Month: February 2013
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Liturgical Institute in Ealing
I like the subtitle of the institute a lot: “For a detailed and peaceful study of liturgy.” Amen to that.
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UPDATED: How Many Cardinal Electors Have Celebrated the Pre-Vatican II Mass Since 2007?
Twelve of the cardinal electors in the next conclave have celebrated the unreformed rite.
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Pope Tweaks Inauguration Rite of New Pope, Restores Cardinals’ Act of Obedience
Pope Benedict XVI has ordered several changes to the Masses and liturgies that will mark the inauguration of the next pope’s pontificate.
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Cardinal Elector Favors Allowing Priests To Marry
“I would be very happy if other [priests] had the opportunity of considering whether or not they could or should get married.”
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How to Become Pope
1. Be a Catholic. 2. Be a man.
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Renovation of Famous Cathedral of St. Gall, Switzerland, Encounters Opposition – UPDATED 2-24
Moving the altar nearly in the middle under the cupola and placing a golden ring above it was the plan of the London architectural firm “Caruso St. John Architects.”
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Cardinal Kasper Calls for Creation of New Office of “Deaconess”
This would be distinct from the office of male deacons, to be commissioned by a blessing rather than sacramental ordination.
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Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland Calls for Dialogue and Mediation
We the undersigned ask the Irish Bishops’ Conference to meet as soon as possible with those Irish priests who have been censured by the Vatican in recent years.
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Bishops Want Next Pope to Reform Church Governance
It is time to reform the Vatican’s “monarchical style and turgid bureaucracy” and introduce greater consultation and a “root-and-branch review of the method of appointing bishops.” – Bishop Burns of Menevia