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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
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Category Archives: Linking Back
From the Archive: Priest refuses to use new translation in consecration of Precious Blood. Invalid?
FROM THE ARCHIVE. (Since a couple people have recently asked about this through email.) From a reader: If I had to guess, there are probably many priests throughout the US who are refusing to celebrate the Mass according to the … Read More
REVIEW: A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey. “If you want to be a hero, you can be.”
In another entry I mentioned a new book by Fr. Robert Sirico called A Field Guide for the Hero’s Journey. US paperback HERE and Kindle HERE. UK paperback HERE Kindle HERE. Here is a blurb from the book: Do you feel like something big is missing … Read More
Fr. Sirico: Politics isn’t the solution to our economic problems
CNA has an article about my friend Fr. Robert Sirico of the Acton Institute (btw… Acton University: June 18 – 21, 2013). My emphases and comments. Rome, Italy, Nov 29, 2012 / 01:33 pm (CNA).- The solution to the ongoing economic … Read More
This day in 1095
On this day in 1095 Pope Urban II made a speech. The setting was the Council of Clermont in France. Urban, indeed all of Europe, was alarmed at the aggression of the Turks in the East, who had taken the … Read More
PUDDING REPORT: Christmas Pudding 2012 is underway!
Things are underway on this “Stir Up Sunday”, the Last Sunday after Pentecost. “Stir Up” comes from the first words of the Collect for Holy Mass in the Usus Antiquior. I decided that for this round I would use the … Read More
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Remember that horrid bronze statue of John Paul II in Rome? UPDATE!
Remember the gawdawful bronze statue of John Paul II in front of Rome’s Stazione Termini that was unveiled some time back? Public outcry and a sense of humanity required a revision. What it looked like: We were not sure who it … Read More
Duhhhh…. Nice try, Fishwrap!
It seems that the National catholic Fishwrap took exception to my little dig. Heh heh. Michael Sean Winters got all excited and thought he scored a point. He is baiting me, of course, but I’ll take the bait this time. … Read More
I have a dream …. Find a home for Roy!
In another post, I wrote about Sr. Maureen Fiedler’s Fishwrap column about Mr. Roy Bourgeois and the grave injustices done to him by the Vatican’s male oppressors and their Maryknoll minions. I was so moved by her piece, so disturbed … Read More
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More on clerical garb, this time from the Secretary of State
Just recently I answered a question from a reader about clerical dress. This is just in from Andrea Tornielli of Vatican Insider: An internal circular signed by Cardinal Bertone invites all clerics working in the Holy See to wear black … Read More
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