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ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP >> PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT EPISCOPAL APPOINTMENT POPE FRANCIS WILL MAKE SOON IS THAT OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO

A Ram in the Thicket (Ryan A. MacDonald) >> A Ram In The Thicket: Justice and a Priest's Right of Defense in the Dio... (...Diocese of Manchester, NH)

Bestiaria Latina Blog (Laura Gibbs) >> Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: February 9

Catholic Education Resource Center >> Remembering the Early Church (George Sim Johnston)

Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> 3 Types of Destitution (Revised)

Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> A MOST REMARKABLE AND EXTRAORDINARY SUNDAY ("...You know those heart-rending stories one hears after terrorist atrocities? The gunmen with their submachine guns have slaughtered dozens, but two or three victims have survived by lying down among the corpses and pretending to be dead. Today's Sunday Collect is one of those. As Archbishop Bugnini stood back and with a Clint Eastwood gesture blew the smoke from the end of his gun, he thought he had fifty two corpses in front of him. In fact, two of the fifty two were alive, lying there, motionless, shamming....The fifty two were the Sunday Collects of the ancient Roman Rite. The two that survived were the only two which were left, in the Pauline Missal, occupying the same Sunday that they had occupied in the rite that came down to us from the Patristic period (Epiphany II and Epiphany V). So today is the last Sunday in this Calendar Year upon which those following the Novus Ordo and those adhering to the Vetus Ordo will be saying the same collect. Perhaps it should be celebrated as a remarkable pignus unionis futurae of the time when the Roman Rite will again be a unity, as Benedict XVI hoped...")

Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday – On the march!

New Liturgical Movement >> Reforming the Irreformable? (Fr. Thomas Kocik) ("...The twofold desire of the Council fathers, namely, to permit innovations that “are genuinely and certainly required for the good of the Church” and to “adopt new forms which in some way grow organically from forms already existing” (SC 23) could indeed be fulfilled, but not by taking the rites promulgated by Paul VI as the point of departure for arriving at a single, organically reformed version of the ancient Roman rite: that would be like trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. What is needed is not a ‘reform of the reform’ but rather a cautious adaptation of the Tridentine liturgy in accordance with the principles laid down by Sacrosanctum Concilium (as happened in the immediate aftermath of that document’s promulgation in 1963), using what we have learned from the experience of the past fifty years.(11) In the meantime, improvements can be made here and there in the ars celebrandi of the Ordinary Form. But the road to achieving a sustainable future for the traditional Roman rite(12)—and to achieving the liturgical vision of Vatican II, which ordered the moderate adaptation of that rite, not its destruction—is the beautiful and proper celebration, in an increasing number of locations, of the Extraordinary Form, with every effort to promote the core principle (properly understood) of “full, conscious and active participation” of the faithful (SC 14)...")

The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> O’Malley on Francis: “I don’t see the pope changing doctrine…”

The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> International poll shows split among Catholics

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Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Traditional Catholicism Vs. Democratic Swiss and German “Catholicism”
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Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> The Way of the Pilgrim

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