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Anglicans prepare to bolt over women bishops
By
jmcgee
Could the trickle of Anglicans leaving their church turn into a flood? From the Telegraph: Hundreds of traditionalist clergy are set to leave the Church of England over plans to introduce women bishops. Leading Anglo-Catholic clergy warned that the failure to provide concessions to opponents of the historic reform would force many of them to…
Just call me DG
By
jmcgee
That seems to be the way things are headed, anyway: Note to the Village People: The lyrics in your biggest hit need an update. The organization previously known as the Y.M.C.A. is henceforth to be called “the Y.” One of the nation’s most iconic nonprofit organizations, founded 166 years ago in England as the Young…
The Voice of God goes silent
By
jmcgee
A friend who follows baseball — Mike “God Googler” Hayes — draws my attention to a big loss in the world of sports: Bob Sheppard, whose elegant intonation as the public-address announcer at Yankee Stadium for more than half a century personified the image of Yankee grandeur, died Sunday at his home in Baldwin, on…
The picnic mass, translated
By
jmcgee
A few days ago, I posted this bizarre video of an outdoor mass in Austria. I asked if anyone could translate, and one of my readers — a deacon in Washington, DC — generously obliged. His text: On the 29th of June, the pastor of Vienna’s Cathedral, Father Toni Faber celebrated the so called Western…
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