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Daily Archives: 10 January 2010
15-18 Jan St. Paul, MN
I must be in St. Paul this weekend for meetings.
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How to make altar boy program grow by 500%
I enjoyed this post from Stella Borealis: Boy altar server involvement in Mass increases 500% by making rules more demanding [Do I hear an "Amen!"?] By returning to more demanding altar server practices, two men were able to increase participation … Read More
Card. Canizares interviewed
Those of you who read Italian must look at the interview by Paolo Rodari of Palazzo Apostolico with the Prefect of the CDWDS, Card. Canizares Llovera. I don’t have time to translate the long text, but it is here. To … Read More
“becoming children of God”
Something of what the Holy Father said, in Italian, during his Sunday Angelus address: Baptism suggests very well the global meaning of the Christmas season, in which the theme of "becoming children of God" thanks to the coming of the … Read More
Bill in House of Lords: would it make Catholic priesthood illegal?
Sure, there is little chance this will pass. But that is not the point. The point is what I call "creeping incrementalism". If this doesn’t have a chance of passing and becoming law now, it will have the effect of … Read More
Sewing straight with crooked lines
You have probably heard stories about how people hid their sacred objects in time of war. Bells were buried, books and vessels walled up behind pictures, etc. Or how revolutionaries covered images over which served to preserve them. Unbelievable find! … Read More
Sistine Chapel Choir… how long?
It seems that on 4 Jan. His Holiness confirmed Msgr. Giuseppe Liberto in the post of director of the Sistine Chapel Choir donec aliter provideatur. Quousque tandem?
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