17 August 2013

Dominicans: engines of ecclesial renewal!

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Ran across a good article on the Order of Preachers as an engine of renewal in the Church: [. . .] Today the institutional effort...
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16 August 2013

Gnostic Gibberish from the LCWR

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Assuming the following quotes are accurate . . .this is why the LCWR is currently being "monitored" by the CDF: “If we are to ...
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15 August 2013

How contraception destroyed a parochial school

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A pastor laments the decline of his parish and the demolition of the parochial school. He points to the contraceptive mentality of most Ca...
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14 August 2013

Crowdsourcing: communication skills for priests

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I'm working on the syllabus for my "Proclaiming the Word" course. Basically, the class is all about public speaking, oral co...
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13 August 2013

“This is enough, O Lord! Take my life. . .”

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NB.  here's another one on suffering from 2009.  This one got 27 comments when I first posted it.  Apparently, I struck a nerve! 19...
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Suffering and suffering well

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By request. . .a repost on suffering from 2008: Recently, I conducted a one-day retreat for the local lay Dominican chapter. I was a...
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Liberal Christianity is a clear failure. . .

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A report on an Austrian priest's Dissident Tour of the U.S . An excerpt from the report: Nothing in Schuller’s talk indicated ...
12 August 2013

Abortion fans invade Mass

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Having spent many years among the abortion savages as one of their own, this isn't all that shocking to me. That they didn't assau...
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Priest no longer a mystery

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That Mystery Priest that had Catholics chattering about apparitions, etc. has been identified. Back in my atheist days I would've ...
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11 August 2013

Faith: the disposition of the spirit that seeds eternal life

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NB. This is an example of a didactic homily.  'Nuff said. 19th Sunday OT  Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP  Our Lady of the Rosary, NOLA ...
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Back in The Big Easy

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Jusr got back to Nawlins' after 10 wonderful retreat day with the Dominican nuns at Mt Thabor Monastery .  I have the 6pm Mass tonigh...
01 August 2013

Be back Aug 11th

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Headed to Michigan this morning to give a ten day retreat to the nuns of Mt Thabor Monastery. Pray for them and for me, please! Se...
31 July 2013

On the Sharp Edge of Contemplation

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Way back in 2005, I used Hans Urs von Balthasar's book, Prayer , in a graduate seminar on the theology of prayer. I ran across thi...
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30 July 2013

Francis and the Franciscans: deep breath, people!

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It's not only the anti-Catholic bigots in the MSM that get the Church and her Pontiff wrong. There's been a firestorm on the i...
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Aquinas converts an abortionist

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Wow. Just. . .wow. A Serbian abortionist tells his pro-life conversion story: In describing his conversion, Adasevic “dreamed about a ...