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A new site has opened here at stblogs.org. Paul Zalonski, a postulant at St Mary’s Abbey (OSB) in Morristown, NJ, is writing a blog under the title Communio.
Paul has been until recently a prep school teacher; he studied theology at Weston School of Theology (now part of Boston College) and liturgy at Notre Dame. I look forward to the fruits of his contemplations!

Yesterday’s Boston Globe had an article about some feminist provocateurs staging a pseudo-ordination; it was the usual mix of gushing and vagueness, and failed to get across the important point that, according to Catholic teaching, the “ordination” ceremony will have zero sacramental effect on the poncho ladies who undergo it.
In this case, the e-mail responses sent to the writer were actually more interesting than the original article!
I hope the Archdiocese will make it clear that normal ecumenical relations among the Christian denominations and the Church are damaged by an event like this, and will remain damaged until there is an apology and a promise to reform. That is because this service is not being held in some neutral civic building, but in the house of a particular Protestant assembly in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, called “The Church of the Covenant”. It is not so much a religious service, really, as a demonstration, openly fomenting heresy and rebellion against the Catholic Church; it is an attack on the Church, an open attempt to divide the Church, and thus a breach of normal respect.
In this case the Protestant house of worship has two denominational affiliations: United Church of Christ and Presbyterian Church USA. I think the Archdiocese of Boston should cut off normal ecumenical contacts with those two denominations until they deliver some expression of regret for the offense their member group has so thoughtlessly given.

I was lucky enough to register tenor.com over 10 years ago, now I’ve set up an opera blog there. Check it out if you enjoy opera!

Last Tuesday Teresa and I completed our adoption of little baby Asya, who came to use through the Fairfax County Foster Care and Adoption program in August of 2006. Asya was baptised Mary Anastasya Schultz this year on the solemnity of the Baptism of the Lord. She just turned 2 on June 11th.
One of these days I will post the complete story of how she became part of our family. For now, I will say that God listens to all our prayers and grants great graces to His little children. Little Asya is the greatest gift God has given Teresa and me.
Here are some photos of our little baby.

Our celebration of Steve’s ordination was cut short when we found out that Teresa’s brother had died. Fred was kind-hearted, actively involved in great charities like Birth Mothers, and was so happy to see Teresa and I adopting our little baby. We will miss quiet dinners at his house, his enthusiasm for doing good and his great love. Please keep Fred in your prayers.