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- JustaSinner on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “Android or iOS on the new phone?”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “In another life, when I was a seminarian, I was in charge of washing the Purificators in the special sink…”
- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “This article was passed around my circles. We all had a wonderful laugh about the tone. My favorite line was…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “Thank you for the pictures of the seminary I attended in the 1960s. We were read the documents of the…”
- on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “I now see that a Lifesite post from three hours before my previous comment directs our attention to an Oxford…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “Thank you for the seminary photos, Father. My late father was a son of New York, Brooklyn, and Long Island;…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “By order of the bishop, each celebrant of the mass will remember the living and the deceased benefactors of the…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “I think the colors in your photos are brighter (or maybe it is my imagination though I thought it before…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “All those seats in the choir I imagine were all filled at one time with seminarians. Certainly before Vatican 2.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1011 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 2: “Ha- grew up on border between Kew Gardens and Flushing. Well, technically Flushing. We said we were from Kew Garden…”
- on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “Amen and yes, please Lord, to all the prayers for his soul and for his family and friends. I am…”
- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “Wonderful article. We have been in a desert for 50 years. Even small rays of hope are encouraging. I think…”
- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “adriennep- Sorry to hear about your liturgical desert. Oregon gets better, at least liturgically, as you go North. I believe…”
- on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “Sorry to have my fears confirmed… he had always been so regular in his postings but over the last two…”
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
“I saw the Pope weep.”
"Ho visto il Papa piangere" "I saw the Pope weep." There is a story in Italian in La Stampa about the meeting of Pope Benedict XVI in Malta with victims of clerical abuse when they were children. I teased out … Read More
WDTPRS voicemail
I have two phone numbers, one in the USA and one in the UK, through which people can leave me voicemail. However, I have been having problems with retrieval of the voicemail. I have hopefully solved the problem.
Oldie PODCAzT for Good Shepherd Sunday
An oldie PODCAzT about the Good Shepherd, for Good Shepherd Sunday. 085 09-05-03 Gregory the Great on the Good Shepherd
Pope Benedict in Malta meets with victims of clerical sexual abuse
From The Times of Malta: One of the eight child abuse victims who met the Pope this afternoon said that the meeting had given the group peace in their hearts. The group, now in their 30s and 40s, had a … Read More
Op-ed piece in the NYT
People are feverishly sending me links to the op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof in Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times). Stop sending links. No, I will not fisk it. First, it is blasphemous and sinful. Second, it is riddled … Read More
PRAYERCAzT: Matins and Lauds (BrevRom)
No frills Matins and Lauds from the Breviarium Romanum. If you lay people don’t get what is involved in clergy reading the office every day, this might give you an idea of what the older, traditional form of the office … Read More
evening light
I love evening light. It suggests possibilities. It calls to my mind time in chapels, motes in the sun, ballgames, preparing supper for friends. I once freaked out the person looking in on my house when I went away for … Read More
PRAYERCAzT: 1st Vespers & Compline (BrevRom)
No frills, but sung hymn in Vespers. About half way through Compline I decided to sing some of it. It’s been a while.
President of Malta defends the Church
My friend John L. Allen, Jr., still the fair-minded columnist for the dissenting NCR has an interesting report from Malta. Malta president upstages pope on crisisby John L Allen Jr on Apr. 17, 2010 By JOHN L. ALLENValetta, Malta Heading … Read More
Allegations by German tabloid Spiegel
The German tabloid Spiegel Online is claiming that the then-Vicar General Gerhard Gruber was told to take the blame for the case of child-abuser Fr. Hullermann during the term of Munich’s then-Archbishop Joseph Card. Ratzinger. Here and here. UPDATE 18 … Read More
Fanaticism
Thanks to the Laudator: Charles Turner (1808-1879), Fanaticism, a Night-Scene in the Open Air, from Small Tableaux (London: Macmillan and Co., 1868), p. 71: These sectaries deal in parodies of truth—Their narrow-minded fancies, crude and mean,Uttered with gestures wild and … Read More
PRAYERCAzT: Laudes (BrevRom)
No frills Laudes from the Breviarium Romanum. Mary on Saturday with a commemoration of St. Anicetus.
Fr. Pfleger, after “apology”, restates he wants ordination of women priests, bishops
Dear Card. George.. Your Eminence… I have respect for you and your office. Therefore, Your Eminence, WDTPRS asks with respect: "When will enough be enough when it comes to Fr. Pfleger?" From Lifesite, with my incredulity… er um emphases and … Read More
Catholic Herald coverage of Pope Benedict in Malta
My friend the ever persistent Anna Arco is on assignment in Malta for the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald. She is covering the Holy Father’s Apostolic visit. I have a sense that this could anticipate, in some of … Read More
PRAYERCAzT: Sext, Nones, Vespers (BrevRom)
No frills… just a tired voice reading quickly with a mic turned on. In the meantime I am trying to figure out how to record a voice note on my mobile, FTP it to the server, so I can do … Read More
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A few observations
There is a movie coming about a Pope crushed under depression. Ho hum. I think lefties and liberal Catholics are going to be dreadfully disappointed when Pope Benedict goes to England. He is not going to fit the image … Read More
Fr. Ambrose Eszer, OP – RIP
I picked this up from my friend John Sonnen of Orbis Catholicus. Please pray for the soul of Fr. Ambrose Eszer, OP, who died recently. Perhaps just say a prayer for him right now before clicking away? One of Rome’s … Read More
SSPX Bp. Williamson convicted by German court for Holocaust denial
From NPR and, of course, AP: Bishop Convicted For Denying Holocaust by The Associated Press BERLIN April 16, 2010, 10:14 A German court convicted ultraconservative British Bishop Richard Williamson on Friday for denying the Holocaust in a television interview. A … Read More
JustaSinner on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “Android or iOS on the new phone?”
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