This is a day of much news. In fact, it was so much it was as though there was a contest and one hardly knows where to begin.
Pope Benedict XVI issued an analysis of the history of clerical sexual abuse in NOChurch. It was good in parts, but it ended horribly with him praising Bergoglio, and of course he did little to link sodomy with the abuse, instead calling it the more politically correct 'paedophilia' even though most of it cannot be classed as that.
The Bergoglio menace - a beast of irreverence - does it again, refusing to kneel in front of the Holy Eucharist. Quite how anybody can claim that Bergoglio is a Catholic of any stripe is beyond my comprehension, because I doubt there are many who have worked harder to prove that point than Bergoglio has.
I am indebted to Gregory DiPippo over at Novus Motus Liturgicus for clearing up a few points of irritation I have had with the whole notion of the Octave of Christmas. It has become fashionable to say that it only acquired the name of circumcision later and that traditionally it was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This would seem to vindicate at least in part NOChurch practice.