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CNA >> Pro-lifers disrupt Obama speech, crowd silences them with 'Yes we can' CNA >> Bishop D’Arcy speaks at Notre Dame Via Media (Amy Wellborn) >> Obama's speech Via Media (Amy Wellborn) >> Obama at Notre Dame (analysis; this portion struck me: The bigger issue is Notre Dame and Catholic higher education. I was as distressed as anyone by the rock-star reception by Obama, just as I would if Bush or any other politician were greeted in such a way at a Catholic institution. We've had enough problems with sucking up to civic authority over the last few dozen centuries, haven't we? It was creepy in a "Justice Sunday" kind of way. To me at least .)

FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Notre Dame’s Faustian Bargain (Stephen Barr) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> "Rise" RORATE CÆLI >> SSPX Ordinations canceled in Germany - Transferred to Écône The Catholic Thing >> Form Criticism (Robert Royal) The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> A demonstration of abstinence The Recovering Choir Director >> "If This is a Liturgy War, then Who is the Enemy?" The New Liturgical Movement >> Liturgical Continuity in Liguria - Pontifical Mass in Roverano The New Liturgical Movement >> Amy on the Organ The Way of the Fathers >> Never Know What You'll Find

Catholic-Hierarchy News >> Wall Named Gallup Bishop FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> MarciWorld (L. Martin Nussbaum and Melissa Musick Nussbaum) RORATE CAELI >> Guest Opinion Note: Hermeneutic (Fr. Paul McDonald) The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> Spiritual bouquet for the Holy Father WDTPRS >> Jewish leader: “the full story has not been told” WDTPRS >> Amy's Michael Whispers in the Loggia >> Galluping Off (Bishop-elect James Wall) Whispers in the Loggia >> Midnight at 452? (Archbishop Dolan?)

American Papist >> Breaking: Chicago Cathedral in Flames RORATE CAELI >> Note of the Secretariat of State RORATE CAELI >> A just Pope WDTPRS >> To restore our Catholic identity WDTPRS >> The Pope’s brother speaks about attacks on the Holy Father Note: Catholic blogs everywhere are showing an outpouring of both shock and of prayer support at the loss of Amy Wellborn's husband, Michael Dubruiel, who died suddenly yesterday. Please pray for the family!

Amy Wellborn reported tonight that her husband, Michael Dubruiel, collapsed and died this morning . Mr. Dubruiel was only 50 years old. Please pray for Amy, her children and their entire family. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord. And may the perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. And, may his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in eternal peace! Amen+

Charlotte was Both >> Quo Vadis, Faithful Citizenship (Amy Wellborn posts a great article on the "Faithful Citizenship" document from the American Bishops. "Fr. Steve" suggests that the comment by "Clayton" be sent to every Bishop in the U.S. I am hereby doing my part. Please read it, Excellencies!) The New Liturgical Movement >> Cardinal Caffarra: Usus Antiquior Expresses Hermeneutic of Continuity WDTPRS >> A good use for OCP products (Amen!) Whispers in the Loggia >> Vice-Pope: "Pius Proceeds" (no "freeze" on Pope Pius XII apparently)

www.Chiesa: Forum >> Women Bishops in the Catholic Church, Too? Some Are Trying (Sandro Magister has the must read story) The New Liturgical Movement >> ICEL vs. The Book of Common Prayer Charlotte was Both >> To the person who searched for "vestments in plaid " (I agree with Amy on this one...) Creative Minority Report >> The Topic That Catholics Dare Not Speaketh (the gauntlet has been thrown, all, although Fr. Corapi deals with this more often than I can count) FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Brideshead Revisited (Thomas Hobbes)

Amy Wellborn's blog, Charlotte was Both , has a magnificent essay today . It is a delight! Don't miss it!

Charlotte was Both >> Catholic Charities and Abortion Chiesa.com >> African Diplomats, Take Note: This Is How the Church Works (Sandro Magister; this title sounds a tad "autocratic," but the article is an explanation of why "the Church" has such a vital role to play for those dispossessed) Creative Minority Report >> Jailed for Homeschooling (in Germany) FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> The State of Higher Desperation (Matthew J. Milliner, a Ph.D. candidate in art history at Princeton University) The New Liturgical Movement >> Holy Week Ceremonies in Papal Chapels as recounted by English Cardinal, Nicholas Wiseman (Shawn Tribe) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Juliana Falconieri, Virgin

The New Liturgical Movement >> What Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos Said about the Usus Antiquior's Presence in Parishes Charlotte was Both >> Joy to My Youth Charlotte was Both >> Our new favorite word AmericanPapist >> Save the Date: Humanae Vitae Today (Sep. 20) --Sacred Heart Major Seminary

Amy Wellborn has the link here for the livestream from the Eucharistic Congress . At first, I thought she was linking to the US Congress (kind of a Catholic version of C-Span)!

