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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Good new from Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
Here is a good item which arrived via e-mail: This has seemed one of the less TLM-friendly dioceses. Initial celebration in Springfield will begin on a monthly basis, starting February 10th at Holy Trinity Church (website, directions). The exact time … Read More
Preparation for Lenten Preparation
In the older, traditional Roman calendar, we have pre-Lenten Sundays: Septuagesima Sunday, etc. These Sundays help us get ou minds around the fact that Lent, which was once a much deeper time of discipline in the universal Church, we around … Read More
Marini video
With a tip of the biretta and my compliments o{]:¬) to the master of the Hermeneutic of Continuity, the great Fr. Finigan (whom I hope to see in February!): The Battle of the Marini
John Allen’s on the older Good Friday prayers and the Pope’s USA trip
The indefatigible fair-minded and nearly ubiquitous former Rome correspondent of the über-liberal National Catholic Reporter, Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., has a piece on the site of the NCR about the Good Friday Prayer for the Jews in the 1962 … Read More
Update on the preparation of the new translation of the Roman Missal
This is in from Vatican Radio: (10 Jan 07 – RV) A statement released today by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments says that the completion of the English-language edition of the Roman Missal is … Read More
Benedict XVI on St. Augustine for Wednesday Audience
Since I am on the road, I will just state that the Holy Father spoke about St. Augustine during his audience. Here is the English precis: Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our weekly catechesis, we now turn to the towering … Read More
L’OssRom: Bishop says Catholics should kneel, receive communion on tongue
I remember during the Synod on the Eucharist (that eventually brought Pope Benedict to pen Sacramentum caritatis) it was the bishops of regions that were formerly behind the Iron Curtain who had the strongest and most traditional things to say. … Read More
Beatification of Ve. John Henry Newman is “imminent”; toughening the process
Here is a piece in a CNA story about the "imminent" beatification of John Henry Newman Vatican City, Jan 8, 2008 / 05:16 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Cause of the Saints, … Read More
John Allen on Benedict XVI and ‘Affirmative Orthodoxy’
You really must check out the insightful piece by John L. Allen Jr., the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded former Rome correspondent for the über-liberal NCR. Here is the piece, with my emphases and comments but you should go over the site … Read More
New Papal Encyclical: maybe 19 March?
This comes from the Italian daily Il Messaggero. Some are saying that Pope Benedict might release his third encyclical on 19 March, the feast of St. Joseph. It is rumored to be an encyclical on social doctrine and it may … Read More
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