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Category Archives: The Campus Telephone Pole
FR. FINIGAN is up for a “new media” award.
My friend Fr. Tim Finigan’s blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, is up for an award. Will you show some appreciation for the work he does? He is in the Most Inspiring Leadership category. On the award site we read: The … Read More
Help a convent in trouble
As I understand things, this convent in England is in trouble and needs help. Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate in Cornwall. A reader writes: This convent once belonged to the Earl of Arundel. St. Cuthbert Mayne, one of the first … Read More
CNA: Catholic US Military Archdiocese sees rise in priestly vocations: SPECIAL APPEAL FROM FR. Z TO READERS
It is a regret of mine that I didn’t sign up for military chaplain service when I had the chance. I am more than likely too old now and hindsight is 20/20. In any event, at one point I did … Read More
1 Oct – Sioux Falls, SD: Marian Conference at the newly restored Cathedral
There is a Marian Conference planned for 1 October (8:30 am – 3:00 pm) in Sioux Falls, SD, at the newly and beautifully restored Cathedral. It is to be hosted by Bishop Paul J. Swain and the Office of the … Read More
Request to readers: an award, vote for a great charity – TEAM RUBICON
As you know the Catholic New Media Awards for this year have opened voting. Even though you have to register, I hope you will give WDTPRS your support in these categories: Best Blog by a Cleric Best Blog by a … Read More
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15 August: Solemn TLM at St. Peter the Apostle Church (Shrine of St. John Neumann) in Philadelphia!
I post this on behalf of my good friend the great Fr. Robert Pasley, who reigns gloriously at Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, NJ. Each year they have a great celebration for the Feast of the Assumption. Here is this year’s … Read More
2 August: Portiuncula Indulgence
From midnight tonight to midnight 2 August, you can gain the “Portinuncula” Indulgence. Catholic Encyclopedia St. Francis, as you know, repaired three chapels. The third was popularly called the Portiuncula or the Little Portion, dedicated to St. Mary of the … Read More
A cardinal’s diary recording the 2005 conclave?
The intrepid Andrea Tornielli on his Vatican Insider of the Italian daily La Stampa has a story about a “diary” kept during the 2005 conclave which elected Benedict XVI. If there really is a diary, then the conclavist, if he … Read More
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A new Catholic liberal arts college in England!
His Hermeneuticalness, my friend Fr. Tim Finigan, posted about a great initiative in England. A group formed to establish a Catholic liberal arts college along the lines of Wyoming Catholic College and Thomas Aquinas College in California. Fr. Finigan wrote: … Read More
Soap Sisters Summer Sale
Perhaps you will remember the Soap Sisters about whom I have written a few times. The fine Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary in Summit, NJ, produce Seignadou Soap to help keep life and limb … Read More
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