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You report: A priest of the Institute of Christ the King visits the Philippines - Mass in the Baptistry of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral of the Diocese of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines. Feb. 6, 2012 The blog Veritatem Facientes...
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Monteverdi's Wonderful "Beatus Vir" - It's such a pleasure to share this composition that has been one of my favorites for so many years -- and to see it actually performed. Blessed is the man...
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Editor of Institute of Medical Ethics’ journal attempts to justify its abhorrent promotion of killing newborns - Julian Savulescu, the editor of the Institute of Medical Ethics' Journal of Medical Ethics, writing in his official capacity as the Institute of Medical Et...40 minutes ago
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St David of Wales & A Papal Milestone - Today, the 1st of March is the feast of St David, patron saint of Wales. On 18 September 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI had celebrated Holy Mass in Westmins...
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Dawkins and Singer Trying to Think - Watch this video of Peter Singer and Richard Dawkins discussing infanticide. Last week my homily was about the three ugly sisters of utilitarianism, indi...
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Why Abortion is the Opposite of Love ? - by Fr. Frank Pavone Lent teaches us the meaning of love. Jesus endured His passion and crucifixion for each of us, giving Himself away that we might have l...1 hour ago
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Christendom is finished - will Catholicism be next? - It was Archbishop Sheen who stated in the 1970s that Christendom was kaput. It marked the start of a new era, he predicted, when the Church would come under...
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Our Lady and fasting - De Maria numquam satis. Wedding feast at CanaDid Our Lady fast?! She would not have had any sins to be forgiven! Why would She need to do penance? But She...
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Read the latest... - ...news and views from the Ordinarite of Our Lady of Walsingham here...(and Auntie has a feature in it).3 hours ago
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Conscientious objection - * ** Anyone who disagrees with current thinking should be trodden on....?* * * As widely reported, two Scottish midwives have lo...3 hours ago
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SPUC's comment on the 'after-birth abortion' paper - Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's communications manager, has been quoted overnight in *The Huffington Post UK* and *The Sun*, commenting on "After-birth abortion: w...4 hours ago
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Benedictine Monks at Norcia have a new video on their way of life: Quaerere Deum… To Seek God. - Since I regularly listen to Lauds sung by the Benedictine Monks at Norcia (and, I am glad to say, they may be correcting a tendency to go flat when singing...4 hours ago
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Contraception provision has little or no effect on reducing teenage pregnancy rates - Via SPUC, we have Professor David Paton, professor of industrial economics at Nottingham University Business School, who told the media on Tuesday: "The fa...5 hours ago
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Archbishop Mario Conti views with deep concern judgement which states midwives must take part in abortions - Two senior midwives with more than 20 years experience delivering babies, have been told by a court that they must supervise abortions. A judgment was han...5 hours ago
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Personhood - Normally I don't blog on this topic, but look at this. This is mind-blowing, and I am reminded of pagan Rome, where fathers had a look at newborns and deci...6 hours ago
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Enough with Downton Abbey? - *"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:** Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings—* —*Through the Looking-Glass *...7 hours ago
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It’s Mine, All Mine - Grace: A deep knowledge of my sins and my personal responsibility for them. Text for Prayer: 1 John 1:8 – 2:2 Reflection: It is not easy to pray on sin....9 hours ago
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Feast of St David - Saint David, or *Dewi Sant* – monk, abbot, bishop, confessor, and patron of Wales – seems to have led a holy life surrounded by lots of other saints. Born ...10 hours ago
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Fr Tim's 150th Anniversary Sermon - Fr Tim, the preacher at our 150th Anniversary celebration Mass has put up his excellent sermon on his blog. There is one disagreement I have with him or r...13 hours ago
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Slippery Sophistry - In response to the series of exposes by the Daily Telegraph last week, Voice for Choice, ‘the coalition to defend and extend women’s choice on abortion’, h...13 hours ago
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Happy St. David’s Day – Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. - One of the most important dates in the Welsh calendar is March 1st, when each year we here in Wales celebrate our patron Saint, St David who died on thi...
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus! Happy St David's Day! - *The mosaic of St David of Wales at Westminster Cathedral (artist: Ifor Davies) photo (c) Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk* *published under a creative commons...
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Hold Your Tonge - “The State of Israel will not last forever in its present form.” For this, the Lib Dem Whip is withdrawn. For a statement of the obvious. About 14,000 Jews...15 hours ago
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150th Recordings Exclusive: Tu es Petrus by Tom Bennett - James Macmillan composed a staggeringly dramatic Tu es Petrus for the Holy Father’s visit to the UK. Tom Bennett, a young Oxford choral scholar and compose...15 hours ago
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Spot the mistake - Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva have published a paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics with the title After-birth abortion: why should the baby ...
