Etheldredasplace

I rarely write about music on this blog, but I love classical music and Gregorian Chant, as well as Medieval music and other types. What I h...

Early this year, I wrote about the possibility of a civil war in the States. The is always the same reason why individual states get res...

I am mourning today two things. One is a personal issue of a lack of male leadership in a family with which I am familiar. The father has...

I have personal good news, but this is universal not so good news.   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/muslim-brotherhood-candidate-wins-run-o...

  A seminarian friend sent this to me today.  Cynicism check time. Amid polls showing that his efforts to regulate religious...

This article from LifeSiteNews caught my eye after a discussion with two priests on to desire monarchies or to want republics-democracie...

A few days ago, I put two maps on this blog of places where Christians and Catholics live. Here is another map of the weather this weekend. ...

A contentious subject....I am traveling today, so this is a strange day for posting. At this moment, I am standing in a friend's kitchen...

I am traveling today and thinking of the people I have met in the past year of teaching, writing, praying, doing whatever one does in Eur...

A comment on another post brought up the question of rites in the Church as connected to local custom, or to devotion. Now, the Rites, wh...

As Confirmation is one of the Sacraments of Initiation, one of the questions asked of people who are getting married is whether they need ...

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/05/rome-sspx-fellay-speaks-in-vienna-words.html Rome-SSPX - Fellay speaks in Vienna: the words of...

I had decided to continue looking at the Sacraments of Initiation on this blog. As readers know, I have been looking carefully at Baptism...