Click and say your “Daily Offering”
Search Fr. Z’s Blog
-
How you readers are participating …
- asperges said @ Fr Augustine: Dominican tradition duly maintaine...
- liebemama said Thank you, Father! Thank you for posting the LENCA...
- tripudians said Are at least trad seminaries (SSPX/FSSP/etc.) actu...
- pinoytraddie said Will you do an EASTERCAzT?
- pinoytraddie said I was late(see above comment)because the driver ha...
- Marion Ancilla Mariae said ” marriage in our culture has been turned in...
- Angie Mcs said Historically, hatred and bigotry towards some grou...
- Suburbanbanshee said Heck, I’d even go for brown, or a tan like t...
- GrogSmash said Deo Gratias!
- Suburbanbanshee said It’s not the mosaic that’s a problem....
Help!
Help Monks in Wyoming, Fr. Z, and get great coffee too!
Please VOTE for this blog!
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Buy “Say The Black Do The Red” stuff
Fr. Z likes his Kindle!
Our Lady of the Clergy, Pray for us!
Because you asked…
-
Recent Posts
- LENTCAzT 02: Thursday after Ash Wednesday – Let Christ be the pattern
- Vespers with no frills
- Chris Matthews: anti-Catholic catholic
- Animal activists annoy hunters with a flying drone. Guess what happened next.
- Ash Wednesday glimpses and papal liturgical music observations
- WDTPRS – Ash Wednesday (2002MR) – WAR!
- False accusations of priests
- ACTION ITEM! Help! An annual award for Catholic websites. VOTE!
- PODCAzT 128: “Veterum sapientia”! 50th Anniversary. On Latin in the Church. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- “Today, I went to confession for the first time in nearly 27 years.”
- George Weigel offers a suggestion to liturgically narcissistic priests for Lent
- LENTCAzT 01: Ash Wednesday – Christianity includes the Cross
- The Holy Father and Card. Dolan’s mother. Fun.
- RECENT POSTS OF INTEREST and a reading reminder for Lent
- An edgy video about Pres. Obama’s lies
Using this search box to buy your stuff also helps Fr. Z.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
25 August 2011
TLM in D. Madison, WI: a growing minority
From the Madison State Journal:
Growing number of Catholics push for return to Latin Mass
DOUG ERICKSON | derickson@madison.com | 608-252-6149
Ellie Arkin doesn’t speak Latin, so upon entering Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Madison on a recent Sunday, the 21-year-old UW-Madison student … Continue reading
24 August 2011
What Rome’s CDW says about altar boys, girl altar boys, and lay service at the altar in general
I have been getting some… interesting, I think could be the word … email since I posted my praise and defense of Fr. Lankeit, Rector of the Cathedral in Phoenix where the excellent Bp. Olmsted presides.
For those of you out … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged altar girls, CDW, D. Phoenix, Fr. Lankeit
24 Comments
Antonio Gramsci, the destruction of Catholic identity, and you.
At the Catholic Thing there is a must read article by George Marlin about the uber-anti-Catholic and founder of Italian Communism, the brilliant but twisted Antonio Gramsci.
Understanding Gramsci and the Italian version of Communism is verrrrrry important for faithful Catholics … Continue reading
The Dog Days of August
I was talking with a priest friend via skype about the temperatures in Rome and, where he is at the moment, in Arizona. He just might stay in Arizona … to stay cool.
Of course we are in the Dog Days, … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, Mail from priests
Tagged Canicula, dies caniculares, Dog Days, Dog Star, Fons Bandusiae, Horace, Sirius, summer
11 Comments
Can you spell CYLON? NASA wakes up Robonaut 2!
For your Just TOO Cool! file, comes thos from CBC and NASA.
Robot astronaut wakes up in space
NASA’s humanoid robot has finally awoken in space.
Ground controllers turned Robonaut 2 on Monday for the first time since it was delivered to the … Continue reading
More on the decision about altar boys at the Cathedral in Phoenix
In the diocesan newpaper of Phoenix, The Catholic Sun, there is a follow up article about the decision of the rector of the cathedral to have only altar boys serving. Read here and here for more.
You can read it over … Continue reading
On the light side
In another entry the question was raised about how many wymyn’s ordination groups it takes to change a light bulb. The flip side could be this.
How many religious and diocesan priests does it take to change a fuse?
From GloriaTV:
All the … Continue reading
More reactions to the East Coast Earthquake
Under another entry some people have shared their experiences of the East Coast Earthquake yesterday. Another set of reactions is provided by the website of the National Zoo, here.
I especially liked these:
About three seconds before the quake, Mandara (a … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged East Coast Earthquake, National Zoo, red-ruffed lemurs
10 Comments
In my pursuit of fraternal charity, I may now have a new prayer in my arsenal.
A priest friend, Fr. GR, sent my the link to this story in The Guardian, which I had to share.
Tuscan friars ask God to deliver diarrhoea for basilica bible thief
Franciscans of San Salvatore al Monte pin up prayer hoping unknown … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Lighter fare, Mail from priests
Tagged La Stampa, San Salvatore al Monte, theft
16 Comments
The cost of WYD
In Spain, before and during the World Youth Day gathering in Madrid, the secularist critics and enemies of God and His Church and – by most accounts- good taste, claimed that the cost of WYD was extravagant and wasteful and … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged Madrid, Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinksy, WYD
9 Comments
The Extent of Fraternal Charity
From my reading, my daily portion, after Mass today:
If charity were based on our neighbor’s qualities, on his merits or his worth, if it were based on the consolation and benefits we receive from him, it would be impossible to … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Divine Intimacy, Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen OCD, fraternal charity
8 Comments
23 August 2011
REQUEST TO READERS TO PRAY FOR A PRIEST
I have asked in the past to pray for some personal intentions I have and which weigh on me right now. I still need the help of your prayers.
Also, I ask you in an urgent way, right now, to stop, … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
34 Comments
Houston: Extraordinary Form PARISH to be established by Card. DiNardo
Speaking of Houston, I just noticed that our friends at Rorate posted this.
For your Brick by Brick file.
Wonderful news for the faithful of the largest city in the great state: a full Parish, exclusively dedicated to the Traditional Roman Liturgy … Continue reading

























