Daily Archives: 22 July 2023

Grabbed by the neck. Famous poem by Yeats and a vision of heretic Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A talk by Michael Hitchborn at the Coalition for Canceled Priests Conference

Longtime readers here know of my love of poetry. Hence, from the beginning this talk by Michael Hitchborn at the Coalition FOR Canceled Priests grabbed my attention, for he began with William Butler Yeats and his most famous work. He … Read More

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Synodality (“walking together-ity”): It is the thought world of rotary phones, eight-track tape players, and Hans Küng. It is “Muskrat Love” and Charlie Curran all over again.

There is a terrific read at Catholic World Report today by Larry Chapp.  It is a retrospective which is actually a contemporary diagnostic.  What is going on today, we’ve seen before in germ.   Today, however, the germ has hatched out into something … Read More

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WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Be all that you can be!

Today’s Collect – for Mass and the Office on this 8th Sunday after Pentecost – is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors and thread to … Read More

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WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time:

We have been cheated of the beauty of our Catholic worship in Latin, which is our common patrimony.  In fact, the swindle is far deeper.  People have been denied the opportunity to learn Latin, which pretty much every more or … Read More

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22 July – St. Mary Magdalene

In 2016, the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by the great Robert Card. Sarah, issued a decree making – for the Novus Ordo, mind you – what was the Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene into … Read More

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