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- 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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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
An appointment with appointments
This is the traditional season in Rome for speculation about retirements and appoints to curial offices. So this comes from Vatican Radio: (28 Jun 10 – RV) Pope Benedict announced the creation of a New Pontifical Council dedicated to the … Read More
Play Station or Playing Field?
When the Italian team returned to Italy from S. Africa, they were all dressed in black. Via The Catholic Spirit and Catholic News Service this about the increasingly strange L”Osservatore Romano on Italy’s World Cup disaster. Vatican newspaper weighs in … Read More
Papal con-fab with Cards. Sodano and Schoenborn
Did you see this communique from the Holy See Press Office about the meeting of Benedict XVI with Card. Sodano and Card. Schoenborn? I was about to work up a translation and then I found a note from a reader … Read More
Vesuvius A.D. 79: How the people in Pompeii died.
Biretta tip to rogueclassicism, which directed me to an article about how the people in Pompeii died during the famous eruption of Vesuvius. There is a scholarly article called "Lethal Thermal Impact at Periphery of Pyroclastic Surges: Evidences at Pompeii" … Read More
Posted in Global Killer Asteroid Questions, Just Too Cool, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Pompeii, Vesuvius, volcano
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13 Comments
Wow… just… wow…. That’s ugly.
At the Italian site Fides et Forma, Francesco Collafemina has posted photos of supremely ugly churches. I mean… reeeeealllly ugly. This church is called Santa Monica. I don’t think St. Monica or her son would be amused. And another view…. … Read More
Rabbi’s reaction to SCOTUS nominee Kagan
From CNA about POTUS’s SCOTUS’s nominee: Rabbis say Kagan not a ‘kosher’ Supreme Court nominee Alexandria, Va., Jun 27, 2010 / 06:13 pm (CNA).- According to the National Rabbinical Alliance and its more than 850 Orthodox Jewish members, Supreme Court … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Elena Kagan, POTUS, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, SCOTUS
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14 Comments
The dark of the moon
Did you see the Partial Lunar Eclipse? I saw on Spaceweather that a photographer in Australia, Geoff Sims, did, and shot some photos. He put them together to show the outline of Earth’s shadow!
Theologian says Jesus may not have died nailed to the Cross
From the Daily Telegraph comes this strange story Jesus did not die on cross, says scholar Jesus may not have died nailed to the cross because there is no evidence that the Romans crucified prisoners two thousand years ago, a … Read More
APX on 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Many priests live alone, with no one to notice if they fail to rise, suffer a fall, or become suddenly…”
