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Kevin Lowry is such a great guy
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2012 at 1:05 am I met him out in Columbus back in October at the Coming Home Network conference. He’s a grateful convert to the Faith who blogs at (surprise!) Grateful Convert. He has also just...
God bless Linda Gibbons!
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2012 at 1:03 am Pete Vere writes from north of the border
Not sure if folks on your side of the border are familiar with Linda Gibbons, a sixty-something grandmother (and woman who regrets...
A theological conundrum for Fundamentalists
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 2, 2012 at 1:01 am If Jesus meant we are really, literally, to call no man “Father”, then what are the children of this convert Anglican priest supposed to call him?
Fundamentalists who resort to...
QUAERITUR: Why were the candles in echelon instead of in a line?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 2, 2012 at 12:01 am Under another entry, a commentator asked:
Why [were] the altar candles sometimes in line (as for the Mass of 1 Jan) and sometimes in echelon (as at Christmas Midnight Mass).
I...
10 Movies We Don't Wanna' See in 3D
Creative Minority Report - Jan 1, 2012 at 11:38 pm The latest craze in Hollywood is releasing older movies in 3D. Star Wars-the Phantom Menace is being released in 3D. That means one more dimension of Jar Jar. That's extra Jar....
The Baby Or Your Job
Creative Minority Report - Jan 1, 2012 at 11:09 pm Color me skeptical on this one. A Long Island woman claims that she killed her baby because her boss at a delicatessen made her. And now she wants money for her suffering. No...
Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha – The Lily of the Mohawks
Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 1, 2012 at 11:01 pm I am the only one in my family without a drop of Native American blood in my veins. My husband’s 1/8 heritage and kids’ 1/16 inspired my son Tyler to once jokingly announce that I...
Priests: “Resolve” to Love the Laity
Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 1, 2012 at 11:01 pm
The Church was also in need of change, but only to the extent that she needed to look again at how she could most effectively change the world. We have allowed a missionary...
Iesu, dulcis memoria
Rorate Coeli - Jan 1, 2012 at 9:35 pm (This was originally posted on January 3, 2010 - Augustinus).
Iesu, dulcis memoria,Dans vera cordis gaudia:Sed super mel et omniaEius dulcis praesentia.Nil canitur suavius,Nil...
Seminarians learning from the very best sources!
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 1, 2012 at 8:35 pm At the blog of a seminarian, Cor Ad Cor Loquitur, I saw post that gives me hope for good, strong priests in the future.
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What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 1, 2012 at 6:00 pm Here are some posts which have been scrolling along.
Dealing with McBrien on the new, corrected translation
Benedict XVI’s Mass for Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
A new Personal...
On Day One, The Ordinariate Spreads North
Whispers in the Loggia - Jan 1, 2012 at 5:17 pm While the Vatican's announcement of the launch of the US' Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter takes top line today, a key codicil of the news has freshly presented...
Share buttons
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 1, 2012 at 4:32 pm I have been making some changes to “sharing” buttons.
Please help! I hate lonely zeros.
When you visit, use the buttons with ineffable vigor!
Dealing with McBrien on the new, corrected translation
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 1, 2012 at 4:26 pm From the dissident Fishwrap‘s long-time dissident columnist, Fr. Richard McBrien, comes this piece about the new, corrected translation.
Pay close attention to the contempt he...
Catholic New Year’s resolutions
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 1, 2012 at 2:33 pm [I wrote the following for my parish bulletin. Dcn. G.]
So here we are, beginning another year, rising to face new challenges, hoping to be better people next December 31 than we...
“The back alley is back, and supersized”
The Curt Jester - Jan 1, 2012 at 2:10 pm From Mark Steyn’s recent column:
As I was leaving Fox News last night, I glanced up at the monitor and caught Juan Williams expressing mystification to Sean Hannity as to why...
Here come the Anglicans: details on America’s first ordinariate
The Deacon's Bench - Jan 1, 2012 at 2:08 pm This broke while I was away from my desk, in the middle of the Sunday Marathon of Masses, but Rocco has all you need to know:
In an unprecedented Sunday announcement — a...
Recent Prisoner Free Exercise Cases
The Religion Clause - Jan 1, 2012 at 1:00 pm In Shaw v. Parker, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148286 (D DE, Dec. 27, 2011), a Delaware federal district court dismissed an inmate's complaint that his rosary beads had been confiscated...
Benedict XVI’s Mass for Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 1, 2012 at 11:55 am For on demand video of the Mass click HERE.
The video opens with the lead up to the Mass, with lots of panning around the basilica, inside and out.
The entrance procession, which...
Efforts Continue To Get Public Display of Washington's Letter To Newport Hebrew Congregation
The Religion Clause - Jan 1, 2012 at 11:46 am The Forward last week reported on efforts to restore to public view an important document in the history of religious freedom in the United States-- George Washington's Letter to...
