Daily Archives: 8 April 2011

How it all goes wrong. So very wrong. So sad.

What happens when you go wrong: From the pen of Roy Bourgeois, M.M. Rev. Edward Dougherty, M.M., Superior General Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers P.O. Box 303 Maryknoll, NY 10545 April 8, 2011 Dear Father Dougherty and General Council, Maryknoll has … Read More

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Defending the defenseless

An interesting catch from Rush’s show made by the Motley Monk: At the beginning of “Open Line Friday,” Rush Limbaugh took President Obama to task for his priorities in the current budget debate and potential shutdown of the federal government. … Read More

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Food for… thought

From rougeclassicism: The incipit of a piece at the CBC on the war in Afghanistan: When a Canadian soldier dies in Afghanistan (as more than 150 have so far), it makes front-page news. In Ontario, a stretch of the 401 … Read More

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WDTPRS Friday in the 4th Week of Lent

COLLECT Deus, qui fragilitati nostrae congrua subsidia praeparasti, concede, quaesumus, ut suae reparationis effectum et cum exsultatione suscipiat, et pia conversatione recenseat. This prayer today was not in the pre-Concilar Missale Romanum. It also has me scratching my head. Once … Read More

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NCFishwrap, Sr. Fiedler, Fr. Bourgeois… what could go wrong?

The National Catholic Fishwrap continues in it open dissent against the Church’s formally and irrevocably defined doctrine concerning ordinary of males only, as in only men, exclusively men, no women, not even wymyn. We have seen Sr. Maureen Fiedler before.  … Read More

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Everything a priest suffers should send him to my Heart.

It is Friday and it is Lent. Fr. Mark Kirby, OSB, had this on his blog Vultus Christi: This painting depicts Our Lord as he appeared in the Sacred Host exposed in the monstrance at the Institute of Loreto in … Read More

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LENTCAzT 31: Friday of the 4th Week of Lent

These 5 minute daily podcasts for Lent are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season. Today is the Friday of the 4th Week of Lent. The Roman … Read More

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