Daily Archives: 29 July 2012

Hugh Hewitt at the Napa Institute: Of Catholics and Chick-fil-A

Talk radio guy and “friend and ally of Rome” Hugh Hewitt has a piece in The Examiner. Here in the heart of America’s wine industry, the Napa Institute brings together a few hundred Catholics in the company of many of … Read More

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QUAERITUR: Sign of peace is an “undignified and self-serving sacrilege”? WDTPRS POLL

From a reader: I recently read an opinion that giving the sign of peace at mass is irreverent. To quote her, ” Hand-holding is not only not in the rubrics of the Mass, it is a horrifically distracting, undignified and self-serving sacrilege that … Read More

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D. Springfield, MA – 5 Aug: 1st Solemn TLM since… well… since the ’60’s.

For your Brick by Brick file this is from a reader: On Sunday, August 5, at 10:30 am, a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be held at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 84 K Street, Turners Falls, … Read More

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The Olympic sports I most enjoy…

… don’t have to be played by the physically uncommon person. Ahhhh, the Olympics. I enjoy watching the sports which we hardly ever get to see on the telly, specially those which you don’t have to be 7′ tall to … Read More

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Ross Douthat on the dangerous redefinition of “freedom of religion”

In the Sunday edition of Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times) there is a good op-ed by Ross Douthat.  I recommend his book: Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. Defining Religious Liberty Down By ROSS DOUTHAT THE … Read More

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UK: Pro-aborts wage war on a pro-life group which helps women

Please use the sharing buttons!  Thanks! I received email from Neil Addison, the distinguish barrister and director of the St. Thomas More Legal Center in the UK. Mr. Addison explains the situation better than I could. Dear Father Z, Father … Read More

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Pres. Obama uses his daughters to promote abortion

From Life News: Obama Criticized for Using Daughters to Promote Abortion by Steven Ertelt President Barack Obama is coming under criticism for invoking the names of his daughters to promote federal taxpayer funding for the Planned parenthood abortion business. As … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes

Were there some good points in the sermon you heard during your Mass for Sunday?

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