Mysterious Thingshttp://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/en-US2010-07-30T13:14:04ZSquarespace Site Server v5.11.5 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Was impressed by what little I knew about Miles Jesu and...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/29/was-impressed-by-what-little-i-knew-about-miles-jesu-and.htmlMarc2010-07-29T23:18:51ZDomus Ecclesia MediaSo, long ago, Father Alfonso Durán came to... the place where I was then living (no mysteries there; it really is just so many years ago that I cannot for the life of me recall exactly when this happened, or where-- prior to 1978 at any rate...) to meet me as I was attempting to discern vocation; he impressed me as a very pious cleric indeed.  I hope that, for the good of the members of the institute and for the Church, the problems can be dealt with justly and, now that Rome is involved directly, expeditiously.

]]>Are we ready for a film about Opus Dei's founder?http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/28/are-we-ready-for-a-film-about-opus-deis-founder.htmlMarc2010-07-29T02:36:04ZEcclesia Film Opus Dei

Creative Minority Report g. a.]]>"Razing the bastions, yet again"...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/27/razing-the-bastions-yet-again.htmlMarc2010-07-28T02:07:32ZEcclesia Media TheologiaIs the title of P. David Meconi SJ's essay in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review; he's alluding to Hans Urs von Balthasar's Razing the Bastions (of more than fifty years ago).  It is fascinating to consider that the eminent theologian could write, then, that Holy Church had to tear down the fortresses with which she had surrounded herself and go out into the lands and be Christ for the poor, disoriented people who were dispossessed of their rightful Christian patrimony, and consider the very greatly changed circumstances today, when I've seen the 'meme' bruited about that Pope Benedict XVI has 'welcomed a much smaller but more fervent Church'.  In any event, P. Meconi's article is fine indeed, about orthodoxy and charity and tolerance and, well, Our Lord having already won the battle.  And he is editor of HPR; P. Kenneth Baker SJ is editor emeritus... for how long, I wonder.  Idle Speculations g. a.

I meant of course, for how long has P. Baker been retired as editor. Tsk; this is what happens when I look into these mysterious things at the end of a long day at work.  

]]>A new bishop for Orléans...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/27/a-new-bishop-for-orleans.htmlMarc2010-07-28T00:49:16ZEcclesia La Belle France Sancta Apostolica SedesWho has been, till now, auxiliary of Bordeaux; Mons Jacques Blaquart.  I shall look about for reactions from the French bloggers, and see if Golias has taken notice.  He wears (or, has worn) a beard, tsk.

]]>Green Wing is my current diversion...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/26/green-wing-is-my-current-diversion.htmlMarc2010-07-27T04:40:27ZDomus Media Varia]]>Am refusing to follow politics until Labor Day but...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/26/am-refusing-to-follow-politics-until-labor-day-but.htmlMarc2010-07-27T03:58:12ZMedia PoliticsI thought this post at Power Line was worth spending five minutes on; John Hinderaker discusses the latest Daily Caller release of JournoList nonsense.  Evidently, Mr Andrew Sullivan is not the only public person convinced that Mrs Palin's youngest child is really her grandson or an alien or something.  I don't quite understand what it is about the woman that drives so many Left journalists crazy (although if I'm faced with a choice between Mr Obama and Mrs Palin in November, 2012 I'll vote for her without too many misgivings, so of course I've already swallowed the Kool-Aid)--but they had better check themselves into the appropriate detox or rehab facilities before it's too late.

]]>What is the Holy Father, of venerable memory, wearing?http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/25/what-is-the-holy-father-of-venerable-memory-wearing.htmlMarc2010-07-25T18:14:22ZEcclesia Hispania Media Sancta Apostolica Sedes Sancta LiturgiaIt must be an article of decoration or devotion for the use of pilgrims to St James at Compostella, I suppose; doubt that it is a proper liturgical or episcopal vestment?  La Buhardilla de Jerónimo g. a.

 

]]>The vehicles, oh the backed up line of vehicles...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/24/the-vehicles-oh-the-backed-up-line-of-vehicles.htmlMarc2010-07-24T22:36:11ZDomus Media VariaDue to this unfortunate recreational vehicle fire was stretched south for miles and miles (that is, perhaps, an exaggeration) yesterday, but the Interstate was, happily enough, returned to its normal conditions by the time I was driving north.  I have just realised-- a very good example of what reading with a definite preconception will do to one's comprehension skills--  that this cannot have been the burning RV I saw, driving south to Dorena, yesterday, unless some people in the newspaper business have gotten their stories mixed up. As it stands, there were two burning RVs at different locations on I-5 yesterday during the three o'clock hour, one north of Eugene (toward Albany) and one south of Eugene (toward Dorena). 

]]>Don't know any of these people but the facts presented...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/24/dont-know-any-of-these-people-but-the-facts-presented.htmlMarc2010-07-24T22:23:25ZDomus Media Politics VariaIn the newspaper article certainly confirm my distaste for 'human rights' bureaucracies in local government. One understands that passions aroused tend to affect perception, but how likely is it that Mr Raised By a Militant (yes, that is my gloss) Feminist is willing to publicly allow himself to cry 'racist' without some form of provocation? on the other hand, of course, it is just true that some fellows 'play well with other children' and some don't.

]]>De mortuis nihil nisi...http://www.mysteriousthings.net/causeries/2010/7/24/de-mortuis-nihil-nisi.htmlMarc2010-07-24T17:59:41ZBarbarians through the Gates Germania MediaAnd every other piety but how many of the Love Parade revellers were crazy on the drugs du jour or drunk?

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