Archbishop Dolan has an article in the Catholic Herald that Gerald in a two part post dubs The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.
A reader sent me a link to an article by George Weigel at CERC entitled Heretical Hymns. I agree whole-heartily with his article that says
Thus, with tongue only half in cheek, I propose the Index Canticorum Prohibitorum, the "Index of Forbidden Hymns." Herewith, some examples.
And the suggestions are the chestnuts we all too often hear at Mass. And like chestnuts should be thrown into the fire.
As they say read the whole thing and it is rather short.
I once had a post titled Heretical Hymns where I wrote my own examples.
The Little Way book store in Corpus Christi has a great selection of books on Carmelite spirituality and a line of photographs and holy cards imported from France and published by Office Central de Lisieux. Their prices from the books I looked at are comparable to Amazon.com.
Two of my favorite books are also included. Elizabeth of the Trinity The Complete Works Volume 1, Volume 2. This lesser known Carmelite Blessed should be wider known and here collection of letters in these books are a wonder to read.
Cynthia Kerr the owner has also started a new blog.
Eagle and Elephant reports on the passing of Fr. Phillippe
who was the founder of one of the Church’s strongest and rapidly growing religious communities: the Community of Saint John.
Happy Catholic posts a review of the paperback edition of The Catholic Home at Spero News. She says it is "Better than ever" and sounds like a real good book to pick up.
Stop the ACLU interviews William A. Donahue of the Catholic League. This interview is related directly to the ACLU and their policies and contains some interesting information.
It is bad enough that in England that church attendance has been plummeting faster than the acute angle of a slippery slope. Yet now the Royal Shakespeare Company is in the words of Matthew Mehan in his article Strangling Shakespeare. I wonder if there is a connection?