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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
“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
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
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
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Andrea Tornielli, architecture., ars celebrandi, Card. Cañizares Llovera, CDW, Say The Black - Do The Red
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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
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
Benedict XVI on Bishops
As I write, Pope Benedict XVI is in Africa. For this trip his Post-Synodal Exhortation (following the Synod on Africa) has been released with the title Africae munus. It is a long, “omnibus” document. We can look at a few … Read More
QUAERITUR: When during Mass should people strike their breasts?
From a reader: For those of us who attend the Tridintine form of the Holy Mass, we see the servers striking their breasts at several points in the liturgy. In the Novus Ordo, where are appropriate points for the servers … Read More
Blessed Waters and You.
In another entry I answered a question about water suitable for valid baptism. Someone asked about Holy Water. Here are a few notes about different blessed waters we Catholics use and enjoy. This is not meant to be exhaustive, of … Read More
EAW on ROME 26/10-11 – Day 35: Penultimate: “Safe travels home, Father!”