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It's that old Global Warming thing again, folks - or is it? - Here is a very interesting article from the Wall Street Journal about that elusive "warming" Be sure to watch the video.16 hours ago
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It sounds ridiculous, but this is how it always begins... - As has been widely reported, the *Journal of Medical Ethics *has published a paper in which medical 'ethicists' argue the case for 'post-birth abortion' o...17 hours ago
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Hard cases make bad law... - It is very clear that a large number of Catholics, particularly in the US, have divorced and then ‘re-married.’ I use the inverted commas, as if their pre...18 hours ago
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Scottish Catholic Midwives lose Abortion Case - Scottish midwives lose case about objecting to abortion This is just par for the course these days. I dont really see how "supervision" does not accordin...18 hours ago
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One IVF story you must read - The Catholic Church is often portrayed as unsympathetic to infertile couples. Because the Church finds IVF wrong, others mistakenly believe that the Churc...21 hours ago
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More and More Comments - *Robert Mickens* the Rome correspondent for the Capsule and other magazines in America reports that "The Church is in Disarray" This is prompted by that st...22 hours ago
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Cardinal Manning: why he is Newman’s equal, Part 2, by Russell Sparkes - In the last half of his article, Russell Sparkes points out that although Cardinal Manning was not a theologian to compare with Newman, the former’s vision...1 day ago
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It’s here! - It’s here! The new Routemaster bus took to the streets this week. I blogged about this two years ago, as a matter of existential concern for Londoners: Per...1 day ago
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Domine, non sum dignus…… - You may remember that I bemoaned the lack of enthusiasm for the Sacrament of Penance in the Valle Adurni. Last weekend, Diaconus in Valle decided to addres...1 day ago
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What is the Total Consecration of St. Louis de Montfort? - “Here is a secret, chosen soul, which the most High God taught me and which I have not found in any book, ancient or modern. Inspired by the Holy Spirit...
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John Cassian: With All Our Exertions and Zeal We Can Never Arrive at Perfection - It is well for us to be sure that although we practise every virtue with unceasing efforts, yet with all our exertions and zeal we can never arrive at perf...1 day ago
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Success vs meaning - A correspondent sends me a couple of interesting and contrasting links which lead to the following stories. First, Archbishop Vincent Nichols has addressed...
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Working for nothing - the new economy - Reports continue to flow out about how the unemployed are being made to work for next to nothing. Well not quite, at least they get to keep their meagre "J...1 day ago
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Leap Day, 1604: John Whitgift, RIP - John Whitgift, Elizabeth I's third Archbishop of Canterbury, died on February 29, 1604 (although the stained glass window at right says 1603--unless it is ...
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Bitter Herbs Before the Exodus: Skooter Changes Course for Lent - . . . I received some snail mail recently from Liz Feuerborn who frequently comments on my posts at These Stone Walls. At the very end of her letter was a ...1 day ago
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Carpe Articulum - I read this article today: Hades-type cave looks like heaven for archaeologists. Key bit: "Hades, the fabled underworld of the dead in ancient Greece, wa...
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A Prayer from the Desert (for Lent) - composed by a Guild supporter called Anne - (c) Luca Galuzzi - www.galuzzi.it (creative commons licence - source: Wikimedia Commons)Lord Jesus Christ, whose will all things obey: pardon what I have do...
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Hilda en route to Ireland - Faithful Vultus Christi reader Mariana asked, "Where is Hilda?" Hilda is also en route to Ireland. She will fly out of Chicago to Dublin later this week. We ...1 day ago
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Catholics and Evolution? - On Sunday the 4th of March there will be a talk in a Glasgow parish on the question of evolution. Is there overwhelming evidence for the emergence of man f...1 day ago
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ZENIT - Pope's Address to Life Academy on Infertility - ZENIT - Pope's Address to Life Academy on Infertility1 day ago
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Bishop Daniel Cohalan and the Nazi Legation - Bishop Daniel Cohalan From The Irish Times, 27th February, 1939: The German legation in Dublin in 1939 was irritated by Catholic bishops’ criticisms of N...1 day ago
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I've just said a Hail Mary for the reader... - ...who found my blog using the search terms "green + ink + secularist" Whoever you are you made my day!1 day ago
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Listen to a Catholic Priest Detective! - GKC - larger than lifeGK Chesterton's Fr Brown Mysteries hits the airwaves (again). Radio 4 Extra is broadcasting the Fr Brown Mysteries by GK Chesterton. ...
