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Category Archives: The future and our choices
Memento mori.
Via the Laudator: Epictetus, Discourses 3.5.5-6 (tr. W.A. Oldfather): Do you not know that disease and death needs must overtake us, no matter what we are doing? They overtake the farmer at his work in the fields, the sailor on … Read More
Egyptian policeman shoots Christian girls
From Catholic Culture: Policeman shoots 4 Christians in Egypt Less than two weeks after a church bombing in Alexandria left 21 Coptic Christians dead, an off-duty policeman shot four Christians on a train, killing a 71-year-old man. A fifth person … Read More
Posted in The future and our choices
Tagged Coptic, Egypt, Religion of Peace, Sts. Nunilo and Alodia
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21 Comments
Bad news for small-c catholic schools
Could this be the end of small-c catholic institutions? I found this at The Motley Monk. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) told Manhattan College that they are not really a religious institution and therefore they can’t use a religious … Read More
More social engineering: passport applications
Via Fox News: ‘Mother,’ ‘Father’ Changing to ‘Parent One,’ ‘Parent Two’ on Passport Applications By Todd Starnes Published January 07, 2011 The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the … Read More
Benedict XVI’s “state of the world” speech
When I look at issues having to do with the Church, especially how the Church interacts with (or resists) the “modern world”, I will usually try to see the issue from two perspectives: ad intra (from within the Church herself) … Read More
1 Peter 3:15
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Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Yesterday at Holy Innocents Church in Manhattan, in the afternoon, people gathered again for Vespers, sung in Gregorian chant. Then there was Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Litany of the Most Holy Name (for the Feast, of course) and Benediction. … Read More
“Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” and the CDF
I believe you all know that recently the “Don’t Ask – Don’t Tell” policy (DADT) for the US Military was overturned. Also, last Sunday His Eminence Donald Card. Wuerl was interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday and was … Read More
Posted in The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Card. Wuerl, Chris Wallace, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Fox News Sunday, homosexuals, military
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16 Comments
Interview with Jeffrey Tucker about liturgical music
The Church’s sacred music played an important role in my conversion, when I was a young man. There is a great deal of work to do. But perhaps just as in the spring rivers will thaw and log jams start … Read More
Ecclesia de mysterio…. Ever heard of it?
In 1997 the Holy See issued an important document, unusual in its form and provenance in that it was signed by eight dicasteries, or departments of the Roman Curia. Congregation for the Clergy Pontifical Council for the Laity Congregation for … Read More
Fr. Reader on Daily Rome Shot 1656 – different stuff: “The reading of Kristin Lavransdatter is a landmark in my life.”
