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It is a dies non in the Vetus Calendar. Today I celebrated a Votive Mass of the Holy Cross. I offered this Mass for my Roman donors. I ask their prayers as well.
A fun shot of priests at the side altars “concelebrating” with the beautiful new red vestments. What a HUGE DIFFERENCE those vestments make. Thank you again, donors. THANK YOU.
Breakfast with a friend. I couldn’t wait to get to the fresh OJ.
Last night I was at the presentation of the new Catechism by Bp. Schneider. More HERE.
Among the speakers was my good friend Robert Royal. He made a great point about the ordering by God of the universe, which order reflects His presence and involvement. The Catholic Faith is orderly. You can see where this is going. He started out with a quote from Dante’s Paradiso. Beatrice says…
e cominciò: «Le cose tutte quante
hanno ordine tra loro, e questo è forma
che l’universo a Dio fa simigliante.
Cardinal Sarah is super focused when he listens. That takes practice. Without question he is an expert listener.
After the talk, I chatted with him for a bit and asked him how HE pronounces his last name, because every time he is mentioned it seems like there is a different way. He said: “Sáh-rah”, not “Saráh” or like English “Sara”, etc. “SAHrah”.
During the Q&A the rep from Reuters asked Bp. Schneider what he thought about the new Dubia and Francis’ answer to those Dubia.
The bishop responded with what I think most of us think. The Dubia “a great work… heroic act”. A “must needed action”. The follow up was on the answers to the Dubia. “Unfortunately unsatisfactory… confusing, vague”. His answer was strong but respectful. He also said that these Dubia will go down in history! Card. Sarah did not offer an answer to those questions.
Meanwhile, here’s a fairly easy one.
White to move and win material.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
Priestly chess players, drop me a line. HERE
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1. Nd5+ Kg8
2. Nxe7 Kf7
3. Bxa3 . . .
Black is in serious trouble at this point.
1. Nxd5+ e5 (seems best for black, but there are other options)
2. Nxe7 Bxe7
A knight for a queen and a pawn, not bad.
The LIES are becoming more and more outrageous :
BBC : “More than 200,000 children are estimated to have suffered sexual abuse from Spain’s Catholic clergy, an independent commission has found.”
Reminds me of the French “inquiry” which from a couple dozen compla
… Reminds me of the French “inquiry” which from a couple dozen complaints extrapolated that a quarter of priests were “abusers”.
These are fantasy “statistics” without reason nor verity nor value.
I am struck by all the old people in picture of the latin mass. (That’s sarcasm of course).
I just don’t get why the powers be that can’t get past the idea that the TLM is only attractive to old, nostalgic fuddy duddies when the evidence to the contrary is right in front of them.
“After the talk, I chatted with him [Cardinal Sarah] for a bit and asked him how HE pronounces his last name, because every time he is mentioned it seems like there is a different way. He said: ‘Sáh-rah’, not ‘Saráh’ or like English ‘Sara’, etc. ‘SAHrah’.”
This could be its own piece!
1. Nd5+ wins the Queen.
@JabbaPapa
It profits no one to deny the Church had (maybe still is IN) an abuse crisis; the faith of many has been irreparably damaged not only by terrible acts performed by men (and women) in power, but its subsequent concealment by the Church hierarchy. If we do not learn from our chequered history, we are doomed to repeat it.
OzReader, yes there are abusers — but nobody should listen to the hatred of the enemies of Christ and His Church when they make such outrageously exaggerated claims.
The VAST majority of sexual abuse of children occurs in the family environment.