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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)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
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Monthly Archives: September 2010
TO ARMS! TO ARMS! Pro-abortion youth document proposed to UN General Assembly
TO ARMS WDTPRSers! I received this via e-mail and present it for your opportune knowledge and consideration. This needs action. Dear Colleague, Radical pro-abortion youth have written a document that the UN General Assembly is considering accepting. This would be … Read More
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Ground Zero Mosque: a “Rabat”, not a “Cultural Center”
Some time ago, at the recommendation of the great Fr. Welzbacher of St. Paul, I read Andrew McCarthy’s The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. It was an excellent preparation, or propaedeutic, for the controversy over the … Read More
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Request for prayers for two … three… priests
A request for prayers. A reader sent: Our beloved bishop, Bp. Choby [of Nashville], is having open heart surgery tomorrow. After several days of chest pain, he drove himself to the Emergency Room at St Thomas at 5 this morning, … Read More
MUGS GONE WILD 3
I enjoy getting photos of my coffee mugs out there being used in the wild. A reader writes: Ave Zedissime Pater, An example of “startin’ em off right!” The red, the black, the Mother of God, and Christ the teacher… … Read More
A reflection on reordered churches
During my time in Manhattan this trip I have visited quite a few Catholic churches. I have been amazed at how badly some of them have been mutilated, and stupidly so. Some are still being mutilated according to tired old … Read More
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What was wrong with the old ICEL translation?
Every once in a while someone might ask you: What’s wrong with the translation we have? Why do we need a new one? Fr. Finigan, to whom I fraternally tip my biretta o{]:¬) reminded us in one of his recent … Read More
De Defectibus reconsidered: priests learning from the past, going to the heart of Mass
Last year I posted a version of this entry. In light of some of our recent discussions here, I present it anew. Recently I have posted Vatican II and the Ordinary Form v. Extraordinary Form. Good discussion is going on. … Read More
Fidel Castro: Communism failed in Cuba
AP has a story that a writer for The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, interviewed long-time Communist dictator for three days. During the interview, Casto admitted that Communism has failed in Cuba. HAVANA – Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that … Read More
A blogger declares: “I’m Burning The NCReporter!”
From Acts Of The Apostacy with my emphases and comments: Blogger: I’m Burning The NCReporter! (AoftheAP) A little-known central Kansas Catholic blogger has announced that he will burn a copy of the National Catholic Reporter on his front lawn … Read More
Had the Star Spangled Banner been in Latin…
Some item ago, I posted the quintessential old ICEL oration: O God,you are so big.Help us to be big like you. The blog Last Papist Standing posted a hypothetical pre-reconstituted, lame-duck ICEL translation of a hypothetical Latin original of The … Read More
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