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- CSSML on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “Great question and answer This also grinds my gears excessively.”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “Father: with all due respect for your prerogatives, I hope you will consider awarding a second Gold Star of the…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “O God, Who bestowed the definite article upon the peoples of the earth, for the two-fold purpose of clarity and…”
- on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “How right you are, fr. Reader, Try this: “To win war you need to own language.” Where yours was clear…”
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
“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?
Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins
It doesn’t surprise me at all that the always interesting Camille Paglia thinks Richard Dawkins is a twit. … I was recently flicking my car radio dial and heard an affected British voice tinkling out on NPR. I assumed it … Read More
HELP WDTPRS!
VOTE! There were a few hundred votes a while back. Now there are… not a few hundred. Keep our Catholic blogs out in front! And while I’m at it. You can follow me on Twitter. There is also Plurk. There … Read More
Who will be next?
No doubt the staff of L’Osservatore has this as their hermeneutic. Biretta tip to an old friend DW…. o{]:¬) From Stuff White People Like: Before you begin hanging around with white people, you should know that all white humor comes … Read More
A comment on the death of Mary Daly
Many people asked me why I wasn’t commenting on the death of Mary Daly. Okay… here is something. From New American with my emphases and comments: Boston College and Its Radical Feminist ‘Catholic’ Written by Jack Kenny Friday, 08 … Read More
Goofy wymympryst ideas in Cincinnati… again
From the blog Ten Reasons, with my emphases and comments: "Carries an imprimatur from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati" Carol Ann Morrow, assistant managing editor [and thus not just a staff writer or sometime contributrix] of St. Anthony Messenger magazine, published … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Carol Ann Morrow, Cincinnati, St. Anthony Messenger
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36 Comments
CSSML on ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?: “Great question and answer This also grinds my gears excessively.”
