So I’m in Church this morning and Ivan is screeching like a girl so I take him out to the narthex (A.K.A. the place where I spend most of my liturgical life these days.) While I’m standing there I notice a card on the bulletin board, entitled, “What is important to Catholic citizens?”
As I begin [...]
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A Charitable Confiscation (or why I loathe the USCCB)
Posted in Catholic, Common Sense, Fun With Heresy, Grrr! on August 15, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Blessed Feast of the Assumption
Posted in Catholic on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And happy birthday to my mom!
The Most Interesting Thing You’ll Read All Day
Posted in Catholic, Liturgy, Restoration on August 6, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Check out this document from The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
It’s a look at the status of the old Mass through the lens of Summorum Pontificum, and there are quite a few telling statements in there. I’ll give you two (with my emphasis) and then you can, properly motivated, read and enjoy it for [...]
Now There’s a Shocker
Posted in Catholic, Grrr!, Liturgy, Motu Mania on July 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In a story in CNS today, it is being reported that retired Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini will NOT be celebrating the extraordinary rite of Mass.
I’ll give you a moment to stop reeling. You OK? Good. Let’s move on. Here’s what his Eminence had to say:
Although he loves the Latin language and would have no technical [...]
A Reader Chimes In
Posted in Catholic, Common Sense, Culture on July 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
On Harry Potter:
We have had reservations with these series because we know the dangers and evils behind witchcraft. It isn’t funny. It isn’t cute.
It surely isn’t funny when 8 year olds “pretend” to be witches especially, when you say on the side, “But you do know that witchcraft is a serious sin” (these are Catholic [...]
Knocking them Out of the Park
Posted in Catholic, Restoration on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Holy Father is quickly becoming my hero.
Telling it like it is, hurt feelings notwithstanding. That’s his job, and he’s apparently not afraid to do it.
PBS on the TLM in DC
Posted in Catholic, Liturgy, Motu Mania on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PBS offers a glimpse of my parish, St. Mary Mother of God in Washington, D.C., in the video accompanying this article.
Feast of the Sacred Heart
Posted in Catholic, Feasts on June 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today is the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. From the Missal:
The Feast of the Sacred Heart was established in order that the faithful might honor with more devotions and zeal, under the symbol of the Sacred Heart, the love of Jesus Christ, which induced Him not only to suffer and to die for [...]
Feast of St. Anthony of Padua
Posted in Catholic on June 13, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Today is the feast of St. Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church and Hammer of Heretics. I know too little about this great saint, but I have always had a devotion to him because I am incessantly losing things, which he helps me to find virtually without fail.
I am not exaggerating when I say that [...]
Feast of Corpus Christi
Posted in Catholic, Feasts, Tradition on June 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi. Rather than doing writing something original, I thought it would be highly appropriate to simply lift an image and some text from another blog. (It’s not plagiarizing if I tell you about it!)
The blog in question, called Argent by the Tiber, looks like a serendipitous find. I [...]
