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It's that time of year again, when I get a 50% increase in my blog traffic because of people searching for Advent pictures. This one is really popular. Seems like a disproportionate number come from Scandinavia. I hope some of them hang around and read a bit.
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I've come to expect that when I hear someone say this it will be followed by something dumb and probably nasty about the Church. Nancy Pelosi delivers. Pelosi strikes me as one of the more odious politicians around, and there's a lot of competition. I don't think I've ever heard an actual devout Catholic say "I'm…
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Sunday Night Journal — November 20, 2011 Today is the feast of Christ the King. The archdiocese of Mobile has a traditional celebration of this occasion which still involves an actual public procession. I was going to say that that’s probably a rare thing in this country in these days, but I decided to look…
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So, a week from today we begin using the new translations ("we" in this case being not just Catholics but Latin Rite Catholics). I'm wondering how much and how effectively other parishes have been preparing for this. In my case, I think not so well, unless it's been different at other Masses besides the one…
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Weekend Music I was too busy yesterday and today even to think about choosing a piece of music for this usual weekly feature, so was going to just skip it, but then Robert emailed me this. You'll enjoy it (even if they aren't always right in sync with those cards).
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Everything in the title above except the question mark is in the title of this piece at Front Porch Republic. I'm not so sure that movies of the 1930s and '40s show us the less-affluent life that's coming our way, but be that as it may, I like the reflections on the quality of those movies. …
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Available now at eMusic.
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In the art school there were all the conventional unconventionals–long-haired men, short-haired women, both at the time considered to be shocking and delighting in it. They were all interested in ideas more than in things, and most of them were kind, provided that they were not asked to be kind to someone who was obviously…
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