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The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 Votes)
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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Il Tempo: Motu Proprio next Monday
The Italian daily Il Tempo has published an unsigned article claiming in the headline that the Motu Proprio will be issued next Monday, 16 April, after the celebration for the Holy Father’s 80th Birthday. Here is the article from Il … Read More
Card. Zen on the Pope’s letter to Chinese Catholics
A couple stories are out that the Letter the Holy Father promised to Chinese Catholics will be coming soon. One report from WDTPRS’s favorite, Joseph Card. Zen of Hong Kong, says that it may be shared with the goverment in … Read More
Reading SacrCar 23 through the lens of Card. Arinze
I am thinking about the problems with the translation of SacrCar 23. They are serious. As you know, the translation distorted the Latin and/or Italian focus on the priest leading the liturgical "action" toward the priest leading the "assembly". That … Read More
WDTPRS server news and RSS feed update
The last month or so saw big changes for WDTPRS. First, your traffic so taxed the first server I had at Midphase, that Midphase threatened to turn us off unless I ponied up big time. Their approach, rather than … Read More
A serious problem in Sacramentum caritatis 23
ALERT: I adjusted MY translation of the Latin, below (on 10 April 2006): Those who read this blog, or any Catholic blog for that matter, now know that there are serious translation problems scattered throughout the Holy Father’s post-Synodal Exhortation … Read More
Benedict XVI intervened with Khamenei for the British hostages in Iran
Pope Benedict wrote to the head of the Iranian state, Khamenei, on behalf of the British sailors and marines. Over 100,000 people were in the Square at St. Peter’s for the Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing.
PODCAzT 17: Exsultet
For forty days we have done penance. We participated at the anniversary of Holy Mass and the Priesthood on Holy Thursday with the mandatum and the procession to the altar of repose, Christ in agony in Gethsemane. On Good Friday, … Read More
It’s a Hazard being right
According to some I have apparently now drifted from Rome into a strange "Dukes of Hazard" parallel universe. A few things console me here. I am in the Bugatti I was promised. The license plates are correct. I am sure … Read More
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