Sesame Street

Happy 40th!!!!

Leaving Mass Early

Jeffrey Tucker at the New Liturgical Movement blog has a nice piece on the unfortunate practice many Catholics have of leaving Mass early. It's worth taking a look.

Count Your Blessings

A voice like honey, and sage advice!

The Cardinals of St. Louis

There have been 10 archbishops of St. Louis. But, only 3 of these shepherds of the "Rome of the West" have been elevated to cardinal. No archbishop of St. Louis since 1979 has been raised to the sacred purple. However, Justin Rigali who was archbishop of St. Louis from 1993-2004 went on to become archbishop of Philadelphia and a cardinal. His successor, Raymond Burke, is currently serving as the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome and will almost certainly be created cardinal at the next consistory.

John Cardinal Carberry

Archbishop 1968-1979

Cardinal 1969

+1998

John Cardinal Glennon

Archbishop 1903-1946

Cardinal 1946

+1946

1st and 3rd are the artwork of the late Michael McCarthy. The 2nd is by Hans van Heijningen.

The Cardinals of Baltimore

While Baltimore is the oldest diocese in the United States and, therefore, the primatial or "premier" see only 3 of its 15 archbishops have been named cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. The first of those three, Cardinal Gibbons, used two distinct coats of arms inexplicably changing his coat of arms in the middle of his tenure.










Images are the original artwork of Hans van Heijningen

The Cardinals of New York

N.B.: He was the first American to be named a Cardinal. Also, the field of these arms are incorrectly depicted as Vert (green). It should be Azure (blue)

















The archdiocesan arms weren't devised until the tenure of Cardinal Spellman. Please note that it was common to depict the coat of arms of any bishop with a mitre and crozier included as well as a cross but in recent times that practice has been discontinued.

All images are the original artwork of Hans van Hejningen

For The 27th Time...

The New York Yankees are the World Champions!

And not only did Philadelphia give up the world championship...

And not only did Philadelphia lose...

And not only did they lose in the Bronx...

Now that they are LOSERS all that is left is the worst part of all: They have to go back to Philadelphia!

Being a loser in Philadelphia. Isn't that redundant?

The Cardinals of Chicago

Images are the original artwork of Hans van Heijningen