Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA

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Benedict XVI promulgates changes to the Church’s law

From VIS:  MOTU PROPRIO: VARIATIONS TO THE CODE OF CANON LAW VATICAN CITY, 15 DEC 2009 (VIS) – Made public today was Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio, "Omnium in mentem". The document is dated 26 October 2009 and contains two variations … Read More →

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Good reason #65648 for Pope Benedict’s Anglican Provisions

Not long after Anglican Archbishop Williams stood up in public and waved to the planet wearing funky colored gloves, in the wake of his comments that Benedict XVI’s provisions for traditional Anglicans could be seen as "theologically rather eccentric", I … Read More →

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Vancouver – Chinese Food

The weather cleared today just enough so that I could see that there might be mountains around Vancouver.   I did have a chance to view the city from the heights. In the evening I had the pleasure of going out … Read More →

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Geminid

Space Weather News for Dec. 12, 2009http://spaceweather.com GEMINID METEOR SHOWER: This weekend, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from extinct comet 3200 Phaethon, source of the annual Geminid meteor shower.  Forecasters expect more than 100 meteors per hour … Read More →

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Vancouver sights

They say there are mountains around Vancouver. I don’t believe it.  There is only a solid gray science fiction like void of clouds. I could be in Gary, Indiana, for all the mountains I see here. Anyway… without mountains, I … Read More →

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Nothing “eccentric” about this theology! Nosirrie!

Whose theology is "eccentric"? The Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury opined that for some (no doubt himself included) Benedict XVI’s provisions for Anglicans are "theologically rather eccentric". This from the fellow who recently got together with friends for an ecumenical conflab … Read More →

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More tests on Spirit: not encouraging

In case you missed this news about the intrepid little Mars Rover Spirit. Further Tests Designed for Rover’s Right-Rear Wheel December 07, 2009 A series of diagnostic tests on Spirit’s right-rear wheel on sols 2104 and 2105 (Dec. 3 and … Read More →

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Avery Card. Dulles – RIP – 1st anniversary

It is a long tradition to pray for the dead on the 3rd day after death, 30th day and 1st year. Say a prayer for the late Avery Card. Dulles, who died one year ago today. Good… now that you … Read More →

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Comment of Card. George on the Roman Missal

From the monthly newsletter, November 2009, of the USCCB’s Committee on Divine Worship: Catechetical Resources for the Roman Missal After the final votes were taken, Bishop Arthur Serratelli, Committee Chairman, addressed the plenary meeting and outlined the process of catechesis … Read More →

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Are we Catholics relevant in the world?

Italian vaticanista Paolo Rodari has a good piece (in Italian) on his site.  It had been published in Il Foglio. This is about comments of the retired but not retiring former Vicar of Rome, His Eminence Camillo Card. Ruini.   … Read More →

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