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Lots of words out there about Eileen McNamara’s column today in the Boston Globe. The title says it all. This is it: “A catholic alternative”

Note that’s a lower-case “c” meaning universal in a generic sense, not the Universal Church that is the mystical Body of Christ. Does the Body of Christ include other Christian faiths outside of Catholicism? The Church says it does. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons excluded for obvious reasons. These folks below have said just about everything I think that can be said. I will add one thing. Christ said “Do this in memory of me” not “pick and choose what you are going to do in memory of me.” Here are links to what our friends at other blogs are saying:
Fool’s Folly
Ad Orientem
In Formation
Oh, one last thing – Christ did mention something about schismatics in His private revelations to St. Faustina. It wasn’t favorable. At least that’s what she said that He said. I’m going to have to look it up.

over at Ad Orientem. The best thing to do when bring an issue (i.e. lamenting your local liturgical lounge lizards) to the attention of your pastor is to suggest a solution. We’ll support you if you want our input – just drop us a line. I think John even has a repertoire list for our choir for different times of the Church year.

on inclusive language. Sort of.
Got this email someone other than Alan Keyes but he says this is what Alan Keyes said about inclusive language:

…he gave a long explanation about the creation story from Genesis, pointing out that, while God had pronounced every thing good as soon as he had made it, he didn’t pronounce man complete until he had *also* created woman. He said that this showed the special nature of man — that our race is not complete without both sexes — and that to gender-neutralize liturgical language is not only aesthetically distasteful, but also contrary to the revealed truth of scripture and the church.
Of course I can’t repeat it as eloquently as he ex-temped it. No one could!

Nope, no one could. I have the utmost respect for Alan Keyes. Our anonymous reader goes to say:

When I print programs for use at my church I troglodytize the pronouns — defiantly, because our pastor is a 60’s reprobate.

I don’t know what “troglodytize” means, but I do know we need fewer 60’s reprobates in the priesthood.

at The View from the Core on what the “Pope” said about celebs wearing crosses. Of course the media jumps all over a statement that wasn’t even made by the Pope and the overlook the ‘Jenin Massacre’ hoax perpetrated by Arafat’s propaganda machine.

Anyone know where I can procure rosary beads with 15 decades on them without becoming a Dominican? White doesn’t have enough of a slimming look.