Msgr. Eric R. Barr has a blog which includes a book review of The Children of Hurin (which I am currently reading).
Greg and Jennifer Willits along with the help of some of their Rosary Army troops have started producing a new video podcast called "The Catholic Show" as part of Fr. Roderick’s Star Quest Production Network (SQPN).
There is a higher quality version here.
And this is the feed to subscribe to the show.
Are you closely awaiting the constantly forecast arrival of the Motu Proprio to liberalize the Tridentine Rite? Do you follow every rumor of the latest announcement of the release date?
If so you will enjoy the fun of Motu Proprio Pool.
Play with your like-minded friends in you local parish or throughout your diocese. It is really simple to play. Just pick the date you think it will be issued on and write your name. Each person ponies up a dollar to pick a date of their choice. If the document is not released that month the pot rolls over to the next month and you all try again.
The best thing is that it does not matter who wins the pool since when the Motu Proprio is released everybody wins.
Motu Proprio Pool is more-than-likely legal to play in most states. This is purely a game of chance. The predictions so far of Vatican insiders on upcoming release dates have been just as random as if you threw a dart at a calendar in the first place.
So print out the Motu Proprio Pool and start having fun now!
ATLANTA –After two decades of waiting, Emory University is unsealing its collection of hundreds of letters between author Flannery O’Connor and one of her longtime friends.
The collection was given to Emory by Elizabeth "Betty" Hester, who began corresponding with O’Connor as a fan in 1955. The relationship developed into a close friendship lasting until O’Connor’s death in 1964. Hester donated the letters to Emory in 1987 on condition that they remain sealed for 20 years.
Edited versions of some of the letters were published in a 1979 book, but this is the first time the public will be able to read the entire collection. The letters will give fans and scholars of the famed Southern writer a glimpse into O’Connor’s feelings on religion, society and culture, said Rosemary Magee, vice president at Emory and an O’Connor scholar.
"They engaged in a theological and philosophical conversation," said Magee. "To get further insight into her as a thinker, as a person and as a writer is just an amazing opportunity for anybody who has read her literature."
O’Connor, a Georgia native, lived much of her life in Milledgeville, Ga., on her family’s farm, called Andalusia. She graduated from Georgia State College for Women — now Georgia College & State University — and received a master’s degree from the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Her work includes the novels Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. She also produced numerous short stories, including A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
Hester, a file clerk in an Atlanta credit bureau, lived a reclusive life, but she was an avid reader and intellectual. She also corresponded with British writer Iris Murdoch. Her identity as one of O’Connor’s confidantes was kept secret until Hester’s death in 1998.
"I think Betty Hester was the most important correspondent in Flannery O’Connor’s life," said Steve Enniss, director of Emory’s manuscripts, archives and rare books library where the letters are housed. "These letters help tell with great fullness the story of O’Connor’s own life that is so intertwined with her stories."
The collection of 274 letters will be opened to the public May 12.
Today is world day of prayer for vocations. We have long believed that the best advertisement for vocations are happy religious.
Go to Live + Jesus for just some examples of this.
Though I would go farther and say the best advertisement for vocations is joyous Catholics, whether they be ordained, consecrated, or of the laity.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI ordained 22 men on Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica, including the son of the man who has been the Vatican’s official photographer for decades.
Juan Carlos Mari was ordained as a member of the Legionaries of Christ, a conservative religious order, the order said. His father Arturo has been taking photographs of pontiffs on pilgrimages and during ceremonies for decades for the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. The elder Mari was among the faithful in the pews on Sunday.
Benedict called for prayers for the new priests to persevere in their ministry and remain faithful.
He also asked for prayers for more vocations for the priesthood. The Catholic Church has seen candidates for the priesthood decline in parts of the West, and far-flung parishes in developing countries are sometimes short of priests.
Papal Message for Day of Prayer for Vocations "Consecrated Life Is at the Service of This Communion"
James Higgins, 7, has been attending daily Mass since he was 3. His parents, Stephen and Lauren, never have to drag him out of bed or away from playthings, either.
“I have it in my heart to go,” said James, decked out in a blue sweat suit, a Red Sox jacket and cap.
He said he’s undecided between a career with the Red Sox or as the first American pope. But given this boy’s encyclopedic knowledge of the church, the safe money is on the Vatican job.
Faithful Rebel points to what he calls perhaps the Ugliest Catholic Church in History- “Peter and Paul” Catholic Church in Maassluis, Holland.
