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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Reader Feedback: To priests who hear confessions.
From a reader: Reverend and dear Father: I would like to thank you and all priests. Because of your blog and other priests’ blogs on the net I have gone to a full and complete confession for the first time in … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged confession, feedback, reconciliation, sacrament of penance
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Latin language breakfast group
From Catholic News Service comes a little video about … I am not making this up … Latin. A few priests are interested in keep some Latin going. The short also speaks about Veterum sapientia, about which I wrote – … Read More
Plant grown from 30,000 year old seed. WARNING: Squirrel involved.
From POPSCI comes this story for your “Just Too Cool” file. Russian Scientists Grow Pleistocene-Era Plants From Seeds Buried By Squirrels 30,000 Years Ago On the frozen edge of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, in an ancient pantry harboring … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged narrow-leafed Campion, permafrost, Pleistocene, Silene stenophylla
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Brick by brick in Madison: an Altar-ation!
Brick by brick in Madison, WI, one of the wackiest liberal locales in the US of A. The great Bishop of Madison, Most Rev. Robert Morlino, about whom I have written quite a few times (his tag), has made a … Read More
Diocese of Venice, Florida promotes Sacrament of Penance during Lent
WDTPRS kudos go out to His Excellency Most Rev. Frank Dewayne, Bishop of Venice in Florida for a diocese-wide effort, called “The Light Is On” campaign, to get people to go to confession during Lent. The diocese has bought time … Read More
Things Solar
There was a partial eclipse of the Sun today, Spaceweather reports, but you had to be in space to see it. More precisely, you had to be the Solar Dynamics Observatory in geosynchronous orbit 36,000 km above the surface of … Read More
3…2…1…
A glimpse at the pastoral style of His Hermeneuticalness. To find out what this is all about, click HERE. (Darn good idea, if you think about it.)
New Cardinals and their churches in Rome and cardinalatial trivia
You may have heard, but the Pope created a few more Cardinals today, 22 to be exact, though several are over 80 years of age and therefore cannot enter or vote in a conclave. Each cardinal is assigned a church … Read More
In for a penny
For your Just Too Cool file from the History Blog: A metal detector enthusiast has discovered a unique silver penny issued by William the Conqueror in a field north of Gloucester. Maureen Jones and two other women from the Taynton … Read More
Spirit spotted on Mars
The intreprid little Mars rover Spirit, which began its mission in 2004 died, mired in sand, in 2009. It couldn’t capture enough sunlight to power up. Spirit’s twin Opportunity is still going strong! The orbiting Phoenix, circling Mars since 2006, … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars, Mars Rover, Opportunity, Phoenix, Spirit
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