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It’s still Christmas, so let’s keep the carols going…
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 30, 2011 at 7:02 am One of my favorites, from an old PBS special. (The CD of this is a holiday perennial around our house.) Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Staade and “Gesu Bambino,” conducted by...
Usus Antiquior in India
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 30, 2011 at 7:00 am The website of Messainlatino.it have some interesting photos up of the usus antiquior celebrated in India. The first, coming from another blog, Te Igitur, shows the weekly Sunday...
The Popes and the World Day of Peace (background)
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:44 am On January 1, the Church will commemorate the 45th World Day of Peace. Pope Benedict's message for the day is entitled "Educating Young People in Justice and Peace."
In his...
USCCB calls for justice for Nigerian terrorists, 2-state solution in Holy Land
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:43 am The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has expressed its solidarity with, and prayers for, the persecuted Christians of Nigeria and the Middle East. In doing so...
Nigerian bishops declare day of prayer and fasting; death toll rises to 200
Catholic Culture - World News - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:42 am As the suspected death toll from Christmas Day terrorist attacks on Nigerian churches approached 200, the bishops of Nigeria declared December 31 a day of prayer and fasting.
"The...
“How beautiful, the hands that serve”: a moving ordination slideshow
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:37 am A couple weeks back, I posted on the diaconal ordination of Sean Suckiel. Below is a lovingly produced slideshow of the event, which also includes his profession of faith and...
Daily Quote from Blessed John Paul II on the Family
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:30 am “At a moment of history in which the family is the object of numerous forces that seek to destroy it or in some way to deform it, and aware that the well-being of society and her...
Natural Law?
Commonweal - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:27 am Today’s Wall Street Journal has a review of a book of essays by Liu Xiaobo, the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, who is currently in prison in China. Mr. Liu was one of the...
Russian Orthodox Church Joins Those Critical of Russia's Parliamentary Elections
The Religion Clause - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:24 am The New York Times reported yesterday that in Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church has surprisingly joined those that are critical of the recent parliamentary elections. The Church...
Suit Challenges Investigations Into Church Refusals To Host Civil Union Ceremonies
The Religion Clause - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:15 am Hawaii's civil union law, permitting same-sex civil unions, enacted in February 2011 (see prior posting) takes effect January 1, 2012. On Wednesday, two Christian churches filed a...
Catholic Spirit Christmas Basketball Tournament — Day 2 results
The Catholic Spirit (St. Paul, MN) - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:14 am Results — Thursday, Dec. 29
Cretin-Derham Hall 69
Hill-Murray 55
Ninth-grade guard Sam Neumann of Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul tries to keep the ball away from...
Zoning Settlement Reached With Unitarian Church
The Religion Clause - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:10 am City officials in Wayzata, Minnesota has negotiated a settlement in a RLUIPA lawsuit filed against the city last year by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka which has...
Many Muslim Leaders Will Boycott NY Mayor's Interfaith Breakfast
The Religion Clause - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:05 am AP reports that 15 Muslim leaders will boycott today's annual interfaith breakfast sponsored by New York Mayor Michaael Bloomberg. The leaders are concerned with Bloomberg's...
Zambian Christians Want New Constitution To Reject Gays and Keep Christian Nation
The Religion Clause - Dec 30, 2011 at 6:00 am The Christian Post and the Zambian Watchdog both report on a march that was planned for yesterday in Lusaka, Zambia by Christian groups who are demanding that the new constitution...
Hackett Looks Back on Career Helping Those in Need
Franciscan Media - Dec 30, 2011 at 5:00 am BALTIMORE (CNS)—When Ken Hackett graduated from Boston College with a
business degree in 1968, he expected to work in the corporate world,
handling big money accounts, maybe at...
Six years of Pontificate and the Sacred Liturgy: So this is it?
Rorate Coeli - Dec 30, 2011 at 4:59 am The evangelization of Latin America was made with the traditional rites of one Church: the Latin Church. One Mass, the Traditional Latin Mass, or very slight variations of it. We...
600 Joan of Arc A bishop in great peril
Rorate Coeli - Dec 30, 2011 at 2:17 am Jeanne d'Arc was born in Domrémy, a village divided, at the time of her birth, between the Royal domain of Barrois and the Crown territories of the County of Champagne - a fully...
Persecution of Catholicism in Ireland: Archbishop Matthew’s Report of 1623
Lux Occulta - Dec 30, 2011 at 2:13 am The following is the eighth section of a report on the state of religion in Ireland presented to the Sacred Congregation for Propaganda on 4th February, 1623, by Dr. Eugene...
If You Build It - They Will Take It Away
Creative Minority Report - Dec 30, 2011 at 1:11 am Radical secularists score another one. NYTimesRoman Catholic bishops in Illinois have shuttered most of the Catholic Charities affiliates in the state rather than comply with a...
Dickens would have this guy’s guts for garters
Catholic and Enjoying It! - Dec 30, 2011 at 1:05 am Fabulously rich Obama Administration official wants to cut wages of $9/hour workers.
Listening to Obama talking about economic justice for the Common Man is like listening to Newt...
