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- adriennep on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
- on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Dog Bites Man! Sun Rises In East! SSPX, Holy See disagree!
John Thavis of CNS has a piece today, with the headline “Traditionalist bishop cites lack of progress in talks with Vatican” which was also – for reasons which will be obvious – picked up by the National Catholic Fishwrap and … Read More
QUAERITUR: Dress code for teens for dances, etc?
From a reader: We belong to a Catholic homeschooling group and now that our children have reached their teen years, we are beginning to organize dances and formal social events for them. The question of modest dress came up after … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged dress code, teens
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Film about confession up for an Oscar?
From Headline Bistro. I have not seen this movie. Hollywood Goes to Confession: The Hollywood glitterati aren’t leaving religion at the door this Oscar season. In fact, they might award it. You see, buried in the Oscar nominations this year … Read More
Posted in The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged confession, film, Oscars, reconciliation, sacrament of penance
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A new spin on parish bulletins
I saw this at And Sometimes Tea. Tea… but… is that Mystic Monk Coffee? You decide!
WDTPRS Spiritual Bouquet for Pope Benedict for St. Joseph’s Day (19 March)
Think of the great cares the Holy Father bears in his heavy mandate as Vicar of Christ. He has need of our prayers to help him be strong and to guard him from his enemies. I propose to all readers … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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Obama Administration cancels conscience protections for health care workers
So much for common ground. Do you remember Pres. Obama saying that his administration would protect the conscience of health-care workers when it came to actions which are morally repugnant? So let’s work together to reduce the number of women … Read More
Caption Call
The Vatican Cardinals hockey team prepares for a crowded intra-squad practice.
PODCAzT 117: What the Catholic Church really says about same-sex unions
NB: iTunes users… I found that there was a second enclosure buried in these posts which screw up the iTunes feed. Let me know if you are not getting this on iTunes. After the release of that iTune app/tool to … Read More
29 July Fourth Fota International Liturgy Conference – 2nd Session
I received this Press Release from the St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy Fourth Fota International Liturgy Conference Benedict XVI and the Roman Missal Second Session Cork, Ireland 29 July 2011 St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to … Read More
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Tagged Cork, FOTA, Ireland, St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy
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Australia: Some priests claim they will refuse to use the new English translation of Mass
The fruits of the “Spirit of Vatican II” are detaching from the vine. There was an article the Australian site The Age, I believe of Melbourne, about some priests who claim they will refuse to use the new, corrected translation … Read More
A reader shares first experience of Mass in the Extraordinary Form
From time to time I like to post comment from readers about their their first experience of a TLM, Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form. This was in my inbox this morning. The writer has negatives and positives to express. … Read More
QUAERITUR: What do I say in the Eucharistic Prayer when there is no bishop?
From a priest reader: In the very near future my bishop’s resignation will be accepted by the Holy Father. I was wondering what the correct thing to do will be when praying for the bishop in the Eucharistic Prayer. I … Read More
WDTPRS: Septuagesima
For the Collect in Sunday’s Ordinary Form, 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, here. The prayers and readings for the Masses of these pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by St. Gregory the Great (+604), Pope in a time of great turmoil and … Read More
Some recent posts of interest
As they scroll on down the road, here are some links to recent posts of interest. First, think about the WDTPRS Spiritual Bouquet for Pope Benedict for St. Joseph’s Day (19 March) And also… News from an Italian source about … Read More
News from an Italian source about the Instruction on Summorum Pontificum
There is a good deal of hand-wringing going on right now about the possibility that the upcoming “Instruction” about Summorum Pontificum will water-down the provisions which the Supreme Pontiff made the law of the Latin Church. About this Instruction, I … Read More
QUAERITUR: priest changing the lame-duck translation or starting early with the new
From a priest reader: The new translation is coming up in Advent. I can hardly wait! Now we are stuck using the old “lame-duck” translations, as you call it. I’d use a different phrase. Honestly, I hate the present translation … Read More
REVIEW: Baptism booklet (Angelus Press, 2006)
A while back I fielded a question about the celebration of the Sacrament of Baptism in the traditional form, using the older Rituale Romanum. In that discussion the issue of booklets for the use of bystanders came up. The nice … Read More
SSPX Bp. Fellay about Summorum Pontificum
Benedict XVI is the Pope of Christian Unity. SSPX Bp. Bernard Fellay has issued some interesting observations in the form of Q&A. Here are his observations about Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. They are on the site of the … Read More
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