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- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 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)
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Bp. Martino: “My job as a Bishop is to promulgate the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church”
PREVIEW: I also offer this postscript to those who criticize me for taking public stances that may not be popular or “politically correct,” or may not agree with their own personal notions of what “progressive” Catholic doctrine should be. My … Read More
WDTPRS: Wednesday 1st Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Wednesday – 1st Week of Lent This prayer was in the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Ecclesiae on the anniversary of a bishop’s consecration. It is in various manuscripts, such … Read More
Fmr. Speaker Gingrich to become Catholic
I caught this in the very long profile piece the NYT did on Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich… to my mind one of the most interesting men working in politics and political commentary today. At a moment when … Read More
A Pope who is a “soloist”
Italian journalist Luigi Accattoli has an an interesting piece, "La solitudine di Ratzinger" in Liberal (3 March). The great Fabrizio has done a translation, which I touched here and there. Pope Ratzinger’s solitude Dear editor-in-chief, this is the right week … Read More
3/3/09
Happy Square Root Day! Celebrate it now! The next Square Root Day is 4/4/16 How will you observe this momentous occasion? I may make a square pan of some sort of root vegetable concoction for supper.
McBrien displays his diptych
Sometime you have to perform an autopsy to find the cause of death. It’s messy but interesting. And so we come to the strange case of Richard McBrien. Luckily for us, he cuts is own cranium open for us and … Read More
WDTPRS: Tuesday 1st Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Tuesday – 1st Week of Lent This is an ancient prayer, found in the usual manuscripts such as the Liber Sacramentorum Augustodunensis, Engolismensis, and Gellonensis. POST COMMUNIONEM:His nobis, … Read More
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The liberal answer to everything: more hugs!
His Hermeneuticalness redirected me to a pointed observation made by the irrepressible Diogenes of Off The Record. He tackles the dreadful Q&A His Eminence Roger Card. Mahony engaged in online from the LA Three Days of Darkness… er um… Religious … Read More
Altar oddities
NLM has an interesting piece about altar decorations right now. I have nightmares still from my seminary days about the profoundly weird but apparently meaningful things done to the altar and space around it. Lent was a particularly trying season. … Read More
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