News of the Church 05

It’s 21 December 2023 and it is the 3rd Week of Advent and it is the Winter Solstice. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which, years after the Civil War, a former confederate officer ekes out a living going from town to town reading various newspaper stories from all over to people who pay a dime a head – in today’s money about $2.50. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer.

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · News of the Church 05

An audio “gazette” of Catholic things. https://wdtprs.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/23_12_21_NofC_05.mp3

00:12 – Init – Winter Solstice
02:50 – Latin Liturgy Newsletter –
– 03:08 Detroit – Prayer in Protestant Cemeteries
– 04:57 FSSP News
– 08:20 Floriani
– 10:23 Children’s Book on Purgatory. New Friends Now and Forever [US HERE -UK HERE]
– 12:20 Why Latin? An answer
14:45 – A Christmas Letter from a family
20:23 – The Wanderer – 7 Dec 2023 – Plenary Indulgence for prayer a Nativity Scene
20:17 – The Wanderer 14 Dec – Nigerian priest abducted.
– 27:40 – What are the sins that “cry to heaven for vengeance”?
30:20 – Israel 365News – Archeologists find Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah
42:11 – Concealed Carry Magazine – Naked guy in the house
43:50 – Sacred Music Fall 2023 – About Paul VI and “Modern Man” and “New Mass”
50:55 – Exit

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