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WDTPRS : Fr. Zuhlsdorf adds a bit of skepticism to the story posted by RORATE CAELI on rumors about the Curial positions of Archbishops Amato and Ranjith WDTPRS : The Curt Jester "pages" Fr. Zuhlsdorf on a Latin translation making the rounds Whispers in the Loggia : On Things Liturgical The New Liturgical Movement : Update on the Pope in the US - Some Previews of What We Might See

Rocco Palmo of Whispers in the Loggia polishes up a superb idea from the blog Pewsitter.com ! The Pewsitter blog writes : Well instead of sending, an instant message when Benedict XVI arrives in the United States… every Catholic parish in the country should ring their church bells for ten minutes to joyfully welcome the Bishop of Rome. Communities should [ask or encourage their parishes to] participate in the joyful welcome of the Holy Father on April 15 [Tuesday]. Precisely at 4:00 PM, EDT, Benedict’s Catholic flock should participate in the joyful ringing of Catholic Church bells throughout the United States. Rocco thinks (as do I) that ten minutes might be a bit "much." It also leaves out Parishes without bells. So, Palmo suggests: In addition to this, even for those places without bells, maybe the hour of arrival -- again, 4 PM Eastern on Tuesday (3 Central, 2 Mountain, 1 Pacific, Noon in Alaska, and 10am on Hawaii) -- could be marked across the trenches with s

Click the link here to see the full coverage schedule . Note that the EWTN Radio feed and TV feed are accessible in the right menu bar near the bottom of this blog. Anchor: Raymond Arroyo ; Co-Host: Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor, First Things; Commentator: Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight, K of C.

Charlotte Was Both : Where Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix spent part of Easter Sunday Charlotte Was Both : New Evangelization (Young people interested in Pope Benedict) First Things: On the Square : Watch EWTN--and This Space--for the Papal Visit WDTPRS : Poll in Florida about sacred music for Mass

WDTPRS : "two steps forward and three steps backward " The New Liturgical Movement: To what extent has the Vatican been involved in planning music for Masses for the Pope's Visit The New Liturgical Movement : First Augustinian bishop since the Reformation

Mr. George Weigel has written an interesting piece discussing what he terms, "Inept Vaticanology." You can find his commentary here .

Thomas Peters of AmericanPapist does a really nice job of gathering five stories germane to the Holy Father's visit in April . One is the story posted below from The New Liturgical Movement . Highly recommended !

Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement is not encouraged by what he has discovered . ..

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