Reverend Know-it-all

A Catholic priest responds to queries on faith, the Bible, religion, Catholic practice, etc. posed by readers. What he doesn't know, he makes up.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

A short history of the Hootenanny Mass & other absurdities... part 3

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Letter to Harold “Hoot” and Annie Gibson cont. part 3 (THE BIRTH OF JUNK MAIL & RELIGIOUS ADVERTISING!) Well, by 1500 things in Christen...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

A short history of the Hootenanny Mass & other absurdities... part 2

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Letter to Harold “Hoot” and Annie Gibson cont. There is no denying that in the 1400's there were problems in the Church in Europe. The c...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

A short history of the Hootenanny Mass & other absurdities... part 1

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Dear Rev. Know it all, Can you explain why all of a sudden we stopped singing Gregorian chant and started singing Kumbaya at Mass and now we...
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

A reflection on Liturgy celebrated "ad orientem"

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Instead of the usual “Rev. Know it all” this week, I would like to share some reflections on a recent experience. At the end of a conference...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

And now for Heaven....

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Letter to Fleming N. Ferneau continued: Heaven Yes, dear Fleming, we still believe in Heaven. May I direct you to the catechism of the Catho...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Letter to Fleming N. Ferneau continued: PURGATORY

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 “But.” you may say, “in grade school, I was taught that purgatory was like hell, but with a get out of jail free card. And then we got a ne...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Didn't we do away with hell?

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Dear Rev. Know it all, The priest in my parish, Fr. Besserwurst, is going into the grade school, terrifying the children by telling them ab...
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Rev. Know-it-all is the alter ego of Fr. Richard Simon, Pastor of St. Lambert Parish, Skokie, IL. Now a regular host of Relevant Radio's "Fr. Simon Says", Fr. Simon spent over 20 years "...teaching dead languages to comatose seminarians." Credits: The Reverend Know-It-All is a parody of Mr. Know-It-All, the alter ego of Bullwinkle J. Moose, a carton character created by Jay Ward (1920-1989).
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