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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- Fr. Kelly on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
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- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I wonder how the majority of priests, deacons, and bishops feel about several Catholics leaving Mass immediately after communion. No,…”
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Yearly Archives: 2010
Getting my German on for Saturday Night
I have a guest for the weekend and so I made something a bigger more expansive than I would were I on my own. Three large pork chops were delivered by the aforementioned guest, along with sauerkraut… as Dr. Maturin … Read More
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
During Lent, I have been including the Oratio super populum now restored in the 2002MR. The priest says this, or will when he uses Latin, after the Post communio. It should be in a future English translation. ORATIO SUPER POPULUM … Read More
Interview with the CDF’s “prosecutor” of priests who commit “graviora delicta”
Sandro Magister has on his site today an English text of an interview with Msgr. Charles Scicluna, an official of the CDF, who handles the cases of priests who commit graviora delicta against minors. Let’s have a look with my … Read More
To those who desire to accomodate
"If the Church were to accommodate herself to the world in any way that would entail a turning away from the Cross, this would not lead to a renewal of the Church, but only to her death." Joseph Ratzinger
Loyal Chinese priest arrested
From AsiaNews with Ucan with my emphases and comments: Priest arrested in Fujian for organizing winter camp for 300 university students Fr. John Baptist Luo was arrested on 3 March. Three other priests have been issued arrest warrants, but not … Read More
WDTPRS – Saturday 3rd Week of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. Priests can use this prayer NOW at the end of … Read More
SCRUB ALERT: The Times reopens its bear-baiting pit
In another entry, I said that we would see an increase in attacks on the Holy Father, attempts to implicate him personally in the cover-up of sexual abuse of minors by priests when the Pope was still Archbishop of Munich. … Read More
CWN: US bishops oppose Senate health reform bill, clarify Politico
This morning I heard on one of those start-up-the-day TV shows (some news mixed with the mind-numbingly inane) that the Catholic bishops had in some way endorsed the proposed health care legislation for the US despite the obvious funding of … Read More
Pray for the Pope
V. Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Benedicto. R. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciateum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius. [Ps 40:3] Pater Noster…, Ave Maria…. Deus, omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum … Read More
USCCB NATIONWIDE BULLETIN INSERT/ACTION ALERT
This is making the rounds. Help it make more rounds. I got this from the Catholic Key, the page of the newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City, MO. This afternoon, the USCCB contacted dioceses across the country with a … Read More
Fr. Kelly on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
