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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Gifts and symbolism
Fr. Blake, the PP of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, says: In a previous age the idea of an Emperor investing a Pope with the sign of priestly authority would be taken as definite sign of the subjection of the … Read More
Meanwhile… of greater importance…
More interesting and more important than the Pope’s reception of Pres. Obama may be Italy’s moves to return to the use of nuclear power.
WSJ: notes from Fr. Sirico on “Caritas in veritate”
In today’s Wall Street Journal Fr. Robert Sirico of Acton Institute has a comment on the Pope’s new "social" encyclical Caritas in veritate. My emphases and comments. The Pope on ‘Love in Truth’Anyone seeking a repudiation of the market economy … Read More
From the Martyrologium Romanum
From the Martyrologium Romanum: 1. Romae, sanctorum martyrum Felicis et Philippi in coemeterio Priscillae, Vitalis, Martialis et Alexandri in Iordanorum, Silani in Maximi, et Ianuarii in Praetextati; quorum coniuncta memoria gaudet Ecclesia Romana, quae una die tot glorificatur triumphis, quia … Read More
The Tablet gets something right on Ecclesia Dei
It is not often that you have seen me write something like this, but in the new number of The Tablet, Robert Mickens has written a pretty fair blurb about the restructuring of the Pont. Comm. Ecclesia Dei. Here is … Read More
Posted in Ecclesiae unitatem, SESSIUNCULA, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Ecclesiae unitatem, PCED, Robert Mickens, The Tablet
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12 Comments
What will Pres. Obama give the Pope when he is admitted to His Holiness’s presence?
When heads of state come to visit other heads of state, they bring gifts. What will Pres. Obama bring when the Pope admits him into the papal presence? My emphases and comments in this CNA story. The stole of St. … Read More
Liberal gushing over the upcoming meeting of Pope and President
Some liberal gushing over the upcoming meeting of the President and the Pope. Obama-Benedict meeting ‘no mere photo-op‘By Dennis CodayCreated Jul 09, 2009 Just off the phone with a teleconference called by the [squishy Kmiec] Catholic Democrats. They had [Catholic … Read More
Linz excom hijinz… er… comjinx … er… hijinx
Interesting things continue in Austria. From Catholic Church Conservatism: Excommunicated Female "Bishop" seizes Communion In haste, late at night from the Upper Austrian News. The Sunday worship celebration in the Parish of St. Peter in Linz did not make the … Read More
Abortion clinic taunts Catholic demonstrators
Soooo…. Now what do you think about my post The Problem With Toning Down the Rhetoric – And Why We Probably Won’t Do It ? A biretta tip o{]:¬/ to the young papist…. who got something from Lifesite. My … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, Lifesite, Rockford
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28 Comments
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…”
