Category Archives: Fr. Z KUDOS

Card. Burke on Summorum Pontificum and worship as the key to reform. Fr. Z rants and agrees.

Posted on 13 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke, in this video interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN, in commenting on Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum speaks to something that I have been harping on incessantly for years.
I have been saying that we must revitalize … Continue reading →

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How liberal Chicago Politicians (chuckle) reacted to Card. George and Chick-fil-A. Fr. Z rants.

Posted on 3 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From the Washington Times (the sane paper of the Capitol city):
Chick-fil-A still ruffling [Chicago alderman] Proco Joe Moreno’s feathers
By Peter V. Bella [retired Chicago Police Officer, freelance journalist and photojournalist, cook, and raconteur. WDTPRS likes retired cops... a lot.]
CHICAGO August … Continue reading →

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Black Pastor blasts The First Gay President. Must see video.

Posted on 1 August 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Did you see this video?  It is on The Daily Caller.
Get a load of this! A black pastor reacts to The First Gay President’s pro-sodomy pandering.
Remmeber, dear readers, that “same-sex marriage” is NOT NOT NOT a civil rights issue! … Continue reading →

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Hugh Hewitt at the Napa Institute: Of Catholics and Chick-fil-A

Posted on 29 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Talk radio guy and “friend and ally of Rome” Hugh Hewitt has a piece in The Examiner.
Here in the heart of America’s wine industry, the Napa Institute brings together a few hundred Catholics in the company of many of the … Continue reading →

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Wheaton College (Protestant) joins Catholic institutions in lawsuit against HHS mandate

Posted on 18 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Wheaton College is joining Catholic instititutions to fight the Obama Administrations attacks on our 1st Amendment rights.
Remember: Even though the newsies incessantly talk about contraception contraception contraception, the real objection about the HHS mandate is not the contraception angle. This … Continue reading →

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Douthat’s NYT Op-Ed: Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?

Posted on 15 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From Hell’s Bible, aka The New York Times:
OP-ED COLUMNIST
Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved?  [In this case I am in favor of euthanasia.]
By ROSS DOUTHAT
IN 1998, John Shelby Spong, then the reliably controversial Episcopal bishop of Newark, […who, if I recall … Continue reading →

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Young lady on YouTube evangelizing like a champ, explaining the … Traditional Latin Mass!

Posted on 11 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

A reader sent the link to this video.
We’ve got to hand it to this young lady.  She is on YouTube, explaining, even evangelizing, like a champ.

WDTPRS kudos!

Technorati Tags: Extraordinary Form, New Media, TLM, youtube

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Congratulations to the Diocese of Portsmouth in England

Posted on 11 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I read with interest about the appointment of the new Bishop of Portsmouth, His Excellency Most Rev. Bp.-Elect Philip Egan, vicar general of the Diocese of Shrewsbury, Vicar General of the Diocese of Shrewsbury.
I noted with additional interest that my friend … Continue reading →

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Card. Burke on concelebration, priests ad-libbing and saying Mass in the state of mortal sin

Posted on 10 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As you know, I think concelebration should be safe, legal and rare.  I also think that priests should stick to the words in the books and do what the rubrics say.  I, moreover, think that priests who continue to commit … Continue reading →

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The Curé of Blackfen riffs The Curé of Ars: “If only your soul was as beautiful as your iPad!”

Posted on 7 July 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

As I write, people in England have the opportunity to venerate the heart of St. John Vianney. My friend Fr. Tim Finigan, the mighty P.P. of Blackfen, the Dean of Bexley, His Hermeneuticalness, offers a fine post on blog which, … Continue reading →

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