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Daily Archives: 13 January 2009
Another Novus Ordo Mass ad orientem
From a reader: I believe that you occasionally publish news of liturgical interest from various churches. If you would like, please publicize that the 10:30 am Mass on Sunday mornings at Old St. Patrick in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is now … Read More
“…wind through some dense copse…”
Many thanks for this to the Laudator Temporis Acti… for this and for something else he sent me recently! Charles Burchfield, Journal (Feb. 22, 1912): Everyone is complaining about it. "Is it cold enough for you?" (most common); "This … Read More
Weblog award polls are closed – many thanks!
Well, folks! The polls are closed for the 2008 Weblog Awards. I thank all of you who participated. It is important to keep our Catholic blogs in the first places in these award elections. The award site says that they … Read More
Kmiec attacks ‘right wing’ Catholic bloggers
Get this… from CNA… My emphases and comments. Prof. Kmiec accuses ‘right wing’ Catholic bloggers of character assassinationBlames them for potentially “poisoning” Vatican-Obama relationship Washington DC, Jan 13, 2009 / 11:53 am (CNA).- In his first lengthy article explaining his … Read More
QUAERITUR: bridesmaids and mantillas: yes or no?
From a reader: Hello. My sister is getting married in March in an Ordinary Form Mass and I am a bridesmaid. I wear a chapel veil when I go to Mass, whether I assist in the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form. … Read More
QUERITUR: show tunes and wedding music
From a reader: The Catholic church where my daughter is getting married does not allow the song from Fiddler on the Roof, "Sunrise, Sunset", to be sung at the ceremony because it is not liturgical. The Catholic church where my … Read More
Still working on the video streaming things
I am playing around with the trial version of Vidblaster. Great program! It allows you to add effects and split screens for multiple webcams, etc., in far more effective way than I have been able to do it before. Slowly … Read More
Brisbane: renegade parish in the news again
St. Mary’s in Brisbane is in the news again. ABC (non commercial govt. station) had a video piece on the 7:30 report. There is a transcript. Check also these past entries here and here. Here is a link to the … Read More
Scatter ye rosebuds while ye may
A big biretta tip o{]:¬) to Good Jesuit Bad Jesuit for this great photo: This great picture is from a Polish Jesuit blog entitled, A Pilgrims Story see the picture (here)
The Pill’s inventor: “catastrophe” … “horror scenario”
This is a must read from CNA: Vienna, Jan 11, 2009 / 02:10 am (CNA).- The chemist who made a key discovery leading to the invention of the birth control pill has written a commentary calling demographic decline in Europe … Read More
Benedict Joseph on The Big Lie of Mr. Cricket: “Andrea Grillo however does serve a purpose. He boldly unmasks the nature of the post-Catholic ideology to which he is…”
