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Category Archives: Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
8 October 2011
Exhibit on the historical inspiration for Capt. Jack Aubrey!
This is for your Just Too Cool folder. BBC reports:
Admiral Cochrane artefacts go on display for first time
The life of an admiral who inspired the character Jack Aubrey, portrayed in the film Master and Commander, is to form an … Continue reading
Posted in Crackit Gaberlunzie, Just Too Cool, O'Brian Tags, Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged Catp. Aubrey, Lord Cochrane, Patrick O'Brian
8 Comments
31 August 2011
A look at Archbishop Conti’s pastoral letter which has stirred things up
Pursuant to the CNA article about the Glaswegian Archbishop Mario Conti’s exhortation to Catholics to stand for Holy Communion, there is now some considerable discussion out there in the blogosphere.
Some are saying that Archbishop Conti has “decreed” in his pastoral … Continue reading
25 July 2011
QUAERITUR: Wore a black chapel veil and women scoffed
From a reader:
I wore my black mantilla (it blends in with my dark brown hair better) to an OF Mass this evening for the second time (no issues the first time), but after I arrived, a group of chatty and … Continue reading
Posted in Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged chapel veils, Granny Gang, mantilla, Monty Python, Proverbs 25:22
67 Comments
18 July 2011
QUAERITUR: Validity of baptism when water touches only the hair – Fr Z rants
From a deacon:
I was wondering how safe it is to assume that water flowing over the hair along with the correct words constitutes a valid baptism. I ask because there were just 12 babies baptized in my parish and some … Continue reading
6 July 2011
What does the gowk really say?
A scene from The Fortune of War (6th in the series), which includes the wonderful word “gowk”.
At this time our friends Capt. Aubrey, Dr. Maturin and some of the crew from HMS Leopard are on their way back to England … Continue reading
Posted in O'Brian Tags, Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged Aubrey/Maturin, Dr. Maturin, gowk, Patrick O'Brian
13 Comments
The Tablet equates striking the breast during the Confiteor with child abuse.
At The Tablet aka The Bitter Pill, there is a piece by one Melanie Lately, a guest contributor, which deserves our attention – and not because of its excellence.
Commentators in the combox over there have dealt with the obvious problems, … Continue reading
23 June 2011
Too stupid for words: planting trees instead of going to confession
I am not making this up. This is from Treehugger.
Really.
Priest in Brazil Replaces Prayer With Tree-Planting
by Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil on 06.22.11
Planting trees may be a great way to help save the environment, but thanks to one Catholic diocese … Continue reading
14 June 2011
McBrien thinks the Pope is … wait for it… wrong about women’s ordination!
Richard McBrien in his column in the National catholic Fishwrap says that the Church’s infallible teaching about the impossibility of the ordination of women isn’t really infallible. How dare the Pope say that it is?
His basic idea is that since … Continue reading
8 June 2011
The Archbishop of Glasgow on the Holy Father’s provisions in Summorum Pontificum
All day long people have been filling my email with requests for me to react to the opinions of His Excellency, nay rather, His Grace, Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow, who has spoken about the Holy Father’s provisions in Summorum … Continue reading
31 May 2011
A new batch
I have ticked a few things off my To Do List for the day and can now settle down to read a bit.
I need, inter alia, to make some more notes about Augustine’s commentary on 1 John, which we will … Continue reading
Posted in Lighter fare, Preserved Killick, Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged mystic monk, Penjing, Preserved Killick, tea
7 Comments
24 May 2011
Agony in England or Reason #100988876 for Summorum Pontificum
P.A.I.N.F.U.L…..
To all my readers across the pond and elsewhere… I am so very sorry.
[Sorry about the vile ad, as well.]
UPDATE:
I am trying to think of a light-hearted analogy.
In the spirit of my baseball/cricket analogy at the time of Universae Ecclesiae….
Imagine … Continue reading
21 May 2011
Mickens of The Pill K.O.’s “Universae Ecclesiae”!
Robert Mickens of The Pill (aka The Tablet aka RU486), found something really wrong with Universae Ecclesiae, something truly disturbing.
Some puir slow-witted gowk in the CDF or Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” screwed up the title or “incipit” of the Instruction … Continue reading
