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QUAERITUR: I found a Host at my mother’s house. Wherein Fr. Z rants a little.

Posted on 13 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:
While visiting my parents’ home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom’s prayer table.
I forget what it was … but out of the corner of my eye, … Continue reading →

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Fr. Z’s Day Off

Posted on 9 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

With the exception of a few great days in Boston, the three weeks or so have been less than optimal.
Isn’t it amazing how much smaller your world becomes when you are ill?  And how quickly?
Yesterday, finally feeling better after the … Continue reading →

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Shades of Notre Shame! Jesuit-run Boston College to honor pro-abortion ‘catholic’ Irish PM

Posted on 8 May 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Did you see that Jesuit-run Boston College is going to have the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny as their commencement speaker and then give him an honorary degree?  HERE
Shades of Notre Shame!
Enda Kenny, catholic, promoted abortion in Ireland.  Enda Kenny … Continue reading →

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My view for a while

Posted on 24 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

On the road.

I feel sort of human. The antibiotics may be helping.
Fairly short flights today and everything seems to be on time.
None of Pres. Obama’s artificial, inflicted, political flight delays … yet.
Yes, this is the book.
UPDATE:
Part II:

What fun. Blech.
Still feeling … Continue reading →

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Wherein Fr. Z provides a health update and feverish ranting on a range of unrelated topics

Posted on 21 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Thanks to those of you who wrote with expressions of prayers for my health.  An update is in order.
I have been battling bronchitis.  This has been a problem ever after all those years in Rome, I’m afraid.  I suspect I … Continue reading →

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Comment Registration, Blank Pages, Banning, Thanks, and You

Posted on 9 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In order to comment here, readers must register and I must approve the registration.
This is for two reasons.
First, were I not to place this restriction, the combox would be a demonically crazy place.  My traffic here would go to the … Continue reading →

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QUAERITUR: Can I eat insect parts on Fridays?

Posted on 15 February 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Since the topic came up elsewhere, I thought it a good idea to revive this question from a reader and repost it:
From a reader:
Do insect products count as meat products, and therefore prohibited on Fridays and other days of abstinence. … Continue reading →

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A note on registration (which has been switched off)

Posted on 31 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I have been under siege by vile spammers who deserve to roast in the deep cinders of hell, as Dr. Maturin would put it.
As a result, I switched off registration for the blog in the hope of thwarting the reprehensible … Continue reading →

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Fishwrap’s Kennedy wrong about Flannery’s heresy.

Posted on 27 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Over at the Fishwrap, the National Schismatic Reporter (the paper of record for heretics which has hijacked the name “Catholic”), failed-priest Eugene Cullen Kennedy wrote a thought – not a very good thought – about the Irish heretic Fr. Flannery, … Continue reading →

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San Buenaventura in Ventura, California

Posted on 15 January 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Thanks to a reader I saw this at Eponymous Flower:
Pastor Determines Latin Mass “Disturbs” Tourists
Edit: We just received a discouraging letter from a friend about a Latin Mass Community in the Los Angeles, California area. There has been a Mass … Continue reading →

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