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Afternoon Edition - Feria After the Ascension - Missa 'Viri Galilaei' or St. Boniface, Martyr - May 14th, 2010

Acton Institute PowerBlog >> How’s that universal health care working out for you ? AmP >> Thwarted: muslim student plot to assassinate the pope Creative Minority Report >> Katie Couric a Modern Margaret Sanger First Thoughts >> Governor Christie: Model for Bishops (David Mills) RORATE CÆLI >> Florida alert ( Summorum Pontificum ...) RORATE CÆLI >> I chose you Secondhand Smoke >> Biological Colonialism: The Costs of "Rent a Womb" in India WDTPRS >> Bp. Moran of Aberdeen, Scotland, blocks an Extraordinary form Mass WDTPRS >> WDTPRS: Ascension - Postcommunion (1962MR)

Afternoon - Tuesday of the First Week of Lent - Missa 'Domine Refugium' - February 23rd, 2010

Catholic Hour >> Top Ten Confirmation Saints You Never Considered Chronicles >> Time to 'Plant' Obama's Health Care (Bill Murchison) Creative Minority Report >> Our Battle Of The Bulge Insight Scoop >> Now, now—don't be putting words in the Catholic Church's mouth ! OSV Daily Take >> Will Supreme Court tell Americans to practice their faith 'quietly' ? (Russell Shaw) RORATE CÆLI >> Abomination in Belgium Secondhand Smoke >> Global Warming Hysteria: Time for a Criminal Investigation ? SECRET HARBOR >> Tuesday of the First Week in Lent (Extraordinary Form) The Anchoress >> Turn the volume down a little ! The Black Biretta >> ‘Don’t blame all church attacks on fanatics ’ The Catholic Thing >> Reconciliation: The Lost Sacrament (David G. Bonagura, Jr.) The Divine Life >> My favorite Polycarp story Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> Station at St. Anastasia Whispers in t

Afternoon - Feria or Comm: St. Placid and Companions, Martyrs - October 5th, 2009

American Papist >> New bishop of Austin rumor American Papist >> New bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend rumor A Trail of Flowers >> Poetry can be... Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> >The Kerala Exception. A Trip to India's Most Christian and Peaceful State Insight Scoop >> The Paradox of Christian Freedom (Fr. Kenneth Baker) Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Monday, 27th Wk: “And who is my neighbor? ” RORATE CÆLI >> Metropolitan John of Pergamon: No imminent reunion between Orthodoxy and Catholicism WDTPRS >> The Red Mass WDTPRS >> A question about Kerala Whispers in the Loggia >> "The Word Meets Us... It Also Judges Us " Whispers in the Loggia >> "Why Lord? "

Afternoon Roundup - Tuesday of Holy Week - April 7th, 2009

Acton Institute Power Blog >> Fr. Z: The ’social Magisterium’ and Acton Institute American Papist >> Report: Vatican has rejected 3 Obama picks for ambassador The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> Fr Stanley Jaki RIP WDTPRS >> Fr. Stanley Jaki, OSB - R.I.P. WDTPRS >> VIA CRUCIS 2009: PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN INDIA WDTPRS >> HR 1388: a "youth brigade"? WDTPRS >> Terra tremuit… et non quievit… more trouble in L’Aquila WDTPRS >> Bishops of Scranton and Catholic schools the diocese

Afternoon Roundup - Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Whispers in the Loggia >> Heading Home? (Rocco says The Tablet is reporting that Archbp. Malcolm Ranjith, a favorite of traditionalists, is now leaving CDWDS and heading home to be Archbishop of Colombo...sad...) Whispers in the Loggia >> "An Encounter with the Word": Synod Requests "Lectio"-n Day WDTPRS >> From a seminarian: “priests of the future are excited about tradition” WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: In what colors are a priest to be buried ? WDTPRS >> The Bux protocol Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Pray for India

Four Star Edition - Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Shouts in the Piazza >> Maurice & Therese Whispers in the Loggia >> "A Shower of Roses" Whispers in the Loggia >> Freedom: Little...Fidelity: Great Whispers in the Loggia >> In Portland, the Face-Off Continues Whispers in the Loggia >> From the French Desk

CNA: Indians receive news of first saint from their country with joy

As CNA reports, Ana Muttathupadam was raised by a family of the Syro-Malabar rite and joined the Poor Clares at the age of 18. She was given the name, Sr. Alfonsa of the Immaculate : [...] Her religious life was marked by grave illnesses that kept her from carrying out her apostolic work. She offered all of her suffering for the conversion of sinners. During the last year of her life, she fell ill with cancer and suffered great pain. She died on July 28, 1946 at the age of 36. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1986 and will be canonized on October 12, 2008. Sister Alfonsa’s motto was “Be consumed as a fire to illuminate others.” Her profound spiritual life even moved the hearts of non- believers. Sister Alfonsa did not do extraordinary things, but her message is easily understood in India, a country filled with suffering. Gandhi proclaimed the value of suffering but Sister Alfonsa imbued it with the supernatural light of the Gospel. As the first saint of India, she i