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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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Recent Posts
- OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
- 26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 59 & 60: A lovely view
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Novus Ordo: Weaving the warp and the weft
- ROME 26/5– Day 57 & 58: doubled up
- ASK FATHER: “Ghost” or “Spirit”, which is it? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.
- ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?
- ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?
- ROME 26/5– Day 56: All that Jasmine… no, not the…
- ROME 26/5– Day 54 & 55: double
- Pagliarani and Leo at Tanagra
- ROME 26/5– Day 53: Persevere!
- ROME 26/5– Day 52: lace imitates God’s beauty enlaced in flowers
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- ROME 26/5– Day 51: munch
- Thoughts about the collision of the Holy See and the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: Question about the impacts of Excommunication
- ROME 26/5– Day 50: It’s THURSDAY not Sunday
- “Declaration of Catholic Faith addressed to Pope Leo XIV by the Superior General of the SSPX
- The Devil makes pots, but not lids.
- WDTPRS: Ascension Thursday – Hope informs our trials
- Ascension Thursday and Lordly Feet
- ROME 26/5– Day 49: short
- 13 May: Statement by Prefect for the Doctrine of the Faith about the 1 July SSPX consecration of bishops. Fr. Z makes a plea.
- ROME 13 May 609 – Exorcism, screaming demons, terrified people fainting
- Dealing with some misleading … not quite fake… news
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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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Daily Archives: 10 October 2012
Reason #28867 for Summorum Pontificum
The folks who organize the education conference in L.A. are going to be sooooo jealous. You might need to turn the sound down after a little bit. I will not be blamed if your ears start to bleed. [wp_youtube]MxfO7a7_bWs[/wp_youtube]
Some feedback
From a reader: I do not have any question to ask you, but I just wanted to say thank you for your promotion and education on your blog of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. I have only been to … Read More
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Benedict XVI to change mind on women’s ordination? Have stranger things ever happened?
I picked this up from Eye Of The Tiber. I didn’t hear about this epoch-changing story in the MSM or the Catholic blogosphere, did you? Hmmmm…. perhaps there is a conspiracy. Former LCWR President’s Dynamic Speech May Change Pope’s Mind … Read More
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Nuns On The Bus Warmed-Over: a stop at Ohio Dominican University
Apparently the Nuns On The Bus are still going ’round and ’round with their blatantly partisan political agenda. From a reader: The “Nuns on the Bus” tour has C-Bus for its next stop. This is the group that has been … Read More
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Pres. Obama’s wedding ring
Here is something very interesting from WND: NEW YORK – As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack Obama’s practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his colleagues. Now, newly published photographs of Obama from … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Can a traditionalist priest require women to cover their heads during Mass?
From a reader: I have read web sites from FSSP Traditional parishes that indicate women are to cover their heads during Mass. My understanding is that the requirement was removed from Canon Law, thus it is no longer a sin … Read More
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Is something being done about the “homosexual Masses” in London?
I picked this up from Marco Tossati at Vatican Insider – in Italian – about the homosexual Masses being celebrated in London in the Soho district at the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory (not at St. Patrick’s on … Read More
“I want to share why I choose to wear a veil… and why I love it.”
At the blog Fide Et Literis: By Faith & Learning there is a post entitled I love my chapel veil. She wrote: I recently read an article about the comeback of chapel veils entitled, “Head covering is thinly veiled patriarchy.” The … Read More
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The Holy Father’s Wednesday Audiences will now include Arabic
ARABIC TO BECOME A PART OF THE POPE’S GENERAL AUDIENCE Vatican City, (VIS) – Beginning on Wednesday 10 October, during the Holy Father’s weekly general audience, an Arabic speaker will join the other speakers who provide a summary of the … Read More





















