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- Maura on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “And their language…The Vatican will BAR…nice strong language which shows how they truly feel. It’s a different level of opposition…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “I used to get outraged when I’d see stories like this. Now I just laugh. This is what they take…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Ubi caritas…. So much mercy since 2013.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Maybe the organizers can offer to bring their boyfriends.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Boy, certain folks REALLY hate Pope Benedict XVI… They must try to erase anything to do with Summorum Pontificum.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “They really do hate us. Where is our Holy Father in this? Is he knowingly allowing this cruelty? I can’t…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Another case for SSPX necessity. They all add up.”
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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Anglican bishop lays miter, crozier at Our Lady’s feet and goes to Rome
Anglicans who come over to Rome often make dramatic, painful sacrifices. They risk losing ties with family and friends, incomes, social standing, and particularly access to sound worship, though under Anglicanorum coetibus that risk is now greatly reduced. They Anglican … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Pope of Christian Unity
Tagged Andrew Burnham, Anglicanorum coetibus
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15 Comments
Sunday Supper and a glimpse at a deer camp
No, I am not revving up for cooking a Sunday Supper. I have a Monday Supper to ready, however. I will be making Buccatini all’Amatriciana and Saltimbocca alla Romana for seven, to be ingested after an afternoon of reading Yeats … Read More
Card. Burke’s first big sermon as Cardinal S.R.E.
From a sermon of now Cardinal Burke for the feast of St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr. This was at the North American College as Mass of Thanksgiving for having been made cardinal. Note the attention given not just to St. … Read More
Lost Roman Chinese Legion
This is for your Just Too Cool file. From the Daily Telegraph with my emphases: Chinese villagers ‘descended from Roman soldiers’ By Nick Squires Genetic testing of villagers in a remote part of China has shown that nearly two thirds … Read More
England: number of seminarians rises
Here is some good news. The number of seminarians in England is on the rise. From CNA: England sees highest number of new seminarians in over a decade London, England, Nov 23, 2010 / 03:11 am (CNA).- Seminaries in England … Read More
Silver Trumpets in St. Peter’s
I was on an airplane for most of this… but I understand that the silver trumpets, retired from use by Paul VI, were used in the Vatican Basilica for the consistory. Any news on that?
Cardinalatial eye-candy
NLM has posted some screen captures of the ceremony of the creation of the new cardinals S.R.E. (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae). Here two that will be favorites for a long time: How nice not to have to say “soon-to-be” Cardinal Burke. … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Renaissance Siena edition
I was at the V and A today. The Sienese painter Bernardino Fungai (+c.1516) and his Virgin and Child with Two Saints gives us a nice Christological Goldfinch. I think this is a Renaissance variation of “I am as happy … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, On the road, The Feeder Feed
Tagged goldfinch, Victoria and Albert
11 Comments
11 Comments
Maura on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “And their language…The Vatican will BAR…nice strong language which shows how they truly feel. It’s a different level of opposition…”
