Category Archives: Mail from priests

REQUEST: Images of Mary: Our Lady of the Clergy

Posted on 15 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Does anyone out there have a larger version of this image? Does anyone have an original of the card which could be scanned?
Notre Dame du Clergé … Our Lady of the Clergy.

Other LARGE images of Mary depicted as Queen … Continue reading →

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Brick by Brick in Brazil … Indiana. Priest starts up a TLM. People come.

Posted on 14 November 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For your Brick by Brick file,
Fr. John Hollowell in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis at his blog On The Rock says he has started celebrating Holy Mass in the Usus Antiquior of the Roman Rite… once a week.
I quibble with him … Continue reading →

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Transgendered Scripture readings

Posted on 29 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Liturgiam authenticam is in force. We have receive a revision of the euchological formulae for Holy Mass in the Novus Ordo. What about the lectionary? Does anyone think the Lectionary needs some work?
An irritated priest friend … Continue reading →

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Shroud lore

Posted on 16 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Once upon a time I was in Chicago to address a Legatus chapter and I met a fine from from Skokie (I really enjoy writing Skokie!).  As I was saying, he is from Skokie.  You may I heard of this … Continue reading →

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Frauds building on frauds.

Posted on 13 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

That fraud of the ‘Mrs Jesus’ papyrus fragment keeps surfacing in the news rather like a mortifying fish will in a pond.
That fragment was a fraud, easily exposed. That raises the question: Why would an intelligent person expose herself … Continue reading →

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Fr. John Hunwicke – redivivus

Posted on 9 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I was delighted to see an old RSS feed come back to life today after a long hiatus.
Fr. John Hunwicke, now a Catholic priest, has resumed posting to his blog now called Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment, though it has the … Continue reading →

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Fr. Blake opines: the seminarians he knows all want the Extraordinary Form

Posted on 15 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the fine blog of my friend Fr Ray Blake, the distingusihed p.p. of Brighton, comes this encomium of the Dean of Bexley, tenens locum of Blackfen, His Hermeneuticalness himself, Fr. Tim Finigan and a fun video he concatenated for … Continue reading →

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Excellent piece by Fr. Blake on hope and what Holy Mass is all about.

Posted on 8 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My English blogging priest friends have had a good innings today.  (I hope I used that phrase correctly).
I posted about a great entry on Fr. Finigan’s blog (HERE).  Now I am compelled to post as well about Fr. Ray Blake’s … Continue reading →

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The Tablet is staging a nutty over the UK’s Confraternity of Catholic Clergy.

Posted on 8 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

My friend the mighty p.p. of Blacken and Dean of Bexley, His Hermeueticalness, Fr. Finigan, whom I look forward to seeing soon, has a great post at his blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, about the upcoming meeting of the British … Continue reading →

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UK: Confraternity of Catholic Clergy Annual Colloquium 23-24 Oct. Archbp. DiNoia, Fr. Lang, et al.

Posted on 3 September 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here is something for all my priestly friends in the UK. I received this from a clerical friend, whom I hope to see during September:
The British Confraternity of Catholic Clergy will hold their second annual colloquium at the Oratory School … Continue reading →

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