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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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Among the people who would be most interested in this movie, I suppose I'm one of the last to see it. In the unlikely event that you don't already know, it's the story of a group of French Trappist monks in Algeria who must decide whether to leave or stay in response to the growing…
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Weekend Music A few nights ago I watched a documentary about the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's Graceland album. It's pretty good, though it gives more attention to the political controversy surrounding the album than I would have preferred. The best thing about it is bits of the music, many of which come from the 1987…
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Here's a strange, amazing, and sad story of a Russian Old Believer family who fled from the Communists into not just any old wilderness but Siberia. And survived. Read about it at the Smithsonian's web site. I don't have a post category into which this fits very well. You can read about the Old Believers here.
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Two or three, depending on how you count. The first one isn't "a movie," exactly: the BBC series from 1975, Edward the King, aka Edward the Seventh–it seems to have had the former title in the U.S., the latter in the U.K. In thirteen one-hour segments (which actually seem to have been assembled from half-hour…
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…that we now have two incompatible versions of reality in America. In one of them, Joe Biden "represents an updated standard-bearer for the politics of joy." In the other, 2+2=4. You would think that the fact that even his admirers think the Vice-President of the United States is a buffoon (while his detractors think he…
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People who pretend to be in a Jane Austen novel.
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Weekend Music If you thought last week's Rev. Gary Davis track was the real stuff, you may like this even better, (although it never actually gets to the crucifixion). It's seven and a half minutes long, so wait till you have a bit of time. I'm done with dyin' and I ain't gon' die no mo'…
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