About this blog…
“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Fr. Z’s Podcasts RSS Feed
YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- B on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “The old saying is that the devil can’t kneel as he has no knees. I suppose the norm in hell…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “@R2D So will all the Novus Ordo folks be forced to go to your “reformed Pauline mass [sic]” as well?…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “I really still want to give His Holiness the benefit of the doubt here. Any good manager waits a good,…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “The whispers before his election were that no further dispensations would be forthcoming; so this is a change in that…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “Well, that’s that, I guess. After TC, I was tempted to write Pope Francis to tell him that I would…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “Does this put us back in the same sort of scenario as pre Summorum Pontificum? Feels like the same scenario…”
- on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “Sounds like some strong men need to be at the ready to help those who need assistance to stand back…”
- on REPORTED: Pope Leo says any bishop who requests dispensation for TLM will have it granted: “Fr. Reader rightly notes: The constant feeling that one pontifex will randomly undo in one day what the previous one…”
- on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “My eyes rolled right to the back of my head with this. Good grief these bishops. Who do they think…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “To contradict Francis would be breach of contract. He left faithful Catholics in the steely grip of some mean bishops…”
- on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “Bring your own kneeler. Just say it’s your mobility aid. Looks like there be a growing market for such a…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “My wife’s and My favorite scene. We use it for things just like you did here. How dare us little…”
- on Pope Leo XIV will not overturn Francis’ limits on the TLM but will grant dispensations to bishops who ask – AKA – “Please, sir, I want some more.”: “All this does is leave the celebration of the TLM up to the whims of your Bishop. It is unacceptable.…”
- on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “Placing a kneeler near the distribution of Holy Communion could put undue pressure on the communicant to receive Communion kneeling,…”
- on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “Well then, logically,,,since Advent is coming up, I think having a Nativity scene with characters kneeling before the Bambino might…”
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
Federated Computer… your safe and private alternative to big biz corporations that hate us while taking our money and mining our data. Have an online presence large or small? Catholic DIOCESE? Cottage industry? See what Federated has to offer. Save money and gain peace of mind.
I am an affiliate. Click and join or at least explore! If you join, I’ll get credit.
Polls
Loading ...Donate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
NEW OPPORTUNITY – 10% off with code: FATHERZ10
Fr. Z’s VOICEMAIL
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
Good coffee and tea. Help monks.
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT comPLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Great WINE USE COUPON CODE: fatherz10
Use my code for a discount
Daily Archives: 11 November 2008
PODCAzT 72: The death of St. Martin; starlings, cuckolds, bell ringing and a skull
We welcome as our guest the 5th century writer Sulpicius Severus who speaks to us about St. Martin of Tours who died in 397 and also the english poet John Clare who died in 1864. Sulpicius Severus died sometime between … Read More
Bp. Trautman is fighting the “ineffable” fight
Bp. Trautman is still on his pogrom against the word "ineffable". The Committee on Divine Worship is recommending that they keep "ineffable" because it is an accurate translation. Trautman wants "ineffable" replaced with "divine". This is crazy stuff. At least … Read More
Fr. Neuhaus on “Obama and the Bishops”
Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus of First Things has a very good piece online today. My emphases and comments. Obama and the Bishops By Richard John NeuhausFriday, November 7, 2008, 8:16 AM In a few days, the American bishops of the … Read More
USCCB
EWTN has coverage of the USCCB meeting. They are practicing voting. Have you spotted the bishops from Florida? Have you spotted you own bishop? I suspect they will not let us watch the really interesting debates, for example, about what … Read More
Going Gothic
From the Shriners… what every Catholic blogger really needs:
A different sense of “translation”
WDTPRS was born from an interest in liturgical translation. Here is a very different sense of "liturgical translation". The indefatigable liturgical eye-candy specialists over at NLM have posted some great screen captures of the translation of the relics of Ven. … Read More
Martinmass
From the Laudator who gets a biretta tip. "Martinmass" is the Feast of St. Martin of Tours. John Clare (written Nov. 11, 1841): ‘Tis Martinmass from rig to rig Ploughed fields and meadow lands are blea In hedge and … Read More
Thanks for books received
Thanks go out to CP of VA who, via the wish list, sent The Rhetoric of St. Augustine of Hippo: De Doctrina Christiana & the Search for Distinctly Christian Rhetoric by Richard Leo Enos & Roger Thompson, et al. Also, … Read More
QUAERITUR: hand missal for TLM
From a reader: I am a new reader of your blog, and I want to let you know how much I enjoy it. My wife and I have recently started attending the Latin Mass in our area. Now we want … Read More
B on Bishop of Austin to Pastors: Make it hard for people to kneel for Communion: “The old saying is that the devil can’t kneel as he has no knees. I suppose the norm in hell…”
Loading ...
