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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.: “mcferran: What would Pope Leo XIV advise this individual? We may never know, given that we have nothing from him…”
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- on ASK FATHER: public veneration of relics: “I wonder how the norm on genuflection would apply to the Shroud of Turin. The Church hasn’t guaranteed its authenticity,…”
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Like Don Camillo? There’s an app for that.
Some of you may know that I have read many of Giovanni Guareschi’s Don Camillo stories in PODCAzTs. I haven’t done any for a while, but they are in the archive and I will get back to them, I promise. … Read More
A priest’s nightmare
This is horrific. From the St. Catherine Standard. Extorting $90,000 from priest earns jail time for Niagara man By Peter Downs, Standard Staff Updated 3 days ago A Niagara Falls man who preyed on a Catholic priest’s fear of being … Read More
What do these words have in common: cathedraticum, dicastery, juridic, quinquennial, Referendary, Signatura, and vindicative
The Canonical Defender, Prof. Peters, at his excellent blog In The Light Of The Law, has this fun post: Taking Microsoft to canon law school This has never happened to me. I’m typing away on a canon law paper, just … Read More
The music you listen to can rot your brain, make you stupider and kill your soul.
One of my philosophy profs, a former Marine DI, told us that if everything that goes into our brains has no or little relation to reality, then we can’t expect to produce good and rational results. We will be, in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Bp. Aquila, D. Fargo, iPod, music, WYD
61 Comments
61 Comments
CDF speculations
You might want to have a look at the intrepid Andrea Tornielli’s article in La Stampa (in English) about the proximate need for a a new Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Card. Levada is coming … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants about Communion
Get rid of row by row Communion during Mass. Not much of a rant there, come to think of it. But the combox should be rich, if people will self-edit.
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Communion, row by row
82 Comments
82 Comments
Catholic League on ban against clergy during NYC 9/11 ceremony
From The Catholic League: CLERGY BANNED FROM 9/11 NYC CEREMONY Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the decision by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban the clergy from speaking at the 9/11 ceremony next month: After the … Read More
Posted in The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged 9/11, Catholic League, Mayor Bloomberg, NYC, Twin Towers
27 Comments
27 Comments
John Allen on SSPX/Rome talks. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
My friend the nearly-ubiquitous John L. Allen, Jr, the fair-minded writer for the ultra-liberal dissenting National Catholic Reporter has an interesting piece about an upcoming meeting scheduled between SSPX Bishop Bernard Fellay and the CDF in Rome to review their … Read More
CNA: Catholic US Military Archdiocese sees rise in priestly vocations: SPECIAL APPEAL FROM FR. Z TO READERS
It is a regret of mine that I didn’t sign up for military chaplain service when I had the chance. I am more than likely too old now and hindsight is 20/20. In any event, at one point I did … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.: “mcferran: What would Pope Leo XIV advise this individual? We may never know, given that we have nothing from him…”
