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The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 Votes)
- I tolerate it. (35%, 9,195 Votes)
- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 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)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Not so cool in Manhattan
On the flight coming in to NYC last night I was able to do some work online, with the airplane’s wifi. In this moment I was tracking the flight on a non-liturgical iPad. I was given when they came out … Read More
Great photos of traditional ordinations by the FSSP
Nowy Ruch Liturgiczny has some serious liturgical eye-candy to accompany their note about the recent FSSP ordinations. With a biretta tip to NLM. Click for larger version.
New blog urges readers and parishes to drop The Tablet
His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Finigan, directed my attention to a new blog called Ecumenical Diablog, which is worth your attention. Here is a sample. Monday, 5 July 2010Catholics Don’t Take the Pill or The Tablet There is a custom in the … Read More
The Very Model Of A Modern Seminarian
This comes from a seminarian reader. Fr. Z: Lot of things in the news, thought I’d send something light. I’m a seminarian and longtime reader of your blog. I also like operettas. So, while I was waiting for something the … Read More
“to reconcile disputes and to renew the Church”
I have been hammering away for years now that the major goal of Pope Benedict’s pontificate is the revitalize our Catholic identity. There is a macro dimension to this and there is a micro dimension. With my emphases and comments … Read More
Supreme Court about priests as Vatican employees – sky not yet falling
My email inbox suggests to me that there is a lot of anxiety out there about recent news that the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) turned down an appeal by the Holy See against a lower court ruling that U.S. Catholic … Read More
WDTPRS: zeal and mercy – 6th Sunday after Pentecost – COLLECT
Please flip open your own trusty copy of the Liber Sacramentorum Romanae Aeclesiae Ordinis Anni Circuli edited by Leo Cunibert Mohlberg, OSB (in other words the Gelasian Sacramentary and yes, it is “Aeclesiae”.). You will find Sunday’s ancient Collect in … Read More
A priest explains: “Why the Old Form thrives in my parish”
On the site of the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly, (it has a great new look) there is an article you will want to see, with my emphases and comments. Why the Old Form thrives in my parish … Read More
Archbp. Wenski on CHA support of Obamacare
This is an excellent entry from the blog of newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph… never to be confused with a certain fishwrap produced in the same region. From The Catholic Key: Quote of the Day – Archbishop … Read More
The key purposeful error in the NYTimes new attack on Pope Benedict
There is a key problem with the recent article in Hell’s Bible (aka New York Times) attacking the Pope. As a preamble I must say that people have already made up their mind about the Catholic Church and the clerical … Read More
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