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A Belgian Puzzle
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awelborn
Some Belgian clergy are quite supportive of the causes of immigrants: The Belgian Bishops have opened their churches to illegal immigrants in order to pressurize the Belgian authorities to allow the immigrants to stay in the country. Most of the immigrant squatters in the churches are Muslims. They display banners in the church showing the…
Coronation Mass
By
awelborn
Great attention being paid to the use of Mozart’s Coronation Mass for Saturday’s Mass at St. Peter’s commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Swiss Guard. Gerald of the Closed Cafeteria has photos and links here. Fr. Z of "What Does the Prayer Really Say" also mentions it, uses it as an opportunity to comment on…
Get a taste…
By
awelborn
In the LATimes story I linked below, there’s a link to a clip from the film, in which Teabing "explains" The Last Supper to Sophie…
Hello, Texas! Good-bye, Texas!
By
awelborn
Everything went well yesterday, despite potential disaster. The disaster being, of course, that my flight was radically delayed – at first they told us it was the incoming flight being delayed. Okay, we were still on track at that point. Then they boarded us, took us out on the runway, drove us around rather slowly,…
Lost and Found
By
awelborn
A remarkable story from the LA Times about a music festival in Bolivia – one fruit of the reducciones The melodious spirit of this merry Jesuit has been much in evidence here for 10 days as hundreds of musicians from Europe, the United States, Asia and Latin America have converged for the sixth edition of…
This time…
By
awelborn
…an approved bishop Tomorrow at 9am, in the Cathedral of Shenyang (Liaoning, north-east China), there will be another episcopal ordination: Fr Paul Pei Junmin will be consecrated as coadjutor bishop of Shenyang by the ordinary bishop, Mgr Jin Peixian. The very important fact is that this new ordination takes place with the approval of the…
Mail Bag
By
awelborn
Where is your proof that what was said in the DA VINCI CODE is wrong and what about the fact that there are missing gospels from the bible or what about the FACT that the bible is missing parts of Jesus’ life. And don’t tell me that there was no witch burnings or killings by…
Actually, it was a productive day
By
awelborn
Read two books, gave a talk, met new people, traveled back and forth to Texas and watched an episode of The Office on the plane. Yes, you can do a lot in 19 hours….
High drama
By
awelborn
Remember the California Catholic high school drama teacher who was outed as a Planned Parenthood clinic escort? And fired? And how the daughter of the family who outed her ws expelled from the school? The drama teacher, naturally, has written a one-woman play about her experience. Because, as she notes throughout the play, she’s such…
Closed Comments!
By
awelborn
I’ll be gone all day Saturday – my flight leaves at 6am, and I return from Houston at 11pm. So, because of recent weird spam that’s made it’s way through, I’m closing all comments for the day. Ciao, y’all!
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