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Category Archives: POPES
Church of England to allow homosexual bishops in civil partnerships
There is a story at CNA/EWTN that made me chuckle a little. What for what is wrong with this (including the terminology). London, England, Jan 4, 2013 / 06:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Church of England has decided to permit … Continue reading
Posted in Benedict XVI, Liberals, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity
Tagged Anglicans, Church of England, homosexuals
24 Comments
Take the Women’s Ordination Conference! Please?
As we approach the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I just want to give a big shout out to the folks at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, DC, for allowing some Catholic girls to jump around in … Continue reading
London: Soho homosexual Masses to end, parish entrusted to Ordinariate
In the UK’s best Catholic Weekly, The Catholic Herald, we read some doubly-good news. Archbishop Nichols ends ‘Soho Masses’ after six years By MARK GREAVES Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has announced that Masses in Soho organised for gay people … Continue reading
SSPX Bp. Fellay delivers a long “state of the question” address
On 28 December 2012, SSPX Superior Bishop Bernard Fellay gave a long address in English to what sounds like good sized mixed crowd at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Ontario, Canada. He unloaded a lot of information. The talk … Continue reading
Posted in Benedict XVI, Pope of Christian Unity, SSPX, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Vatican II
Tagged Bp. Fellay, SSPX
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@Pontifex Tuesday Project: Week 1
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! I suggested a project using Twitter HERE. Let’s create a “stack” of tweets during the day. Concentrate your effort on a day and single theme instead of various scatterings over days when they might not … Continue reading
1st Vespers at San Pietro
I clicked on my Centro Televisivo Vaticano player for 1st Vespers from St. Peter’s Basilica. The Holy Father presides. The chant by the schola is improving. They are singing alternately with the congregation. From what I can tell, quite a few … Continue reading
A suggested Twitter project for @Pontifex
Now that the initial furor around the Holy Father’s Twitter account has died down a little, I want to pass along a suggestion made by a reader who left me a constructive voicemail. We could designate a day to post … Continue reading
And another thing about the Holy Father’s Mass for Christmas… GRADUAL!
During the Holy Father’s 1st Mass of Christmas last night, something happened which everyone should know about. Instead of a “Responsorial Psalm”, the schola and a cantor sang the Gradual. No congregational singing for that. People were given the opportunity to … Continue reading
Benedict XVI’s sermon for 1st Mass of Christmas
The Holy Father’s sermon for the 1st Mass of Christmas with my emphases and comments. I get the sense that not all of this sermon was composed by His Holiness. Just a guess. Let’s see for ourselves: Again and again … Continue reading
Posted in Benedict XVI, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Benedict XVI, Christmas, Ephesians 14:17, Isaiah 2:4, John 1:11, Luke 2:16, nous, transeamus
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Fanon Alert! Benedict XVI and Christmas Mass
His Holiness has his fanon again for the First Mass of Christmas. Nice to see. More on the fanon, hated by liberals and the ungodly, HERE.
Posted in Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Benedict XVI, fanon
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