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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: April 2010
“I saw the Pope weep.”
"Ho visto il Papa piangere" "I saw the Pope weep." There is a story in Italian in La Stampa about the meeting of Pope Benedict XVI in Malta with victims of clerical abuse when they were children. I teased out … Read More
WDTPRS voicemail
I have two phone numbers, one in the USA and one in the UK, through which people can leave me voicemail. However, I have been having problems with retrieval of the voicemail. I have hopefully solved the problem.
Oldie PODCAzT for Good Shepherd Sunday
An oldie PODCAzT about the Good Shepherd, for Good Shepherd Sunday. 085 09-05-03 Gregory the Great on the Good Shepherd
Pope Benedict in Malta meets with victims of clerical sexual abuse
From The Times of Malta: One of the eight child abuse victims who met the Pope this afternoon said that the meeting had given the group peace in their hearts. The group, now in their 30s and 40s, had a … Read More
Op-ed piece in the NYT
People are feverishly sending me links to the op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof in Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times). Stop sending links. No, I will not fisk it. First, it is blasphemous and sinful. Second, it is riddled … Read More
PRAYERCAzT: Matins and Lauds (BrevRom)
No frills Matins and Lauds from the Breviarium Romanum. If you lay people don’t get what is involved in clergy reading the office every day, this might give you an idea of what the older, traditional form of the office … Read More
evening light
I love evening light. It suggests possibilities. It calls to my mind time in chapels, motes in the sun, ballgames, preparing supper for friends. I once freaked out the person looking in on my house when I went away for … Read More
PRAYERCAzT: 1st Vespers & Compline (BrevRom)
No frills, but sung hymn in Vespers. About half way through Compline I decided to sing some of it. It’s been a while.
President of Malta defends the Church
My friend John L. Allen, Jr., still the fair-minded columnist for the dissenting NCR has an interesting report from Malta. Malta president upstages pope on crisisby John L Allen Jr on Apr. 17, 2010 By JOHN L. ALLENValetta, Malta Heading … Read More
Allegations by German tabloid Spiegel
The German tabloid Spiegel Online is claiming that the then-Vicar General Gerhard Gruber was told to take the blame for the case of child-abuser Fr. Hullermann during the term of Munich’s then-Archbishop Joseph Card. Ratzinger. Here and here. UPDATE 18 … Read More
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