Mere Catholic Miscellany

2009

December
November 24
October
September 9
August 10
July 9
June 15
May 9
April 32
March 30
February 29
January 60

2008

December 67
November 22
October 46
September 24
August 3
July 17
June
May 3
April 22
March 13
February 45
January 74
High Mass with Rulers in the presence of the Bishop in...
Nov 30th
Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello (source)
Nov 28th
Church of Our Saviour, NYC (source)
Nov 27th
“Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for...”
— St Isaac the Syrian
Nov 23rd

De Maria numquam satis

… to be Catholic is not simply to become grafted into an institution in the here and now,...
Nov 21st
“What pleased me most about a Greek Orthodox mass I once...”
— C. S. Lewis, Letters to...
Nov 20th

On hyper-critical, hypocritical,...

November 22, 2009 Second Sunday of Advent Father Pat’s Pastoral Ponderings Last week we...
Nov 19th

Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts

For almost 55 years, the Western Church has been largely bereft of a Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified...
Nov 16th
'The Russian Orthodox Psalter'
Nov 16th

A crisis of the Christian imagination

I have unfortunately been involved in many milieu where there was only one acceptable idea of how...
Nov 16th
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Nov 16th
Coming soon. Watch this space.
Nov 14th
Coming soon. Watch this space.
Nov 14th
Palatine Chapel, Palermo (source)
Nov 14th
“Each person is … uniquely created in the image of God,...”
— Bartholomew, Ecumenical...
Nov 14th
On the Arab Christian use of the word 'Allah'
Nov 14th

'Politics, Polemics and Reconciliation'

The besetting failure of Orthodoxy in America is our almost global unwillingness to lay aside knee...
Nov 14th
'Variants of Anglican Worship'
Nov 14th

Benedict the 'Radical Traditionalist'

“We make a grave mistake if we interpret and understand the actions and activities of Pope...
Nov 14th
Shrine of Saint Joseph, St Louis, Missouri (source)
Nov 14th
Cover, Berthold Sacramentary (source)
Nov 14th
“What is it that motivates today’s Christians? It really is...”
— Hans Urs von Balthasar,...
Nov 14th

One for the religious blogosphere

For is not this the error, the common and fatal error, of the world, to think itself a judge of...
Nov 14th
Christ of the Stavelot Gospels (via The Lion and the...
Nov 14th