Yearly Archives: 2010

The Feeder Feed: bandit edition

Here is my annual berry bandit, hanging out like a Crazy 88 punk near the saké bar.Cedar Waxwing Oooppps… that’s not it… …here we go…: Kingbird.

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Who are the “fideles” of McBrien’s “sensus fidelium”?

There they go again.   Aged McBrien, Richard, is defending the abortion performed at the Catholic hospital in Phoenix and rejecting the Church’s position about abortion as an evil meriting excommunication. First, I would remind McBrien that Bp. Olstead did … Read More

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Blognic underway!

We are gathered for the blognic. Sadly we did not get a special room and we are competing with the crowd for a Lady Gaga concert. Lots of people have come! Some better than iPhone photos…

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What has Summorum Pontificum done? Damian Thompson opines.

At three years of Summorum Pontificum the big question is: has it made any difference? Damian Thompson on Holy Smoke makes some mordant comments, much to our surprise, about the third anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, together with giving some good … Read More

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QUAERITUR: low-gluten hosts for TLMs

From a reader: I wanted to know your opinion about low gluten hosts and the use of them at the Mass both Novus Ordo and the Traditional Latin Mass. My girlfriend has Celiac disease and cannot receive the Blessed Sacrament … Read More

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A Hymn to the Motu Proprio

I received this from a priest reader: Hymn to the Motu Iam enim hiems transiit;imber abiit, et recessit.Flores apparuerunt in terra nostra;tempus putationis advenit:vox turturis audita est in terra nostra;ficus protulit grossos suos;vineæ florentes dederunt odorem suum. Vidi speciosam sicut columbam,ascendentem desuperrivos … Read More

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CDF examination of the LCWR

In a recent post on the site of National Catholic Fishwrap, I read that His Eminence William Card. Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, sent a letter to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (cf. … Read More

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Summorum Pontificum 3 years later: your reflections

Three years ago, I started chilling the Veuve Clicquot.  Fitting for the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. I got up at Oh-dark-hundred to post the text of Benedict XVI’s long-expected Motu Proprio (I had an advance copy under embargo until … Read More

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FINAL! BLOGNIC 7 July – NYC, Manhattan 7 pm

7 July 2007 was the day Pope Benedict released the text of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum (though it went into force on 14 September).  We will have a blognic on the evening of Wednesday 7 July. I will celebrate … Read More

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The Feeder Feed: sacred arts edition

The Feeder Feed finds me again at the Metropolitan Museum… the air-conditioned Metropolitan. Eucharistic Dove in gilded copper with enamel and glass beads from Limoges from 1215-35. This would have hung over the altar.  There is a tear shaped door … Read More

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