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Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary

The adventure continued yesterday with a visit to the now defunct Huntington Seminary of the Immaculate Conception. This was the once mighty seminary of the once mighty Diocese of Brooklyn. It had hundreds of seminarians. Then

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TCE 56: True Ecumenism

What kind of people will we win to Catholicism if we put relativism first?  If we put objective truth first?This post was originally published on this site

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Reliquary Busts of the Chapel of St Januarius in Naples

The Italian city of Naples keeps three feasts in honor of its Patron St Januarius, the relics of whose blood famously liquify on all three occasions. His principal feast, the anniversary of his martyrdom, is on

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WEEKEND EDITION

SATURDAY MORNING ROUNDUP: Watershed Moment for Euro Right -W Nattrass at UnHerdWhy the Left Failed on Oct 7 – Hadley Freeman at UnHerdI’m Talking to You – Mitch Daniels at Law & LibertyCongo: A New Form

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WEEKEND EDITION

MORNING EDITION: Lawfare Update:NY Prosecuting Trump for Being Extorted – John Cleer at Am ThinkerPoll: Trump Conviction would Not Lift Biden’s Support – W Husebo at Breitbart A Culture in Chaos:Federal Fade out of Gasoline Cars

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Evil Runs in His Family

DEATH STAR — Viewers of the Imperial News Network were stunned today, as Mark Hamill joined a Death Star press conference to say what a good job he thinks the Emperor is doing. The surprise appearance,

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The Liturgy of the Catholic Mass Inspires Us to Love Without Barriers (Sixth Sunday of Easter – Year B)

A Commentary and Reflection on the Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter – Year B. The Liturgical Sense of the Scriptures Podcast, by Catholic Author and Theologian David L. Gray. READINGS: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48,

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CROWBAR RAID ON CORNISH CHURCH

 Such was the headline in a London newspaper in 1932. The account continued:”The beautiful reredos at the back of the Altar, designed by Ernest Procter, A.R.A, was destroyed and the canopy torn down. Two tabernacles were

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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Pelagia of Tarsus

Most likely a legendary saint. According to tradition, she was a maiden of Tarsus, in Cilicia, the daughter of noble parents who arranged a marriage between her and a son of Emperor Diocletian. To delay the

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PopeWatch: Pachamama Praise

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Brotherhood of Man

Something for the weekend.  Brotherhood of Man (1961) sung by Robert Morse.  This is the 1967 film version of the stage play How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961). Bonus:   Company Way (1961).This

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Ukraine War Analysis-May 3, 2024

From The Institute for the Study of War:   Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 3, 2024 Angelica Evans, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, Grace Mappes, and Frederick W. Kagan May 3, 2024, 9:05pm ET  Click here to see ISW’s

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Figures

Leftism is a cult of destruction, never construction.   Bonus:  This post was originally published on this site

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Great Moments in Cinema: It’s Entirely Innocent I Am

Errol Flynn made himself an overnight star with his mesmerizing performance as Peter Blood in Captain Blood (1935).  Ostensibly a Pirate movie, Captain Blood is actually a compelling look at that Century of Iron, the Seventeenth

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A Step Back in Time? Or Forward? Associated Press (AP) Article on the Youth Traditionalist Movement in the American Catholic Church

The Associated Press recently published an alarmist article about the rising tide of traditionalism and orthodoxy, especially among young people, in the American Catholic Church. Here’s the article: “A step back in time”: America’s Catholic Church

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The Story of the True Cross, by Piero della Francesca

In the mid-15th century, the Italian painter Piero della Francesca (1416-92) did a remarkable series of frescoes in the choir of the Basilica of St Francis in Arezzo, known as The History of the True Cross.

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Women Deacons in the Catholic Church?

Those who favor change in the Catholic Church keep calling for “more discussion” about the ordination of women. We have now had four popes definitively state that the order of priest is to be limited to

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Daily Rome Shot 1011 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 2

Nope, not Rome. Welcome Registrants: Chrissue Lulu Helengrace3712 Sjsprunger Reddog Nancy F. Liz1952 Nipper   I was out with priest friends in deepest Queens last night for Chinese food, which is plentifully lacking in Rome.  Good

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The Feasts of Saint Monica and a New Conjecture about Her Dies Obitus

The feast of Saint Monica is celebrated in the traditional calendar on May 4 and in the new calendar on August 27. As the Calendarium Romanum, promulgated in 1969, explains: In the fifteenth century, the Augustinian

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Guary

As medieval Cornish parishioners attended their local Pleyn a Gwary, they saw at one end of the circular site an elevated strucure called the pulpitum. Round the circular edge, were ‘tents’ where kings had their ‘tents’;

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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Pope Alexander I

HE succeeded St. Evaristus in 109, and held the holy see ten years, but not complete. He died in 119, and is ranked among the martyrs in the canon of the mass. Notwithstanding the silence of

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PopeWatch: Misfortune and Calamity

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Ukraine War Analysis-May 2, 2024

From The Institute for the Study of War:   Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 2, 2024 Riley Bailey, Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, Kateryna Stepanenko, and Frederick W. Kagan May 2, 2024, 8pm ET   Click here

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How’s That Lawfare Against Trump Working Out?

Most Americans are happily ignorant of how trials work.  (Some days I wish I could say the same.)  However, most of them are pretty good at spotting a Kangaroo Court.This post was originally published on this

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