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- A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black’s Knight prevents Black’s Bishop from applying check. So move it: 1. . . . Ng4 2. g2g3 (If White…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “I will not use the new name for the Gulf of Mexico. The name has historical roots and we need…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “1. . . . . . . N×f3+ If 2. B×f3 . . B-d4+ 3. K-f1 . . R-h1# If…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on 21 January – “O glorious St. Agnes, intercede with Christ the High Priest for a return of orthodoxy, sanity and sanctity to the Roman Church!”: “With her death St. Agnes brought to an end the Roman persecution of our Holy Mother the Church. Let pray…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Can you repost your youthful image of St. Joseph please? I can’t see it. It show an exclamation point in…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O. 2nd Ordinary) 2025: “Attendance was sparser than usual at our 10:30 AM High Mass due to a pending snow storm. Normally almost every…”
- on OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter: “? « Not Found Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help. »”
- on OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter: “Link leads to a dead page, not an audio file.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Note that White’s King is locked down, and has no legal move. We want to keep things that way: 1.…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1225: “Black to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on Motus in finem velocior – Daily Rome Shot 1224: “The Spada’s chapel in San Gerolamo della Carità. Terrific opus of the “Swiss” architect Borromini.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1224: “In the second game, if Black takes the Queen, Qa4, Pxa4 Bxc4+, Kf8 (or Kg7) Bh6# But if Black doesn’t…”
- on WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 2nd Ordinary): a “liturgical unicorn”: ““Ordinary meaning ordered not unexceptional.” Alas the memo never reached Indonesia, where the church bulletins etc translate the adjective as…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1223 – “Sluggish schizophrenia”: “Enough straw men from Bergoglio to stock all the corn fields in Oz.”
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Daily Archives: 18 January 2013
Is Pont. Comm “Ecclesia Dei” building a bridge to the SSPX?
Our friends at Rorate picked up something from Riposte Catholique (in French). Apparently, the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” sent a letter to the General House of the SSPX in Menzingen, Switzerland. The letter is signed by the PCED’s Vice-President Archbishop Augustine DiNoia, OP. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Magisterium of Nuns, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SSPX, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Vatican II, Year of Faith
Tagged Archbp. DiNoia, PCED, Pontifex, Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei", Pope of Christian Unity, SSPX
41 Comments
41 Comments
The a-maze-ing Sinsinawa Dominicans
There is a Wisconsin blogger at Laetificat who, once she gets her teeth into something, she really chews on it. For example, the other day I linked to her post about the movie/documentary screened at the motherhouse of the Sinsinawa Domincans … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged D. Madison, labyrinths, Sinsinawa Dominicans, Sr. Donna Quinn
68 Comments
68 Comments
Dogs in church – an interesting case
Haven’t we all seen the movie or TV show or read the book in which our hero is protected by his faithful but mortally wounded dog? Our hero – incredibly tough and even sometimes cold-blooded, now weeping has to put … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged animals in church, dogs, loyalty
55 Comments
55 Comments
@Pontifex Project: Week 3
I missed last Tuesday. Since today is one of the two days per week when the Roman Curia is open in the evening, let us have Tuesday today. I suggested a project using Twitter HERE. Let’s create a “stack” of tweets … Read More
Posted in @Pontifex Tuesday Project, Benedict XVI, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Holy Communion, Pontifex
11 Comments
11 Comments
The War on Boys continues? School shootings result?
I have a sneaking suspicion that the emotion driven, reason challenged, frenzy in the media about gun control has something to do with decades of systematic work in academia to emasculate boys and men. Yes, sheer unethical politics is a … Read More
LONDON – 26 Jan: Lecture by James MacMillan!
O how I would love to be at this lecture in London! James MacMillan, an accomplished composer of sacred music, will give a lecture on Sat 26 January (14.30 – 15.30) will give a talk for the Royal Philharmonic Society. … Read More
Posted in The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Dream of Gerontius, Edward Elgar, James MacMillan, T.S. Eliot
4 Comments
4 Comments
“Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King…”
As I read in the Huffington Post: […] Most people think [Martin Luther King, JR] would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the mid-1950s, as the civil rights movement heated up, King kept firearms for self-protection. … Read More
Are you being prudent?
From xkcd: I hope you are all washing your hands a lot and getting enough sleep. Take care of yourselves.
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A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1226 – “Baaaaaah!”: “Black’s Knight prevents Black’s Bishop from applying check. So move it: 1. . . . Ng4 2. g2g3 (If White…”
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