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True liberalism - I am sure I detest the man O as much as the liberal press and academicians and show biz detested the man B. But, if it is so, what sense there would be for...1 day ago
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Fr Mark Kirby O.S.B. makes a courageous move today. Your prayers please! - After a long period of prayer, discennment, negotiation and subsequent practical organisation, our dear Hon, Spiritual director of the Oasis, flies out of ...1 day ago
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This is How You Are to Pray: God's Gift of the Liturgy Where We Offer to the Father His Word - When Jesus says to his disciples, as he says in today's readings, "This is how you are to pray" he is saying that there is a specific way that God desire...
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St Oswald of Worcester - Today is the commemoration of one of the great figures of the tenth century English church, St Oswald, Benedictine monk, Bishop of Worcester, who in his l...
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The Four Seasons - This is the Ember Week of Spring. It is an ancient Christian tradition to offer the four seasons of the year to God through fixed days of prayer and fastin...2 days ago
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More thoughts on gendercide - The disability lobby must now know the rules of the game - a disabled life is worthless, but aborting girls because they are girls is *verboeten*. If you h...2 days ago
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A Fun Quote... - "Of course, just when you get a decent MC trained up, he leaves. We're losing about three soon... That's the trouble with the Old Mass... it keeps causing ...2 days ago
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The March for Life, evangelicals, and the pro-life cause - Last summer, my wife and I both got airline vouchers while traveling to see family, and I got the idea to use mine to travel to Washington DC and take par...
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What is A Typical Meal Plan for Diabetics? - The typical diabetic meal plan is a plan that controls carbohydrates. This plan is one that keeps sugars down so that the body is not overwhelmed by the ne...3 days ago
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Popper contra computationalism - Karl Popper was an important critic of materialist theories of the mind. His most significant and original criticism is an argument against the possibili...
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Lenten Fast - It's Lent, and I think I need to fast somewhat from blogging. So I won't be posting so often. By the grace of God, when Lent it over, my posts will be more...3 days ago
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Juventutem London - St Mary's, Moorfields, London. Juventutem London kindly invited me to celebrate Mass and preach at their monthly Mass at St Mary, Moorfields, in London las...
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Christine Ackers RIP - Please remember Christine Ackers in your prayers. Christine was the Latin Mass Society Diocesan Representative in Lancaster Diocese for many years until h...4 days ago
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Stalactites, potholes and debt - A recent sermon started with a quote from Blessed John Henry Newman which says that the only sign of life is growth. Now, I do not wish to contradict the g...4 days ago
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Jason Gray- Remind Me Who I Am - For all souls anywhere suffering from anything. (PS, my neighbour has been playing loud music for days. He has his own turmoils).
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Strawberry Hill in Kildare and Leighlin - Ballon - Readers of CHRISTVS REGNAT may remember an extract from Bishop Bossuet's *Histoire des variations des églises protestantes*, where he wrote: "heresy, howeve...
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Weekend Roundup - Sunday, 26th of February, 2012. At the Birmingham Oratory (OF 1030) Igor Stravinsky's *Ave Maria*. At Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral (OF1100) the *Missa B...5 days ago
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'La Naval', Our Lady of the Rosary; and Monica's Prayer....... - * “La Naval”** - Our Lady Of The Holy Rosary * * Quezon City, The Philipines* Sculpted...
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Our Lady's Maternity Ward - A Birth At the Good Counsel's Mother and Baby Home - *OUR LADY OF THE GOOD COUNSEL IS REALLY THE MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACES!* Paraphrasing the sayings of St. Paul in one his letters to the Romans that for al...
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Musica Sacra Florida Gregorian Chant Conference - *Musica Sacra Florida - Gregorian Chant Conference * *Sponsored by the Florida Chapter of the Church Music Association of America in conjunction with the Dep...5 days ago
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Ireland's Grey Lady is long past her prime... - It seems Patsy McGarry’s up to his old tricks again. Hardly a column of his goes by without me staring in astonishment. I know I should be used to it by now,...5 days ago
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Catholics on BBC4 - I enjoyed the first of the programmes on Catholics tonight on BBC4. I thought it was a very good insight into seminary life and was rather impressed by l...
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This one comes with a warning... - …it may be a Lenten temptation hazard. But there is no sincerer love than good food and friendship. Fortunately, my birthday fell on the 21st of February...
