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"The Prophecy of God's Plan"
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 11, 2011 at 2:18 am As Advent reaches its midpoint, for your Gaudete Sunday and the days ahead -- and before these pages turn in earnest toward American Catholicism's Mother of All Feasts -- in...
Pope says focus on Jesus, not pre-Christmas distractions
EWTN - Vatican News - Dec 11, 2011 at 1:30 am Vatican City, Dec 11, 2011 / 01:30 pm (EWTN News/CNA).-
Pope Benedict XVI reminded Christians not to be dazzled by the shopping lights of the Advent season but to keep focused on...
Tim Tebow’s gospel of optimism
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 11, 2011 at 1:23 am
It’s not everybody’s favorite gospel, particularly in the world of professional sports, but it’s got a lot of people talking and thinking — including Frank Bruni in the New York...
This Advent – Pray the Hail Mary Like Never Before
Integrated Catholic Life - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:02 pm Catholics sometimes come across slightly defensive, almost embarrassed, about Mary. When asked by our protestant friends why Catholics worship Mary, we may quickly reply, “We don’...
QUAERITUR: Resources for seminarians to learn TLM on their own. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 11:01 pm During an ordination, someone must stand up in front of the ordaining bishop and attest that seminarians are properly formed and educated and suitable for ordination.
However,...
Israeli Bus Company Fined After Driver Enforces Sex Segregation
The Religion Clause - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:14 pm In Israel on Wednesday, the Rishon Lezion Magistrate Court fined Egged, Israel's largest bus company, the equivalent of $1,070 (US) for requiring a woman passenger to sit in the...
Any suggestions for a teenager thinking of the priesthood?
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 10, 2011 at 9:04 pm A woman in my parish dropped me a line today:
I’d like your advice. The other day a young man, still a boy, told me he was thinking about becoming a priest. I was very...
Meet the “Nones”: “We may not believe in God, but we hope to one day”
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 10, 2011 at 8:33 pm
Here’s a different take on religion and American culture from someone who professes no faith, but is still searching:
For a nation of talkers and self-confessors, we are terrible...
Health Care and Mercy
Commonweal - Dec 10, 2011 at 8:14 pm I was in Boston late last week, and tagged along with my mother while she got her cataract removed in an outpatient surgery procedure. Boston has the best medical care in the...
Nothing Ventured
Commonweal - Dec 10, 2011 at 6:39 pm In the early centuries of the Church most theologians were also pastors. For them, theology and spirituality, contemplation and Christian living were inseparable. One of their...
Kindle by candle
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 5:54 pm The power is out. So, time to get some reading done. I don’t have a case with light for my Kindle, so it’s Kindle by kindled candle.
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Desde El Tepeyac... Y Ahora, Por Todos Los Estados
Whispers in the Loggia - Dec 10, 2011 at 4:56 pm Y por un otro año, iglesia del Norte, la fiesta del nuestro futuro esta aquí.Virgencita de Guadalupe -- Emperatriz de la una America, Madre de Nuestra Esperanza y una Vida Nueva...
The Roman Rite: Old and New - IX The motivation behind the New Mass? A liturgy for the World
Rorate Coeli - Dec 10, 2011 at 4:30 pm In the ninth installment of Don Pietro Leone's "The Roman Rite: Old and New", the author concludes the second part of his study, going to the core of the motivation behind the New...
NLM Free Giveaways: Sign Up for Comments Before It Begins
New Liturgical Movement - Dec 10, 2011 at 4:28 pm Folks: We are starting a new thing here at NLM whereby we are going to be doing free giveaway contests.
In a nutshell, here is how it will work:
- the giveaways will be a...
The Commentary of Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro on Universae Ecclesiae
Rorate Coeli - Dec 10, 2011 at 4:03 pm (For the background to this post, see this article: Luc Perrin on Catholic Traditionalism in France.)
Conference on Summorum Pontificum IV: “A Comment on the Instruction Universae...
Christmas card of the year
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 10, 2011 at 4:00 pm
The mayor of San Juan, Jorge Santini, is sending the card pictured above to some of his friends. (Mine must have gotten lost in the mail…but it’s popped up in the interwebs)....
Something we never see, but should
The Deacon's Bench - Dec 10, 2011 at 1:05 pm
It happened recently at our parish mission, and it was something I’ll never forget.
The mission had an extraordinary turnout: what started with a couple hundred stalwart souls on...
QUAERITUR: How to get Gregorian chant and a TLM in the parish.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Dec 10, 2011 at 1:00 pm From a reader:
The New Missal has started in my parish and the music is atrocious. I had to go to the local public high school play to hear Gregorian Chant! No regard for GIRM #41...
Sunday Rest Special: What Can You Do on Sunday?
Jimmy Akin.org - Dec 10, 2011 at 12:57 pm Can you spend money on Sunday? Can you mow the lawn? Can you cook dinner? Can you go out to a restaurant? Can you go to a sporting event? Do you have to sit in a chair and read...
Pope Benedict: co-operatives help humanize the economy
Catholic News Agency - General - Dec 10, 2011 at 12:57 pm Vatican City, Dec 10, 2011 / 01:57 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI has praised the Catholic co-operative movement for helping to humanize the world of economics and...
