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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
ASK FATHER: Can a bishop permit permanent deacon to administer the Sacrament of the Sick?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Can a Bishop give a permanent Deacon (Military Ordinariate) the authority to administer the Sacrament of the Sick? NO! One hundred times… NO! Deacons are not able to administer Anointing of the Sick. Only the sacerdos (which term … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: Are deacons required to wear the dalmatic at Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, last year we began attending a more traditional parish in our diocese. It struck me just today that I’ve never seen our deacon at Mass without a dalmatic, whereas we saw the deacon frequently without … Continue reading
PROCLAMATION 3560 : THANKSGIVING DAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1963.
Thanksgiving Day Proclamations for your perusal and edification. Perhaps you might find a good one and read it aloud. HERE Here’s a good one. A Thanksgiving Day Proclamation… just days before his death: PROCLAMATION 3560 : THANKSGIVING DAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1963. … Continue reading
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Some clarity about the faculty Francis gave priests to “absolve the sin of abortion”
At CNN we find a story about how Pope Francis extended to priests indefinitely the ability to absolve the sin of abortion. He had hitherto given it only for the Year of Mercy, which is now closed. (CNN)Pope Francis has … Continue reading
Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!
A friend sent me a little clip from the Brompton Oratory in London. It is appropriate for this time at the end of the liturgical year and just before the beginning of another at Advent. This is a beautifully … Continue reading
Fr. Murray on who are the traditional young Catholics… NOT.
My friend Fr. Gerald Murray has a good commentary at The Catholic Thing on some comments Pope Francis made about people, especially about young people, who desire the older, traditional form of Holy Mass and the Latin, Roman Church’s sacred worship. … Continue reading
