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- Daily Rome Shot 1674
- Bp. Schneider: “Danger!”
- A Tale of Two Cardinals: unity in diversity v. unity in uniformity
- Daily Rome Shot 1673: I have bad news, worse news and okay news.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 18th Ordinary)
- My View For Awhile: first Pete and now repeat – surreally updated and now terminated
- WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo): Mercy and Justice are not opposed
- WDTPRS – 18th Ordinary (Novus Ordo) Sunday: cold reality
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- Daily Rome Shot 1672
- Diane Montagna has all of her scalpels out, dear readers. The object of the autopsy is….
- Daily Rome Shot 1671
- THE FIFTH CONJURATION – A Scene in Blank Verse after the Manner of Christopher Marlowe
- A priest’s prayers for before and after hearing confessions
- ASK FATHER: What’s your preferred English translation of the Bible?
- Keep in mind the phrase: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
- Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point?
- “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”
- An important topic revisited: Moral Injury
- Daily Rome Shot 1670 – a note to a Mass stream viewer in Canada and a limerick in Latin
- A JESUIT SAYS: “If you are able to go to confession once a month and choose not to, I would not want to be responsible for your soul.”
- Daily Rome Shot 1669 – important notes!
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 17th Ordinary)
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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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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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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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Boston College and the Crucifix
This is in from the Cardinal Newman Society: Students and faculty returned to Boston College (BC), a Jesuit Catholic institution, for the Spring 2009 semester to find that crucifixes and icons had been placed in many classrooms that had been … Read More
POLL (and a rant): Where’s the band?
There are criteria for music during the liturgical action. It must be sacred and it must be art. That is, the idiom of the music should be sacred – not blatantly secular – it must present sacred texts and it … Read More
UK – alarming!
I picked this up from UKLifeLeague.com Call for Two-Child Limit on Families from Government Adviser Couples who have more than two children are putting an ‘irresponsible’ burden on the environment, the Government’s leading green adviser has warned. Jonathon Porritt called … Read More
Fr. Perrone – A Septuagesima Sermon
The great Fr. Eduard Perrone of the fortunate Assumption Grotto parish in Detroit delivered a fine sermon for Septuagesima Sunday. A reader here, a parishioner there, Diane of the blog Te Deum Laudamus sent me some rough audio which I … Read More
A fortunate flock in Grand Rapids, MI
A reader sent the following. It is posted on the parish website as a PDF, but he took the time to send me the text, which aided me in posting what comes below. This parish priest has made a determination … Read More
UK FSSP TLM DVD
The FSSP has made available their TLM training DVD in the UK. I reviewed it here. I encourage priests in the UK interested in learning the older form of Mass to check out this useful tool.
A decision in Brisbane about renegade St. Mary’s and Fr. Kennedy
You all know about the wacky St. Mary’s in Brisbane and the wackier Fr. Kennedy, who has led his flock toward the cliff. This is in from ABC. Brisbane priest sacked over Catholic feud By Kim Lyell and Kerrin Binnie … Read More
Double Standard
I recently heard on TV a media wonk challenge a racial double-standard in sentencing guidelines for cocaine and for crack. Cocaine is used more by white people but the sentencing guidelines are less harsh than those for crack, used more … Read More
Archd. of Milwaukee: norms for Summorum Pontificum
The Archbishop of Milwaukee, His Excellency Most Rev. Timothy Dolan published norms for the Archdiocese for the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. My emphases and comments. Archbishop promulgates guidelines for Extraordinary Form celebrations In order to ensure an orderly implementation … Read More
A replacement for Williamson in Argentina?
In a story in La Nacion, there is speculation that perhaps SSPX Bishop Galaretta could take over at the seminary in La Reya, Argentina in place of SSPX Bp Williamson. Whatever move they make, clearly Bp. Williamson will be assuming … Read More




















