Pope to canonists: It's called Truth

"It is necessary to take account of the tendency - widespread and well-rooted though not always obvious - to contrast justice with charity, almost as if the one excluded the other", said the Pope. "Some people maintain that pastoral charity justifies any measures taken towards the declaration of nullity of the marriage bond. Truth itself would thus tend to be seen in a functional perspective, adapting itself to the different requirements that arise in each case".

October 2010 Synod

Synod for the Eastern Catholic Churches: the lineamenta

Map of the world: 1602

Father Matteo Ricci's map

Quoëx

http://annalesecclesiaeucrainae.blogspot.com/2010/01/abbe-quoex-and-liturgy.html

1970 Missal: "A paraphrase instead of a translation"

From Father Stravinskas in America Magazine

Seminary in Port-au-Prince

Prayers needed...and is all that is left

We live in an age of myths...

Check out a list of my pet peeve myths O:) -- and myths # 4 and 5 are particularly bad ones......"we're supposed to sing four hymns at Mass".....aaargh.

Half of all Catholics are in Latin America

Archbishop Gomez's appeal

Prayer

January 10th, 2010:

http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2010/01/kevin-archboldrequiescat-in-pace.html#comments

Original post:

Kevin has a brain tumor, and his family is asking for a miracle to cure him. Mother Alphonsa (Rose Hawthorne Lathrop), whose Cause for beatification is open, established the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer (now called the Hawthorne Dominicans). Her philosophy: "We must make our guests glad they crossed the threshold that is to be their last boundary. We must make them as comfortable and happy as if their own people had kept them and put them into the very best bedroom. We must love them." Each patient is given the physical, spiritual, and emotional support needed to accept the limitations imposed by illness.

Primary care is given by the nursing sisters. A staff of nursing assistants help the Sisters in the men's wards. Care is very much one-on-one. Each patient has one Sister responsible for his or her care through the whole day, through the whole week. This individual care and attention helps to make the patient feel comfortable and secure, a part of the Sisters' family.

http://hawthorne-dominicans.org/s000.htm

"Older than dirt"

Current disputes about the liturgy? Not so current: here's an article from TIME, from 1962, which has a depressingly familiar set of themes..........

So, the present form of the debate and the same contentious issues are now OLDER THAN I AM (and one seminarian has informed me I am "older than dirt"!!!!).

Sigh.

Washington Post: What's "In" and "Out" for 2010

What's "in"? The "Latin Mass."