Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Breviarium Romanum >> Richard and Mary Cusick, 50th Anniversary of Holy Matrimony: "Uxor tua sicut vitis abúndans, in latéribus domus tuæ. Fílii tui sicut novéllæ olivarum " ( ad multos annos !) Colleen Hammond >> Vatican Endorses ADULT Stem Cell Research Company Damian Thompson >> The Bitter Pill wouldn't stoop to settling scores, would it ? First Things >> Excommunicating Intentions (Michael Liccione) First Thoughts >> Lesson from Europe: Socialism Doesn’t Work (David P. Goldman) First Thoughts >> Creating Life ? (Joseph Bottum) Patrick Madrid >> Priest sells convent to Muslims for a mosque on a street named for 9-11 hero Secondhand Smoke >> Obama Not Interested in Deep Discourse So “Shadow” Bioethics Council Will The Cathoholic >> When a Catholic Student Has "2 Mommies "

Dymphna's Road >> Catholics and the glamour of evil New Liturgical Movement >> The Many Types of Gregorian Music Patrick Madrid >> This pretty much sums it up. Any questions ? RORATE CÆLI >> “In Portugal, the dogma of the faith will always be preserved ” Secondhand Smoke >> Bioethics Report: Pediatricans Can Engage in “Symbolic” Female Genital Mutilation ("This opinion is a craven act of cultural relativism, and hence, a first step toward a total collapse of principle on the issue"...) WDTPRS >> Using the new translation “ad experimentum ” WDTPRS >> PODCAzT 101 & WDTPRS: Preface for Ascension (1962MR)

AmP >> Health reform? Yes. This reform? No. Bishops Murphy, Wester and DiNardo against the Health Care Bill Creative Minority Report >> Text of Nun's Letter Endorsing Obamacare (incredibly sad...) Insight Scoop >> "In the dark night of the Cross all the greatness of divine love appears... " New Liturgical Movement >> Fr. Weber's chants online and more complete Secondhand Smoke >> Bioethics Lacks Focus–but Still Undermines Human Exceptionalism The Anchoress >> “Fear is useless, what is needed is trust. ” The Foundry >> The Senate Health Bill: Ordinary Americans Have Been Warned WDTPRS >> WDTPRS POLL! Your progress through Lent: honest assessment Whispers in the Loggia >> St Timmy's Day

AmP >> Olympics: U.S. speedskater took leap of faith Catholic Hour >> Give It Up ! Damian Thompson >> Vatican confirms freedom of priests to celebrate Extraordinary Form whenever they like – no need for 'stable group ' (BOOM!) First Thoughts >> Geezer Rock-Listening Baby Boomers Take Over Vatican Newspaper ( " So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking, and racing around to come up behind you again ." - Pink Floyd ) (Great stuff!) Insight Scoop >> Pope Benedict XVI on "problems revolving around the question of bioethics " Insight Scoop >> A New Conservatism? Insight Scoop >> Fr. Robert Barron on "The Book of Eli " New Liturgical Movement >> Another Excerpt (outtake) from the Sacred Music Video New Liturgical Movement >> The "Tonacella per Novizi" of Franciscan Shrine of La Verna Priests for Life >> The Beatitudes: A Call to Be Pro-Life - Part 1

AmP >> National Geographic Video: Inside the Vatican AmP >> How to defeat the health care bill A Priest Life >> Traditional AND practical: "The sedia gestatoria would protect the Pope " Creative Minority Report >> Together At Last: Planned Parenthood and ACLU Insight Scoop >> How Balthasar! How intolerant! How controversial ! Mulier Fortis >> Confusing Calendars... New Liturgical Movement >> Nuptial Mass New Liturgical Movement >> More Images from the Chant Intensive RORATE CÆLI >> Chief Rabbi of the Rome Synagogue Secondhand Smoke >> My “Top Ten Stories of the Decade” in Bioethics The Divine Life >> Are we willing to sacrifice for the Holy Sacrifice ? The Divine Life >> Christian Hall of Fame (alas...Martyrs...) The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> More on yesterday's Mass WDTPRS >> Brick by brick at the Mother Church

American Papist >> Archbishop Chaput on why he signed the Manhattan Declaration A Trail of Flowers >> To be loved Creative Minority Report >> I Don't Care What's Happening. It's Bad ("This is 'like' soooo totally not good!") Insight Scoop >> "This film gleams...." Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Thursday, Advent Wk II: "none greater than John the Baptist " New Liturgical Movement >> Archbishop Agostino Marchetto on the Hermeneutic Applied to the Second Vatican Council: An Update on the Much Anticipated English Translation New Liturgical Movement >> Gaudete Sunday and Liturgical Rose RORATE CÆLI >> You report -- Daily Lauds with the laity in Sacramento Secondhand Smoke >> Flash Forward: The Year in Bioethics 2010 SECRET HARBOR >> A Virtuous Woman The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> "The Catholicism Project" trailer The Way of the Fathers >> Lybia, O

This blog often cites articles from " Secondhand Smoke ," the blog written by Wesley J. Smith on FIRST THINGS Online. This link is to an article in the December issue of the magazine, First Things . It is a sobering article and a must read. Mr. Smith is "a Senior Fellow in Bioethics and Human Rights at the Discovery Institute, is a consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and for the Center for Bioethics and Culture" according to his byline listed at the link .

A Priest Life >> A prayer for patience American Papist >> New on APP: Bioethics, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage & Sotomayor SUB TUUM >> Sant-Genis-des-Fontaines Shouts in the Piazza >> Some That I Like The Anchoress >> Obamacare: Kennedy lives; Grandma dies The Foundry >> Should Government Determine the Value of Human Life ? The Hermeneutic of Continuity >> The sacrament of cohabiting

Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Give thanks...and remember Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> "The world as we know it is passing away " The New Liturgical Movement >> First Images and Report from the IBP-Fraternity of Christ the Priest Training Conference in Spain Whispers in the Loggia >> Next Up: Bioethics Whispers in the Loggia >> Quote of the Day Whispers in the Loggia >> Pray for Mumbai

This is an important article by Patrick C. Beeman on the future of the profession of medicine . To take a snippet from the opening of this article: Where is the profession of medicine going? Has it become simply applied biology, another “job” among equally good ways of earning a living? What kind of person should the physician be? What about bioethics? Is patient autonomy the only viable moral absolute? Oh, and—who is Dr. Edmund Pellegrino? In The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn: A Pellegrino Reader , Tristram Engelhardt, a bellwether of bioethics, and Fabrice Jotterand, who holds a dual appointment within the University of Texas system as assistant professor of philosophy and “psychiatry and clinical sciences,” have answered these questions by offering nineteen selections from Edmund Pellegrino’s six hundred articles and twenty-four books. At one time or another, Pellegrino was director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; president of the Catholic University of America; professor of

I have had occasion to need advice on any variety of bioethical issues given from a totally Catholic perspective that is totally faithful to the Magisterium of the Church. The National Catholic Bioethics Center is a clearinghouse of superb information. The Board of Directors is superb and includes a large number of top episcopal advisers. The e-newsletter is one I read faithfully. There are position papers on all manner of issues, and subscriptions are incredibly reasonable for the NCBC periodical, "Ethics and Medics." The End of Life guide is a must for all Catholics . The purchase price is incredibly modest and it includes a prototype Advanced Medical Directive and an appointment sheet for a Health Care Proxy. The site is a must for all priests and seminarians as well as for informed Catholics. It is worth a look-see! The site is totally faithful to the Magisterial teachings of the Church and is recommended by the Catholic Medical Association as its bioethica