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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
Mere coincidence?
My friend, the amazing Fr. George Welzbacher, of St. Paul, observed over lunch that Eugenio Pacelli was on this day in 1917 consecrated bishop. Also on this day Our Lady of Fatima appeared for the first time. 92 years ago … Read More
Anxious NCR editorial – They KNOW they are losing and they are terrified!
The ultra-left-wing National Catholic Reporter has an editorial in which they reveal their darkest fear: …the goalposts have shifted in the U.S. episcopacy in the past decade – and they have swerved in a decidedly rightward tilt on both the … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, The future and our choices
Tagged abortion, dissent, NCR, Notre Dame, Pres. Obama
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Ad multos annos Fr. Ray Blake!
Our friend Fr. Ray Blake, parish priest of St. Mary Magdalene in Brighton and author of the homonymous blog has celebrated a milestone. 25 years of priesthood. There was a solemn Mass for the jubilee. His Hermeneuticalness was subdeacon! Would … Read More
CNA: National Review writer interviews Archbp. Burke on airplane
From CNA comes this: Archbishop Burke: Catholics could not have voted for Obama with ‘clear conscience’ President Barack Obama / Archbishop Raymond Burke Washington D.C., May 13, 2009 / 06:03 am (CNA).- Returning to Rome after addressing the National Catholic … Read More
Readers in or near Cleveland, Philadelphia, Atlanta
Last night I attended a fine event in Minneapolis. Talk radio hosts Bill Bennett, Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager are holding "townhall" meetings in several cities around the USA. They take questions from a moderator and from the audience and … Read More
Papal spokesman’s statement about the Holy Father’s past
Just when you thought the Vatican Press Office was getting it together comes this from Reuters. The problem here stems from a distinction. Many youth were automatically enrolled or pretty much forced to be enrolled in the Hilter Youth. Not … Read More
Indulgence for the Year for Priests – Latin text
From the Apostolic Penitentiary: URBIS ET ORBIS D E C R E T U M Dono Sacrarum Indulgentiarum ditantur peculiaria spiritalia incepta per Sacerdotalem Annum, in honorem Sancti Ioannis Mariae Vianney indictum, peragenda. Instat dies qua centum et quinquaginta anni … Read More
Solace for the heart
Something relevant to birds from the always interesting Laudator Temporis Acti: E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, chapter 8: "Do you know what the name of that green bird up above us is?" she asked, putting her shoulder rather nearer … Read More
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