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- Sportsfan on Daily Rome Shot 1241 – a lucky man: “Too bad there weren’t video cameras when something like this would have resulted in a Swiss guard skewering the guy…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1241 – a lucky man: “Poor bugger needs prayers a good punishment. Mental health, spiritual health in shambles.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1241 – a lucky man: “I thought Annibale Bugnini was dead! (Alas, even after many hours I was unable to resist!)”
- on VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.: “While I mainly agree with Fr. Pius Pietrzyk’s analysis of whether the bishop truly has the authority to tell a…”
- on ROME DAY 25/01 07: A martyr: “No one has responded to the chess problem yet, so I will offer my solution: 1. Nf6+ Kh8 2. Rg3xg7…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1241 – a lucky man: “[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.] In Germany, the…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1240: “The Rome picture looks like the Italian version of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks.”
- on VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.: “Many people, myself included, have bad knees. There is a certain cruelty in having us kneel on hard marble floors…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1240: “Looks like a pretty good meal, Father. There is nothing like finding the good stuff done right. We visited one…”
- on VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.: “There is an odd critical mass of late of bishops aggressively insisting on the American indult for standing and in…”
- on VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.: “Chiara, It’s good to hear things are well on the North Coast. But… How we receive Communion is a Vital…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1240: “It isn’t quite as far as Venus, but there’s a place in Montana with Chinese food. I won’t recommend the…”
- on VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.: ““Monstarnce’s” response brings up a question. Faced with the situation of having to choose receiving communion from the priest while…”
- on VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.: “@Chiara Without making a judgement about any particular priest or bishop, we must remember Christ warned us that there will…”
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Tag Archives: Card. Bertone
What’s up with sacred music in Rome? Nothing good, it seems.
Sandro Magister has a piece today about what is going with sacred music in Rome, more specifically via the Sistine Chapel Choir and the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music. In a word: disaster. Here is the first part: Not Sacred … Read More
Contradictory reports about the “white paper” of the Pont. Council “Iustitia et Pax”
I posted about the story on Chiesa that Card. Bertone, the Secretary of State, was blind-sided by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace controversial (dreadful) “white paper” and that, subsequently, he decided that all documents have to get the … Read More
More on the one-world-government “white paper” from Pont. Council for Justice and Peace
Over at Chiesa, there is a piece about the new, confused “white paper”, as I prefer to call it, from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Too Much Confusion. Bertone Puts the Curia Under Lock and Key The document … Read More
A pessimistic article about SSPX and talks with Rome
In Vatican Insider of La Stampa comes this. My emphases and comments. Beware: Weird translation. You might have better success in Italian. Or else the original French, more more nuanced, here. Before a key meeting in Rome, the leader of … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Fellay, Card. Bertone, Card. Levada, CDF, Pres. Obama, Robert Mugabe, SSPX
43 Comments
43 Comments
Card. Bertone offers up more about the Third Secret of Fatima
Andrea Tornielli has a piece about interviews given by His Eminence Tarcisio Card. Bertone in the days surrounding the beatification of Pope John Paul II during which the topic of the “third secret” of Fatima was brushed up. At the … Read More
Posted in Linking Back
Tagged Andrea Tornielli, Card. Bertone, Fatima, Fourth Secret, Sr. Lucia, third secret
59 Comments
59 Comments
“Vatican Tempests. The Academy for Life Puts Its Neck on the Line”
Everyone… read this. I just finished it on the Italian site and then found it in English. This is about the civil war in the Pontifical Academy for Life over remarks made by Archbp. Rino Fisichella about a case of … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged abortion, Archbp. Fisichella, Card. Bertone, Card. Levada, CDF, L'Osservatore Romano, Pontifical Academy for Life
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13 Comments
Where’s the memo?
I noticed this on the site Palazzo Apostolico by Paolo Rodari: When last 10 July Barak Obama came to visit at the Vatican, he sat down for a long time with Benedict XVI and a shorter time with Secretary of … Read More
Taking possession of titular church
CARDINAL BERTONE TO TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS TITULAR CHURCH VATICAN CITY, 1 OCT 2009 (VIS) – A communique published today by the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff announces that at 5 p.m. on Saturday 3 October, Cardinal … Read More
Sportsfan on Daily Rome Shot 1241 – a lucky man: “Too bad there weren’t video cameras when something like this would have resulted in a Swiss guard skewering the guy…”
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