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Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> "tell the people everything about this life" Seminarians for Life >>Cardinal Rouco warns that 'crime of abortion casts shadow over history' Standing on My Head >> The Resurrection and Theological Sleight of Hand The Catholic Thing >> Intransigent Historical Claims (William Saunders) New Liturgical Movement >> Significant Nominations for the Congregation for Divine Worship WDTPRS >> Lateran - Cañizares - TLM - Brick By Brick Whispers in the Loggia >> In B16's Vatican, Doctrine Is the Best Medicine

American Papist >> 40 Ways to Get the Most out of Lent (Marcellino D'Ambrosio) Breviarium Romanum >> Tempus Quadragesimae Domine, da mihi hanc aquam >> The Devil preaches on Lent RORATE CÆLI >> Notes (MUST READ! PLEASE PRAY FOR POPE BENEDICT!) The New Liturgical Movement >> The Stational Churches of Rome by Fr. Scott Haynes The Recovering Choir Director >> Sound files from Ash Wednesday at Holy Innocents, NYC (MP3s) The Way of the Fathers >> Development of Doctrine (discussion on St. Irenaeus)

WDTPRS >> John Allen on the papal audience and Pelosi WDTPRS >> The Hill reveals discrepency: Did the Speaker and Archbishop of SanFran meet or not? WDTPRS >> I don't get it WDTPRS >> Also from The Hill Catholic Church Conservation >> Bishop Williamson could be ejected from the SSPX Catholic Church Conservation >> The comeback of Fr. Wagner ?

New Catholic of RORATE CÆLI asks a fascinating question: what is going on in Austria ? Fr. Wagner apparently has NOT signed the letter asking his nomination be withdrawn as yet. Furthermore: Bishop Andreas Laun, Auxiliary of Salzburg, concludes that Father Wagner cannot be considered "unsuitable" to be a Bishop - and certainly not because of his declarations. And, New Catholic points out that the Vatican has as yet made no response. Read this fascinating story ! Is the Vatican refusing to budge on this appointment?

American Papist >> Free Overnight Housing offered to March for Life participants! Kansas Catholic >> Biretta in Baltimore (the priest is Monsignor Arthur Bastress) The Black Biretta >> Have Teenage Sons or Students ? The New Liturgical Movement >> Liturgical Images from the Vatican The New Liturgical Movement >> Images from workshop, St. John Cantius Whispers in the Loggia >> Call and Answer

Catholic World News is reporting that the Vatican plans to remove the Eucharistic Prayers for Children . Read the entire story here . Brick by brick...

Jeffrey Tucker has some fine commentary on the story in the Toronto Globe and Mail that was posted too by Aristotle A. Esguerra in an earlier post (see below). Mr. Tucker goes into a bit more detail in his commentary. It seems that the Vatican Choir is in excellent hands!

St. Peter Canisius Apostolate >> The Rosary: School of Contemplation The Recovering Choir Director >> “Women in the choir? A Canadian bucks tradition to please the Pope ” The Catholic Review Online >> Vatican official defends life of Italian woman in vegetative state (CNS by Cindy Wooden) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Alphonsus Mary de Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (this feast day falls a day later in the Traditional Liturgical Calendar)

AmericanPapist >> Report: "Anglican bishops in secret Vatican summit" The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> Missa Cantata for the Feast of the Precious Blood (beautiful!) UPDATE 7:12 EDT: Fr. Dwight Longenecker of the blog, " Standing on My Head " presents "More Anglican News ."

The news has been making its way around the blogosphere ( see RORATE CAELI, for example ). Now, two sources have both confirmed that the Neocatechumenal Way has received final approval of its statutes. Both the Catholic News Agency and Zenit are carrying the story.

WDTPRS >> KC - Glorious new altars for the TLM parish - eye candy WDTPRS >> Vatican: end of Marian month at San Pietro (beautiful photos)

Bonfire of the Vanities >> 'The end of the beginning' (Pentecost homily) The Black Biretta >> tu es sacerdos in aeternum (Fr. John Trigilio is celebrating his 20th Jubilee; this shows the holy cards that priests have used upon their ordination) The New Liturgical Movement >> Solemnity of Pentecost from the Vatican The New Liturgical Movement >> Chant as the Universal Musical Language of Catholics What Does the Prayer Really Say >> Benedict XVI's Pentecost Sunday: again a lesson through vestments

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

WWW.Chiesa Online published two stories relating to the Baptism of Magdi Cristiano Allam by Sandro Magister. The first is here and the second, published today, is here .

This site contains music from the Vatican Easter Mass archived by the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music (Vatican) . This includes music from the Graduale Romanum and Graduale Simplex including the " Resurrexi ."

Lest I forget this news story, Fr. Z., reports on the return of the TLM to Ave Maria University...finally ! The Mass will be said by Father Joseph Fessio. John Allen of National Catholic Reporter summarizes what he feels were the ten most neglected stories concerning the Vatican in 2007 . Here is a snippet: 4) A pope of hope : Despite his erstwhile reputation as an Augustinian pessimist, Benedict XVI struck two major blows for hope in 2007. In April, the International Theological Commission, acting on his recommendation, suggested that limbo (a destination for unbaptized babies in the afterlife) could be set aside in favor of hope for their salvation. In December, Benedict issued his encyclical Spe Salvi (“Saved by Hope”), offering a positive spin on eschatology. The Last Judgment, for example, is not a threat of damnation, but a promise that justice will eventually prevail in a world in which evil too often goes unchecked. 3) Redefining dialogue with Islam :...