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- JonPatrick on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I’ll bet that 1% of sisters under the age of 40 are predominantly those in traditional orders.”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I wonder if the gentle prelate of Knoxville will try to stop people from seeing Ghost Soldier. It’s got that,…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Published on Aleteia :: 01/30/17 In his Regina Caeli message of Sunday, April 24, 1994, St. John Paul spoke of…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “The next page is Bedyngham’s “O rosa bella”, with a more dragonish pink-masked beast in several colors. Shrug. Anyway, the…”
- on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “That is from a heart-shaped (“cordiforme”) music book (“chansonnier”) of secular love songs, laid out for three or four male…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I have noticed this new strategy, of prelates asking for the NO to be celebrated reverently and according to the…”
- on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “I wonder how the majority of priests, deacons, and bishops feel about several Catholics leaving Mass immediately after communion. No,…”
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Category Archives: The Drill
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
Weigel on L’Osservatore Romano’s “fideist credulity”
My friends – smart people – are angrily scratching their heads over the latest squishy musings in L’Osservatore Romano. I have posted about this here and here. In the second case, the editor, who is a fine fellow and doing … Read More
BOOK REVIEW: Reprint of travel size 1962 Missale Romanum
UPDATE (4 Sept): Be sure to look at “brendan”‘s comment below. He checked on the availability of this Missale. A while back I wrote that if you were looking for a perfect gift for a traditionally minded priest you might … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, REVIEWS, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill
Tagged Missale Romanum, St. John Cantius, travel
14 Comments
14 Comments
JonPatrick on ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad: “I’ll bet that 1% of sisters under the age of 40 are predominantly those in traditional orders.”
