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Monthly Archives: January 2020
ASK FATHER: Suspension of Communion on the tongue because of #Coronavirus
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, in the Philippines a bishop told people to stop receiving Communion on the tongue and receive only in the hand because of Coronavirus and don’t have the chalice too. What say you? We have seen … Read More
VIDEO contrasts participants in March for Life and Women’s March
LifeSite posted this fascinating, predictable, video. But an image is worth a thousand words. Listening to the view of the other side in this video is like witnessing the autopsy of long dead cadaver in really bad shape. You can … Read More
Blog changes – speed! And “Catholic Signal Corps”
I had posted a while ago that there was going to be yet another maintenance issue coming up. As you recall, we did a massive switch to a new server last October. That went well. This time we had to … Read More
China, FlightAware, and You
There is an online resource for tracking airline flights: Flightaware. It is fascinating to see the planes move in real time. You get a sense of how important air travel and freight is for all of us. You also get … Read More
Worried about Coronavirus? Feed your anxiety, and commonsense. – UPDATED
UPDATE 31 Jan 2020: We’ve learned that, in Chicago, there is a case of human to human transmission of the virus. W.H.O. declared an emergency. Today I read. Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte says the first two coronavirus cases have … Read More
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Wherein Fr. Rutler hits for six
Fr. George Rutler knocks it outta da park today. Rather, he would probably prefer to have hit for six. “Hit for six”, as he would know, is not only a good thing in cricket, but is also “to be hit … Read More
ASK FATHER: The “churching” of women after childbirth and the blessing of expecting mothers
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I recently had a conversation with an Episcopal priest about the approaching Feast of the Purification. He said that he would not emphasize the Churching of Women connection. There is such a ceremony in the old … Read More
Too often TV and film directors and designers get Catholic thing wrong, absurdly so.
There are quite a few churchy things in TV and film these days. For example, the intellectually insulting Two Popes (absurd on the face of it) and the weird and often vile sequel The New Pope. Also, churchy things are often on … Read More
Your Good News
It has been too long since I have asked about your good news. What’s up? Are there good things going on that you would like to share with the readership? For my part, I going to work on some Hebrew. … Read More
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