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- Crysanthmom on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “…and invest in a phone faraday pouch/bag. Father, maybe a link to one via your Amazon store?”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “Yes, of course. It is necessarily how electronic devices function. We should not be surprised that a voice-activated device is…”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “Your devices are ALWAYS listening to you, recording and sending back to server and stored forever. Even when you phone…”
- on UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year: “Great optics for a Church with a sex abuse problem they’re still dealing with. For me this mascot begs the…”
- on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “There is nothing like a RING TONE at the consecration to get your blood boiling!”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 30: A little help, please: “A couple of comments (both unrelated…) – I saw that play live last night and it was unbelievable! Not so…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 30: A little help, please: “Black to move and mate in 2. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
- on UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year: “What the hell is wrong with these people?? They are aping the Church-”
- on Meanwhile, the actual teenagers….: “The other day I wrote that the Holy Year, imho, rather needs a patron saint than a mascot. Saint Dominic…”
- on UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year: “I saw a comment that said the Church already has a mascot. The crucifix. When a believer or unbeliever sees…”
- on Meanwhile, the actual teenagers….: “13 y.o. grandson is a Manga/Anime fan, having been taught to read with it by his then young teen older…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 29: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”: “How were the Olivas? Looks nice.”
- on Meanwhile, the actual teenagers….: “Let us hope it remains a drawing. Here in sports-mad America, mascot usually refers to someone in a costume encouraging/entertaining…”
- on Meanwhile, the actual teenagers….: “The degree of “out of touch” exhibited by the global episcopate, particularly in Rome, manifests a cognitive and emotional disassociation…”
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Tag Archives: CEI
ITALY: Vocations to the priesthood waaaaaay down
From VaticanNews.va in Italian: Italy, CEI: fewer seminarians, families may be a nursery for vocations [What’s….. family?] The data of a report by the Italian Bishops’ Conference reveal that in just ten years the decline in vocations has reached 28%: … Read More
Posted in Seminarians and Seminaries, SESSIUNCULA, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged CEI, vocations
14 Comments
14 Comments
Bp. Galantino opines
There was a puzzling piece at the Italian site Formiche, with comments by Bp. Nunzio Galantino, whom Pope Francis appointed as General Secretary to the Italian Bishops Conference. Let’s see a few quotes from His Excellency: I hope that the … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged abortion, Bp. Nunzio Galantino, CEI, D. Cassano allo Jonio, Italian Bishops Conference, pro-life
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47 Comments
Collegiality: an inquiry
Today in Corriere della Sera there is an article about the Pope’s recent appointment of a bishop of an obscure diocese in Italy as interim Secretary of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI). As top offices of the CEI lapse further … Read More
Pope Francis’ Prayer to Mary
Yesterday the Holy Father lead a profession of Faith for all the Italian bishops as they are meeting in plenary session. He addressed them. At the end of the address, Francis pronounced a prayer to Mary which should move any … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Francis, Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged bishops, CEI, Mary, Pope Francis, priest
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11 Comments
Pope Benedict speaks to Italian bishops about liturgy
The Holy Father sent a message to the Italian bishops through the intermediary of the President of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) in anticipation of a plenary meeting they will perpetrate in Assisi. He begins the meat of his address … Read More
Avvenire, CEI, Card. Bagnasco, Il Giornale, PM Berlusconi
What goes on in the Church in Italy has subtle effects on the Church throughout the world. The daily of the Italian Bishops Conference, Avvenire, is in the midst of a controversy. This is from CNA… with my emphases and … Read More
Crysanthmom on IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?: “…and invest in a phone faraday pouch/bag. Father, maybe a link to one via your Amazon store?”
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