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Monthly Archives: July 2010
19 July 2010
Protect the Pope.com
Biretta tip to His Hermeneuticalness
Protect the Pope.com is a new website which counters attacks on Pope Benedict’s reputation and integrity, and provides information and resources for Catholics to respond to incidents that constitute incitement to religious hatred.
At the launch … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
7 Comments
Islamic Standard (UK) provokes protests against Pope
At the National Catholic Register (the Catholic paper), Matthew Archbold has the following.
My emphases and comments:
Is the Pope In Danger?
by Matthew Archbold Monday, July 19, 2010 6:02 AM Comments
I’ve been saying recently that Pope Benedict XVI is heading into … Continue reading
18 July 2010
What Does The Cricket Really Say?
I had an interesting question via email from a reader.
I suppose this has something to do with a) interest in the way people who speak different languages name the sounds animals make b) the coming of summer.
QUAERITUR: What … Continue reading
OpEd piece for the Washington Post
Some of the commentators who have added their opinions in the combox after my OpEd in WaPo really need your help.
A few contributors can both read and think, but there are some deeply confused people over there. And a couple … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged norms, Sanctitatis sacramentorum tutela, WaPo, Washington Post
32 Comments
WDTPRS: Collect – 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Be vigilant!
Today’s Collect is new to the Missale Romanum in any edition, but it has some connection to the Sacramentarium Bergomense, a 9th or 10th century manuscript in a library in Bergamo, Italy of the Western, but non-Roman, Latin rite used … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
12 Comments
17 July 2010
What’ll they think of next?
Those wacky geeks at MIT… what’ll they think of next?
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Technorati Tags: mouse
US Catholic goes to the zoo about the new “graviora delicta” norms
You perhaps won’t be surprised if Bryan Cones of the über-liberal US Catholic threw a little nutty about the CDF’s new norms concerning graviora delicta, "exceptionally serious crimes".
Here is the piece in all is wondrous weirdness with my emphases and … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: I poured the Precious Blood down a sink
From a reader:
I was reading your blog entry on "Graviora Delicta" and started to get a bit nervous.
Awhile ago, I served as sacristan at a Jesuit high school. With no disrespect to the Society of Jesus, you can imagine … Continue reading
SSPX Bp. Fellay claims Pope Benedict says the TLM privately
The fellow who sent the following added the mordant comment that if any Italian bishop were to resign because the Pope said the traditional form of Holy Mass, that would be reason enough for him to do it.
The English is … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
51 Comments
What happens when you take a coffee mug to Starbucks?
For the Just Too Cool file…
A priest who reads the blog and who bought some "Oremus pro Pontifice" coffee mugs sent me this note and photo:
I use them at Starbucks, and "they" have led to one return to the faith … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool
14 Comments
Just plain FUN!
Super biretta tip to Jimmy Akin!
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Posted in Global Killer Asteroid Questions
13 Comments
16 July 2010
Wouldn’t it be fun to…
… tooooo… for example…
…
Rent a car with camper-trailer and follow the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France?
Sans head butts.
Great scenery, interesting people, fantastic food or ingredients for those who cook, fresh air.
I am channeling my experience here, of course. And … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare
35 Comments
Your good news
As we go into our weekend, let us know what your recent good news is – especially about grace working in your lives.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
92 Comments
So much for the “relational wisdom of women”!
Remember that National Catholic Fishwrap piece, "Compromised hierarchy needs relational wisdom of women" by Charlene Spretnak?
There is a news story from Germany today that Lutheran Bishopette Maria Jepsen of Hamburg has resigned.
From AP:
Report: … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA
12 Comments
OSV survey about “best of the (Catholic) web”
Our Sunday Visitor has a little survey going.
The number of Catholic-oriented websites out there has exploded, and keeping track of the ones that are truly useful gets harder as they proliferate.
OSV Newsweekly is pulling together a "best … Continue reading
