Category Archives: Preserved Killick

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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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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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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Prayer request

Posted on 6 June 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Will you please say a prayer or two that I get over this annoying and rather bad head cold I have picked up? I haven’t had a cold from all last fall and through the winter, only to get … Continue reading →

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The Ides of March. Wherein Fr. Z rambles aimlessly and eventually comes full-circle.

Posted on 15 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Today has been known as the Ides of March for a very long time.
In the Roman way of keeping time with a calendar, days of the month were reckoned from fixed points… which weren’t completely fixed. Every Roman month had … Continue reading →

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Sunday Monday Supper: for my reading group

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I belong to a reading group which has been meeting on and off for many years. We are about to launch into some of the so-called Metaphysical Poets… on Monday. I am doing the cooking. Since … Continue reading →

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What is this thing?

Posted on 13 November 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Okay, you smart people out there.
What is this thing?
Which I think it’s used in the kitchen.  Or maybe not.  A sewing thing?
No, it isn’t mine.  No, I don’t have a better photo.  No, I haven’t a clue.

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Peace bee with you.

Posted on 20 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Not since the Barbarini will there have been so many bees around the Pope.
This is from VIS:
BEES FOR THE PONTIFICAL FARMS AT CASTELGANDOLFO
VATICAN CITY, 20 SEP 2011 (VIS) – As part of its initiatives to mark the Day for the … Continue reading →

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About Galileo, churches and the sun

Posted on 17 September 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I was recently alerted to a blog, The Deeps of Time, which deals with science and the Catholic faith.  Even as I am starting at a book on my desk about Galileo (sent by a kind reader from my wish … Continue reading →

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