Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity

Brick by Brick: Altar boy scores WDTPRS kudos

For your “Brick by Brick” file, from a reader: I thought you might be interested to know about something that one of the altar boys did after Mass today – I know I was impressed! We had a visiting priest … Read More

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WDTPRS POLL: The Advent Wreath and You

Do you have an Advent Wreath? How about sharing a photo? The combox is open.

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Benedict XVI to US bishops (Region I-II-III) during their ad limina visit

The Holy Father delivered the following address to the bishops of the USA (regions I-II-III) during their ad limina visit. Let’s have a glance with my emphases and comments. Dear Brother Bishops, I greet you all with affection in the … Read More

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Card. Ouellet on Bishops

From CNA: Every bishop must defend the faith, Vatican official says Vatican City, Nov 24, 2011 / 03:20 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect for the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, said that every bishop is required to proclaim the Church’s … Read More

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“if you want peace, …”

The nearly ubiquitous John Allen, the solitary boast of the NCR, has a lengthy wrap-up of the Holy Father’s trip to Africa. A reader pointed out to me that Mr Allen wrote about Pope Benedict’s exhortation to be and remain … Read More

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CNN’s bumbling attack on a priest who has opted for male-only altar servers

I have noted an interesting trend.  When a parish priest opts for male only service at the altar (i.e., no altar girls) he is attacked in the press.  I don’t mean the local shopper insert, either.  The priest is now … Read More

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REVIEW: The Father’s Tale by Michael D. O’Brien

A rapid book recommendation. I am reading the new novel by Michael O’Brien, author the Father Elijah (which if you haven’t read, get it and read it and then read his trilogy which connects back into it) and many others.  … Read More

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New architecture and music “team” at the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship?

From the intrepid Andrea Tornielli of Vatican Insider. Not my translation, but my emphases and comments: New Vatican commission cracks down on church architecture The new commission will be established shortly, as part of the Congregation for Divine Worship. It … Read More

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CH: “You cannot be an Anglican and use the Roman Missal.”

On the site of the best Catholic weekly in the UK, The Catholic Herald, there is an interesting piece about Catholic and Anglican and Anglo-Catholic and Anglicanorum coetibus Catholic identity. The Bishop of London is right about Anglicans using the … Read More

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Benedict XVI to children: “When I receive Communion, …”

I have not been paying the greatest attention to Pope Benedict’s trip to Africa, though I have been scanning the reports and the new Post-Synodal Exhortation.  Yesterday, however, His Holiness spoke to children at a parish in Cotonou in Benin.  … Read More

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