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Monthly Archives: March 2010
20 March 2010
More proof that Speaker Pelosi isn’t interested in reducing the number of abortions
If we needed it, here is more proof that Nancy Pelosi isn’t interested in reducing the number of abortions.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
10 Comments
REVIEW: New book by Aidan Nichols: Criticising the Critics
UPDATE 20 March: I am getting emails from people asking how they can get the book I was reading on the airplane yesterday (see that entry). I am reposting this entry for their benefit.
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ORIGINAL entry 7 March.
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Earlier this week I … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, REVIEWS, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Aidan Nichols, identity, modernism, Tracey Rowland
11 Comments
QUAERITUR: use of iPhone, hand-held for liturgical readings
From a reader:
One sees the Magnificat missalettes in the hands of lots of folks at daily Mass nowadays. With its beautifully presented (briefer) morning/evening/night prayers from which many (like me) have gone on to the LOH or DO, plus the … Continue reading
Pope Benedict explains the situation to the Irish
What Pope Benedict wrote to the people of Ireland about the sexual abuse of minors by priests.
It is pretty long and you would read it in the whole text on your own. But here are salient paragraphs with my emphases … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
19 Comments
Good clear talk about health care debate issues – useful!
I complained the other day that neither side in the Catholic field, the USCCB nor the dissidents, had adequately explained the presumed barrier – or lack thereof – or unacceptable weakness thereof – between federal money and the procuring of … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged CNA, health care reform, Richard Doerflinger
3 Comments
Prayer request
I ask some prayers when you think of it over the next few days.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
13 Comments
A magisterium of nuns
In this matter of contingent, prudential judgments, whose judgment will in time prove to have been the more prudent?
The Catholic bishops with pro-life groups or their opposition, the LCWR and CHA and NCR, etc?
I happen to think the bishops are … Continue reading
19 March 2010
Pelosi invokes St Joseph for her bill
Did I understand this right? Did Speaker Pelosi REALLY invoke St. Joseph for the passage of this health care legislation? From NO online:
Friday, March 19, 2010 Oh Dear, Saint Joseph [Kathryn Jean Lopez] … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
75 Comments
In Manhattan again
On my way to a symposium on science and faith, two NYC landmarks.
UPDATE:
I am in the Time-Life Building.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
6 Comments
Archbp Nienstedt to MN Reps
I found this on the blog of the USCCB. There are other good contributions there too.
Here’s an email message from earlier this week from Archbishop Nienstedt of St. Paul-Minneapolis to the Minnesota Congressional delegation:
March 15, 2010
E-Mail Message
Dear Senator or Representative,
I … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
7 Comments
A WDTPRS FIRST
I am, for the first time, posting from an airplane during a flight using an inflight connection!
This opens a range of possibilities.
I have a good connection, fast. I was even able to stream my satellite dish via SlingBox (blessed … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
8 Comments
OLDIE PODCAzT 82: St. Joseph: a hymn dissected and a sermon of St. Bernardine of Siena
Here is an oldie:
PODCAzT 82: St. Joseph: a hymn dissected and a sermon of St. Bernardine of Siena
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
3 Comments
Somehow appropriate
Doesn’t this just fit the news today, on so many fronts?
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
4 Comments
What Bp. Zollitsch (Pres. German Bps Conf.) wrote for Die Welt
The wonderfully persistent Anna Arco of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has provided a translation of the defense of Pope Benedict made by Bp. Zollitsch (Pres. of German Bishops Conference) in Die Welt.
Responding to accusations in the … Continue reading
Airport challenges
It is an interesting experience to walk through an airport right now, with CNN’s anti-Catholic pogrom blaring from televisions at every gate and lounge and restaurant.
I haven’t had any expressions of rudeness so far… which happened often when this revved … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
18 Comments
