUR: Ascension Thursday Sunday… what to do?
From a priest reader:
I am facing a dilemma. I live in a part of the country which does not observe the Ascension in a biblical manner – that is, forty days after the resurrection. Instead, we observe something that has … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
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Weigel on L’Osservatore Romano’s “fideist credulity”
My friends – smart people – are angrily scratching their heads over the latest squishy musings in L’Osservatore Romano.
I have posted about this here and here. In the second case, the editor, who is a fine fellow and doing a … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill
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Some PR advice for the Holy See
I think nearly everyone will agree that the Holy See needs a serious overhaul of its communications offices.
There is an article in Newsweek which addresses this issue. You will disagree with some of the writer’s biases. Move rapidly past … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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QUAERITUR: priests extending hands at the time of ordination
From a priest reader:
Fr. Z,
Easter Greetings in the Lord.
I am writing with a question for you, or any other knowledgeable priest, to answer.
Last spring I attended two priestly ordinations. The first was in the extraordinary form, the celebrant was Cardinal … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: What do you mean by “liturgy” in need of “reform”?
From a reader:
On your take on notredame you kept refering to the "liturgy". In the present catholic church there are 2 different liturgies: the novus ordo and the tridentine. What liturgy are you refering to that needs reforming. The old … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged continuity, Fever Swamp, liturgy, reform, rupture, worship
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A gloss on Fr. Jenkin’s introduction of Pres. Obama
From a reader… an astute observation about Fr. Jenkin’s introduction of Pres. Obama at the Notre Dame commencement last Sunday.
A portion of that introduction goes:
JENKINS: "As the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council wrote in their pastoral constitution Gaudium … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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A fragment… ne pereat
I am struggling to get an article written for the paper this week, the column which gave this blog its name.
This week I had both a hard time getting going, and then a hard time stopping once I did. … Continue reading
Posted in The future and our choices
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Some recent posts of note
Just so that when they scroll off the first page, newcomers will know they are there….
Americans “overwhelmingly” favorable toward Pope Benedict
L’Osservatore Romano… what the…?!?
The greatest of the feasts of our Lord
My take on Sunday at Notre Dame (important)
A very … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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20 May 2009
More ineffabilitas
Perusing Romano Guardini’s The Rosary of Our Lady on the Third Glorious Mystery I found this little gem…
Her life must have been ineffable in its tranquility.
Guardini, Romano. The Rosary of Our Lady. (Trans. H. von Schuecking). New York: P.J. Kenedy … Continue reading
Rodari interviews Vian on what he is up to with L’Osservatore Romano
It has been hard to explain why in the page of L’Osservatore Romano we have seen sch poor judgment about the case of Notre Dame and Pres. Obama.
Notre Dame chose to bestow an honor on the most pro-abortion President the … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged abortion, L'Osservatore Romano, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama, Vian
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