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Monthly Archives: November 2010
21 November 2010
QUAERITUR: Can a deacon preach at a TLM?
From a reader:
A priest who speaks very little English has volunteered to say the TLM
on Sundays. Is it OK for a deacon to deliver the homily in his place?
Yes.
Technorati Tags: deacon
About the Last Sunday of the Church’s Year
In the older, traditional calendar there is no special liturgy for this Sunday. This is a poignant way to point toward the seamless cycle of the Church’s representation of the mysteries of salvation. In the newer calendar we are … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
11 Comments
20 November 2010
The Pope did not endorse the use of condoms
You will be hearing a LOT about this.
Keep in mind that the Holy Father did not endorse or “open the way” to greater use of condoms.
From CNA:
Pope Benedict advocates right sexuality, not condom use, in fight against HIV
Vatican City, Nov … Continue reading
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, The Drill
213 Comments
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down
I am heading back to the place where the people “ride in a hole in the ground”.
No… but wait… that is what they do here in London.
In any event, back to NYC.
Posted in On the road
6 Comments
Solemnity of Christ the King: “to sum up…”
We have come back to the last Sunday of the liturgical year. In the post-Conciliar calendar of the Roman Church this is the Solemnity of Christ the King. In the older calendar, this is celebrated (with a rather different meaning) … Continue reading
Cardinalatial eye-candy
NLM has posted some screen captures of the ceremony of the creation of the new cardinals S.R.E. (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae).
Here two that will be favorites for a long time:
How nice not to have to say “soon-to-be” Cardinal Burke.
And… Cardinal Ranjith:
I … Continue reading
Coming to the end of a another liturgical year
We will soon come back around to the season of Advent, which as we all know is really about commercialization of Christmas and fighting over whether Christmas music should be played even as on TV there are reports of atheists … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill
11 Comments
19 November 2010
QUAERITUR: Can a deacon baptize with the older Rituale Romanum?
Want a traditional baptism with the Roman Rite?
Have a deacon but not a priest?
From a deacon reader:
I [...] was recently ordained to the transitional diaconate, asked me whether church law allows him to perform a Baptism using the Extraordinary Form. … Continue reading
Australian priest publicly calls for women’s ordination
Here is the sort of thing we are accustomed to learn from the National Catholic Fishwrap.
Priest advocates ordination of women, expects dismissal
by Tom Roberts on Nov. 19, 2010
It would be difficult to imagine, as things now stand in the church, … Continue reading
Posted in Throwing a Nutty
41 Comments
The Campus Telephone Pole: your good news and events
I have had lately numerous requests for me to push this event or that special Mass. I would like to help, but were I to do this all the time, this blog would be taken over.
However, I’ll open this first … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
30 Comments
An analysis of crisis in the Church and society, a portrait of the Pope.
Benedict’s XVI’s new book-length interview is coming.
From the Catholic Herald we have an interview with the papal interviewer:
Peter Seewald: ‘I know of few young people so alive, so curious and so modern as the Pope’ [Fascinating.]
The German author talks about … Continue reading
Manhattan Sunday TLM and Mystic Monk Convivium
This coming Sunday is the last “green” Sunday after Pentecost. Can it be true? Advent begins the Sunday after.
At Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan there will be a Mass at 10 am in the Traditional Roman Rite (37th Street between … Continue reading
Posted in On the road
5 Comments
Anglican Archbp. Williams speaks about Anglicanorum coetibus in Rome
From The Telegraph:
Churches lose their vicars as Anglicans “jump ship” for Rome, warns Rowan Williams
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has warned that parishes will be left without vicars as hundreds of Anglicans “jump ship” for Rome.
By Tim Ross, … Continue reading
In town
Londoners can thank me for the good weather. It always clears up here as I am about to depart.
Fish and chips is in order I think.
And a few last errands and places.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
8 Comments
Thoughts about correcting the Corrected Translation
Yesterday we had a glimpse of the CDW’s revision of the ICEL text of the Roman Missal which had been approved by the USCCB and sent for Rome’s approval, which it obtained. The revised text was leaked and put on … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill, WDTPRS
24 Comments
