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3 January 2012
Readers in Iowa: Caucases
Any Iowans around here today?
Are you going to caucus tonight?
Technorati Tags: conservative politics, GOP, GOP2012, Iowa Caucuses, politics
Posted in I'm just askin'..., The future and our choices
Tagged conservative politics, GOP, GOP2012, Iowa Caucuses, politics
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1 November 2011
New wish list item
I couldn’t find a way to put this on my wish list, so I am putting it here.
Posted in I'm just askin'..., Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, On the road, SESSIUNCULA
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16 October 2011
Pope Benedict talks about “New Evangelization”
From CNA:
Pope believes secularized nations can become Christian again
Vatican City, Oct 15, 2011 / 03:24 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Today Pope Benedict XVI told over 8,000 Catholics involved in the “new evangelization” that he has every confidence they can return their … Continue reading
14 October 2011
Conversations we have to have about Communion under both kinds.
The debate about U.S. bishops making the decision to follow the Church’s laws about Communion under both kinds continues.
We need a conversation about several points. Let us today limit ourselves to one (which means we don’t need the introduction of … Continue reading
17 August 2011
Archbp. Dolan on meatless Fridays and external signs of our Catholic identity
His Excellency Most Rev. Timothy Dolan of New York City has an interesting post on his blog The Gospel in the Digital Age. I would like to support something important he raised.
Keep in mind that Archbishop Dolan has a combox … Continue reading
15 June 2011
Request to readers: churches closing, moving church buildings
I remember reading a story about the moving of a large church building in the USA, from the north to the south. I can’t remember the details, but I am sure one of you will.
Let’s imagine together for a bit, … Continue reading
11 May 2011
HELP! Fr. Z needs some sports equivalents
I am comparing the forthcoming Instruction Universae Ecclesiae to a baseball no-hitter, rather than a perfect game.
What would be the equivalents for perfect game and no-hitter in other sports?
I am especially interested in analogous accomplishments in cricket and in soccer/football … Continue reading
30 April 2011
Is there no connection between personal holiness and vocation performance?
Some time ago, the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for Causes of Saints said that the beatification of Pope John Paul II was not a judgment about his pontificate.
The UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, has some Q&A with … Continue reading
15 March 2011
Technical question: USB ports/hubs
There are never enough USB ports, are there?
For you savvy readers, what are the upside/downside of adding additional ports internally to your PC rather than simply getting another external hub.
Also, do you know of any really good external hubs?
Also, there … Continue reading
1 February 2011
Why we needed Summorum Pontificum: Reason #746589
A reader alerted me to this. I am not making this up.
From Inquirer.net of Luzon in the Philippines:
Nuns dance to get recruits in Baguio City
By Elmer Kristian Dauigoy
Inquirer Northern Luzon
BAGUIO CITY—Never too old for “Toyang.”
Catholic nuns on Saturday night … Continue reading
A “post hoc ergo propter hoc” observation
There were attacks on Christians in Egypt.
The Pope spoke out against attacks on Christians in Egypt.
The Egyptian government resented the Pope.
Where is the Egyptian government now?
I’m just askin’….
Technorati Tags: Egypt
15 October 2010
Wherein Fr. Z asks a question, directed especially at bishops.
Under another entry, in a comment, a participant here raised an interesting question.
Many of us Latin Mass attendees have boys who also have affection for the “Beauty” of the Latin Mass … , and many of these young men are … Continue reading
4 October 2010
The Feeder Feed: New old arrival!
The seasons come and go. You can watch the shift in the constellations in the sky, the length of nights against the length of days, the changing of the leaves. The ancient Romans had special priests who watched the flights … Continue reading
21 August 2010
WDTPRSer interest in Italian Photography TOUR
A question for the readers:
Who would be interested in a tour in Italy focused, pardon the pun, especially on taking photos.
Therefore, the places involved in the tour would be pretty photogenic, including the usual places Venice, Florence, Pisa, Sienna, Assisi, … Continue reading
25 January 2010
Wherein Fr. Z muses about Latin and the vernacular and mirages
In the poll I posted about preference for language of Holy Mass in the Latin Rite, Latin is pasting the vernacular.
Anyone can vote in that poll… registered to comment here or not.
In the entries I have been posting with your … Continue reading
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