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WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE April 5, 2012

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See the Sacred Triduum! For your edification, we present here some images from the rich spiritual treasury of the Holy Week Rites of the Sacred Triduum... 4-5-2012   Eddystone festivities honor Sts. Joseph & Patrick St. Jude's Church, at Eddystone, Pennsylvania, held a festival honoring Sts. Joseph and Patrick on Sunday, March 18... 4-4-2012   20 more subdeacons! Sitientes Saturday fell on March 24th this year, and we have two brief reports to give from the SSPX’s seminaries in the United States and Switzerland... Pictures from Winona seminary now up! 4-2-2012   Go ahead: mock the sacred! "Mock them. Ridicule them! In public!" That’s exactly what Richard Dawkins, the prominent atheist encouraged a gathering of atheists and agnostics to do specifically to Catholics for their beliefs... 3-30-2012   Holy Week ceremonies notes: get them here! Now available are altar serving notes for Holy Week. These ceremonial notes offer many practical tips that will be valuable for priests, sacristans, and choir masters... 3-29-2012   January-February District Superior's Letter "We ought to keep building the City of God, restoring all things in Christ. There is nothing that can be more pleasing to God than to rebuild His Church, stone by stone..." 4-2-2012     ROSARY CRUSADE TOTALS FOR USA DISTRICT as of 4-4-2012: April-Oct 1,790,675 | Nov 281,602 | Dec 291,669 January 277,367 February 224,853 | March 27,890 | Grand total: 2,894,057   January-February Regina Coeli Report The Importance of a Retreat | The History of Our Retreats | Why Retreats are Important: An Interview with Fr. Emily | Book Review: One Hundred Years of Modernism | Introducing new format of The Angelus... 4-2-2012    Pastor's Corner: US Bishops call Catholics to fast on March 30 to end religious persecution Bishop Conley explained that the persecution of Catholics in America is the result of sin - and offering penance, in union with Christ’s death on the cross, liberates us from that sin. He called for a fast on the Friday of Passiontide (March 30)... 3-30-2012   Vatican's clarification about “SSPX ultimatum” This communiqué has been the subject of various commentaries which are rather revealing of the professional qualifications of their authors... 3-30-2012 DICI NEWS   Cardinal supports homosexuality in new book Cardinal Martini documented in a new book his opposition to Catholic moral teaching on the subject of same-gender marriages as well as homosexuality in general: "I disagree with the positions of those in the Church"... 3-29-2012   Catholic Church against gay marriage Cardinal O’Brien: “no government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood definition of marriage”...3-30-2012 DICI NEWS   Misreporting about Vatican’s cancellation of stem cell talk Most news agencies are citing either a "lack of participation" or "lack of funding" for the cancellation. But the reality is that several complaints were lodged from within and without the Pontifical Academy... 3-29-2012   Report on the number of American mosques In the United States there are 2,106 mosques in all - an increase of 74%... “The Muslim community in America is full of energy and becoming more and more a part of the American landscape”... 3-30-2012 DICI NEWS   Communiqué from the SSPX's General House Since the meeting on March 16 with Cardinal Levada, Bishop Fellay has urgently been inviting the faithful to redouble their fervor in prayer and their generosity in making sacrifices during these Holy Days of Lent... 3-29-2012 DICI NEWS   St. Joan of Arc, Herald of the Social Kingship of Christ The girl declared that the kingdom belongs to our Lord and that Charles VII must hold it in custody of the Divine Hands... she addressed the prince, saying: “You shall be the lieutenant of the King of Heaven who is the King of France”... 3-30-2012 DICI NEWS