From a priest reader:
New Element Discovered
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an … Continue reading →

A reader sent an interesting piece of news from a memo for the Diocese of Orlando.
As you can see, even official offices of the Church still refer to the SSPX as being in "schism", even though the Holy See says … Continue reading →

From a reader:
DOMINICAN RITE MASS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA
By an initiative of the pastor, Fr. Luke Clark, O.P., in response to requests by parishioners, St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville VA, will host a Dominican Rite Missa Cantata (Sung Mass) … Continue reading →

This is in from TIME.  
You might go back and review this entry before reading ahead.
My emphases and comments.
Friday, Feb. 20, 2009Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules?By Douglas W. Kmiec
Much has been made of the statement … Continue reading →

You know about the flap in Brisbane, Australia.  The Archbishop of Brisbane has finally… finally acted to check the renegade priest Fr. Peter Kennedy, heretic and perhaps soon to be schismatic, who has been warping the parish of St. Mary … Continue reading →

This is pretty interesting, from the Holy See Press Office Bolletino today:
My translation from the Italian original:
DECLARATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE HOLY SEE, REV. FR. FEDERICO LOMBARDI, SJ
In the late morning the Director of the … Continue reading →

A kind reader sent the following:
Fr. Z –
We were impressed with how nicely a 12 oz beer fit in your large mug!

Thanks guys, and PROSIT!

Upon upon a time when some changes were made to the server hosting this blog, I lost the ability to display certain characters, including Chinese characters.
Hundreds of entries had words that were turned into gobbledygook.
I can’t tell you how irritating … Continue reading →

I don’t want to pick on the writer.  That is not my purpose. 
But more than one person sent me this article with some questions.  In The Message Online, for SW Indiana, which is the internet presence of the Diocese … Continue reading →