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“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
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- Maura on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “And their language…The Vatican will BAR…nice strong language which shows how they truly feel. It’s a different level of opposition…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “I used to get outraged when I’d see stories like this. Now I just laugh. This is what they take…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Ubi caritas…. So much mercy since 2013.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Maybe the organizers can offer to bring their boyfriends.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Boy, certain folks REALLY hate Pope Benedict XVI… They must try to erase anything to do with Summorum Pontificum.”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “They really do hate us. Where is our Holy Father in this? Is he knowingly allowing this cruelty? I can’t…”
- on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “Another case for SSPX necessity. They all add up.”
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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Nasty worm attacks social networking apps
IF you use social net working apps, you should be wary of a dangerous piece of malware going around, rather like the lion of 1 Peter 5:8 This app is a worm called Koobface and it is nasty. Read about … Read More
Card. Pell with His Hermeneuticalness in Oxford
Check out Card. Pell with His Hermeneuticalness in Oxford.
Connecticut State Legislature introduced bill #1098/2009
This sounds like something directly from a Michael O’Brian novel: Dear Fr. Z, The Lord’s peace. You are going to be one of the first to hear about this. Nothing like this in the history of the US has ever … Read More
QUAERITUR: blessed salt
From a reader: Recently a Protestant friend of mine sent me an article you might find interesting about someone hawking “Christian salt.” I don’t know much about the Catholic tradition of blessed salt, except that my mom keeps some near … Read More
Pope Benedict’s fascinating Q&A
My friend Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded columnist for that instrument of dissent, the National Catholic Reporter, has done us a great service in translating and transcribing the Q&A Pope Benedict XVI held with priests of … Read More
WDTPRS: Friday 1st Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)
We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Friday – 1st Week of Lent This prayer was more or less the Postcommunio on the 1st Sunday in Lent in the 1962MR. Changes were made. It is … Read More
QUAERITUR: in a bind about eating meat in a Friday in Lent
From a reader: Yesterday I brought a ham sandwich for lunch. I had forgotten however that my firm was sponsoring a lunch on that day. It would have been somewhat awkward and unseemly to bring my own lunch to that … Read More
Rose vestments for sale
I really don’t want to turn this blog into a college campus telephone pole, but this is an attempt at a good deed. A priest who is in need wrote to say that he wants to sell an "Iberian" style … Read More
Risible in the City of Angels
Roughly 3000 people have sent me a note about how Card. Mahony of LA has "banned" SSPX Bp. Williamson from the Archdiocese. It is to laugh.
Return of sparrows and finches
New comers to the feeder. First, our cardinal is shedding his winter plumage and acquiring his colors again. There are many pairs of doves. The birds must be migrating back to the area. I have not seen the House Finch … Read More
Maura on Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica: “And their language…The Vatican will BAR…nice strong language which shows how they truly feel. It’s a different level of opposition…”
