Etheldredasplace

Gone is the BBC from Bush House. The last people moved out this week. The cutbacks happened last year, when 30 million listeners were d...

Today in the Novus Order is the feast day of Blessed Louis and Zelie Martin, St. Therese's great and humble parents. They are among t...

Some Catholics want to judge apparitions or visionaries by the fruit of the ministries which pop up around such places. Fruit, by itself,...

I could not get the video to work on this post. Please take a moment and go to the linked site. Rick Santorum supports this charity . Plea...

I have a special devotion to Our Lady of Carafa, whose beautiful icon, one of the most lovely in the world, is on the right side-bar of th...

Do you have a nickname? My family never gave nicknames, but of course, children and friends have. I shall share some interesting nicknames...

A friend of mine brought this to my attention. It is in most TLM Missals.  Ask your Guardian Angel for inspirations and help in prayer. ...

Whaah,  shur, even we can understand the Catechism! I could not resist this, because of a recent commentator's note.

I have written before on the laity, especially here on this link , and I am distressed at the increasing anti-intellectualism which I am s...

I told you so....I said this would be a real possibility. http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/what-would-they-do-to...

I have three posts in one here. Three issues, the last being a selling out of sovereignty in Europe, have or are about to take away freedom ...

Today is Free Speech Day on this blog. I have collected items from many countries of the suppression of free speech, all which have happened...

In my Monastic Diurnal and in the NO, today is the feast, and for Benedictines at St. Michael's, a solemnity, of St. Benedict. To ...

To be a blogger is dangerous and if it gets too dangerous, as it did in 2009 for me, I shall pray about the future. Thankfully, I have fe...

And I add, what were you like on your wedding day? This is a great set of bullets on ladies in marriages. From working with women in t...

There was one victory in Denmark on a free speech issue and you can translate the article here. Although not brand new news, it is signifi...

One of my young friends sent me these. He is twelve. I was fooled, for a minute... Well, we know our Papa loves cats... and the cat ...

http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlacw_petition.aspx?pid=th2b&npla=I1ACAQ12I Check out this link. Rand Paul is trying to overtu...

Ah, the Hollande effect. In case you missed this, France will most likely see the passage of, not civil unions, but marriage. This means ...

As a history teacher, a long time ago, I taught Classical History, Greek and Roman, both at an advanced high school and at the college lev...