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GCN Biennial meeting: report on our activities - Dr Joseph ShawOne of the things which happened at the meeting was a report by me (Joseph Shaw: photo courtesy of Henry de Villiers) on the activities of th...1 week ago
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Communion: He Shall Be Great to the Ends of the Earth (English, SATB, Mode VII) [FREE PDF] - Download: PDF | MIDI (antiphon only) Reference: “Magnificabitur”, Graduale Simplex, Christ the King, Communion, pp. 255–256 Source Text: Antiphon: Micah 5:...1 week ago
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Exactly 2 years ago yesterday... - ...my Quentin assisted at Mass at Blackfriars in Oxford. He was MC on the Far Right. Fr. Lawrence Lew was the subdeacon. We'd not yet 'net met' but sca...
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Have a happy & joyful Lent! Back at Easter! - Lent 2012 promises to be a grace-filled time for the Parkes family. We have been blessed so much in every way & the whole family are thriving. Thankyou ...
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Memento homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris - * * *The Putting on of Ashes* From the Initial "M" in the *Introit* of the Mass of Ashes on Ash Wednesday From the *Missal à l'usage de Saint-Didier d'A...
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Bugnini And The Offertory - . Ben Trovato has posted here on the changes to the Offertory in the New Mass. I had a look at Bugnini's History of the Reform to see how he described the...1 week ago
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Blogfast - Now that I blog much anyway, but I'm going to out of the blogosphere (including facebook and twitter) from now thru Lent. May it be a season of deeper pra...1 week ago
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Quinquagesima Sunday - "And the greatest of these is love" - Quinquagesima is the name for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. It was also called Esto mihi after the opening words of the Introit, taken from Psalm 31:3. ...
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Three essential reads - I have been asked to take on this meme, but have been finding it a bit tricky. I am a decided "digital immigrant" (though probably quite a competent one) r...1 week ago
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Another Plea for a Strong Church–from a Muslim Baroness! - The world is finally beginning to realize the full import of the doctrinal changes made in the Catholic church by Vatican 2, because now we can see in prac...1 week ago
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THE PROTOMARTYR, ST JOHN HOUGHTON - St John Houghton, the protomartyr of the English Reformation, was born in Essex in 1487. It is believed that he graduated from Cambridge University with d...
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Father Hunwicke on Councils and The Council - Father* Hunwicke has re-published his series of blog posts from 2011 on the significance of Vatican II, with reference to earlier Church Councils. They are...1 week ago
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Is the HHS Compromise Really a Compromise? - Who is the architect of this fiasco with the HHS? The buck stops with the President and the head of the department, which he appointed: Kathleen Sebelius. ...2 weeks ago
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Council Prayers - And now for the completely Bizarre Legal decision Bone v Bideford Town Council [2012] EWHC 175 (Admin) In this case a Town Councilor objected to fact that ...2 weeks ago
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Latin Mass, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Pontifical Solemn High Mass, Miami, Candlemas - The final Mass from a CMAA conference on Charles Tournemire.3 weeks ago
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Moving - this domain is about to be deleted. I am back at my old domain http://www.catholicteuchtar.blogspot.com/ thanks CT5 weeks ago
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This light is for you - This Lent our Bishop has asked all parishes in the Diocese to put on confessions every Wednesday from February 29th, Details are here This light is for ...1 month ago
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ADDRESS OF JOHN PAUL II TO THE TRIBUNAL OF THE ROMAN ROTA 21 January 1999 - In the light of the above-mentioned principles we can also see how incongruous is the demand to accord “marital” status to unions between persons of the ...1 month ago
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From the Holy Father's Wednesday audience - "The Eucharist sustains those who are tired, worn out or lost in the world and transforms human sin and weakness into new life. Taking part in the Eucharis...1 month ago
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Double Standard Exposed: MSM Consistently Cries Wolf on Racism - The fact that progressives consistently make false accusations of racism when conservatives criticize the President has rendered the charge of racism meani...1 month ago
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The Epiphany of the Lord - 8 January 2012 - Here is a link to the Epiphany homily of Pope Benedict XVI: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_201201...1 month ago
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In deepest Winter - signs of Spring . . . - We're hearing a lot at the moment about how mild this Winter has been so far (careful, we've a way to go yet . . . ) and I can certainly say that according...
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The stuff of nightmares, and fright flicks. - So how was your Christmas holiday? Did you burn the bread sauce? Argue with grandma? Hit the Baileys and wail dementedly over the sherryless sherry trifle? ...1 month ago
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Questions to which the answer is yes - Countercultural Father asks whether SPUC has lost the plot.1 month ago
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My Patron Saint for 2012 - I have received a very illustrious Patron for 2012: St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109). Benedictine abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Churc...1 month ago
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Christmas Anecdotes - [image: Sacred Heart Hanley in the snow 18th December 2011] The Staffordshire Sentinel asked me for some stories from parish life at Christmas for a piec...2 months ago
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My apologies - Just in case any of you were wondering: Oxford hasn't killed me off! I am alive and am enjoying all that Oxford has to offer. I am finding it difficult to ...3 months ago
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They don't like the Benedictine Arrangement one bit - Over at Pray Tell someone called Fritz has been discussing the question of orientation at Mass and has suggested that the Benedictine arrangement may be i...
