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Seminarians for Life >> Romania The New Liturgical Movement >> Music in the Extraordinary Form (Check this out!) The New Liturgical Movement >> The Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour (St. John Lateran): Mother and Head of All Churches of the City and the World WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: Catafalque for Requiem in the Novus Ordo ? Whispers in the Loggia >> The Pre-Game Show (latest from Rocco relating the doings in "Charm City")

Charlotte was Both >> Chill. And Pray . (To Amy... Yes. I pray for him and for all priests every day...) RORATE CAELI >> Editorial note: Pro-death from day one WashingtonPost.com >> Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions The New Liturgical Movement >> Usus Antiquior Training for Two Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word Whispers in the Loggia >> "The Church 'At Home' in America " (a nice article on the "Premier See" and John Carroll)

Creative Minority Report >> NYT: Bishops Are the Big Losers RORATE CAELI >> The inspiration of Pope Pius XII (Pope Benedict XVI) WDTPRS >> Sacramento, CA: “Chants of a Lifetime” (and black vestment alert)

And then there was this ... Rocco got the breaking story from Dan Burke of Religion News Service .

A number of very poignant posts have suddenly "popped onto the screen" this afternoon. Among them: Catholic World News >> Pope supports organ transplants-- with caution for the donor's death with dignity CNA >> Becket Fund to Award Canterbury Medal to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap . ZENIT >> The Facts of When Human Life Begins | Interview With Maureen Condic of the Westchester Institute (this is a powerful "White Paper" story from a leading human embryologist) Whispers in the Loggia >> On Eucharistic Consistency (Bishop John Ricard, SSJ, Pensacola, FL) Whispers in the Loggia >> Back to the Drawing Board ("Faithful Citizenship" to be revisited)

www.Chiesa.com >> "An extraordinary preacher, a model for many priests and for myself..." (Cardinal Camillo Ruini on Pope Benedict) FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Obama and the Bishops (Fr. Richard John Neuhaus) NCR.Cafe.org >> An open letter to President-Elect Barack Obama (John L. Allen, Jr.) Residuum Revertetur >> Lectio Divina in Our Catholic Life Today ( Rev. Scott A. Haynes, S.J.C.) The New Liturgical Movement >> 2009 Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference Announced (Jan. 29th-Feb. 1st, 2009, Omaha, Nebraska; link location )

Deborah Morlani posts an important commentary on the link between belief as reflected in the Liturgy and belief in the Magisterial teachings of the Church . She posits: The Church teaches us that the sacred liturgy is the centre, or font, from which all else flows within the Church; it refers to it as her source and summit. ( Sacrosanctum Concilium para. 10 ) It is this tenet which allowed Pope Benedict XVI, while still a Cardinal, to note that “the Church stands and falls with the liturgy” for when one understands and accepts the central place which the liturgy holds within the life of the Church and her faithful, this clearly follows and should hopefully help us to appreciate the foundational place and importance of the liturgy in a variety of questions. She then continues on with this analysis: I would propose, particularly to those actively involved within the pro-life movement (of which all Catholics, clergy, laity, and religious, should consider themselves involved to some exte

Standing on My Head >> Call No My Father (a wonderful look into Catholic apologetics!) WDTPRS >> 11 Jan: Chicago - Pontifical TLM (Bravo!) WDTPRS >> DENVER - 9 Nov: Pontifical TLM (Bravo!...do I detect a subliminal message deveoping here?) WDTPRS >> A retired bishop and a regular solemn TLM (Bravo!! Bishop Emeritus David Foley of Birmingham!!) WDTPRS >> Remember my prediction ? (He typed ominously...) Whispers in the Loggia >> Here Comes "Armageddon "

The blog, Seminarians for Life, edited by Father Bill Bellrose of the Fathers of Mercy , has been added to the Blogroll in the right margin. I have been advised that the Fathers of Mercy, headquartered in Kentucky, give totally marvelous Retreats. As my colleague put it, "this group can really bring it !" Please check out their website if you are considering going to a Retreat or want a Parish Mission .

Carl Olson has more to say on the state of catechesis within the Church . He quotes Mark Brumley, Phil Lawler and Pope John Paul II to hammer the message home. I guess this kind of analysis is going to go on for quite some time. Wow...