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How many times did Catholic leaders have nothing to say when Sun-Times asked about the abuser priest with a long history of ministry . . .
. . . and a short record of being named in bishops' and others' public lists of abusers?
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SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL (362 A.D.) Martyrs and what they can tell us about going alone to getting along . . .
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Apr 23
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Liturgical language that works. The Case for Latin. What Catholics pray for during Mass: Should they watch their language?
From Mundabor about new UK lectionary: It is a very Protestant thinking that the vehicle (the language, the translation) used to convey [Scriptural…
Apr 20
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Liturgical language that works. The Case for Latin. What Catholics pray for during Mass: Should they watch their language?
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Do Romans (Catholics) believe in the Real Presence or don’t they? That is the question . . .
I see, or we saw, where 2/3 of Romans in the U.S. do not believe in the Real Presence, also where on 2nd thought the pollster, heretofore taken as…
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Battle is o’er, hell’s armies flee, sang British Catholics in the ’30s and ’40s
Hymn translated by Ronald Knox, one of many which he translated for the Westminster Hymnal in the late ’30s. The very forcefulness of it would never…
Apr 6
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Battle is o’er, hell’s armies flee, sang British Catholics in the ’30s and ’40s
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God's in the tabernacle, all's right with the world -- If you want it to be
Taking seriously my Catholic belief in the Real Presence in the tabernacle, I took to imagining Jesus up there in person, as approachable as can be, a…
Apr 5
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Adam in the underworld on the day we call Holy Saturday -- a tale of unremitting sorrow attuned to a great awakening . . .
. . . told by a Washington DC Dominican seminarian in Dominicana Magazine. Adam speaks: . . . Bathed in darkness and pierced by cold, I have been…
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The Good Friday non-Mass brings us down, down to the very depths of God knows what, to where down looks up to us . . .
Down and dirty, brass tacks, let devil (who's he at this point?) take hindmost, we are at the heart of things with this not-a-mass service on this day…
Mar 29
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Holy Thursday, Last Supper, final days of the honest-to-God savior of the world
From Traditional Latin Mass Propers In English: Holy Thursday celebrates especially the institution of the Mass at the Last Supper. . . . On this day…
Mar 29
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Another word to the wise from the Latin Mass blog. The Wednesday before betrayal.
It's about the Suffering Servant who is Jesus: Nothing so touches the heart as the tragic suffering of the innocent. There oughta be a law, we think…
Mar 27
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TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK traditionally speaking . . .
. . . as delivered faithfully come hell or high water, rain or shine, snow or rain or dry, hot or cold or in between at Traditional Latin Mass Propers…
Mar 26
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Man at Mass, adventures in the pew
Liberal town, liberal parish, 14 years ago, prepared for a book . . .
Mar 26
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