Daily Archives: 20 September 2023

September Ember Days

With the arrival of mid-September, and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14 Sept) we come around again to our Ember Days.  The September Ember Days this year are today, Wednesday 20 Sept, Friday 22 and Saturday 23. … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 799

Photo by The Great Roman™ Meanwhile, white to move and mate in two. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. In Berlin yesteday for the kitchy but lucrative “Armageddon” blitz, … Read More

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Card. Sarah wrote about Joseph Ratzinger and Sacred Liturgy… has the article been “cancelled”?

The other day we read at NLM that His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah (former Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments) published a piece at the journal of Communio.   Communio (Ratzinger, Bouyer, de Lubac) is/was the … Read More

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The Synod on Synodality (“walking together on walking togetherity”) tackles the problem of its own CO2 emissions

From the Italian site La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, not The Babylon Bee. My emphases: The letter kills, the Spirit vivifies and the Synod pollutes Over 300 members who will travel, talk, and in short emit Co2. In view of the … Read More

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