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Category Archives: Brick by Brick
Card. Piacenza to seminarians:”Your will probably be the first generation that will correctly interpret the Second Vatican Council”
On 4 October the Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, His Eminence Mauro Card. Piacenza (I have liked this guy for a long time) gave a talk to seminarians in Los Angeles. The whole text is on the site of … Read More
“Your continuous plugs for going to confession finally wore me down.”
From a reader: I read your blog everyday, sometimes twice (!), and your continuous plugs for going to confession finally wore me down. I went to confession for the first time in four years several weeks ago, and I returned … Read More
7 October: prayers as SSPX leadership considers what the Holy See has offered
Several people who receive email from the SSPX have received this message and have in turn forwarded it to me. I share it with you. “Dear Brothers, On October 7, feast of our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, victorious … Read More
Gralloching a priest at a wedding reception
From Creative Minority Report with my emphases and comments: A Priest Lost In Translation by Pat Archbold Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:36 PM Comments What could possibly make a priest so angry? I went to a wedding in New Jersey … Read More
How are the Germans and Italians preparing new, corrected translations.
Over at Chiesa, the gentlemanly Sandro Magister has posted about German and Italian bishops and the issue of new, corrected translation of the Missale Romanum. However, the piece is not by Magister. It is anonymous… signed “***”, which I think … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged AAS 66 (1974) 98-99, PRO MULTIS, Prot. n. 467/05/L
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I sense a trend.
Over at Orwell’s Picnic there is a post entitled “Face it, Hippies”, which this graph. I sense a trend. The growth is slow, some will say. But there is growth. There is growth in several important spheres of the Church’s … Read More
ENGLAND – Fr. Finigan’s parish, O.L. of the Rosary’s patronal feast 7 OCT: He has a GREAT idea!
Are you in England? Anywhere near London? The great Fr. Finigan has posted on his mighty blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, the plans for the patronal feast of the parish, Our Lady of the Rosary. They will have a Solemn … Read More
Brick by Brick: Personal Parish Granted to the FSSP in Fort Wayne
For your Brick By Brick file. A reader alerted me to the following from The TLM in Michiana: Personal Parish Granted to the FSSP in Fort Wayne Father Gabet announced at Mass this morning that Bishop Kevin Rhoades in a … Read More
Archbp. Dolan issues a warning to Pres. Obama: Stop attacking marriage and religious liberty!
I found this to be pretty interesting. I urge you to read the whole thing. It is perhaps the best presentation of the issues I have seen in a brief form. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York City has sent, … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged Archbp. Dolan, Defense of Marriage, DOMA, Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, homosexuality, marriage, POTUS, Pres. Obama, same-sex unions, USCCB
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50 Comments
Anthony Esolen on new, corrected translation. Some of the best comments I have seen.
On ZENIT there is an interesting interview with Anthony Esolen, about whom I have written before. For example, Prof. Esolen has translated the whole of Dante’s Divine Comedy. When it comes to translation, this guy’s got game. My emphases. The … Read More
PatS on Remember, it’s not just that they don’t like the rites, they don’t like the people who like the rites.: “I disagree – I say it’s both. They don’t like the Traditional Rites (some of them are not even Catholic)…”
