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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?
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Vulgar victory celebration
A blogger with Newsweek/WaPo, Anthony Stevens-Arroyo exults over the early retirement of Bp. Martino of Scranton with all the elegance of a face painted sportsfan on a car burning spree. To give you some of his other accomplishments, Anthony Stevens-Arroyo … Read More
Episcopalians: old-style service drawing young crowd
Here is an interesting article from ljworld, the Lawrence Journal, about an Episcopalian church returning to a traditional… actually Roman… style liturgy and drawing in young people. Big surprise! My emphases and comments. Archive for Saturday, August 29, 2009Mass appeal: … Read More
Pizza
I decided to make pizza. "But Father! But Father!", you might be saying. "Why pizza? Are you watching a ball game?" No ball game. But I found a package of sliced pepperoni sausage in my freezer archive which a past … Read More
Thanks to readers
First, WDTPRS went over 8 million visits recently, at least since I have been keeping stats. Thanks! Also, a long time ago a kind reader sent me an old but unused network power switch, I finally have it installed and … Read More
Priests learning from the past: De Defectibus
As we come to the 2nd anniversary of Summorum Pontificum it is good to review some of the motives behind Pope Benedict’s Motu Proprio, his "emancipation proclamation" for the older, traditional forms of the Roman Rite. Pope Benedict is concerned … Read More
Fitchburg, Mass., brick by brick with the TLM
A reader pointed out this article from telegram.com, of Fitchburg, Mass. Sunday, September 13, 2009 In Fitchburg, Latin Mass ‘resonates with rhythm’Fitchburg church celebrates traditional service By Bronislaus B. Kush TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFFbkush@telegram.com FITCHBURG — The pews at … Read More
Documentary about Matteo Ricci screened at Venice Film Festival
Very cool… from CNA: Documentary about Jesuit missionary to China screened at Venice Film Festival Venice, Italy, Sep 12, 2009 / 06:13 pm (CNA).- A new documentary on the life of Fr. Matteo Ricci, a pioneering Jesuit missionary to China, … Read More
Caritas in veritate
BTW… I understand that the Latin text for the Holy Father’s encyclical Caritas in veritate is ready. Hopefully it will be made public soon.
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When people use Twitter, they often use hash tags. A bit confusing…. You might chime in with commonly used Catholic topic hash tags. Of course hash tags are ephemeral as well, topical! Wanna find Tweets with hashes? Go to http://search.twitter.com, … Read More
“For every man there is some spot on earth…”
From the Laudator: Donald Culross Peattie, Flowering Earth (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1939; rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 144: For every man there is some spot on earth, I think, which he has pledged himself to … Read More
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