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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
100 diverse Sacramentans bless the Quran with roses of love
A reader alerted me to this story from the Sacramento Bee. Peace doves fly over Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament By Stephen Magagnini smagagnini@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Sep. 12, 2010 – 12:00 As 18 doves flew into the skies over the … Read More
QUAERITUR: Non-Catholic choir singing at St. Peter’s Basilica
From a reader: In your valued opinion, and those of your readers, is it permissible/proper/desirable/good for a Protestant choir to sing at Mass in St Peter’s Basilica? Certainly the controversy over bad Catholic choirs being allowed to sing for Mass … Read More
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A reminder from Penjing about your coffee supply!
And speaking of Wyoming… WDTPRS commentator “Lynne at Hasty Brook” joined Penjing when she wrote: I brewed my first pot of Midnight Vigils Blend from Mystic Monks this morning. Its deep flavor without any bitterness is perfect on this chilly, … Read More
Australia’s Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals
From Reuters: Australia’s Catholic church bans pop songs at funerals – Fri Sep 10, 2:46 am ET MELBOURNE (Reuters Life!) – Football club songs and pop or rock music have been banned from funerals in Catholic churches in Australia under … Read More
Priest, publisher, calls “pro multis… for many” heretical
On the site of UCANEWS.com Fr. William Grimm (Tokyo-based publisher of UCA News, former editor-in-chief of “Katorikku Shimbun,” Japan’s Catholic weekly) opines about the new, corrected English translation. My emphases and comments. Small word, big problem Published Date: September 10, … Read More
Questions raised by Nostra aetate about the Christian God and Muslim Allah
Under another entry a commentator said: It’s also about time that Catholics start repudiating those sections of Nostra Aetate referring to Muslims. Let’s have a look at the relevant paragraph of Nostra aetate. 3. Ecclesia cum aestimatione quoque Muslimos respicit … Read More
The Feeder Feed: museum edition
Here is an ancient edition of The Feeder Feed live from the Metropolitan Museum in NYC. Behold a mid 3rd century mosaic from N. Africa. The Nile imagery suggests Egypt, but such exotic images were not uncommon elsewhere. In this … Read More
The Savior’s chalice is forever precious and His hands are ever sacred
His Hermeneuticalness has an interesting post concerning the new corrected translation. Let’s jump in media res: In the combox of the post "Telling the truth – a new corrected translation", Lawrence the Roman writes concerning the new corrected ICEL translation … Read More
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Film maker changes his mind about Pope Benedict
The UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald has this interesting article. It is quite long, so I will show just part of it here. How I changed my mind about the Pope Mark Dowd embarks on a personal quest … Read More
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