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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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- Daily Rome Shot 1117 – A *POLL* about 2026-27
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- 10 November – St Andrew Avellino (Vetus Ordo). Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- WDTPRS – 9 November: Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran, Rome’s Cathedral
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 37: For awhile…
- “Sometimes the scalpel is the honey.” Wherein Fr. Z rants about “the parable of the wheat and tares”.
- Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 36: Ultimate
- WDTPRS – 5 November: Feast of the Holy Relics. These bones shall live again. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 35: Penultimate
- Germans… “for many” in the Consecration formula, rather than “for all”
- WDTPRS: A charming translation for the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo – 4 November
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 34: Requiem for deceased benefactors
- CQ CQ CQ – EWTN shut down its shortwave radio service on 31 October. Understandable, but I have some reservations.
- ASK FATHER: “Is it proper to pray for the repose of souls who died before the Resurrection and the harrowing of Hell?”
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 33: All Souls
- ASK FATHER: “Why isn’t the Male Only Holy Orders a Dogma?”
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 32: All Saints
- ACTION ITEM! 1-8 November PLENARY INDULGENCE for the Poor Souls
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? “Placáre, Christe, sérvulis”
- If you are a priest or seminarian, this is your immediate homework. A judicial decision from the Roman Rota roundly condemned publishing lists of “credibly accused” clerics.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – All Saints (Vetus Ordo and Novus Ordo)
- MAIL CALL: A note about St. Expeditus and an online shrine
- ROME 26/10 – Day 31: Blast from the … present!
- Is the needle moving?
- ASK FATHER: If a priest explains away a mortal sin, and the penitent believes him, is the absolution valid?
- ROME 26/10 – Day 30: With apologies to the Bard
- RIP Patrick Stewart … my competitor!
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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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: April 2009
Monastery of San Benedetto in Norcia – mp3s and photos
I received this from the Monastery of St. Benedict in Norcia, Italy… the birthplace of St. Benedict. Salve! [F]rom the Benedictine Monastery of San Benedetto in Norcia. Thanks to some generous donations from our patrons, we’ve wired up our Tenebrae … Read More
When Popes ATTACK! The Daily Mail on Benedict XVI’s Good Friday
The Daily Mail has a quizzical story. Here it is with my emphases and comments. Here is a good lesson of what happens when journalists really know not what they do. We have drifted into a desert of godlessness (and … Read More
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Benedict XVIs sermon for the Via Crucis at the Colosseum
Benedict XVIs sermon for the Via Crucis at the Colosseum. My emphases and comments. Dear Brothers and Sisters, At the end of his dramatic Passion narrative, the Evangelist Saint Mark tells us: "The centurion, who stood facing him, saw that … Read More
POLL: Holy Thursday Foot Washing “mandatum”
People sometimes forget that the Foot Washing rite on Holy Thursday is an option in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum. It can be done or excluded depending on the pastoral circumstances. What is not an option is that, if it … Read More
John Allen on the Notre Dame controversy: Fr. Z’s questions
My friend Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., the nearly ubiquitous fair-minded former Rome correspondent for the ultra-leftist National Catholic Reporter drills away in is Friday missive at the controversy swirling about Notre Shame University. He makes some good points but … Read More
Bp. Bruskewitz (D. Lincoln) flays Fr. Jenkins (Notre Shame)
His Excellency Most Reverend Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop of Lincoln had this to say to Fr. John Jenkins, President of Notre Shame University. My emphases. April 3, 2009 The Reverend John Jenkins, C.S.CPresident, University of Notre Dame400 Main BuildingNotre Dame, IN … Read More
Benedict XVI’s sermon for Holy Thursday evening
Pope Benedict’s sermon for Holy Thursday’s Mass of the Lord’s Supper in St. John Lateran in Rome. My emphases and comments. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Qui, pridie quam pro nostra omniumque salute pateretur, hoc est hodie, accepit panem: these words … Read More
Fr. Jenkins of Notre Shame on the USCCB guidelines
I just had time to scan briefly some comments from Notre Shame U’s president Fr Jenkins on the USCCB’s guidelines about giving a platform to speakers who promote values against those acceptable to the Church. I can’t post it and … Read More
May you have a Triduum of graces
I wish you all a grace-filled Triduum. Perhaps you can share your plans for the next three days.




















