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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Some notes about Vatican Radio
I have been surfing around on the site of Radio Vaticana… Vatican Radio. There have been some attempts to integrate the CTV (Centro Televisivo Vaticano … Vatican TV) together with the Radio, through a good and useful pop-up player, but … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Centro Televisivo Vaticano, CTV, podcast, Radio Vaticana, Vatican Radio
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“Some more, some more Summorum Pontificum!”
My friend Fr. Blake in Brighton reported on this before. Here is the report from His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Finigan: Online busking trad blogger and friend of the homeless in Brighton, Laurence England of That The Bones You Have Crushed May … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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Blog was down for a while
The blog was down for a while today due, as I am able to figure out, to a massive outage at a key internet provider. There was some kind of core network failure. In any event, the fact that I … Read More
Reflections on the closing of the Irish Embassy to the Holy See
I’ve been thinking about the decision to close the Irish Embassy to the Holy See. If I were the Vatican’s Secretary of State, I would close the Holy See’s Embassy in Ireland because of budgetary constraints, and inform them that … Read More
RECENT COMMENTS
Here are links to recent posts, which are scrolling along. Bl. Carl Lampert: ” ‘I love my Church. I remain faithful to my Church and to the priesthood. I am on Christ’s side and I love His Church.” QUAERITUR: When … Read More
CNA: Prosecutor cuts deal with Bp. Finn, diocese because the case is weak?
You read, for sure, about the deal struck between Bp. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and the county where Kansas City, MO is located. From CNA comes this. Bishop Finn agreement seems to indicate prosecution’s weak case … Read More
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Tagged Bp. Finn, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph
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Bp. Finn (D. KC – StJ) to work with prosecutor on oversight agreement
Some fact checking might be in order, given the source, but from the not-very-objective KC Star comes this: Bishop Finn avoids indictment by entering diversion program By GLENN E. RICE, JUDY L. THOMAS and MARK MORRIS The Kansas City Star … Read More
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US Anglican Ordinariate approved for 1 Jan
At the USCCB meeting, Card. Wuerl announced that on 1 January the Ordinariate for Anglicans will begin. The bishops asked many questions about this Ordinariate. One of the questions/issues raised concerned the “availability” of former Anglicans ordained as Catholic priests. … Read More
Watching USCCB meeting (even on your iPhone!) – general discussion
I have been watching the USCCB meeting on my desktop via the USCCB site. USCCB didn’t provide a stream for iPhone. But EWTN does! Here. (There are other options there as well.) It is nice to see that the bishops … Read More
Order, preference, authority heirarchy of documents in liturgical matters
There is a very good post by Fr. Christopher Smith at The Chant Café raised by, but not limited to, the norms issued by the Diocese of Phoenix for Communion under both kinds. Some excerpts: […] People all over the … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: “moon1234: We have to understand something about the Lord’s parables. The parable, or Hebrew mashal is an allegorical lesson of…”
