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The Deacon's Bench
Only 10?
By
jmcgee
That crafty Elizabeth Scalia has drawn our attention to a list of “The Ten Worst Hymns”, which has some real doozies — some of which I’d all but forgotten. One particularly awful one — so bad, it’s good — is “Sons of God,” which seems to have disappeared from the popular canon. (God is merciful.)…
Ladies and gentlemen: the picnic mass
By
jmcgee
And now, from Austria, a little something that looks like a holiday barbecue which was, evidently, Holy Mass. (H/T) Can anyone translate??
More on Mary Anne Marks, Harvard’s Latin orator
By
jmcgee
Some days back, I posted the eye-popping speech — in Latin — delivered by a young woman from my parish, Mary Anne Marks (Harvard ’10). Now, I’ve learned that the Harvard Gazette did a short piece on her, and some of the other speakers, and explained how their speeches were chosen: Queens, N.Y., native Mary…
Goal! The conversion story of a World Cup soccer star
By
jmcgee
It happened in May, just a few weeks before the World Cup began. CNA has details: The Argentinean daily La Nacion featured a story this week on the Dutch soccer player Wesley Sneijder, who scored the winning goal against Brazil in the World Cup quarter finals last week. The article revealed his conversion and baptism,…
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