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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Bp. Egan’s first address as the new Bishop of Portsmouth
The other day I watched the live stream of the consecration of the new Bishop of Portsmouth, England, Most Rev. Philip Egan, who was a collaborator with the outstanding Bishop of Shrewsbury, Mark Davies. At the end of the Mass … Read More
An American Bishop on the Democrat Convention, intrinsic evil, and voting wisely as a Catholic
In The Catholic Times, the newspaper of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois with my emphases and comments: Think and pray about your vote in upcoming election by Bishop Thomas John Paprocki My dear brothers and sisters in Christ: Much … Read More
Sloppy reporting about new “church tax” decision by bishops
I haven’t been following this interesting story, but I noted some of the use of language in reporting about the German bishops and the “church tax”. I will ramble a bit and my emphases. From The Beeb: German Catholics lose … Read More
Portsmouth, England has a new bishop
Today I watched the live stream of the consecration of the new Bishop of Portsmouth, Most. Rev. Philip Egan. At the end of the Mass, Bishop Egan gave a brief address which, to my hearing, sounded like a program for … Read More
Whither Latin?
From CNS about Latin: [wp_youtube]-1hP_ps6JiE[/wp_youtube]
Some reflections on a life changing book
Today is Bilbo Baggins’s Birthday and yesterday was the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. I found an image of the edition that I first read. I first read The Hobbit when I was in 7th grade. I … Read More
Creepy Obama Flag
Have you seen the latest swag being offered by the Obama campaign? For a contribution, you can have one of these! This guy isn’t full of himself, is he. Perhaps he should have made the stripes into the colors of … Read More
Posted in Liberals, The future and our choices
Tagged flag, November 2012, Pres. Obama, The First Gay President
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SSPX Fr. Schmidberger interviewed
Over at Rorate our friends have posted the summary of an interview with SSPX German District Superior Fr. Schmidberger on the status quaestionis of their relations with Rome. Here are two salient bits: These additional requirements consist, according to Father, of … Read More
A superb essay on Sacred Music
Stop what you are doing and either bookmark this or go to read this essay right now. HERE Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J., knocks it outta da park on Sacred Music. Here’s a taste, which you can enjoy while sipping … Read More
“And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads.”
Under the entry about our obligation to attend Holy Mass, someone posted this comment (I removed it to here): I’ve always had a fantasy where I make wallet sized Catholic obligation cards. These would have check boxes or punch boxes … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith
Tagged abstinence, fasting, Four Last Things, Holy Days of Obligation, mortification, Paul VI, penance, QR
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WVC on Daily Rome Shot 1681 – cartoons old and less old: “Something that bothers me about statements being made about those “against” Traditionis Custodes is the consistent idea that “we now…”
