Monthly Archives: May 2007

“The advantage of the outsider!”

I received a thought provoking e-mail.  The author is a professor in a Catholic university.  I’ve anonymized it. I’m preaching at a first mass on May ___: a young man who gives hope amid the desolation hereabouts. He would be … Read More

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PODCAzT 23: Tertullian on heretics and 5 May for the Motu Proprio

Today’s PODCAzT get’s into De praescriptione haereticorum of Tertullian, a chunk of which is featured in today’s Office of Readings for the Feast of Sts. Philip and James, apostles. I also speak about the "Tridentine" Mass and a peculiarity of … Read More

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Spinnin’ the Motu Proprio!

Remember when a dopey guy in a UK paper called people like me "Ultra-conservative ‘Tridentine’ Rite Spin Doctors"? Over at Nihil Obstat we have taken the next step.  You have to love this DJ imagery!  How to work this into … Read More

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Acton Institute conferences on Centesimus Annus conclude

This after noon I attended the last of a year long series of important conferences hosted by the Acton Institute on the encyclical Centesimus Annus of the late John Paul II.   PRESS RELEASEPublic Conference The Foundations of the Free … Read More

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Supper with “The Hermeneutic of Continuity”

Tonight I met with Fr. Tim Finigan of the wondrous blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity who is visiting Rome with a  friend, the parish priest from St. Mary’s in Chislehurst, Kent, where Mr. Michael Davies is buried.  We had supper … Read More

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PODCAzT 22: Peter Chrysologus on your priesthood; fear and love

Yes, folks, I am tired, but back at it.  In today’s PODCAzT we hear from St. Peter Chrysologus, of the Golden Speech.  The "-logus" part is from Greek logos which means a range of things from "word"  to "speech" to … Read More

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May Day whimsy

I like the online versions of major newpapers.  They often strike out into less well-chartered waters.  For example, can anyone actually go a day without checking in on The Wall Street Journa’s "Best of the Web" by James Taranto?  After … Read More

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