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- Cardinal McCarrick turns 80; number of cardinal-electors drops to 107
- General Audience: Pope cites Duns Scotus as great contributor to Christian thought
- Toy Story 3 is Sexist?
- Clericalism
- Not Magic: On the Fruitful Reception of the Sacraments
- African Ingenuity…
- For the Vatican, summer begins today
- Abortion and the Help We Need
- The Ten Worst Hymns?
| Cardinal McCarrick turns 80; number of cardinal-electors drops to 107 Posted: 07 Jul 2010 07:14 AM PDT Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired Archbishop of Washington, DC, celebrates his 80th birthday today and thus becomes ineligible to vote in a papal conclave. Born in New York,... |
| General Audience: Pope cites Duns Scotus as great contributor to Christian thought Posted: 07 Jul 2010 12:51 PM PDT July 7, 2010. VIDEO ONLY - General Audience: Pope cites Duns Scotus as great contributor to Christian thought. |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2010 05:00 AM PDT By Danielle Bean | Toy Story 3 is sexist? Natalie Wilson of the Ms Magazine blog thinks so. As a mom who takes very seriously the media messages being sent to my daughters, I have to say: Did we watch the same movie? Gimme a break, Ms. Here's Wilson's "evidence" of Pixar misogyny... |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:03 PM PDT A few years back, Russell Shaw wrote a terrific book called To Hunt, To Shoot, To Entertain: Clericalism and the Catholic Laity. It took its title from an amazing remark by a 19th-century English monsignor who loftily declared, "What is the province of the laity? To hunt, to shoot, to entertain. These matters they understand... |
| Not Magic: On the Fruitful Reception of the Sacraments Posted: 06 Jul 2010 08:50 PM PDT A fundamental principle of the seven Sacraments is that they have a reality that exists apart from the priest's holiness or worthiness. They work ex opere operato (ie.. they are worked from the very fact of the work). One need not doubt therefore that a sacrament is in fact given just because a bishop, priest or... |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:00 PM PDT By Mark Shea | Finding a delightful and life-giving use for post-colonial Euro attempts at culling the non-white numbers so despised by white population planners whose motto is "Just Enough of Me. Way Too Much of You!" Go Africa! White First World Population Planners are perpetually bent on reducing the carbon footprint of impoverished third world countries they deem to have … |
| For the Vatican, summer begins today Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:02 PM PDT Famously, the Vatican has its own sense of time, and today is a good reminder of the point. In the rest of the Northern Hemisphere summer officially began this year on June 21, but in the Vatican summer really begins today, after the conclusion of Pope Benedict XVI's General Audience in St. Peter's Square... |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:22 AM PDT There's a beautiful soul I see at daily Mass. He's a simple guy. I'll call him "Bob" to hide his identity — which in his humility he'd probably prefer. He is who he is: the salt of the earth… and a beacon of light to the disabled sister he cares for at home. Somewhere in his late 40s... |
| Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:57 AM PDT Regular readers know how passionately I have argued that too many modern Catholic hymns make one long to reach down one's own gullet until one has puked up one's own lungs and can in no way participate in the singing of same. Over at First Thoughts, Joe Carter has listed his choices of The Ten Worst Hymns of All Time. For good measure... |
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