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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)
- I like it and am happy to do it. (11%, 2,955 Votes)
- I don't care one way or another. (6%, 1,696 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)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Progress report
A serious step forward for my summer work of reading, research and writing is now accomplished. When you leave a place like Rome, with all its libraries and resources and, yes, distractions to retreat Horace-like to the quiet of the … Read More
Where are you?
You all know that I am at the Sabine Farm. But where are you? Here is a snapshot of different some of you visitors are located: Sydney, New South Wales Roseville, California Bronx, New York So Paulo, Sao Paulo Ann … Read More
And in the end
Did Tony decide to play with the feds? (Did the fat Soprano sing?) Did he get whacked? Do you believe he will "just go on and on and on…"? Otherwise, … Did Paulie turn? Is AJ slouching into the Thing? … Read More
An important point about “pro multis”
When I wrote my WDTPRS articles on the Roman Canon, I had to dig deeply into the pro multis question. I did four articles on the formula of consecration of the Precious Blood. Here is an excerpt from one of … Read More
Solis labor
An amazing APOD photo of the earth’s surface from space during a total eclipse of the sun.
PODCAzT 34: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist; Mass in heaven? No!
Today’s PODCAzT brings a reading from St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist. This is a selection used in the Office of Readings and also in the pre-Conciliar Breviarium Romanum. It is from the Angelic Doctor’s Opusculum 57, on the … Read More
Latin American bishops accept Vatican news of the Motu Proprio
According to the Secretum meum mihi blog, the paper ABC Color of Asunción, the president of the bishops conference of Paraguay, H.E. Mons. Ignacio Gogorza stated that the bishops meeting at Aparecida in "unanimously accepted the idea of the Vatican" … Read More
America Magazine: For “all” or “many”?
Our dear ultra-progressivist America magazine, run by Jesuits for the left, have an article on the pro multis controversy. At least this is still a controversy to the author: on planets that spin in the normal direction this is a … Read More
Sacramentum caritatis retranslated?
It is has been reported that the Pope’s Post-Synodal Exhoration Sacramentun caritatis has been retranslated, or at least reworked. I have not checked out this claim yet. As you remember, the official English text at the time of the document’s … Read More
Good piece by John Allen on Pius XII
John L. Allen, Jr., the ubiquitous fair-minded former Rome correspondent for the lefty National Catholic Reporter in his weekly flash as a very good piece on, get this… why Pope Pius XII ought to be beatified immediately. A significant block … Read More
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