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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Thanks to readers
Some thanks are do to readers.First, JP of CA sent a USB hub which has allowed me more easily to connect several webcams for the sake of the Z-Cam. This hub actually works. With the other hub, for one reason … Read More
Ugly as sin
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", it is said. Rubbish. Beauty beauty cannot be separated from truth. Some things are simply ugly, both by design and by intention. They are ugly because they are deeply false. Some "artists" … Read More
Pres. Obama chooses Vatican Ambassador
After Ambassador Glendon comes … this AP story from a Minneapolis TV channel: My emphases and comments. Hispanic theologian from MN college chosen for Vatican ambassador A Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian who was an adviser to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign … Read More
Oath of The Supremes
The Constitution does not give any details about the Oath of Office to be taken by Justices of the Supreme Court. Article 6 covers oath: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and … Read More
Kmiec: Sotomayor’s experience trumps all
If you think that Judge Sotomayor’s nomination wasn’t planned to be another wedge between Catholics with a clear identity and those who are rather on the Catholic Lite side, here is Doug Kmiec’s take in the, where else, National Catholic … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Kmiec, SCOTUS, Sotomayor
24 Comments
24 Comments
My emphases and comments
I see more and more people are using the [Z-Method] in fisking texts! My emphases and comments, of course.
Michael Novak rightly vents about L’Osservatore Romano
In National Review Online Michael Novak vents about the recent "Westpolitik" blunderings of L’Osservatore Romano. My emphases and comments. May 26, 2009, 4:00 a.m. All the Confusion Fit to PrintThe paper disappoints. By Michael Novak For several weeks now, L’Osservatore … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged abortion, L'Osservatore Romano, Michael Novak, Pres. Obama
48 Comments
48 Comments
Request of prayers for a new bishop: Most Rev. Lee Piché
In your charity, will you please pray for a friend of mine? Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Most Reverend Lee Piché as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Do Catholics need a dispensation to marry “non-Catholic” SSPXers?
Interesting. This is from a reader: Some French Bishops, according to this, are considering marriages between a SSPX faithful and another Catholic as a mixed marriage. Les mariages se multipliant en ces temps de printemps, il est désormais possible de … Read More
Wedges
It seems suddenly okay that a nominee to the Supreme Court be … *GASP* …. Catholic! On the website of The Boston Globe comes this on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to SCOTUS. My emphases and comments. Sotomayor would … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged Cathy Lynn Grossman, City of God, liturgy, Pres. Obama, SCOTUS, Sotomayor
52 Comments
52 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…”
