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- Philmont237 on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost / Corpus Christi 2025: “Our deacon preached about the typology of the Eucharist using the 12 Stations of the almost Holy Eucharist.”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost / Corpus Christi 2025: “Oh, yeah, and we had the short version of the Sequence. Very good rendition. I just wish we could have…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost / Corpus Christi 2025: “We had a good homily from our university chapel’s priest, who is leaving us next week to go to another…”
- on 19 June 325 – Adoption of the Nicene Creed: “TonyB: adjust for the Gregorian calendar, Father LOL! Okay… okay… Smarticus Pantsicus!”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost / Corpus Christi 2025: “Our visiting SSPX priest preached about “the sinner and the saint” of Corpus Christi. He described the sinner, that is,…”
- on 19 June 325 – Adoption of the Nicene Creed: “You need to shift the date to adjust for the Gregorian calendar, Father. The actual anniversary will be July 2.”
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- on Wrapping it up at Fishwrap?: “Frankly, I remember a certain Phyllis-tine there trying to take down Fr. Z himself, thinking that they got a bishop…”
- on Wrapping it up at Fishwrap?: “Sometimes the National Catholic Reporter publishes something positive. A recent editorial from Michael Sean Winters was a surprise to me:…”
- on VIDEO: A Jesuit commentator hits it outta da park! Stark clear REALITY.: ““Show me the briefcase!” (To paraphrase Jerry Maguire from the movie of the same name). Holy Father: Show me the…”
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Daily Archives: 12 March 2013
Wherein Fr. Z reveals super-double-top-secret inside-the-Conclave SECRETS from a mole!
This comes from CNA. My emphases and comments. Vatican details how new smoke signals are produced Vatican City, Mar 12, 2013 / 05:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Varying chemical compounds have replaced wet straw and pitch to produce the Vatican smoke … Read More
Posted in Conclave, HONORED GUESTS, Liberals, Lighter fare
Tagged conclave, Fishwrap, National Schismatic Reporter
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RECENT POSTS and THANKS and NEWS (and Mass for Benefactors)
What a whirlwind. First, help each other out by checking… daily… YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS Then, also daily for a few more days… just a few seconds of your time… HELP! 2013 About Catholicism Readers’ Choice Awards And… POLL: Which … Read More
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Continued from THESE. I get many requests by email asking for prayers. Many requests are heart-achingly grave and urgent. As long as my blog reaches so many readers in so many places, let’s give … Read More
POLL: Which U.S. major secular network has the best Papal Conclave coverage so far?
Which U.S. major secular network has the best Papal Conclave coverage so far? I am hearing great things about what CBS is doing this time around. What are you hearing and seeing? What are your reactions to the commentary? Use … Read More
“Non habemus Papam!”, tonight, but “Habebimus flava hyperdulcia crustula spongiosa!”
Conclave? Smoke? Pfft. Here’s big news! From ABC: ABC News’ Aaron Katersky reports: Buyout firms Apollo Global Management, LLC and Metropoulos & Co. have agreed to purchase the Hostess and Dolly Madison cake brands, including Twinkies. The iconic snacks have … Read More
Just how tone deaf is the National Schismatic Reporter?
Just how tone deaf is the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap)? Classly as ever, on the eve the conclave they suggest: […] No matter from what part of the world he hails, no matter what his theological or ecclesiastical pedigree, … Read More
Posted in Conclave, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Throwing a Nutty, Vatican II
Tagged Fishwrap, National catholic Fishwrap, NCR, NSR, Romanorum coetibus
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Asking the Poor Souls to help with the election of the new Pope
Our friends at Rorate have a great idea. As I promote a revival of confession, they promote prayer for poor souls. They have a prayer for the poor souls to interceded for the Cardinal Electors. I think we all want, … Read More
The rites for the Conclave begin: The entrance procession of the Cardinal Electors
And so it begins. The procession leaves the Pauline Chapel to go around the corner into the Sistine Card. Re, the senior Cardinal Elector, guides the process. At the beginning of the procession he prays: Venerabiles fratres: Cum sacris litaverimus, … Read More
POLL: SECOND ROUND – What name WILL (not should) the next Pope choose?
We had a first poll HERE. I took the top 15 results and offer them again for your opinion as the conclave begins today! The combox is open for your explanations. Anyone can vote, but you have to have an … Read More
A amusing Roman moment
Sometimes shops or businesses or other places have to close up at times outside their usual schedule. Yesterday, after my hit with EWTN, I stopped in at the library of my school, the Augustinianum, to do some work in the … Read More
Philmont237 on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost / Corpus Christi 2025: “Our deacon preached about the typology of the Eucharist using the 12 Stations of the almost Holy Eucharist.”
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