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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Old Mass/new Mass thoughts – part 7
Under another entry there has been some consideration of the age of Catholics who prefer the newer form of the Roman Rite, the Novus Ordo. Some suggest that people of a certain age may be more interested in the Novus … Read More
HAARETZ: Editorial in defense of Ven. Pius XII
I saw this on the site of HAARETZ. My emphases and comments. 22 Jan 2010 Much-maligned pontiff By Dimitri Cavalli Some things never go away. The controversy over Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II was recently reignited when … Read More
Coadjutor for Los Angeles?
I have several e-mails right in my in-box this morning about a Coadjutor for Los Angeles. What’s up? Roger Card. Mahony has been Archbishop of Los Angeles seemingly forever. On 27 February, His Eminence will turn 74 years old. He … Read More
QUAERITUR: plain unfermented grape juice in chalice for Mass
UPDATE 22 Jan 1553 GMT: I received this from the original questioner: Thanks for the tip, Father. Between you and me, we ordered the mustum, put it in the sacristy fridge, and Father used it without saying a single word. … Read More
Arlen Specter and Michelle Bachman
Holy cow… [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIxgNucioA] Goodbye, Arlen Specter!
The Tablet’s bizzare report on Medjugorje, Card. Schönborn
And now for one of the most absurd interpretations of news you will ever read. This is either pure ignorance or deliberate misdirection. Either way it is from RU-486 (aka The Bitter Pill aka The Tablet). Church in the World … Read More
SCOTUS decision on free-speech and campaign contributions.
Did you see that SCOTUS ruled on campaign contributions? Apparently, the Supreme Court says that the !st Amendment, free-speech rights, permit corporations and labor unions to spend money on political campaigns. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, which reads … Read More
Catholic Herald editorial: “Benedict XVI is truly the Pope of Christian Unity”
The UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, has an editorial with a title which may sound familiar to readers of WDTPRS. My original post about a project. This comes during the Week for Christian Unity. My emphases and comments. … Read More
Question for readers: Masses in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A reader asked in an email what I thought about Masses celebrated in honor of the late civil rights figure Martin Luther King, Jr. I was not paying attention to this or acutely aware that this was being done. I … Read More
Agnes… lambs… Popes…. nuns… pallia
The Holy Father blessed lambs today, the feast of St. Agnes, as usual. The lambs are associated with Agnes, because of the Latin similarity of their names, Agnes and agnus. Get it? Those sisters in the background are Benedictine nuns … Read More
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