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Monthly Archives: January 2010
21 January 2010
Arlen Specter and Michelle Bachman
Holy cow…
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Goodbye, Arlen Specter!
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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The Tablet’s bizzare report on Medjugorje, Card. Schönborn
And now for one of the most absurd interpretations of news you will ever read.
This is either pure ignorance or deliberate misdirection.
Either way it is from RU-486 (aka The Bitter Pill aka The Tablet).
Church in the … Continue reading
SCOTUS decision on free-speech and campaign contributions.
Did you see that SCOTUS ruled on campaign contributions? Apparently, the Supreme Court says that the !st Amendment, free-speech rights, permit corporations and labor unions to spend money on political campaigns.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, which reads in … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Catholic Herald editorial: “Benedict XVI is truly the Pope of Christian Unity”
The UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has an editorial with a title which may sound familiar to readers of WDTPRS.
My original post about a project.
This comes during the Week for Christian Unity.
My emphases and comments.
Benedict XVI is truly … Continue reading
Question for readers: Masses in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A reader asked in an email what I thought about Masses celebrated in honor of the late civil rights figure Martin Luther King, Jr.
I was not paying attention to this or acutely aware that this was being done.
I can’t see … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Agnes… lambs… Popes…. nuns… pallia
The Holy Father blessed lambs today, the feast of St. Agnes, as usual. The lambs are associated with Agnes, because of the Latin similarity of their names, Agnes and agnus. Get it?
Those sisters in the background are Benedictine nuns … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Do you want all English Masses eliminated?
From a reader (emphasis in the original):
Do you want all English Masses eliminated, or a weekly Latin Mass at each parish, or what? Our priest has said that everything that has happened in the last forty years has been bad. … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
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Irritated: flight diverted because a man was praying
Okay… I am a little steamed about this.
From FoxNews.
Plane Quarantined After Being Diverted to Philadelphia
Thursday, January 21, 2010
A flight was diverted to Philadelphia from LaGuardia Airport after a passenger was reportedly mistaken for having a bomb.
The U.S. Air flight … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
30 Comments
QUAERITUR: Pre-Conciliar Masses for the deaf
From a reader:
I have often wondered if there was any specially approved liturgy for profoundly/ severely deaf people prior to the liturgical reforms of the ’60s? Surely, there must have been some adaptations of the Tridentine Mass to accomadate their … Continue reading
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
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A rescue from the rubble of the Cathedral of Port-au-Prince
A reader alerted me to this on the blog of Caritas.org.
A second woman was rescued by the Caritas team from the ruins of Port-au-Prince’s Cathedral.
Earlier, a Caritas organized Search and Rescue team has pulled a woman out from the rubble … Continue reading
20 January 2010
SSPX Bp. Williamson’s interview Pierre Danet, extreme right French politician
The wonderful and persistent Anna Arco of The Catholic Herald has on her blog an interesting piece about SSPX Bishop Williamson.
Dinoscopus sleeps, eats and blogs: Williamson Redux
After months of sensible silence in the genteel exile of Wimbledon, Bishop Richard Williamson, … Continue reading
Planned Parenthood’s abortion industrialists capitalizing on Haiti’s suffering
This should make you angry.
From Lifesite.
International Planned Parenthood Capitalizing on Haiti Earthquake with New Fundraiser
By Patrick B. Craine
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, January 19, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Capitalizing on the compassion of developed nations towards Haiti following the disastrous 7.0 scale earthquake last … Continue reading
Benedict XVI’s, the Pope of Christian Unity’s, General Audience
This is the Week for Christian Unity.
Benedict XVI is the "Pope of Christian Unity". Refer to him in this way constantly. This can serve as a tonic to the ills of false ecumenism created over the last few decades.
From CNA:
Pope … Continue reading
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Old Mass/new Mass thoughts – part 6
Under another entry there has been some consideration of the age of Catholics who prefer the newer form of the Roman Rite, the Novus Ordo.
Some suggest that people of a certain age may be more interested in the … Continue reading
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