Monthly Archives: May 2010

20 May 2010

A “pastor’s page” against Pope Benedict and against the new translation

Sometimes people send me "pastor’s pages" from their parish bulletins.  Most of the time this is an opportunity to exercise patience.
I was alerted something written in a pastor’s page from "The Catholic Faith Communities of Saint Theresa and Saint Christopher" … Continue reading

Posted in Throwing a Nutty | 27 Comments

About “jumping the gun” with the new ICEL translation – WDTPRS POLL

The other day my good friend Fr. Ray Blake of Brighton posted an entry on his blog St. Mary Magdalen about ad experimentum use of the new ICEL translation for Holy Mass.  
He has some corrections to make in … Continue reading

Posted in POLLS, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS | Tagged , , | 120 Comments

A new sodality for servers of the Traditional, Extraordinary Form

A while back I called for those groups who do training for priests and seminarians for the older forms of the Roman Rite, the Extraordinary Use, also to provide more training for lay people who will be called upon to … Continue reading

Posted in Brick by Brick | Tagged | 10 Comments

19 May 2010

A brief comment about the stories concerning the author Alcuin Reid

Quite a few people, some of them perhaps from good will, are filling my inbox with email about stories recently published about Rev. Mr. Scott Reid, who writes under his name in religion (as I take it) Alcuin Reid.  You … Continue reading

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | Tagged | 1 Comment

Our Lady, Queen of Giant Puppets

Via Mulier Fortis comes this great image from Acts of The Apostacy:

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | 26 Comments

The fruits of excommunication

From the site of Chicago Public Radio via Sancte Pater, to whom I tip my biretta.   o{]:¬)
Catholic Church Denies Female Priest a Catholic Burial
A woman who challenged a Catholic ordination ban has died. ["Ban" is … Continue reading

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | 64 Comments

First move for Anglican Ordinariate?

The wonderful and persistent Anna Arco has this about traditionally-minded Anglicans:
It looks like the first moves towards establishing an ordinariate in the United Kingdom have been made by the Traditional Anglican Communion in this country. According to Anglo-Catholic, the group–which … Continue reading

Posted in Pope of Christian Unity | Tagged , | 11 Comments

18 May 2010

Small but important things

There are a few standards places which need to be reliable. A good fishmonger, a reliable auto mechanic, and a steady consistent barber.

I need to add a good camera shop for the cleaning of sensors…

And a good … Continue reading

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | 48 Comments

A tale of two Archdioceses

I had an interesting conversation today.
Two American, Catholic Archdioceses with Catholic schools.
Two Archbishops, both of them were Cappucchin Franciscans.
One Archdiocese allows a child in a "same sex" household attend Catholic school.
The other Archdiocese does not allow such a child to … Continue reading

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | 93 Comments

Anticipation of…

… purgatory?
I am at the Mall of America.

Posted in SESSIUNCULA | 40 Comments

The Legion: status quaestionis

From the site of Sandro Magister comes this about the status quaestionis of the Legionaries of Christ.
Legion Leaders Absolve Themselves Before They Sink
In an internal memo, published here, they say they never knew anything about the double life of … Continue reading

Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA | 31 Comments

17 May 2010

Catholic sister, hospital administrator, excommunicated for approving abortion

In a NewsCore story we read that that whole "magisterium of nuns" thing does work so well when bishops have backbones.
Arizona Hospital Nun Excommunicated For Allowing Abortion
Updated: Sunday, 16 May 2010, 9:20 AM CDTPublished : Sunday, 16 May 2010, 9:20 … Continue reading

Posted in Emanations from Penumbras | Tagged | 109 Comments

QUAERITUR: Latin forms of confirmation names, genders

A question came in from a priest friend preparing confirmands for confirmation in the older traditional, form.
The question posed was about the Latin form of the name which the confirmands chooses.
The confirmand is called by name in Latin, in … Continue reading

Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Mail from priests | Tagged , , | 47 Comments

PODCAzT 101: Preface for Ascension

Here is an new sort of PODCAzT… for PODCAzT 101.  I am trying a slightly new format today.
I use this PODCAzT to drill into the Preface for the Ascension, used from Ascension Thursday until Pentecost, in the 1962MR.  I will … Continue reading

Posted in PODCAzT, PRAYERCAzT: What Does The (Latin) Prayer Really Sound L, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS | Tagged | 8 Comments

Hell’s Bible on Archbp. Dolan of NY

Hell’s Bible is again going after Archbishop Timothy Dolan, of New York.
In a front page article – not for a change written by Laurie Goodstein or Rachel Donadio, Archbp. Dolan is presented as the one who had been once such … Continue reading

Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children, The Last Acceptable Prejudice | Tagged | 23 Comments