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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)
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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: January 2009
Follow-up: Ad Orientem in Ann Arbor, MI – a priest reacts
Subsequent to my posting about the initiative of Fr. Gerald Gawronski at Old St. Patrick’s in Ann Arbor, MI to "re-orient" his parish worship. In their parish bulletin the decision to celebrate ad orientem versus was discussed. In this, it … Read More
QUAERITUR: covering relics when the Bl. Sacrament is exposed
From a reader: Is it still rubrical for reliquaries to be covered when the Sanctissimum is exposed? The old rubrics call for it, I believe. So, this is about what to do in the newer, post-Conciliar forms of liturgical … Read More
QUAERITUR: follow-up to “kissing the ring of a bishop”
Taking up issue of kissing a bishop’s ring, which we have look at before, this is from a reader: I wanted to add a few comments about kissing a bishop’s ring outside of the liturgy. Technically there is no hard … Read More
Canada: ramifications of the Crown losing a polygamy case
This worrisome bit came in from a friend: Gentlemen, I used to tell my students that after "gay marriage", the next social/legal barrier to crumble in the West will be against polygamy. The students looked at me incredulously. But I … Read More
Lafayette, IN: regular TLM
From a reader: Traditional Latin Mass to be offered: Una Voce of Lafayette, Indiana and the St. Rita Latin Mass Community are pleased to announce that there will be a regularly scheduled Traditional Latin Mass on the fourth Sunday of … Read More
Bp. Vasa: Those who profess to love God, but back abortion, are liars
The great bishop of Baker, Oregon, His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Vasa, speaks again in The Catholic Sentinel. We have written of Bp. Vasa before in these cyber-pages, here (about overcoming his own fear of speaking out) and here (on … Read More
REVIEW: The General Principles of Ceremonies of the Roman Rite: For Inferior Ministers
To restore continuity to the Latin Church’s liturgical worship, and by doing so supporting and accelerating his "Marshall Plan" to revitalize our Catholic identity after decades of enervation, Pope Benedict gave us Summorum Pontificum. It is a great gift to … Read More
Soup Day!
I like soup on cold days. In these coming hard times… learn to make soup! I found a great special the other day for leeks, that excellent vegetable so beloved of the Welsh. I was inspired to make Potato Leek … Read More
Feeder report
Report on the feeder. Since we are having a heat wave… it’s up to 3F… the birds are really out and eating. Lots of American Gold Finches. I think this is the Pine Siskin of interest. One of the Gold … Read More
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