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Category Archives: Lighter fare
You can’t beat this quote!
Reason #957654 for Summorum Pontificum From a reader: I was traveling with my daughter last week and, walking out of a parish where we fulfilled our Sunday obligation, she looked at me and said “I’ve never hated the tambourine more … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Ordination Tambourine, tambourine
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34 Comments
When truth is stranger than fiction: a “reverse ordinariate”!
Quite a while ago I proposed that Anglican Archbp. Rowan Williams issue a document entitled Romanum coetibus with provisions for Catholics who think and behave like Anglicans. By means of Romanum coetibus, a safe haven in the very loose Anglican embrace … Read More
Posted in Dogs and Fleas, Lighter fare, Linking Back, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Anglicanorum coetibus, Peru, Romanum coetibus
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QUAERITUR: Priesthood and paintball
From a reader: If Father takes the altar servers out paintballing, [That’s a verb?] would it be sacrilege to shoot him during the contests? On the contrary! Shoot him as often as you can. Head shots are preferable.
Happy Feast of the Ass
No, I am not talking about whom you think I’m talking about. I picked this up from Southern Fried Catholicism, an amusing blog by Fr. Joe Tonos. I hope you will go spike his stats. Today on the medieval calendar, … Read More
Wheels coming off the wagon – update
Update, below. Originally posted 12 January. ____ There is a particularly annoying pattern in my life’s days. When it comes to my “tech stuff”, life goes along as smoothly as if it were zooming down a newly paved road. Then, … Read More
Tebowing
I picked this up from The Pulp.it:
A headline which invites speculation
Though I double-checked the Holy Father’s private audiences for more information, this curious headline about the General Audience from Vatican Information Service in the Bolletino stimulated in my mind one image after another: CUBAN CROCODILE AT THE HOLY FATHER’S GENERAL … Read More
Another Vatican Goat Rodeo
From Catholic World News: Another Vatican PR blunder: cardinals’ bios from Wikipedia In another embarrassing public-relations gaffe, when Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals, the Vatican released short biographies of the prelates that had been taken verbatim from Wikipedia … Read More
Posted in Goat Rodeos, Lighter fare, New Evangelization, Slubberdegullions
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The Extra Beatitude and the College of Cardinals
I have been contemplating the buzz about the Consistory, which will more than like be announced today (6 Jan, Epiphany). My admiration for Pope Benedict is pretty obvious, I should think. That said, when I think about composition of the … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare
Tagged beatitudes, Catholic, church, College of Cardinals, consistory, expectations, Italian
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13 Comments
Concerning a certain spoon
I recently had occasion to think again about the cuillère à sauce individuelle. I have written about this great tool several times, including here and here. I found a description of its origin! The French is pretty straight forward… Lancée … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z's Kitchen, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Linking Back
Tagged Art Déco, cooking, Cuiller à sauce individuelle, sauce, spoon, spoons
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