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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
South Africa: confusion and kerfuffle over new translation
From CNS with my emphases and comments. Southern African bishops seek Vatican OK to keep new Mass translations By Bronwen DachsCatholic News Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) — The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference said it made a mistake … Read More
SSPX USA District March newsletter
The SSPX in the USA has a monthly newsletter. This month the US District Superior comments on the lifting of the excommunications on the SSPX bishops. Let’s have a look with me emphases and comments. District Superior’sLetter to Friends & … Read More
Boyish bigotry in the newspaper of Ole Miss
The University of Mississippi on its website bills itself as "A Great Public University". I don’t know if they receive public funds or not. The administration seems to tolerate anti-Catholic bigotry in a paper associated with the University. The Daily … Read More
Brick by brick in Cornwall
Several readers sent me the following, from [Taken from "Mass of Ages" February 2009, The Latin Mass Society’s quarterly magazine]. My emphases and comments. A Second Western Rising This article has been written on behalf of the Sisters by … Read More
WDTPRS PSA: Raising Awareness!
I am feeling the need for some social activism. Last night I saw part of a fantastical pre-historic movie in which primitives, oddly more enlightened than we moderns in their pristine innocence, were being chased by and eaten by pre-historic … Read More
WDTPRS: Wednesday 1st Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Wednesday – 1st Week of Lent This prayer was in the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae on the anniversary of a bishop’s consecration. It is in various manuscripts, such … Read More
Fmr. Speaker Gingrich to become Catholic
I caught this in the very long profile piece the NYT did on Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich… to my mind one of the most interesting men working in politics and political commentary today. At a moment when … Read More
A Pope who is a “soloist”
Italian journalist Luigi Accattoli has an an interesting piece, "La solitudine di Ratzinger" in Liberal (3 March). The great Fabrizio has done a translation, which I touched here and there. Pope Ratzinger’s solitude Dear editor-in-chief, this is the right week … Read More
3/3/09
Happy Square Root Day! Celebrate it now! The next Square Root Day is 4/4/16 How will you observe this momentous occasion? I may make a square pan of some sort of root vegetable concoction for supper.
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