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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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- Daily Rome (not) Shot 498, etc.
- Daily Rome (not) Shot 497, etc.
- Hero priest Joseph Card. Zen, 90, has been arrested in Hong Kong
- Daily Rome (not) Shot 496, etc.
- My View For Awhile: Strangers and Italian Sojourners
- 9 May: St. Isaiah, Old Testament Prophet, with other, martyrs
- Daily Rome Shot 495, etc.
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- Daily Rome Shot 494, etc.
- Mobile phones in church to record illegal disturbances of Sunday Masses by invading pro-abortion terrorists?
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- Daily Rome Shot 493, etc.
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- Daily Rome Shot 491, etc.
- POSSIBLE: Pro-abortion/Biden supporters reported to be organizing invasion and disturbance of Sunday Masses, ironically on Mother’s Day
- 5 May: “O God, who deigned to choose blessed Pius to be Pontifex Maximus in order to smash the enemies of Thy Church to tiny bits” – UPDATED
- St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her, some Latin
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- Daily Rome Shot 490, etc.
- SCOTUS Draft Opinion overturns Roe v Wade. In the Church there is something that must be overturned.
- Daily Rome Shot 489, etc.
- Daily Rome Shot 488, etc.
- Brace for vicious cruelty in Washington, DC.
Let us pray…
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Daily Archives: 4 August 2008
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Not to be outdone by his brother’s Ray Charles stylin, Pope Benedict practices his new Air Piano moves.
Card. Arinze’s letter to Card. George with approval of the Ordo Missae translation
As you know, the Holy See granted approval (recognitio) to the translation of significant parts of the 2002 Missale Romanum‘s Ordo Missae, the parts that remain the same nearly every day. Here is the letter from the Prefect of the … Read More
ALERT: poll update!
Check this poll: Remember the entry More wymynpriest pretend ordaination B.S.?Get out there folks! The tides have turned toward the dark (and dopey) side. GO!
PODCAzT 68: Interview – Fr. Tim Finigan on the Oxford TLM conference; don Camillo (Part III)
Today we are joined by His Hermeneuticalness, Fr. Timothy Finigan, of Blackfen, England (fl. 2008). He speak with me in an interview about the recent conference held in Oxford at Merton College for priests wanting to learn about the Extraordinary … Read More
TLM expansion in Mexico
I got this note from a reader: I have this morning received more news from Mr. Edgar Fernandez of Una Voce Mexico. Not only will the F.S.S.P. have two priests and its own church (San Pedro Apostol) at Guadalajara, but … Read More
Walney thoughts on the Merton Conference
Fr. Paul Harrison at Thoughts from Walney Island has a few interesting impressions from the recent TLM conference in Oxford. Thoughts on the LMS conference at Merton College. Yesterday I returned from the Latin Mass Society conference at Merton … Read More
Call and Response
My friend Fr. Ray Blake, PP of St. Mary Magdalene in Brighton following the conference at Merton College, Oxford, had a very good comment about the TLM: I love the constant call of Dominus Vobiscum and response Et cum Spiritu … Read More
HV ex-priest protester from 1968 comes around
When I was in seminary in the USA, there was on the faculty a fellow who had been a signer of the infamous NY Times ad protesting Humanae vitae. Raising the question "Is the same [INSERT RATHER RARE NAME HERE] … Read More