WYD liturgical modernism depends on the traditional tide being out

Modernistic liturgical pauperism

For  comparison, the glory of the Katholikentag 1949 in Bochum, 

which was managed only four years after the end of the war.

Normal service

Will be resumed shortly.   Have been distracted by urgent business.

Pope hugs an Iman

and concelebrates in the round- the ultimate in self-referential liturgy, which ironically excludes rather  than includes the Faithful.

Rome-based news agency thinks Curia is full of Mad Men

Send off the dancing girls!

Prepare for release of shocking documents says Archbishop

In a major turning point in its nearly 3-year-old bankruptcy, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Monday is scheduled to make public thousands of pages of documents detailing the sexual abuse of minors by priests going back decades, and what church leaders did — and did not do — in response.

The records will contain parts of 42 priests' personnel files as well as depositions of former Archbishop Timothy Dolan, now cardinal of New York; retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland; retired Bishop Richard Sklba; and now-defrocked priest Daniel Budzynski.

Most of the information, which is being released as part of an agreement in the archdiocese's bankruptcy proceedings, has never been seen publicly.

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