Daily Archives: 8 March 2007

American Small Change During Vatican I

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It’s 1870 and your pocket is full of small change. What does it look like? We have the two-cent piece, copper and featuring that godly motto. The three-cent nickel with the Liberty head joins the Indian princess of Liberty on … Continue reading →

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Making Statements

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Here’s one from the pot, kettle, black department. Let me say up front that as a liturgist, I’m skeptical about the “special group” Mass. If I worked in a parish that had success of sorts with it, I wouldn’t campaign … Continue reading →

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Inter Mirifica 19

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From the bishops, a request of the pope: In fulfilling his supreme pastoral charge with respect to the media of social communication, the Sovereign Pontiff has at hand a special office of the Holy See. Moreover, the Fathers of the … Continue reading →

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Why Fast? (Part II)

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(This is Neil.) Last Lent, I contributed a post entitled “Why Fast?” that excerpted from an article by the learned Jesuit Robert Taft. The current “Life in Christ” column, written by the Orthodox priest John Breck, is also about fasting. … Continue reading →

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Inter Mirifica 18

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Moreover, that the varied apostolates of the Church with respect to the media of social communication may be strengthened effectively, each year in every diocese of the world, by the determination of the Bishops, there should be celebrated a day … Continue reading →

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Inter Mirifica 17

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The bishops are critical–and maybe this is a bit surprising–of the passivity in face of the explosion of media options.  With the advent of YouTube and other computer innovations, would they be writing as strongly today? It is quite unbecoming for the … Continue reading →

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