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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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- NickD on ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain: “The sister does not name these Saints that supposedly support her argument. Anyone have any idea about whom she’s talking?…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain: “The role of the priest is to offer sacrifice, of himself, in persona Christi. It is a complete denial of…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain: “One can accept the “NO” – even without personally agreeing – and be a practical Catholic… we can accept the…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain: “One would think that for these public comments she’d be canned from her Vatican job in short order, but I…”
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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
In The Wild: Save The Liturgy car mag
I received a photo of a seminarian’s vehicle with a delightful (and available) car magnet. Remember, friends, that the biological solution is working it’s inexorable effects. Young men with their head’s screwed on on the proper direction are coming up. … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged car mag, Save The Liturgy Save The World, seminarians
11 Comments
11 Comments
Of things Lyrid, Saturnine, Solar and TEOTWAWKI
From Spaceweather comes, first, benign news and, then, news that one of these days is going to precede TEOTWAWKI: LYRID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is approaching the debris field of ancient Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower … Read More
A Titanic Fata Morgana
By now most of you know that today was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic. Astronomy Pic of the Day, which isn’t limited to covering things celestial, has a photo of a very curious natural phenomenon which … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged 15 April, APOD, Astronomy Pic of the Day, Fata Morgana, iceberg, RMS Titanic
14 Comments
14 Comments
Spitfires! Very cool story.
I saw this at Sancte Pater from the Daily Mail. One of the coolest airplanes evvvver. The new Battle of Burma: Find 20 buried Spitfires and make them fly By Kirsty Walker (Mail Online) Twenty brand-new RAF Spitfires could soon … Read More
EXPLOSION ABOARD ODYSSEY! 42 years ago on Friday 13th
Jimmy Akin reminded me today that it is the anniversary of the day an oxygen tank exploded in the Service Module of Apollo 13 on its way to our great natural satellite’s Fra Mauro Highlands, named after the 15th c. … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, Apollo, Apollo 13, Ares, Constellation, Fra Mauro, Gemini, infanticide, Mars, Mercury, moon, NASA, Pres. Obama
16 Comments
16 Comments
Geostationary satellites and the Sun rising in the West
I had a flight yesterday evening that took off just at sunset. Thus, I had the interesting experience of watching the Sun rise in the West. As we gained altitude, the Sun came back up above the horizon and appeared … Read More
A reader about a parish with confessions on Good Friday
From a reader: I had to tell you about what happened at our parish ___ this Good Friday. We had confessions on Good Friday for the first time that I can remember since coming here in the early 1990s. Not … Read More
Benedict XVI’s Sermon for the Easter Vigil: of creation, light, communication, community, and bees
Here is the Pope’s sermon for the Easter Vigil. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Easter is the feast of the new creation. Jesus is risen and dies no more. He has opened the door to a new life, one that no … Read More
Summit “Soap Sisters” Sighting on TV. Involves also the Shroud of Turin. No. Really.
On FNC there was a great spot about the Soap Sisters in New Jersey, the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Rosary. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com I have written about the “Soap Sisters” quite a few times … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged FNC, Fox and Friends, Seignadou Soap, Shroud of Turin, soap, Summit Dominicans
2 Comments
2 Comments
NickD on ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain: “The sister does not name these Saints that supposedly support her argument. Anyone have any idea about whom she’s talking?…”
