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Our wonderful Diocesan Magazine editor, Jeanette Mentha, has had a tradition over many years of leading us in the general knowledge questions from The Age at the staff lunch table. Today, she strayed into an article in the Age Education … Continue reading →

Call it what you will (Tridentine Rite, Mass of Pius V, Old Mass, or — most incorrectly — the Latin Mass), it was and still is a beautiful and immensely rich way to celebrate the Holy Eucharist. One blog reader … Continue reading →

Here’s what Sir Humphrey would call a “very droll” blog by Amy Welborn. Sometimes you just get lucky…and you hit a Mass in which you get not one, not two, but three homilies. (At the “greeting,” (3 minutes), at homily … Continue reading →

Pastor Weedon, over on his blog, has a regular “Old Lutheran” and “Patristic” “Quote of the Day”. I have been thinking about putting up a regular “Papa Benny” Quote of the Day. Here’s today’s (but I don’t promise that this … Continue reading →

In a democracy, we are entitled to know who we are electing to represent us in parliament. This is nothing more than consumer advice. Some people will say: she’s a good Catholic, I’ll vote for her. And others will say: … Continue reading →

“Hold still so I can get ya!” Or: “A little more of the back, perhaps, Holy Father?”

I am going to make a short comment about something that requires pages and pages of discussion. I don’t know if you have been following the discussion in First Things between Alyssa Pitstick and Edward Oakes on the issue of … Continue reading →

While we are searching the Catholic Blogosphere, Rocco Palmo reports on yet another change in the Vatican Curia, this time no. 2 at the Congregation for the Clergy is put out to pasture so that Cardinal Hummes gets a free … Continue reading →

I have had a devil of a time getting onto this post, referred to by Amy Welborn a day or two ago. Apparently it went into meltdown because so many people were trying to access it. The source is Fr. … Continue reading →

Amy Welborn has drawn attention to this blog by “Drew” on the Holy Whapping blogsite. He suggests, wisely it seemeth to Us: The Exhortation plays an important role in this movement, then, by codifying Ratzinger’s ideas on liturgy into the … Continue reading →