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Monthly Archives: October 2011
23 October 2011
“Stir Up Sunday” is nearing. Start planning.
Last year I decided to make, for the first time, my own Christmas Pudding. I got a late start on it. It was delicious.
This year I am going to pay attention to Stir Up Sunday.
20 November is Stir Up Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z's Kitchen
Tagged Christmas Pudding, Stir Up Sunday
11 Comments
“Why are we letting heretics teach this crap in our churches?”
The title of this post comes from the blog The Recovering Dissident Catholic. Mordant commentary to be sure. Dead on.
My emphases and comments.
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I find it interesting that supposed Catholic parishes charge up to 3 figures for yoga, enneagram, … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Throwing a Nutty
Tagged enneagram, labyrinth, new age crap, reiki, yoga
50 Comments
15 seconds of fame… worth it?
At the end of the Mass for the canonization of three 19th-century founders of religious orders, including don Luigi Guanella, a loon at the end of Mass climbed out on one of the colonnade “arms” which embrace St. Peter’s Square, … Continue reading
Posted in Throwing a Nutty
13 Comments
Archbp. Naumann (Archd. KC) on Bp. Finn (D. KC-St. Joseph) and the Kansas City Star
His Excellency Most Rev. Joseph Naumanm, Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas – on the other side of the river from the homoynmous city in Missouri, has waded into the issue of the indictment level at Bp. Robert Finn of Kansas … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, WDTPRS KUDOS
Tagged anti-catholicism, Archbp. Naumann, Archd. Kansas City, Bp. Finn, clerical sexual abuse, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, Kansas City Star, yellow journalism
28 Comments
BISHOPS & PRIESTS: a revival of the Sacrament of Penance is critical for a revival of our Catholic identity.
It is critical to our identity as Catholics to revive the use of the Sacrament of Penance. I think there are some moves in that direction on the part of younger priests, but we need also a grassroots effort … Continue reading
New statue for the Roman Church attacked during rioting
During the riots in Rome, some thugs broke into the Church of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus on corner of the via Labicana and the via Merulana.
Yes, these are the saints mentioned in the Roman Canon and it is a Lenten … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool
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Card. Zen ends hunger strike protest over govt. decision about schools
From La Stampa:
At the end of his fast, Zen let it be known that he intended to study more closely the Government’s new regulations regarding the management of the region’s sponsored schools
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Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun ended his hunger strike … Continue reading
22 October 2011
5 Nov: Pontifical TLM in St. Peter’s Basilica
Our friends at Rorate have the news:
For the second time this year, and for the third time since Summorum Pontificum came into effect, Pontifical Mass according to the 1962 Missal will be publicly offered in St. Peter’s Basilica.
His Eminence Dario … Continue reading
Posted in The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged Card. Castrillon Hoyos, Messa Prelatizia, Una Voce
13 Comments
WDTPRS Collect 19th Sunday after Pentecost- “Why did God make you?”
The snippers and stitchers of the Consilium allowed this Sunday’s prayer to survive unscathed in the post-Conciliar editions of the Missale Romanum. The Collect still echoes the ancient sentiments of Holy Church wherever the Roman Rite’s Ordinary Use of Holy … Continue reading
The Remnant defends Bp. Robert Finn
The Remnant has an article in defense of Bp. Robert Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
You learn a lot about a person by what his enemies have to say. The National Catholic Reporter wrote a piece one year after Bishop Finn … Continue reading
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Just Too Cool, The Drill
Tagged Bp. Finn, National Catholic Reporter, The Remnant
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Bp. Morlino on beauty and worship: beauty is NOT just a matter of taste.
On the site of the Diocese of Madison’s paper, The Catholic Herald (not to be confused with The Catholic Herald in the UK), His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Morlino has some observations about liturgy which are worth a look.
My emphases … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Care of altar linens and the first rinsing by a priest
From a reader:
Father, I am in a quandary and I wonder if you would offer any advice on how to resolve it?
A couple of months ago I was asked to help with the laundering of altar linens as one of … Continue reading
REVIEW: New editions of the Roman Missal SIDE BY SIDE
Yesterday I was at Leaflet Missal Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Church goods section there, run by John, can provide priests with the best traditional stuff.
John of Church Goods put out all the US editions of the new, corrected … Continue reading

























