Friday, December 08, 2006

Vatican confirms excommunications for US dissident group

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Dec. 7, 2006 (CWNews.com) -- The Vatican has confirmed the 1996 decision of American Bishop Bruskewitz to excommunicate members of the dissi...

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

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You alone and your Mother are more beautiful than any others; For there is no blemish in you, nor any stains upon your Mother. Who of my chi...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Conservative Jews ok gay rabbis

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In a move that would definitely delight the notorious Fr. Joseph O'Leary, Rabbi Kassel Abelson, speaking for the 25-member Rabbinical As...

" ... a low Mass in the old rite, read silently in a garage, is more solemn ..."

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The liturgy of the reform and its adornments will never be able to constitute a seminal fact in the life of the nations. It is too anemic, ...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Michael Davies on liturgical reform

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Michael Davies authored a two-part article on "True and False Liturgical Reform" before he passed away in 2004. It was published ...

St. Nicholas

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Nicholas, called "of Bari," was the fourth-century bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor. His feast day is tod...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

What can one say? This is America ...

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Flatulence forces American Airlines plane to land (WBIR.com Knoxville, TN).
Monday, December 04, 2006

Congratulations, Fr. Al Kimel!

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Al Kimel , of the Pontifications blog, was ordained to the sacred priesthood of the Catholic Church yesterday, Sunday, December 3rd, at Our...
Sunday, December 03, 2006

"St. Francis Xavier, give us a zeal for souls!"

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A reader writes: "Francis Xavier was the saint that first tugged me towards Catholicism. I was mesmerized by the noble stories and phot...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

Making their Roman obedience

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It is an excercise in patience and humility, as well as a joy (not always unmixed with sadness), for an established Anglican clergyman to gi...
Friday, December 01, 2006

Te Deum Laudamus

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Te Deum laudamus Te dominum confitemur. Te æternum Patrem omnis terra veneratur. Tibi omnes angeli, tibi cæli: et universæ Potestates. Tibi ...

Pope Benedict XVI Departs Istanbul

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Pope ends visit to Turkey (RTE News, 01 December 2006 14:48): Pope Benedict XVI has ended his visit to Turkey by concelebrating Mass with t...

Images and reality

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John Allen writes : "If Benedict XVI’s Nov. 28-Dec. 1 trip to Turkey leaves behind a defining image, especially in the Muslim world, it...
Thursday, November 30, 2006

Today's and tomorrow's papal schedule

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Thursday, 30 November Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of St. George - Address of the Holy Father; Joint Declaration Visit to the M...

Koran to replace Bible at swearing-in oath?

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Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on th...