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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
Seton Hall chapel renovation
It is possible to renovate churches and avoid wreckovation. It is possible to renew a compromised worship space and bring it into tasteful continuity with our Catholic tradition and faith. The chapel at Seton Hall University has recently received some … Read More
Bp. Trautman is fighting the “ineffable” fight
Bp. Trautman is still on his pogrom against the word "ineffable". The Committee on Divine Worship is recommending that they keep "ineffable" because it is an accurate translation. Trautman wants "ineffable" replaced with "divine". This is crazy stuff. At least … Read More
Fr. Neuhaus on “Obama and the Bishops”
Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus of First Things has a very good piece online today. My emphases and comments. Obama and the Bishops By Richard John NeuhausFriday, November 7, 2008, 8:16 AM In a few days, the American bishops of the … Read More
USCCB
EWTN has coverage of the USCCB meeting. They are practicing voting. Have you spotted the bishops from Florida? Have you spotted you own bishop? I suspect they will not let us watch the really interesting debates, for example, about what … Read More
Going Gothic
From the Shriners… what every Catholic blogger really needs:
A different sense of “translation”
WDTPRS was born from an interest in liturgical translation. Here is a very different sense of "liturgical translation". The indefatigable liturgical eye-candy specialists over at NLM have posted some great screen captures of the translation of the relics of Ven. … Read More
Martinmass
From the Laudator who gets a biretta tip. "Martinmass" is the Feast of St. Martin of Tours. John Clare (written Nov. 11, 1841): ‘Tis Martinmass from rig to rig Ploughed fields and meadow lands are blea In hedge and … Read More
Thanks for books received
Thanks go out to CP of VA who, via the wish list, sent The Rhetoric of St. Augustine of Hippo: De Doctrina Christiana & the Search for Distinctly Christian Rhetoric by Richard Leo Enos & Roger Thompson, et al. Also, … Read More
QUAERITUR: hand missal for TLM
From a reader: I am a new reader of your blog, and I want to let you know how much I enjoy it. My wife and I have recently started attending the Latin Mass in our area. Now we want … Read More
Denver: TLM wrapup
From a reader: Dear Father Zuhlsdorf, I thought you might be interested in pictures from the Solemn High Pontifical Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, in Denver Colorado. 500 people were in attendance. Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, … Read More
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