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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Card. Razafindratandra, RIP
Armand Gaétan Cardinal Razafindratandra, Archbishop Emeritus of Antananarivo, Madagascar, has died at 84. For some years I did the Christmas cards for my old boss H.E. Card. Mayer, now the oldest living cardinal. Every Cardinal in the College got a … Read More
FEEDBACK: “I am 59 years old and like the current liturgy.”
There is a Latin phrase: repetita iuvant…. repeated things help… or… repetition of things helps you you to remember them. In discussions about the older, traditional form of Mass or about the position of the altar in relation to the … Read More
RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST
Here are some links to some recent posts of interest just to make them a little easier to find. Don’t forget to help WDTPRS by using the Google Thingy on the side bar and voting in an award site. How … Read More
Card. Canizares interviewed
Those of you who read Italian must look at the interview by Paolo Rodari of Palazzo Apostolico with the Prefect of the CDWDS, Card. Canizares Llovera. I don’t have time to translate the long text, but it is here. To … Read More
“becoming children of God”
Something of what the Holy Father said, in Italian, during his Sunday Angelus address: Baptism suggests very well the global meaning of the Christmas season, in which the theme of "becoming children of God" thanks to the coming of the … Read More
Bill in House of Lords: would it make Catholic priesthood illegal?
Sure, there is little chance this will pass. But that is not the point. The point is what I call "creeping incrementalism". If this doesn’t have a chance of passing and becoming law now, it will have the effect of … Read More
Sistine Chapel Choir… how long?
It seems that on 4 Jan. His Holiness confirmed Msgr. Giuseppe Liberto in the post of director of the Sistine Chapel Choir donec aliter provideatur. Quousque tandem?
Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins
It doesn’t surprise me at all that the always interesting Camille Paglia thinks Richard Dawkins is a twit. … I was recently flicking my car radio dial and heard an affected British voice tinkling out on NPR. I assumed it … Read More
Emilio on Continue the Rome shot posts? I dunno.: “+Timothy Broglio has been seriously considered for Archbishop of Washington three times, and three times he has been passed over…”
