Catholic Stuff
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Janet has a good one at The Three Prayers.
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[History] will remember him as the greatest and most learned intellect ever to occupy the Chair of Peter. No public official in our time has been anywhere near his intellectual equal. This disparity is itself the cause of much disorder, if we grant, as we must, that truth is the essence of intellect and indeed…
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That's meant to be provocative, and I haven't done exactly that, or done it altogether. What I have done, though, is to stop the particular set of prayers that form almost the entirety of my formal prayer life outside of the Liturgy and an hour of adoration every week. I say these prayers on the…
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It's a strange feeling, isn't it? Different from when John Paul died, because the Church and the world are not preoccupied with funeral rites, obituaries, and so forth. I had felt somewhat detached from the whole thing until I read the words "I am no longer supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church." The official end…
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Settled definitively by Erin Manning, maybe?
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And on the pope himself: Benedict XVI is MY Pope. Another interesting reaction from a (fairly) young person, recent convert, and recently ordained priest: Fr. Matthew Venuti, my so-to-speak parish priest in the Ordinariate. You may have noticed that the blog Father Father appeared on my sidebar recently. The main reason I haven't mentioned it is that I'm…
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(I have an uneasy feeling that I may have written more or less this post before, but a quick look around hasn't found it. ) Some years Lent gets off to a better start than others for me. This year I was going to make a real effort to start thinking about it well before…
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Well, this is a shock. My immediate reaction is somewhat selfish. It happens that just yesterday I heard our Ordinariate pastor's report on the symposium on the Ordinariate which took place in Houston on the first weekend of February. The symposium was addressed by no less than the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine…
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Good post for her feast day at The Three Prayers, with a couple of songs/hymns that you really should hear.
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I'm a bit late with this, but: one at The Three Prayers and one at Castle in the Sea.
Light On Dark Water 