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Category Archives: Lighter fare
“years of concerts being interrupted by the Mass”
From the fun Eye of the Tiber: Yonkers, NY––Blake Jennings, lead guitarist at St. Therese Parish in Yonkers, New York is outraged over what he calls “years of concerts being interrupted by the Mass.” The 56-year-old accountant and father of … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged liturgical abuse, liturgical music
46 Comments
46 Comments
BIRRA NURSIA!
Here’s one for the Just Too Cool file. The Benedictines in Norcia (ancient Nursia), whom I mention with some frequency here (they post their chanted monastic hours online), have inaugurated their new beer. A friend who is involved with … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged beer, Benedictines, Norcia
9 Comments
9 Comments
Forget Big Bird! Now it’s Horses and Bayonets!
Here’s a fun image that just seems to… fit.
More about liturgical abuses
A friend sent this, probably as a gift for this great feast of Sts. Nunilo and Alodia.
Posted in Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged liturgical abuse, Say The Black - Do The Red
4 Comments
4 Comments
Of Cassius, Caesar, and the Al Smith Dinner
If you watch the video of Card. Dolan’s final words and blessing at the end of the Al Smith Dinner (HERE), you will hear him quip in a self-deprecating way that he had hoped that Gov. Christie of New Jersey … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare
Tagged Al Smith Dinner, Card. Dolan, Gov. Romney, Julius Caesar, November 2012, Pres. Obama, Shakespeare
3 Comments
3 Comments
POLL: Obama and Romney at Tanagra… er um… Al Smith Dinner
Gov. Romney’s speech at the Al Smith Dinner: [wp_youtube]R4Cw-UdQNtw[/wp_youtube] POLLS! [wp_youtube]-Gy3a50vVSk[/wp_youtube] UPDATE: And for the sake of being complete: [wp_youtube]NvuWVPSMf6g[/wp_youtube]
Posted in Lighter fare, POLLS
Tagged Al Smith Dinner, Mitt Romney, November 2012, Pres. Obama
62 Comments
62 Comments
Wherein Fr. Z gives Sr. Simone Campbell a pass on something really important
If communities of women religious have habits, then the women ought to wear them. Keep in mind that the habits of some groups were/are rooted in the era of their founding. Keep in mind that some communities don’t have habits … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Lighter fare, Women Religious
Tagged habits, Sr. Simone Campbell, women religious
33 Comments
33 Comments
American Woman(priest)
For your consideration: This was sent to me with reference to an oldie tune: [wp_youtube]gkqfpkTTy2w[/wp_youtube]
Posted in Liberals, Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns, Women Religious
Tagged women's ordination, wymyn
84 Comments
84 Comments
Fishwrap’s nutty over the Holy See’s ending of “tropes” during the Agnus Dei
I am sure you have heard this at one point or another… perhaps even too often. Hitherto in many places, during the last stage of preparation before the distribution of Holy Communion, if the work at the altar was going … Read More
A rock band’s Latin Credo
I picked this up from Vatican Insider: Ooberfuse have just released a new single. “We explore old truths related to faith using contemporary language” GIORGIO BERNARDELLI MILAN “Credo in unum Deum, patrem, creatorem coeli et terrae, visibilium et invisibilium.” The … Read More
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