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Category Archives: Classic Posts
12 February 2012
BUGINICARE DEVELOPMENTS
Back in 2009 I posted about:
BUGNINICARE
UNIVERSAL SPIRITUAL-CARE REFORM FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
(Socialized Worship)
Taking his cue from post-war European national health care programs, Annibale Bugnini, assisted by a small circle of spiritual-care specialists and church policy makers, spearheaded a massive … Continue reading
10 February 2012
Paul VI: “danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law”
The pontificate of Paul VI produced many a disaster, in my opinion, but when it came to a crucial turning point, in the face of diabolical opposition Paul VI issued Humane vitae.
I suspect many of you have never actually read … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Religious Liberty, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, The future and our choices
Tagged artificial contraception, HHS, Humanae vitae, Paul VI, Pres. Obama, religious liberty
18 Comments
9 February 2012
1953 – Pius XII to American seminarians: be holy, be heroes, be officers of the Church Militant
In looking for a quote by Pius XII, a reader directed me, us, to a speech of Ven. Pius XII delivered on 14 October 1953 (Acta Apostolicae Sedis 45 (1953) pp 679 ff.) at the opening of the North American … Continue reading
27 November 2011
Wherein is found Fr. Z’s annual singing rant on Advent vestments. WDTPRS POLL!
Some veteran readers here know about my annual rant about BLUE vestments during Advent. Lest all other Advent considerations be overshadowed by the implementation of the new, corrected translations, herebelow I rant.
I think this liturgical abuse is fading, but we … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ADVENT, blue vestments, Parody Songs, rosacea, Zuhlio
45 Comments
8 November 2011
Must read: Archbp. Chaput’s address at U of Pennsylvania
Everyone should read the Most Rev. Charles Chaput’s (Archbp. of Philadelphia) 7 November speech at the University of Pennsylvania.
HERE.
Excerpt:
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Most of us here tonight believe that we have basic rights that come with the special dignity of being human. These rights … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts
22 Comments
22 October 2011
REVIEW: New editions of the Roman Missal SIDE BY SIDE
Yesterday I was at Leaflet Missal Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Church goods section there, run by John, can provide priests with the best traditional stuff.
John of Church Goods put out all the US editions of the new, corrected … Continue reading
5 October 2011
A great anecdote
My friend the great p.p. of Blackfen, about to celebrate the parish’s patronal feast, His Hermeneuticalness the mighty Fr. Finigan, has a great anecdote about the late and lamented Michael Davies. Be sure to read Fr. Finigan’s whole entry, which … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Mail from priests, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Fr. Finigan, Michael Davies
4 Comments
30 September 2011
27 September 2011
Bugninicare, revisited
A friend and I were talking this morning and he brought back to mind something I posted a few years ago.
Given the fact that, as this presidential election cycle revs up and Obamacare is a huge issue, it is opportune … Continue reading
11 September 2011
2500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon, reenacted, sort of, at Marathon
According to one reckoning, today, 12 September, could be the anniversary of the Battle of Marathon (490 BC). They are probably wrong, but… who cares?
Marathon is, of course, a Greek word (Mάραθον or modern Greek Μαραθώνας and ancient Μαραθών, Latin … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Just Too Cool
Tagged Battle of Marathon, fennel, Pheidippides, Robert Browning
5 Comments
“Those great strong towers of ice and steel”
In the late 1940′s Thomas Merton published his complicated poem Figures For An Apocalypse. One of the sections of the poem is entitled “In the Ruins of New York“.
While the whole section concerns a great downfall, a city and way … Continue reading
5 August 2011
Dedication of St. Mary Major: Pope Liberius, St. Athanasius, and a miracle
Pope Liberius (352-366) was Bishop of Rome in difficult times.
In 350 the Emperor Constans was assassinated and Constantius became the sole Emperor by defeating Magnentius. Some bishops in the East who opposed St. Athanasius in Egypt appealed to Liberius to … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts
Tagged Dedication of a Church, Pope Liberius, St. Athanasius, St. Mary Major
17 Comments
29 July 2011
“Martha, Martha!”
In the National Gallery in London, you will find a painting by Velazquez entitled Christ in the House of Martha and Mary. I never fail to visit it when I visit that gallery and that painting when I … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, Patristiblogging, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged action, contemplation, Lazarus, London, mortar, National Gallery, St. Martha, St. Mary of Bethany, Velasquez
11 Comments
22 July 2011
20 July 2011
Fishwrap has an excellent interview with Archbishop Chaput
Even as blind squirrels sometimes find acorns, sometimes the National Catholic Fishwrap does something right. And it won’t surprise anyone that my friend the nearly-ubiquitous John L. Allen, Jr. was involved.
Fishwrap – rather Mr. Allen – has a long, and … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Posts, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Chaput, Archd. Philadelphia, John L. Allen, NCFishwrap
39 Comments
