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- Rob83 on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As the demographic collapse accelerates, priests may find it prudent to live together in a central location with their deanery.…”
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- on WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral: “Fr Z — this is an excellent piece. Great teaching. Thanks for this.”
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Can you spell CYLON? NASA wakes up Robonaut 2!
For your Just TOO Cool! file, comes thos from CBC and NASA. Robot astronaut wakes up in space NASA’s humanoid robot has finally awoken in space. Ground controllers turned Robonaut 2 on Monday for the first time since it was … Read More
REQUEST TO READERS TO PRAY FOR A PRIEST
I have asked in the past to pray for some personal intentions I have and which weigh on me right now. I still need the help of your prayers. Also, I ask you in an urgent way, right now, to … Read More
How about your good news?
Do you have good news for the readers? Feel free to share some interesting and edifying point from a Sunday sermon you heard. For my part, I have had guests over the weekend. Also, someone I know is recovering, slowing … Read More
Benedict XVI to seminarians
The Holy Father’s sermon at Mass with seminarians. Note especially this: Approach the priesthood only if you are firmly convinced that God is calling you to be his ministers, and if you are completely determined to exercise it in obedience … Read More
Prayers for a personal and a larger, ecclesial intention
I have in the past asked you for the support of prayers for personal intentions. I still have a couple very heavy intentions for which I would still ask your prayers. However, I also suggest that you spend some time … Read More
St. Pope Sixtus III: fascinating correspondence with Augustine
It is nice to make connections which show us how the Church was always alive throughout the centuries before our own time. Today is the feast of St. Pope Sixtus III, whom you will remember as having been involved with … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged ep. 191, ep. 194, Liberian Basilica, preface, Roman Martyrology, Semi-Pelagian, Sixtus III, St. Augustine, St. Mary Major
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Priests/confessors at WYD given authority to lift excommunication for abortion
Via Catholic World News: Priests hearing confessions at World Youth Day have been given the authority to lift the excommunication of penitents who have been involved in abortions. Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Madrid granted that authority to all … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged abortion, excommunication, WYD
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RECENT POSTS and thanks to readers!
NOTA BENE: In the near future I may be doing a maintenance update which could interrupt the blog for a short period. I’ll try to let you know ahead of time, but if we don’t pop up right away, don’t … Read More
Bad or heterodox theologians, a “curse and affliction upon the church”
The ultra-liberal NCFishwrap‘s solitary boast, my friend the nearly-ubiquitous, fair-minded John L. Allen, Jr., has an interesting piece today about a theologian working for the US Bishops, recently in the news because of the USCCB doctrine committees remarks on Sr. … Read More
Rob83 on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “As the demographic collapse accelerates, priests may find it prudent to live together in a central location with their deanery.…”
