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Monthly Archives: April 2017
ASK FATHER: “Beer?” “No. Beir!” “Beer?” “BIER! BIER!”
Every one please mark your calendars: 9 September is International Buy A Priest A Beer Day. Okay? Got it? From a reader… QUAERITUR: Bier Plans Not beer plans, although completing this project may take a certain amount of beer … Read More
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Head of the Jesuits doubles down on his “no one had a tape recorder” remarks
We recent read the words of the Superior General of the Jesuits (them, again) which effectively emptied Christianity of its content. HERE and HERE and HERE Fr Arturo (“Doctrine is a word that I don’t like very much”) Sosa Abascal is now back … Read More
“Anoint therefore the Feet of Jesus by thy good life”
Yesterday there was a lovely reading in the Office of Matins in the Roman Breviary which I’m still struck by today. I was going to post it yesterday, but life happened and I got busy. V. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. … Read More
More fun with the 1773 Suppression of the Jesuits by Clement XIV!
In my searching about on the interwebs for tidbits about Suppression of the Jesuits by Clement XVI, Papa Ganganelli, of happy memory – a topic which never fails to delight – I found a wonderful engraving. Behold! Allégorie sur la suppression … Read More
ASK FATHER: In confession, must we say which sins are mortal, which venial?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I know, to make a good confession, we need to confess mortal sins and the number of times we committed the sins. But I am often confused about whether a sin I committed is mortal or … Read More
A legendary living Latinist
Over at Laudator Temporis Acti, which I check every day, there is a great post about legendary Latinist Fr Reginald Foster, OCD, who for decades worked in the Holy See’s office of Latin Letters writing official documents in the Church’s language. Fr … Read More
ASK FATHER: How to build Catholic identity at a Catholic college?
From a reader… I am a dean at a Catholic college in the US. The majority of faculty and administrators are not Catholic. How does one work to make progress on Ex Corde Ecclesiae when there is passive / semi-active … Read More
Maltese Bp. Scicluna: The Church’s teachings on contraception has softened
UPDATE 10 April: A friend in Rome texted me that he had heard that Malta Today retracted the article about Scicluna. I went to look at found this. The story was still indexed, but you couldn’t reach it. ___ ORIGINALLY Published … Read More
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Of public works
At Crux there is a story about the opening of a papal sponsored laundry available to the poor and homeless in Trastevere. At the end we read… When a new McDonald’s opened a few months ago just a few yards … Read More
ASK FATHER: Palm Sunday singing of Passion was long!
From a reader… I attend the extraordinary form of the Mass every 6-8 weeks. I’d attend more frequently, but my wife isn’t there yet. So I have a general appreciation for the usus antiquior. That being said, at the Palm … Read More
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