This blog's favorite "search string" is for the Catholic Lifetime Reading list published by Fr. McCloskey . I am very happy that Amy Wellborn of Charlotte was Both has posted a link to the Catholic Summer Reading list . The list is excellent! I am a bibliophile. I have stacks of books yet unread and still find that I cannot pass up more orders to Amazon. Walking past a bookstore without a purchase seems almost inconceivable to me. The ten best bets on Amy's list are great "summer reads ." The entire list of 64 has some incredible books to consider . Amy has done a great service for all of us by calling attention to this program. Please check out this list of great reading and sign up for future editions.

Whispers in the Loggia >> "Sing a New Song " (Rocco Palmo) Whispers in the Loggia >> What Makes a Bishop ? (Rocco Palmo) Charlotte Was Both >> Catching up with the Fathers (Amy Wellborn)

Amy Wellborn on "Listen and Learn" (with some comments on her story last night and on the Holy Father's visit) RORATE CAELI : " Salvation Comes from the Jews " The Black Biretta : "Reverence, Balance and Good Taste" The New Liturgical Movement : Videos of Papal Visit (links by Gregor Kollmorgen to important repositories) The New Liturgical Movement : Papal Vespers - A View from the Sacristy (with thanks to the Dominicans!) Whispers in the Loggia : He Apologized... He Understood

Amy Wellborn posts a link to her blog in the New York Times site: Uniter, not a divider RORATE CAELI : We propose Jesus of Nazareth WDTPRS : Fr. Zuhlsdorf has extensive commentary on the NLM article posted below

Charlotte Was Both by Amy Wellborn has two posts of interest. She posted an item " On Sexual Abuse " and a Breaking Story on the Holy Father who met with abuse victims Fr. Dwight Longenecker of Standing on My Head : Why America Needs the Pope Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement posts Music for the D.C. Mass: The End of an Era and the Beginning of Something New WDTPRS : Papa Ratzinger - POW: 'Thank God He Stayed in Line with the Others' RORATE CAELI : Academic Freedom Cannot Justify Positions that Contradict the Faith

There have been mini-libraries that discuss, dissect and analyze the stories of the great Catholic writer, Flannery O'Connor . In this fine review by Amy Wellborn, the "essentials of her writing" are revealed . This review, in short, is an "oldie but goodie." Here is just a snippet: O’Connor’s characters are all afflicted by pride: Intellectual sons and daughters who live to set the world, primarily their ignorant parents, aright; social workers who neglect their own children, self-satisfied unthinking “good people” who rest easily in their own arrogance; the fiercely independent who will not submit their wills to God or anyone else if it kills them. And sometimes, it does. The pride is so fierce, the blindness so dark, it takes an extreme event to shatter it, and here is the purpose of the violence. The violence that O’Connor’s characters experience, either as victims or as participants, shocks them into seeing that they are no better than the r

I am indebted to that delightful curmudgeon, Diogenes , who posts the Off the Record column on Catholic World News for pointing me to this beautiful essay by Amy Wellborn . She begins by recounting the story that appeared recently on the habit of the Holy Father of speaking extemporaneously to the faithful gathered for his General Audiences . She then ties this in beautifully with his coming trip to the United States: Here is what is important to me about this. It is not the Pope’s intelligence, or even the still-lively and absorbing mind of a man in his 80’s. It is that what Benedict is moved to break from the text and emphasize is the reality of Jesus Christ for you and me, today, in this moment. Over the next two months, before the Pope arrives in our country, there is going to be a constant battle, it seems to me, to communicate clearly and authentically what this man is all about. There are a great number of commentors - even Catholic commentors - who are taking the stage wi

Fr. Rob Johansen , in response to an interesting post by Amy Wellborn , writes a very thoughtful commentary on issues relating to the TLM on his blog, Thrown Back . Fr. speaks about a photo of a priest celebrating Mass " ad orientem ," in which Amy asked for respondents to comment. He writes, in part: Amy asked people for their reactions to the photo, and the reactions were themselves thought-provoking and revealing. What they seem to reveal is something I have noticed before in many of the negative reactions to Pope Benedict's Motu Proprio and to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, otherwise known as the " Tridentine " rite. What is apparent to me is that many of the objections are ideological rather than theological or spiritual. Here are a list of some of the words and phrases used in the negative reactions to the photo, or other objections and complaints about Summorum Pontificum and/or the Extraordinary Form that have appeared in the media since la