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- ArthurH on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Hard to imagine a less-fitting design and color-choice unless it were a rainbow pentagram. One can only hope and pray…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do?: “Hwriggles4- Metropolitan archbishops do not have the authority to dispense the faithful of a suffragan diocese. Each bishop must make…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “This chasuble is ugly, but it still compares favourably to the tie died horrors they inflicted on Benedict XVI in…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Right after the fire, they started raising funds to rebuild Notre Dame. I thought to myself, “When will I ever…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “Dear samwise, There are many ways to gain expertise: by academic degree, by self-study, or as an adjunct area to…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “Father, you mention that the 1962 rubrics allows the Feast of the Immaculate Conception to take precedence over a Sunday…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do?: “After reading this yesterday I was motivated to do some further research. Several dioceses and archdioceses are giving dispensations -…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Magnus Carlsen won the first of two “Freestyle” games against Fabiano Caruana in Singapore. Game two is today. Meanwhile, the…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “This just shows the farcical situation of having two calendars according two Missalia of the one Roman Rite. Its far…”
- on New book SHUTS DOWN the old chestnut objections to the Traditional Latin Mass. Get ready to respond to objections and to deepen your understanding.: “samwise: Stop digging. As far as an audio version, you didn’t read my post much less the book. You have…”
- on ASK FATHER: 8 December 2024 is Immaculate Conception but also the 2nd Sunday of Advent – What to do?: “The problem with the comment by Joseph Corvus is that it makes sense, clearly more than we can expect from…”
- on Letter of Bp. Jude Noble to the Faithful of the Diocese of Black Duck concerning 8 December 2024: “Problem is that even setting aside the very strange American Saturday-and-Monday dispensations (is the Immaculate Conception an exception to that…”
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Daily Archives: 15 May 2009
Timing
Don’t look at these last minute statements of bishops against the decision of Notre Dame as merely "jumping on the bandwagon" or getting in "under the wire". There is something to timing. It is good to have some bishops continuing … Read More
What next? Consequences for Notre Dame
Read the statements of His Excellency Archbp. Robert Carlson and His Excellency Bp. Trautman. Bp. Trautman is an old and skilled warrior of the USCCB, its deliberations and processes. Archbp. Carlson has finally arrived in a position of real influence … Read More
Bp. Trautman on Notre Dame and Pres. Obama
WDTPRS has been hard on the liturgical translation views His Excellent Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie. Here is his statement on the scandal at Notre Dame. It is posted on the site of the Diocese of Erie. … Read More
Archbp. Carlson speak about Notre Dame, raises the right questions
From the the site stltoday.com Carlson assails school’s plan to honor Obama By Tim TownsendST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH05/15/2009 SAGINAW, MICH. — St. Louis Archbishop-elect Robert Carlson said the University of Notre Dame’s decision to honor President Barack Obama this weekend puts … Read More
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A Catholic Church on the Tibet/China border
Fascinating post on the blog In The Footsteps of Joseph Rock about a Catholic Church in western China on the Tibet/China border. Great photos and interesting story.
New books argues concerning TLM and Communion in the hand, altar girls
A reader alerted me to an article on kreutz.net which deals with Communion in the hand at celebrations of Holy Mass with the 1962 Missale Romanum, and the employment of altars girls. I don’t have time to translate it from … Read More
The feeder feed
It has been a super busy day at the feeder. We have seen the usual suspects, that is Team Goldfinch and Team Siskin, as well as the never elusive Chickadee and Nuthatch, sundry Sparrows. But there are others on view. … Read More
Talking points for the Notre Dame scandal
UPDATE: Slightly revised and corrected. During a lunch break I saw a segment on a cable news network about the Notre Dame dust up. There was a representative of Catholic Democrats, a liberal group, soft on abortion, which seeks to … Read More
My rant about Ascension Thursday Sunday
An excerpt from an article I wrote for The Wanderer, to which you may subscribe in print and in an online version: We know with holy and Catholic Faith that what was not assumed, was not redeemed (St. Gregory of … Read More
ICEL preparing musical settings based on Gregorian chant
A reader alerted me to this interesting piece of information from ICEL about musical settings with the new translation. Music for the Roman Missal The International Commission on English in the Liturgy, while working on a new translation of the … Read More
Cedar Rapids, IA – TLM ALERT
A note of interest to Iowans, and others… Una Voce-Cedar Rapids is very pleased to announce that the Traditional Latin Mass (Missa Cantata) will be offered every Sunday at 7:00am at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa beginning … Read More
QUAERITUR: What office to say on Ascension Thursday
From a reader: I generally go to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass on Sundays but pray the Liturgy of the Hours. I live in Los Angeles, CA, one of the areas where Ascension Thursday is moved to Sunday in … Read More
Want to guide your faith by polls? Try this one.
Polls of of ultimate importance to liberals and squishy Catholics. They are more interested in polls than the Magisterium. They incessantly cite polls about how many Catholics don’t follow Church teaching, blah blah, approve of Notre Dame bestowing an honor … Read More
ArthurH on Daily Rome Shot 1180: “Hard to imagine a less-fitting design and color-choice unless it were a rainbow pentagram. One can only hope and pray…”
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