Phew! It's still there

I listened to France Info radio for the first time in a very long time and turns out I can still understand French despite not hearing it for over a year and a half! Woo! Go me.

The intolerant and bigoted Cardinal

It was announced in the news today that oor Cardinal, Archbishop Keith Patrick O'Brien, was voted as Bigot of the Year by Stonewall. I am not surprised at the award, but I do think that it casts more poorly on Stonewall than it does on the Cardinal. Even Ruth Davidson, the lesbian Conservative MSP leader and this year's winner of Stonewall's Politician of the Year, thought so.

I hope the Cardinal knows that there are many, many people who support his courageous stance on the issue of gay marriage and homosexuality in general. It is necessary for Stonewall to accuse the Cardinal and those like him of bigotry in order to maintain the image that the Catholic Church is the hateful group, rather than the compassionate, loving and yet firm and faithful image of Christ on earth.

Pray for the Holy Souls!

There's a new blog referred to by Mac McLernon at Mulier Fortis called Sub Umbra Alarum Tuarum, which is a verse from Psalm 90(91) "Qui habitat". If you haven't heard the 11 minute long tract from the first Sunday of Lent, go and do it now (or even next time round on Sunday 17th Feb 2013).

Anyway, SUAT has a nice post on the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed, which you should read. Now.

Then say an "Eternal rest" for the Holy Souls.

Meanwhile, here's the best orchestra Requiem by Duruflé: