Catholic Stuff
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This series is proving quite interesting. Here's a link to the latest entry, Janet writing about St. Joachim. And if you missed Grumpy on St. Thomas Aquinas, you should certainly read it. Also, here's a link to the whole set. And if you're planning to contribute, please check the schedule.
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I started writing this as a comment on the post about the above allegation about Pope Francis. It kept getting longer so I decided to turn it into a separate post. I'm not expressing venom or hatred toward the Pope. I state that without qualification, regardless of whether it may appear that way, because I know…
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That's Carl Olson speaking about Pope Francis at Catholic World Report. Someone posted this on Facebook a week or so ago, and I've been hanging on to the link, intending to say something here about it. Well, I'm about to leave town for five days and won't have time to do much in the way of…
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Janet is kicking off the 52 Saints series at her blog. See this post and sign up!
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It is a very windy document. It would have been much better at half the length. It's repetive, and consciously so. From the opening chapter: Although each chapter will have its own subject and specific approach, it will also take up and re-examine important questions previously dealt with…. These questions will not be dealt with once…
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I mentioned in the previous post on this topic that I had seen something somewhere comparing speeches made by Francis on his recent visit to some made by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Whatever it was I saw, I couldn’t find it again. So I compared speeches made by all three at the U.N.…
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I discern a pattern in my reactions to popes in the news. I'm so irritated by the political weaponizing of everything he says or does that I pretty much have to ignore the hullabaloo while it's in progress. I've been told that his speech to Congress today was good, but I think I'll wait at…
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I can't remember how I happened across this piece, but it describes very well what I consider most important and most appealing about the Ordinariate Mass, and also what I had hoped might come of it: that it would have broad appeal outside the Ordinariate, and perhaps in time be part of the liturgical renewal…
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Thanks to Rob G for the link to this piece at First Things connecting Laudato Si and the thought of Wendell Berry. I am one of those whom the author mentions as being disappointed by a number of Berry's recent statements on same-sex marriage, not only the content but the tone. Nevertheless, one must try not to…
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My friend Robert W sent me a link to this piece by Rod Dreher which in turn refers to this piece by Matt Walsh which is pretty well summarized in its title: "Maybe Christianity In America Is Dying Because It’s Boring Everyone To Death": And this is the problem with Christianity in this country. Not just…
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