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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Let’s go over this AGAIN. It’s our liturgical worship…
“If the crisis of church life today is above all a crisis of liturgy, then the renewal of the church must begin with a renewal of the liturgy.” Sound familiar? This was the Swiss-born Kurt Card. Koch, President of the … Read More
Pres. Obama appoints architect of Roe v Wade to the bench.
Some people write to me with a lament that they don’t like GOP candidates. I sometimes write back with one word: judges. From Life Site comes the news that Pres. Obama has appointed one of the architects of Roe v … Read More
A new view
I have from time to time written about putting on a pair of “resurrection glasses”, (e.g., here), about trying to see people as God intends them to be in heaven. Here is a variation on this theme which I picked … Read More
Leo XIII on witholding obedience to unjust laws imposed by civil government
From a reader at Wyoming Catholic College comes this: In our Catholic Social Teaching course at Wyoming Catholic College, we are currently reading a number of the great encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII. These paragraphs from Diuturnum Illud (1881) struck … Read More
The world is going to wrack and ruin, so let’s watch a beautiful video.
Your Catholic identity is under attack by those who should be upholding your constitutional freedoms, even as they try to turn matters that are contrary t0 nature into civil rights issues. So, let’s watch I nice video! Over at my … Read More
Regarding Pres. Obama’s attack and rise of our Catholic bishops…
… I wonder when the first retaliatory attacks from the left will start on the Church’s tax exemption?
The world is going to hell in a handbasket, so, let’s watch a funny video!
The economy is a disaster, the Obama Administration is eroding our civil liberty, the world seems to be going to hell. So, let’s have a video. Who can forget the spectacular commercial with the little kid dressed as Darth Vader? … Read More
REVIEW: Convenient TLM “travel” altar card set for Mass kits. GREAT! Hey, Father! Check ’em out!
Want to promote the New Evanglization? Looking for something to give a bishop, priest or seminarian? Want to complete that Mass kit or home altar? The “Society for the Preservation of Roman Catholic Heritage” (SPORCH … yah, I know) has … Read More
Sen Rubio (R-FL) intro’s bill to repeal Pres. Obama’s attack on religious liberty
Here is some good news from the Penacola News Journal. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio today introduced the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, a bill to repeal a new “ObamaCare” mandate that violates the religious liberties and conscience rights of … Read More
A bishop effectively blasts priests for disregarding Summorum Pontificum
My experience of Italian bishops did not prepare me for the surprise of reading something over at NLM. They have a translation of a letter of an Italian bishop to the priests of that diocese pretty much upbraiding them for … Read More
Ireland: Eucharistic Congress
Some of you may be wondering already about a spring or summer trip. Perhaps you could combine it with a pilgrimage to a place where prayer is needed. A priest friend reminded me about the Eucharistic Congress to take place … Read More
Sunday Monday Supper: for my reading group
I belong to a reading group which has been meeting on and off for many years. We are about to launch into some of the so-called Metaphysical Poets… on Monday. I am doing the cooking. Since I am eager to … Read More
In art news… something great for people in the USA
I like Vermeer. Therefore, I was pleased to read on The History Blog that Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” is coming to the USA. It will be part of an exhibit. […] The new exhibition, “Girl with a … Read More
Another view
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Tales of the weird and wacky: Ireland Today.
In the Independent, you find that Most Rev. Philip Boyce, Bishop of Raphoe in Ireland, (who used to be a member of the Pont. Comm “Ecclesia Dei”, by the way) was investigated for a homily he gave. A HOMILY delivered … Read More
Planned Parenthood, tasteless death merchants, thanks Pres. Obama
While there is nothing obscene about this on the surface, it is nevertheless both disgusting and revealing. Planned Parenthood – originally formed to kill black people – made this video to celebrate the Obama Administration’s attack on the 1st Amendment, … Read More
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WDTPRS 4th Sunday after Epiphany: YOU are a weary foot soldier of the Church Militant
This Collect sometimes winds up at the end of the liturgical year, depending on when Easter, and therefore Pentecost, falls. This year, because Easter is a little later, we have it before Septuagesima. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, qui nos in tantis … Read More
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How about a news report from Germany in Latin?