For me it doesn’t strike me enough to elicit ugly, but it certainly doesn’t raise my mind up to God other than the phrase god-awful. It looks more like a discarded should be joint from some gigantic robot. Maybe it is a transformer church.
Transformers churches
More than meets the eye
Transformers churches
Churches in Disguise
Though looking at the Transformers theme I didn’t realize how filled with the Gospel it was.
To stand divided we will surely fall
Until our darkest hour
When the light will save us all
This page shows the construction and the interior. Some of the statues inside are quite nice. Others leave something to be desired.
Something about the proportions of this crucifix seem off to me. Maybe it is the people standing next to me, but I associate alien with it and that one of Jesus’s last words was "Phone home."
Though nothing prepared me for what is probably the most unfortunate statue in history to reside in a Catholic Church. In addition the eyes really creep me out.
Quite as unfortunate as this stained glass window.
Fr. Stephanos, O.S.B let me know that in the Bloggers Choice Awards I am now eight votes behind the Atheists.org/nogodblog in the Best Religion Blog category. First off thanks for everyone who voted for me. I was presently surprised to see the vote total considering that I have not be hawking this award. The top blogs are now pretty much all Catholic blogs so that is good news.
It is a quick registration to login and vote for your favorite blogs in multiple categories and I would appreciate any votes putting me over the top of the atheist blog. It would be a nice irony to have an ex-atheist overtake them. Plus it is always a quick login to pray for atheists.
The BBC is broadcasting a so called "gay mass" from (what a surprise) San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church.
However, Father Donal Godfrey, the U.S. Jesuit priest celebrating the Mass, said he was delighted the BBC was "exploring how gay people fit into the perspective of the Christian narrative".
"Being gay is not special," he said. "It’s simply another gift from God who created us as rainbow people."
Adultery isn’t bad it is just another gift for the rainbow people. Rainbow people sounds like a really bad PBS cartoon from the seventies, something that Marlo Thomas would have narrated.
Fr. Meriwether the pastor of the Church was previously put on leave after many complaints to the Archdiocese for this parish allowing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence holding bingo games with sex toy prizes in the parish hall. When the hub bub quitted down he returned and of course it is now business as usual.
Please pray for Archbishop George Niederauer that he will put a stop to this scandal there permanently and not just when there is public attention.
Please also send charitable emails to Archbishop George Niederauer protesting this travesty.
One positive thing about the article is that they actualy got something right about Chruch teaching.
The Roman Catholic Church holds that sex belongs in the context of heterosexual marriage and that gay sex is "objectively disordered".
However, it also teaches that homosexual orientation is not in itself sinful and that gays and lesbians must be treated with respect and be free from unjust discrimination.
Update: From LifeSite
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archdiocese of San Francisco is refuting the Evening Standard’s claim that a service to be broadcast worldwide this Sunday by the BBC from a San Francisco parish is a "gay Mass".
With the headline, "BBC to broadcast gay mass from San Francisco" the Evening Standard reported today that the event, recorded last October 22, was presided over by Jesuit Fr. Donal Godfrey with preaching from one of Britain’s leading homosexual theologians, James Allison. The Standard reported that the "Mass" will feature prayers and readings tailored for the gay community.
Maurice Healy, Communications Director for the Archdiocese, however, was adamant that what will be broadcast is neither a Mass nor endorsed by the Archdiocese. Healy told LifeSiteNews.com, "The event was not, repeat not a ‘gay mass’ it was a prayer service organized by Jesuit father Donal Godfrey."
Healy said, "I’m told that he organized it. It was not an archdiocesan function and the archdiocese was not aware of the BBC broadcast."
So will the event be stopped and prevented from being televised? No answer there.
When asked about the participation of the parish in the Gay Pride parade, Healy responded, "Their participation could be seen as a way of outreaching. They don’t have the archdiocese’ approval but Catholics are independent minded people."
When asked directly if Holy Redeemer is the gay parish in San Francisco, Healy said, "These are complex issues." He continued, "We don’t make differentiations between gay parishes and other parishes. We don’t take a census about ethnicity, or homosexual orientation."
The Diocesan Bishop has specific authority in regulating televised Masses and I would certainly guess the same would be true for televised prayer services. It should be pretty easy for a Bishop to figure out that any prayer service the BBC is willing to televise is certainly one that shouldn’t be televised or probably held in the first place.
I ran across the below real church sign and figured it needed an answer via the church sign generator.
This is from a post I did over 4 years ago
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