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A traditional Catholic priest, who provides forthright answers to questions FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TRADITIONAL CATHOLICISM (not the New Order) on topics pertaining to TRADITIONAL Roman Catholicism, including theology, the Bible, Church history, the Latin language, liturgy (especially the Traditional Latin Mass), and music (especially Gregorian chant), and current events in the Catholic Church.
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2012-02-06 54-Rosary Novena:
This little-known devotion, of is of relatively recent vintage, associated supposedly with an apparition. Therefore, according to the warnings of the Church and the Saints, one should be very careful
2012-01-28 Catholic Marriage:
In the normal case (unless a dispensation for good cause could be obtained, and the non-Catholic party make the promises not to interfere with the Catholic's practice of faith and to raise any children
2012-01-27 Catholic Women in the 1800s:
1) Males, not necessarily boys, the one exception being nuns' choirs, where obviously there cannot be males. 2) In some countries, the separation was observed in Catholic churches, just as it is in orthodox
2011-12-07 Census at Jesus' Time:
There are a number of references to censuses in Augustus' time in the classical historians, such as Tacitus. A census in a region was really a form of tax enrollment. Its intention was not to count individuals
2011-11-24 Manger Scene:
That is an interesting point of detail and points out how we get different perspectives from each of the four Evangelists. St. Matthew was writing primarily to the Jews, trying to provie to them that
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