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Monthly Archives: November 2007
Chinese Trojan Horse
No, this isn’t about ancient Greek Literature or ancient Chinese proverbs, which seem for some reason to favor horses. Try this on for a scary story. Scary: Trojan Horse Hidden in New Maxtor Hard Drive Transfers Datas Automatically to China … Read More
Pray this week
Pray for the American bishops, meeting in plenary session.
Unsigned editorial in The Tablet: craven prejudice against those who want the older Mass
In another entry I posted an article from the the ultra-lefty English weekly The Tablet. In that same issue there was an unsigned editorial. What follows is an exercise in vindictive hatred for people who desire the traditional form of … Read More
“Bonfire” blog on Bp. Trautman’s opposition to the old Mass and new translation: what is really going on?
Over at Bonfire of the Vanities, Fr. Fox relates some comments by WDTPRS’s favorite defender of dumbed-down liturgical language, His Excellency Most Reverend Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie and lame-duck chair of the USSSB’s BCL. Here is Fr. Fox’s … Read More
Baltimore’s Archbishop O’Brien removes a priest from his parish
This article greatly interested me. Far and wide I hear that parish priests occasionally invite non-Catholic ministers in to their parishes to do things. They think that is ecumenical. So, I was intrigued by this article in the Baltimore Sun. … Read More
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Good news in California: Bp. Garcia of Monterey – TLMs at a time “convenient for the people”
A biretta tip goes to PH of CA for this good story from the California Catholic Daily about what is happening in the Diocese of Monterey, under the guidance of His Excellency Most Reverend richard Garcia. My emphases and comments. … Read More
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Happy 232nd Birthday Marine Corps!
To all the Marines out there, present and past, thank you and Happy Birthday! Tonight I will drink a 1775 Punch in your honor. OORAH
Hell’s Bible on the older Mass
The New York Times has an article on attending the Traditional Latin Mass in Merchantville, NJ, near Philadelphia. One of my quotes about the older Mass is paraphrased in the article. My emphases and comments. November 10, 2007 Latin Mass … Read More
The Tablet on Archbp. Ranjith’s comments about bishops who resist Summorum Pontificum
The liberal Catholic weekly The Tablet has an article on … well… read it yourself. My emphases and comments. Church in the World10 November 2007 Rebuke for bishops who resist Old Rite Robert Mickens A senior official at the Congregation … Read More
Radio Sabina: the Z-Cam is on again
… at least for a little while. Some of you WDTPRS vets have seen the Z-Cam in times past. I used to have it set up and on in the chapel of "The Sabine Farm", where I live when I … Read More
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