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Talking heads. Nine yards? Cement mixer. The Oregon Trail. Dog for dinner. East meets west.
Revise revise revise. The Waugh-Mitford exchange. Death's sting. A meditation on same.
How Fr. Weinandy decided to write his letter of complaint to Pope Francis
12/5/68: "Cardinal Cody and the mass dance" Chicago Daily News. Coverage of coverage
Loyola Academy, province exams 1960. Vocational quandaries. Pete Fox, iron lung, wit and wisdom.
From the West Side to Wilmette, Loyola Academy and a different kind of student.
Street scenes Oak Park, 2005. Birds die. Frank Lloyd Wright houses? . . .
Being a Jesuit in the '50s -- teaching at St. Ignatius on the West Side of Chicago . . .
Israel Must Destroy Iran's Nuclear Program with or without US
J.D. Vance makes a hash out of Gomer Pyle, err Tim Walz
Oak Park the beautiful in 2005 -- squirrels and sleepers, panhandlers, encounter in Osco lot . . .
Priest a no-show, worshiper makes best of it, meditating away
When the prayer to Michael the Archangel got a priest in trouble.
When growth perked up: Life on the east end...
Mind wanders during mass? You need something to keep you on track? Have you tried Psalms?
At mass, crying rooms for chatters? The worshiper reported and commented decades ago.
Chicago’s Cardinal Cupich urges empathy
Why Catholics flock to old-style masses. A 1993 account in Chi Trib, Part Two . . .
When Catholics vote. Cardinal Cupich has an issue with certain unidentified campaigners.
Prayer to God asking for the priest so there can be mass . . .
Let us now have a peak at the mass of today with attention to its Scripture readings . . .
It's April 25, St. Mark’s Day, Alleluia.
Do Romans (Catholics) believe in the Real Presence or don’t they? That is the question . . .
Battle is o’er, hell’s armies flee, sang British Catholics in the ’30s and ’40s
God's in the tabernacle, all's right with the world -- If you want it to be
Holy Thursday, Last Supper, final days of the honest-to-God savior of the world
Another word to the wise from the Latin Mass blog. The Wednesday before betrayal.
TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK traditionally speaking . . .
Man at Mass, adventures in the pew
Receiving holy communion at mass. It’s special. Everybody does it. Almost everybody.