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Prayers Requested for Frank Morriss
Our dear friend and Board Member Frank Morriss was hospitalized last week and is in the ICU. Frank, a WWII vet who will be 90 in March, wrote for years for The Wanderer, was a founding editor of Twin Circle and the Catholic Register in Denver. He co-edited our Forum Focus since 1985. Most recently he contributed…
Merry Christmas!
Venite adoremus! Merry Christmas from the Bellarmine Forum! ———– The Christmas Mass at Dawn, December 25, 2013, will be offered for all of our supporters, benefactors, and friends at the altar over the corpus of St. Robert Bellarmine at the Chiesa San Ignazio in Rome. Mass will be celebrated by our dear friend Father Kevin…
Footnote 59: CRS
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BF-Footnote-59-CRS-120713-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe relationship between the Church’s charities and the federal government is not often discussed in fundraising campaigns of groups like Catholic Relief Services. Is that a good idea?
From Under the Rubble…Stocking Stuffers
When I was growing up, extraterrestrials were all the rage. George Adamski held millions in thrall recounting his travel with Orthon, Zuhl, and a bunch of other Venusians touring L.A. who let him tag along in their flying saucer while they tiptoed through the universe. Some ten years later, the brilliant philosopher Eric Voegelin startled…
O Antiphons
We are in the midst of the great O Antiphons leading up to Christmas! Don’t forget to make these prayers part of your daily devotions as we prepare for Our Lord’s coming at Christmas and into our hearts every day. Check this link out for the Latin and English prayers!
Reno et Rudolphus
This is simply too good not to share! “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” in Latin and Gregorian Chant! A bit of fun on your Monday! Check it out here (hat tip: Suscipe Sancte Pater)!
“Can’t We Just Take the Money and Do Our Own Thing?” Why you can’t out-fox Common Core
“Look,” the bright, young superintendent of schools insists, “I understand that are all sorts of horror stories floating around out there about terrible Common Core curriculum but that isn’t the curriculum we’re going to use.” She began her job this past August and has enormous enthusiasm for what can be done to improve the academic…
Footnote 58: Dolan Cheerleader
https://media.blubrry.com/bellarmineforumfootnote/bellarmineforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BF-Footnote-58-Dolan-cheerleader-120713-df.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadTimothy Cardinal Dolan, outgoing president of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference, says that the bishops, some of Obama’s “greatest supporters,” can’t be cheerleaders for the president until he ends the HHS Contraception Mandate. Is Cardinal Dolan on the right track here?
