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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Two years later… the “gravitational pull”
From the blog Ten Reasons I find this brick by brick post – with a rather nice turn of phrase in it! Feeling gravity’s pull A friend who would know tells me that the Friday 9 AM Latin Mass in … Read More
PODCAzT 91: A hymn dissected “Te lucis ante terminum”; Don Camillo (part VI)
Today we will drill into a hymn sung by Holy Church in the Liturgia horarum for Compline every evening. It is called Te lucis ante terminum. Since the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, the hymn was rewritten a bit, … Read More
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QUAERITUR: female servers for Extraordinary Form
From time to time the question of female servers for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite pops up in my inbox. Yes… Extraordinary Form or TLM At present, the 1983 Code of Canon Law is interpreted such that females … Read More
NCReg: formal statement coming on proposals by the CDWDS plenary
Remember how once the intrepid vaticanista Andrea Tornielli posted about the proposals of the plenary session of the Congregation for Divine Worship, the Holy See Press Office issued its non-denial denials? Tornielli said that the members of the Congregation were … Read More
The Holy See’s team for the SSPX talks?
Our friends at Rorate found a story which seems to report the names of the theologians who will represent the Holy See in the theological talks with the SSPX. Vatican names chosen? According to French Vaticanista blog Osservatore Vaticano (followed … Read More
Some blog server problems
Today we have been trying to tidy up a few glitches with the speed of the blog. Apparently there are a couple sites out that which have, on every page load, bring up lots of sites. Thus, when people look … Read More
ND’s McBrien: Eucharistic Adoration “is a doctrinal, theological, and spiritual step backward”
In many places where perpetual, or even frequent, Eucharistic Adoration has been made available, there have been great benefits. But Richard McBrien of Notre Dame is against Eucharist Adoration. In his latest piece for the dissenting, ultra-liberal National Catholic Reporter … Read More
Want to use your phone in church? Think again!
Have you ever wished that your car had a phaser option? That there was a trap door under the pulpit? A tip of the biretta to Mulier Fortis for the following. In the future there may be some serious penalties … Read More
Internet distance learning in Aristotelean/Thomist philosophy
I had a note from some people who have started a great program, potentially very useful. What I was sent is too long to post, but here are a few items to let you know essentially what they are about. … Read More
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