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- I dread it as it approaches and think of ways to avoid it. (36%, 9,555 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?
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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Concerning matters of taste
Here is a fun piece via the Laudator: R.S. Thomas, Taste: I had preferred Chaucerbut for the slop in his saucer: or grave Edmund Spensermoving formally as a dancer. But Shakespeare’s cut and thrust,I allow you, was a must on … Read More
Conference news
I will have some great photos coming from the conference, but I don’t think I brought the doohickey I need to transfer them to my computer. This was an amazing canon law conference at the Shrine of Our Lady of … Read More
QUAERITUR: confessing sins in both number and kind
From an older response. A reader asked: I’ve often heard priests say that when going to confession it’s important to confess sin both in kind and number. I recently went to confession though to a priest who told me at … Read More
4 August: St. John Vianney
From the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum: Memoria sancti Ioannis Mariae Vianney, presbyteri, qui, quadraginta amplius annos paroeciae ipsi commissae in vico Ars prope Bellicium in Gallia actuosa praedicatione, oratione et paenitentiae exemplo mirum in modum ministravit et cotidie pueros et adultos … Read More
Canon Law Conference
I am attending a Canon Law Conference held at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe south of La Crosse, WI. There are some distinguished people here. Archbp. Burke is a mainstay of the conference. I was pleased to find … Read More
Anglicans! Come Home!
Keep repeating: Anglicanorum coetibus! From CNA: Anglo-Catholic bishops try to rally supporters but foresee conversions to Rome London, England, Aug 3, 2010 / 12:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fifteen Anglican bishops have acknowledged that many Anglicans will convert to Roman Catholicism … Read More
QUAERITUR: sign of the Cross when passing a non-Catholic church
From a reader: I was taught to cross myself when passing by a Roman Catholic Church out of reverence for the Real Presence in the Eucharist that is present in that house of God. I live outside Washington D.C. and … Read More
The Feeder Feed: Who is this? Baeolophus bicolor!
I think I have a new visitor at the feeder. I saw him once, yesterday. Another view. This is Tufted Titmouse! Baeolophus bicolor. He pecks at seeds like a chickadee or jay. YIPPEE! Didn’t get along with the Grosbeak. Note … Read More
Watch for more Vatican appointments
The very day the Card. Secretary of State was supposed to head out to Castel Gandolfo for a spell, we have an important curial appointment. Watch for more in the near future.
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