Welcome to the 18th edition of News of the Church.
It’s 7 September 2025 and it is the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. A couple years ago, I saw a movie called News of the World with Tom Hanks. He plays a former confederate officer, years after the Civil War. He travels from town to and town and reads aloud stories from different newspapers. He scratches out a living as a gazetteer. People were starved for news and often not literate so they paid a dime .10c a head to listen. That’s about $2.50 today. [HERE (PayPal)] or HERE (Venmo)] The idea of a wandering gazetteer caught my imagination and here I am.
00:14 – Init
02:03 – Gower Abbey, etc.
08:01 – Monastere Saint Benoit, Brignoles
11:46 – Wanderer – Our Civilization’s Death Wish
17:42 – Wanderer – Ban Mass in Spanish?
29:14 – Wanderer – Blood of St. Januarius Liquifies
35:00 – Exit
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“…the most basic drive in man—or in any other animal—is the instinct for self-preservation.” “…any other animal…”? In ‘PPP’ ” whiskey, tango, foxtrot”?
In other news, this query, “Can someone who publicly dismantles the Faith actually the visible head of the Church?”