In his weekly column on the site of the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese, The Catholic Spirit, His Excellency Most Rev. John Nienstedt the Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, has some observations about health care. My emphases and comments. … Read More →
I found this at The Catholic Key: Archbishop Naumann Responds to Sebelius’ WaPo Interview Claim Last week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sat down for an interview with the Washington Post. When asked about last year’s request by Kansas City, Kansas … Read More →
The affliction many people experience each week in church from the music choices and choosers is not limited to the Anglophone world. You should hear the stuff they play in churches in Italy. You feel like you are drowning in … Read More →
From WorldNetDaily there are some comments about Pres. Obama’s "Science Czar" John Holdren. Obama science czar John Holdren stated in a college textbook he co-authored that in conditions of emergency, compulsory abortion would be sustainable under the U.S. Constitution, even … Read More →
From a reader in Sweden about the TV transmission on the SSPX Bp. Williamson thing: A brief report from Sweden regarding the documentary from Sweden, yesterday evening. The documentary "Uppdrag granskning" was mostly a boring failure: very, very little was … Read More →
First and foremost, I want you all to know that last Monday I said Mass for the intention of benefactors, including those who have been good enough to make donations or send things from the wish list. Therefore, thanks are … Read More →
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Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham. The great p.p. of Brighton, Fr. Ray Blake of St. Mary Magadalen has this great post: The Wrecks of Walsingham [attributed to Sir Philip Howard] In the wrecks of WalsinghamWhom should … Read More →
The other day I posted that His Excellency Most Rev. Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, spoke in Washington DC. He said in clear terms that Catholic politicians who publicly commit scandal by promoting immoral policies also contrary to … Read More →
Once more controversy is stirred around SSPX Bp. Williamson and the Holy See’s Press Office. What did X, Y, Z know and when did they know it? Check Rorate and the Italian site Fides et Forma here and here and … Read More →
I picked up from NLM that His Excellency Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, Bishop of Oakland, … … [l]ast Sunday, September 20, … offered Pontifical Mass in the usus antiquior at St. Margaret Mary Church, an apostolate of the Institute of … Read More →
Sometimes life runs smoothly. You are in the groove. Things click along. Then… A little thing goes wrong and the proverbial spanner is in the works. That is when the 80/20 rule clicks into play and you wind up spending … Read More →
People often want me to peddle their wares. Free advertising, I guess. Here is something of interest for users of the iPhone and lovers of liturgy. Dear Fr. Z, My name is Michael Drake. Over the past months I have … Read More →
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Before I make some plans for another PODCAzT, I thought I would remind you about the last two. 091 09-09-09 A hymn dissected "Te lucis ante terminum"; don Camillo (Part VI) 090 09-09-05 St. Leo on the beatitudes; the sacred, … Read More →
Some people think the Ember Days were last week. Some people think they are this week. In the different versions of the Ordo I have the September Ember Days beginning tomorrow. So… anyone? Usually the Ember Days follow the 3rd … Read More →
I had some notes from several people about the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. I found this story on LifeSiteNews. I think you should go read it. Here are the briefest of excerpts of an article by Patrick B. Craine … Read More →
Space Weather News for Sept. 22, 2009http://spaceweather.com NEW SUNSPOTS: In a year when the sun has been utterly blank 80% of the time, the sudden emergence of two large sunspots in a single day is a noteworthy event. Today is … Read More →
Remember Doug Kmiec? He is the Catholic law prof who says that Catholics can vote for pro-abortion politicians. He is now a paid operative of the Obama Administration and drawing a check from the same as Ambassdor to Malta, perhaps … Read More →
And now for something completely different. This is one goofy cat. I dunno folks… but is it possible this critter was dropped on its head too many times? Corollary: Is it possible to drop cat on its head? Also: If … Read More →
All during the controversy about Pres. Obama at Notre Dame and also the funeral for Sen. Kennedy I pounded at the issue of the scandal caused by these events, which could have been avoid. I didn’t object to the President … Read More →
Pope Benedict’s vision, his "Marshall Plan", will not be implemented in a day or a year or even a few years. But it is happening. This "Marshall Plan" revolves around a revitalization of Holy Church’s worship. To this end, Pope … Read More →
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An Old Historian on WDTPRS – Spy Wednesday: The final prayers: “Father: Every Paragraph, Sentence, and Word is Majestic, Meaningful, Uplifting, Promising, Humbling, and it all provides a full measure of…”
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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.
St. John Eudes
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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.”
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“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
“The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
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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
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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