Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Anathema: Shroud of Frost

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Undying odyssey... a myriad of times The soul has seen Through eyes of heaven The imperium of earth There’s nothing left to perceive Help me...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Countdown

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T-minus 250 days and counting...
Friday, November 23, 2007

Religion of Peace update: 10,000 mark reached

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There have now been over 10,000 terrorist attacks in the name of Islam since 9/11. H/T to Damian Thompson. Read it all here . After detailin...

AFI: Spoken Word

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This ‘song’, actually more of a poem spoken by the voice of the three ages of man, is a ‘hidden’ track after Now the World on the Sing the ...

Damn it

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Meant to post yesterday, but have been very stressed out of late. I long for the end of the teaching term, which will bring with it the end ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The incipient violence of the left, part ii

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From Catholic World News : Leftists disrupt Mexico City cathedral Mexico City, Nov. 19, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Leftist demonstrators disrupted ...
Friday, November 16, 2007

Studenti saepe in horto vacant

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I am sitting in my cell in the university, alone. One hour more, and I will be able to retire to the country for the weekend. From the quadr...
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Now this is REAL ecumenism

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From Catholic World News . Melancholicus has taken the liberty of editing the original to remove spelling errors. Orthodox prelate faults Ca...
Monday, November 12, 2007

The times, they are definitely a-changin'!

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From Catholic World News : Baltimore, Nov. 9, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Baltimore's Archbishop Edwin O'Brien has removed a pastor who invi...

Cardinal Etchegaray on married clergy

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From Catholic World News : Married priests not a solution to shortage, cardinal says Paris, Nov. 12, 2007 (CWNews.com) - An influential Fren...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Tony Blair, a convert to Catholicism?

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While this is good news, especially for Mr. Blair, Melancholicus wishes to remind his readers that converting to Catholicism is not like me...

Cardinal Wetter's lament

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from Catholic World News : German cardinal decries seminarians' religious education Munich, Nov. 8, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Cardinal Fried...

The mettle of Archbishop Burke

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From Catholic World News : Excommunication looms for would-be women priests St. Louis, Nov. 8, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Raymond Burk...

Irish blogs

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Of late Melancholicus has been hunting around for suitable Irish blogs to add to his blogroll — suitable meaning that such blogs are broadl...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Solemn High Mass broadcast by EWTN

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Another motu proprio related post. Melancholicus is delighted to have stumbled at long last upon this great treasure, namely the video of t...

Archbishop Ranjith: bishops who defy Summorum Pontificum are instruments of the devil

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A word to the wise from the good archbishop secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship: “The motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on the L...

Cormac attempts to frustrate efforts to restore the liturgy

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Melancholicus has learned, via Damian Thompson and Fr John Zuhlsdorf , that his eminence Cormac Cardinal Murphy O’Connor, archbishop of Wes...
Tuesday, November 06, 2007

More idiots and their propaganda

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The 90th anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution on October 25th went unmarked by Melancholicus (although he was aware of the date), as t...
Monday, November 05, 2007

Religion of Peace update

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This is a sad story. Melancholicus does not envy the stuggles of a Christian father to win justice for his violated daughter in an overwhel...
Friday, November 02, 2007

The true face of socialism - yet again!

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Lest we forget — this from Catholic World News : Imprisoned Viet Catholic priest denied Bible, sacramental wine Hanoi, Oct. 31, 2007 (CWNews...

Whose fault is that, then?

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From Catholic World News : Quebec's loss of faith seen triggering social problems Quebec, Oct. 31, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The people of Que...

Letter from the abbé de Nantes to His Holiness Benedict XVI

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From the October edition of the CRC journal: Most Holy Father, The pride of the reformers who, in past centuries, always came up against the...

Enola Gay pilot dies aged 92

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Gen. Paul Tibbets passed away peacefully at his home in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday 1st November. He was 92 years of age. Tibbets is most fa...

The commemoration of All Souls

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Today is the commemoration of All Souls, one of only two days in the year on which every priest has the privilege of celebrating three Masse...

Priests fear sacramental wine could tip them over the driving limit

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This is a story which properly belongs to the silly season, yet all the Irish media outlets seem to be taking it up. The version of the sto...