It's over in the USA, I'm afraid. (Sigh!) The "Prayer Breakfast" starts the night before with Mass at the Cathedral in Washington DC. Then the "breakfast" goes on all day. The various speakers include Bishop Wuerl, Scott Hahn and Richard John Neuhaus, talks in the afternoon on bioethics, marriage and public policy. On the following day, there is a tour of Catholic sites in Washington DC.Oh, and bacon and eggs are served at some point.
Here is the dedicated site for the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
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Looks like the Atkins diet to me!
Hmm, Catholic breakfast event on a Friday and they serve Bacon........
Ah yes, Bishop Wuerl of Washington? Bishop "bioethics expert" Wuerl? Donald "I-wouldnt-dream-of-telling-Nanci-Pelosi-not-to-receive-Communion-from-Robert-Drinan" Wuerl?
Yeah. I'd be going if I weren't planning on cutting my nails that day.
Ah! OK then. Thanks for the tip-off, Hilary. Mind you, Wuerl seems to be the token Bishop. I'd be keen to hear Richard Neuhaus speak. Or do you think the whole event is a bit of a sop?
Good last line, that BTW :-) Peter Cook once formally replied by letter to an invitation, stating that he regretted that he was obliged to decline since after consulting his diary, he found that he and his wife would be watching television that evening.
(Paul & Jackie - I should say that the bacon and eggs photo is just one that I found on Google images. But yes, it does seem that they are serving bacon on a Friday.)
"Yeah. I'd be going if I weren't planning on cutting my nails that day."
I'd bite my own nails before going to what amounts to a pretentious Republican lovefest. Such has been my experience with it.
Or do you think the whole event is a bit of a sop?
Fr. Tim, you always cheer me up with your ability to start with the most charitable assumption possible. Don't worry; as you grow in your role as pro-life priest and leading clerical blogger of the UK, you will become as cynical as the rest of us.
The answer to your question is yes.
LOL Thanks, Hilary. What you have to realise is that this sort of thing is unthinkable in England. If only we had a sop like this ...
Amazingly my diary is pretty free! To hear Hahn, Neuhaus et al, and Washington is a lovely city. But I won't be booking - carbon footprint and all that. Why not lighten up on the bacon and sausage breakfast. Is it law in the US to abstain from meat on a Friday in the Easter Octave? Surely not!-)
Father Boyle:
In the dioceses of the USA, the faithful may substitute another form of penance on Friday throughout the year, but abstinence from meat remains the norm. Assuming the image is an accurate depiction of the daily fare, one would hope that such a public witness as this event would bow to the higher standard.
Unless it's merely... (see above).
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