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Throwing imitation pearl before real swine. - I've found myself seriously tied down to some tough awkward writing in the last few weeks. It seems that I've become default flavour of the month- well not...4 months ago
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Chesterton on St Francis, love and asceticism - From G.K. Chesterton's St Francis... If ever that rarer sort of romantic love, which was the truth that sustained the Troubadours, falls out of fashion and...4 months ago
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Europe's economic problems and the common good - The common good embraces responsibility towards future generations. Decisions we make now toward the common good will ripple into the future. There ar...
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Tradition, Legends and the Holy Cross - This story is so interesting that I shamelessly ripped it from the Aquinas & More Catholic Goods newsletter. Saint Helen is my patron saint, as well. Fi...5 months ago
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This Issue of Brokenness - This issue of brokenness is still with me. I don’t feel that I’ve fully understood its implications. I’ve re-read my last blog and tweaked it in several p...
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Reports in The Times on child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church - For more reports, see this public link. [image: 13] July 2011 Archbishop ‘shamed’ by report on abuse scandal [image: Cardinal Sean Brady] Cardinal Sean Bra...7 months ago
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Meditations on the Rosary (1): The Annunciation - One is struck by the similarity, but still more by the difference, of two like events, a mere six months apart. When the angel Gabriel appears to Our Bless...8 months ago
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Heart Speaks Unto Heart - new blog! - I've given up with my google problems & thought that the time had come with our new house to start a new chapter! My new blog Heart Speaks Unto Heart will ...
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Long Break..... - As you will no doubt have realized, this blog is on an extended sabbatical, it may return, but I have too many other duties. Joseph Pearce has asked me to ...1 year ago
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Packing list - *Toolkit and spares* -Pen knife -Eurohike multi tool -Adjustable spanner -Allen keys -Electrical tape -Spare brake cable -4 sets of M5 bolts, washers, and ...1 year ago
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The End - Dear Readers, Please note that I will not be adding any more posts to this blog. At present I am transferring all the posts on this blog to my new blog ...1 year ago
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Everybody's Welcome - and that includes Fido & Tibbles - * Aw, bless** * So* enfant terrible* Sebastian Urchell (see comments on the last post) thinks that "cross-denominational eucharists", which - tut! - he at...1 year ago
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Pro-Life Video - John Smeaton has published a moving video that highlights the numbers of abortions worldwide each year. It was found by his son, Paul, on the That the bone...1 year ago
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First Solemn High Mass - Fr. Rhone Lillard - Fr. Lillard was ordained in Lincoln, Nebraska last Saturday. Today in San Diego, at St. Anne's Parish (which exclusively does the EF form of Mass) Father C...1 year ago
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'What if the Foreign Office had offended the Prophet Mohammed?' - That's the question I've been burning to ask. The answer? The Foreign Office and their lackeys wouldn’t have dared. And if they had, would they be in hid...
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Happy Easter - SURREXIT DOMINUS VERE! ALLELUIA! We wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. May God be with you.1 year ago
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Pakistan: Christians are ‘treated like animals,’ - An official of the Pakistani bishops’ conference has called upon the international community to exert pressure upon the nation’s government and defend the ...1 year ago
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Dom Prosper Gueranger on Our Lady's Expectation: - This feast, which is now kept not only throughout the whole of Spain but in many other parts of the Catholic world, owes its origin to the bishops of the t...
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Euthanasia: the pro-life response? - *Bishops concede 'compassion' as a reason not to prosecute in assisted suicide cases* The Catholic Bishops of England and Wales want you to respond to the ...2 years ago
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The final last post - Drat you, Betsy, for being someone I can’t refuse a lot. Certainly not a blog post, in any case. She gave me a “Gorgeous Award” for reasons that are best l...2 years ago
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Alla fine di tutto questo - Recent weeks have seen my life change considerably and, with regret, I have decided to close this blog. I’ve enjoyed interacting with people from all over ...2 years ago
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Opposites attract - Or rather, genes (”genes”) produce amusing opposites. My sister and I were out shopping and waiting by the cashier to pay for our snazzy new things (they’r...2 years ago
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Homeschooling - An article from the Telegraph. Acquaintances and I have had blazing rows about homeschooling and I’ve often felt as though their absolute insistence on “co...2 years ago
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