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The High Altar in the Abbey of Our Lady of Tongerlo (1858-2011)
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 22, 2011 at 11:00 am Guest article by Frater Anselm J. Gribbin, O.Praem.Part Two - Further alterations, 1919-1930Although the abbey church at Tongerlo was more or less completed at the end of the...
Trailer Video for the LSU Arkansas 2011 Football Game ( Battle for the Boot and The West )
Opinionated Catholic - Nov 22, 2011 at 10:58 am THIS IS IT!! And the Valley Shook has thoughts here at Delusional Optimism Wants an Undefeated Season or Nothing
Fishwrap promotes a “sermon” by a wywymprystess
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42 am The National catholic Reporter … quousque tandem?
The Fishwrap brings us today the “sermon” of a woman who thinks she is a priest. She is a member of the big-puppet crew, the...
Now That's a Catholic College!
Creative Minority Report - Nov 22, 2011 at 10:29 am The President of Belmont Abbey College President said he would close the college before submitting to the HHS mandate that would require them to provide coverage for...
Youth conference attendees make sacrament of reconciliation a priority
The Compass (Green Bay, WI) - Nov 22, 2011 at 9:09 am INDIANAPOLIS — While Lucas Oil Stadium and the many conference rooms and exhibit halls in the Indiana Convention Center were buzzing with laughing, singing and cheering during the...
More Christmas shopping ideas: Angelus Press will have free shipping.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Nov 22, 2011 at 9:00 am The nice people at Angelus Press wrote to let me know that:
… this upcoming Monday, November 28, Angelus Press will be offering Free Shipping on all orders to the continental...
Climategate, Redux
The Forum - Nov 22, 2011 at 8:56 am From James Delingpole, writing for the Telegraph:Breaking news: two years after the Climategate, a further batch of emails has been leaked onto the internet by a person – or...
Court Orders Father To End Mormon Education of Children Without Mother's Consent
The Religion Clause - Nov 22, 2011 at 8:49 am In In re the Marriage of John and Angela Bell, (CA App., Nov. 18, 2011), a California appellate court upheld a trial court's order in a marriage dissolution case preventing the...
‘Driven out of my priesthood and out of my parish, my whole world had collapsed’
Lux Occulta - Nov 22, 2011 at 8:48 am From the Sindo (the comments are well worth reading):
RTE’s allegation was so absurd that at first Fr Kevin Reynolds laughed — but there followed intolerable anguish before his...
Post: Programming note: “Reel Faith,” 30-Second Reviews & Catholic Answers Live
Decent Films Guide - Nov 22, 2011 at 8:42 am Last week’s “Reel Faith” season finale is now online at the show’s website. This is the end of regular “Reel Faith” programming until next year’s summer season, although we may...
RTÉ’s credibility on line in handling of Fr Reynolds’ libel
Lux Occulta - Nov 22, 2011 at 8:25 am From the Irish Times:
Accountability requires a public report detailing how programme was managed at every level, writes NOEL WHELAN
RTÉ HAS just handed a “get out of trouble”...
Bitter lesson for RTÉ in Reynolds’ libel case
Lux Occulta - Nov 22, 2011 at 8:02 am An interesting article by Alison O’Connor in the otherwise horrible Irish Independent:
WE can only speculate on how much money Fr Kevin Reynolds received from RTE — but whatever...
Review: The Muppets (2011)
Decent Films Guide - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:19 am This is quite deliberately not a reboot or reimagining or any such thing. Perhaps we can call it a revisiting. Like this summer’s charming Winnie the Pooh (also from Disney), The...
Review: Happy Feet Two (2011)
Decent Films Guide - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:18 am Little ones are “tougher than we think,” a penguin remarks in Happy Feet Two, and you can tell director George Miller believes it. The animated sequel pulls few punches: It’s...
Saint C.S. Lewis?
Brandon Vogt - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:14 am
Today is the 48th anniversary of C.S. Lewis' death which makes it his unofficial "feast day". Though he never converted to Catholicism, Lewis was very instrumental in my own...
Post: <i>Tangled</i>: In 30 Seconds! (A review in verse)
Decent Films Guide - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:12 am Disney’s Tangled in 30 seconds — in rhyming verse.
Post: <i>Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1</i>: In 30 Seconds (A Review in Verse)
Decent Films Guide - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:11 am Here’s my 30-second rhyming review of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
Post: <i>The Smurfs</i>: In 30 Seconds!
Decent Films Guide - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:10 am Don’t give them any more of your time.
San Frediano in Lucca: An Addendum
New Liturgical Movement - Nov 22, 2011 at 7:00 am Gregory recently wrote about that wonderful Lucchese basilica of San Frediano. As was mentioned in the comments to that post, this basilica also contains, in a chapel behind the...
Daily Quote from Lives of the Saints
Integrated Catholic Life - Nov 22, 2011 at 6:30 am “Cecilia was a Roman girl of patrician family, who had been brought up as a Christian. She fasted often, and wore a coarse garment beneath her rich clothing. Although she wished...
