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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Dominican Sisters compete in TV Bible quiz show
For your Just Too Cool file from CNA: Santa Monica, Calif., Mar 17, 2013 / 04:03 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Three religious sisters are participating in a unique evangelization effort by competing on a Bible trivia game show in hopes of … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist, game show
14 Comments
14 Comments
The rediscovery of dignity in Sacred Music
I have in the past mentioned Sr. Joan Roccasalvo, CJS, who has some intelligent things to say (about which I agree for the most part) about sacred music. She has another offering at CNA, to which I want to point … Read More
Dear Traditionalists,…
I had this from a reader. He said he was not advocating these things. However, liberals will advocate them. I’ve got some other suggestions. But first the wacky liberal stuff: I have an idea for a blog topic – how … Read More
Bp. Vasa (D. Santa Rosa) getting blow-back for requiring Catholic teachers to adhere to Catholic ways
Remember what Bp. Vasa is doing in Santa Rosa? He is requiring that teachers in Catholic schools live – gasp! – according to Catholic teachings and mores. Imagine such a thing! The Cardinal Newman Society, which focuses on the … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Linking Back, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Vasa, Cardinal Newman Society, CNS, D. Santa Rosa
43 Comments
43 Comments
Of the Pope’s mozzetta…
I read on an Italian blog (and so this is at the level of rumor for now) that the Roman ecclesiastical tailor shop Gammarelli sent a mozzetta over the the Apostolic Palace. A mozzetta is the elbow length red cape, … Read More
What Does The Pope’s Motto Really Say? The Latin motto explained.
The motto of Pope, “Miserando Atque Eligendo” has aroused some people to send me questions. What’s with the Latin? What are those -nd- forms? Are they gerundives? People are getting some things wrong. “Lowly and chosen”, some have suggested. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Francis, The Drill, WDTPRS
Tagged gerunds, miserando atque eligendo, motto, Pope Francis, stemma, Ven. Bede
73 Comments
73 Comments
I am thinking about those red shoes.
I am thinking about the infamous red shoes. I am thinking about the non-wearing of the mozzetta. I am thinking about the growing juxtaposition in some conversations of simple liturgy versus lofty liturgy. Some people are saying, “O how wonderful … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged gestures, priest, rubrics, solita oscula, victim
218 Comments
218 Comments
What Did St. Francis Really Say? – 3
Now that we have a Pope named Francis, and all sorts of people are making references to St. Francis of Assisi in an attempt to pigeonhole this new Pope, we should consider who Francis of Assisi really was, what he … Read More
Posted in Francis, The Drill
Tagged ecumenism, Pope Francis, St. Francis of Assisi, Sultan
48 Comments
48 Comments
Liberals will soon turn on Pope Francis
We are still a bare few days into the pontificate of Pope Francis. I have therefore declined to gush out lots of entries here, burbling my every half-formed notion about what is going to happen. I have also avoided surfing … Read More
Asking for a few seconds of help.
May I ask for your support? This blog was nominated for an award, the Best Catholic Blog, in the 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards. Click HERE. Choose “What Does The Prayer Really Say” (though we are shifting to “Fr. Z’s Blog”). … Read More
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