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Very good piece by David Brooks on the Democrats' lack of faith * Christopher Hitchens looses a most satisfying blast across Michael Moore's ample bow * Amy in N.H. buries a woodchuck * Dale Price addresses a priestly etiquette problem of some delicacy
Appropriately enough, given the tenor of recent headlines out of the Middle East, Turner Classics this past weekend aired the 1935 MGM version of Tale of Two Cities, which was really very well done. Turns out there's a reason the omnipresent French revolutionary hag named "The Vengeance" looks and sounds just like the Witch in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: the actress, Lucille La Verne, provided voice and model for the Wicked Queen in the Disney cartoon. (See Great Characters)
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Fr. Wilson enlists Good Pope John in the cause of the Old Mass:
Well, you might also call it the “Mass according to the Missal of Blessed John XXIII,” as he was the Pope who promulgated the 1962 Missal by which the Indult Masses are offered today. But calling it either the ‘Mass of St Pius V’ or the ‘Mass of John XXII’ is very misleading. Its form was pretty much set by the time of Gregory the Great (+600 A.D.), which makes one realize what we tossed out in 1969. Someday I want to walk into a VOTF meeting and ask them to agitate for the “Mass of Bl. John XXIII!”
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