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A commentor at WDTPRS has the text and a translation of an ANSA news item about this morning’s Ecclesia Dei meeting – (I can’t find it on the ANSA website, but I’m sure I just don’t know where to look). The commentor’s translation, and thank you much for that: The publication of the Motu Proprio…

Do go read Mark Shea on the Seattle Airport Holiday Debacle. Mark at his best. It couldn’t be that the state just, like, acknowledge that a couple of important religious traditions in the US are having an annual celebration and we get to reap the benefits of that in the form of some beautiful lights…

A conference: A meeting began in the Vatican for national directors who oversee the pastoral care of Gypsies. The meeting, which opened today, is focusing on relations with the itinerant population that numbers 36 million worldwide, half of them in India. The purpose of the meeting is to study and stimulate the implementation of the…

The Vatican released a statement on the Holocaust-denying conference in Iran. Translated by Teresa Benedetta With regard to a current conference on the Holocaust in Tehran, the Holy See reiterates its position expressed in the document of the Commission for Religious Relations with Judaism, "We remember: Reflections on the Shoah". The last century was witness…

One of Milingo’s ordinands gives an interview with the Rochester paper. At least the man is forthright and isn’t trying to fool anyone- you have to give him that. However, note the unasked question here – "Will you be saying Mass anywhere?" Question: Does this mean you are a Roman Catholic priest? Grosswirth’s answer: Although…

A reminder: signed books make nice gifts! Getting those orders in soon would be most helpful! Bokstore Link. Let’s see…for today…the Prove It books. Apologetics books for youth and young adults the table of contents of each available here. BTW, Church is the best-seller and Prayer is #4. And for another type of gift, not…

Over the past weekend, the Pope, of course, delivered his Angelus address. Earlier in the day, he had consecrated a new church in Rome –  Holy Mary Star of Evangelization, in the Torrino neighborhood. None of the words he spoke there are available in English translation yet, I don’t think, but here’s the Zenit report:…

Over the past few days, Pope Benedict has offered various addresses and homilies. Let’s look at them. First, though, we’ll backtrack a month, back to the talk he gave to the Swiss bishops on November 7. You recall that the Vatican press office released the wrong text of that talk – they released the text…

Today is the feastday of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On the morning drop-off route, I just stopped by the parish that’s the locus of the Hispanic ministry (St. Patrick’s, founded for the Irish who were working on the railroads more than a century ago. The wheel turns.). I should have put my thinking cap on…

Today, there was a press conference at the Vatican regarding St. Paul’s tomb at St.-Paul-Outside-the-Walls. Fr. Z was there had some interesting observations – including his account of what is being reported as a Cardinal "belittling" reporters , what relics will be given to the Greek Orthodox patriarch next week, and the biggest news, which…
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