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Monthly Archives: September 2017
FIGHT BACK against anti-Catholics… including those IN the Church
You must rush to read the whole of Robert Royal’s latest column. HERE I preface it with a reminder that I posted a tongue in check call to arms that wasn’t really tongue in cheek at all. HERE Here’s the … Read More
Ireland: manmade vocation wasteland
Ireland and the Catholic Church in Ireland have their problems. Sadly, they gave some of those problems also to the USA. However, since I am forever harping on praying for vocations to the priesthood, one problem in particular struck me … Read More
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TRAVEL and DATA and KEEPGO and You
I’m in Rome for the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. While here, I will use my KeepGo as a WiFi hotspot for data for my mobile phone. I’ve written about it here. And, because of a generous reader, I’m working on a … Read More
Pange lingua gloriosi
Some people are freaking out a little in the wake of the news that the Holy Father decided to restrict the role of the Congregation for Divine Worship in the preparation of liturgical translations. Now the bishops conferences will be pretty much … Read More
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My View For Awhile: Anniversay Edition
I’m on my way to Rome for the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage. I’m taking happy thoughts of gratitude to Pope Benedict along with great hope for many more future benefits from this monumentally important gift to the Church. Meanwhile, spoke by … Read More
The Eye of Irma
Please continue prayers for those in the path of the hurricanes. The eye of Irma. Explanation via APOTD: Explanation: Why does a hurricane have an eye at its center? No one is yet sure. What happens in and around a … Read More
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How Pope John Paul II once saved a fallen priest from despair, homelessness and alcoholism
I have come to dread interviews with Popes. I have from the beginning of the interviews decades ago. I generally read them anyway because, well, I have to, don’t I. The recent book interview / conversation with Dominique Wolton released … Read More
Catholics ARISE! Form base communities of resistance! Bring about permanent revolution!
Over at NLM there is a highly amusing, and in an odd way comforting, note to help us put the new Motu Proprio on translation (inter alia) into perspective. Greg DiPippo posted an excerpt from Shawn Tribe’s very first NLM post about … Read More
And now for something completely different…
… we turn to the blog of the OED. If you don’t know what the OED is… well… look it up. The lexicographers were asked about their favourite words. Some of them are humdingers… which is itself a good candidate for … Read More
ACTION ITEM! 9 September is #IBAPABD – International Buy A Priest A Beer Day!
You don’t want to miss this. It’s too important. Saturday 9 September is International Buy A Priest A Beer Day! You will want to obtain and deliver beer to your priests. I will share some Norcia Beer with the guys … Read More
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