Category Archives: Wherein Fr. Z Rants

A reader’s liturgical observation and Fr. Z’s ironic ranting light-heartedly serious response

Posted on 16 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Tonight [15 August], due to work, I was not able to attend mass at my parish for the Feast of the Assumption. That was not a problem, because my office is a block away from my diocese’s cathedral, … Continue reading →

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A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 14 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

For your Brick by Brick file.
In another entry I answered a question from a lay person who desired to pray for a priest as he learns the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass at the request of his bishop. It occurs … Continue reading →

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“There is only one problem in the whole world….” Wherein Fr. Z has a mini-rant.

Posted on 3 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

“There is only one problem in the whole world: restoring spiritual sense in people. Showering on them something like a Gregorian chant.” – Saint-Exupéry
Simple? Too simple? Perhaps. Faith is the last thing that sinners lose, after charity, … Continue reading →

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GUEST RANT: Many languages for Mass and fake “unity”

Posted on 20 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a priest:
In my diocese we are often asked (read, expected, pressured) to participate in or to celebrate Masses in more than one language in the name of multi-culturalism. I am not talking Latin here. The result is that for … Continue reading →

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Of Anger Management, Benedict XVI and the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Z imagines dire things.

Posted on 18 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Do the SSPXers think that Pope Benedict is so patient and kindly that he would never withdraw his outstretched hand?
Perhaps that is it.  Maybe that is why they dawdle and find excuses not to accept what the Holy See has … Continue reading →

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Wherein it is not possible but that Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 16 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

At the blog of the Latin Mass Society‘s chairman, Joseph Shaw, there is the exposition of an important Latin text of Pius X in 1905 about frequent reception of Holy Communion.  The Latin is presented and compared to an English … Continue reading →

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Of Women Priests and Ecumenism and how we should respond. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 7 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I was sent something from the California Catholic Daily about a member of parish liturgy committee who participated in a fake and sacrilegious “ordination” by Roman Catholic Womenpriests.  My emphases:
A member of the liturgy committee at a San Francisco parish was … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Can the newly ordained hear confessions? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 23 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
Being that it’s ordination season and there’s lots of new young priests eager to do priestly things, there’s something that crossed my mind recently. My understanding is that in order to hear confessions and absolve sins, priests need … Continue reading →

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My idea of concelebration

Posted on 6 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Here’s my idea of “concelebration”.

The other kind should be safe, legal and rare.

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Our personal convictions must translate into action in the public square.

Posted on 4 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

London is decorated for the Queen’s 60th Jubilee.
Apart from the decorations and public ceremonies, two things which will stand out from the observance of these 60 years.
First, yesterday at the Brompton Oratory after the principle Mass, celebrated for the Queen’s … Continue reading →

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