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Category Archives: Year of Faith
POPE TO TABLET….
You will recall that The Tablet recently published a dopey editorial about Vatican II. They got just about everything wrong. I wrote about it HERE. It seems Pope Benedict agrees with me. In his homily for the opening of the … Read More
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DETROIT 13 October: Call To Holiness Conference
Those of you anywhere near Detroit will be glad to know that the 14th Call To Holiness Conference will be held on Saturday, 13 October. Lot’s of information about the conference HERE. Today is the last day (until midnight EST) … Read More
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What happened to popular devotions and piety? A Cardinal opines.
During the Year of Faith we should work to revive popular piety and communual devotions. A friend in Rome, Fabricius Magnus, sent me the following: Sandro Magister has an article related to the pope’s visit to Loreto and reports of … Read More
The Tablet’s latest cowardly editorial
The Tablet (aka RU-486) has a really bad editorial about the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. The editorial is an example of cowardice. There are courageous liberals and cowardly liberals. Courageous liberals come right out and say “The … Read More
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PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE YEAR OF FAITH
PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE YEAR OF FAITH Vatican City, 5 October 2012 (VIS) – According to a decree made public today and signed by Cardinal Manuel Monteiro de Castro and Bishop Krzysztof Nykiel, respectively penitentiary major and regent of the … Read More
Benedict XVI on liturgical worship and our identity
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! This is GREAT. The Holy Father’s Wednesday Audience with my emphases and comments: VATICAN, OCTOBER 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today in St. Peter’s Square. The … Read More
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14 Oct: WASHINGSTON DC – Pilgrimage to begin Rosary Novena for Life and Liberty
From the USCCB: Pilgrimage to begin Rosary Novena for Life and Liberty WASHINGTON—A Mass and Pilgrimage for Life and Liberty at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington is slated for Sunday, Oct. 14 at … Read More
A superb essay on Sacred Music
Stop what you are doing and either bookmark this or go to read this essay right now. HERE Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J., knocks it outta da park on Sacred Music. Here’s a taste, which you can enjoy while sipping … Read More
“And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads.”
Under the entry about our obligation to attend Holy Mass, someone posted this comment (I removed it to here): I’ve always had a fantasy where I make wallet sized Catholic obligation cards. These would have check boxes or punch boxes … Read More
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Fr. Blake opines: the seminarians he knows all want the Extraordinary Form
From the fine blog of my friend Fr Ray Blake, the distingusihed p.p. of Brighton, comes this encomium of the Dean of Bexley, tenens locum of Blackfen, His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Tim Finigan and a fun video he concatenated for … Read More
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