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- Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Father, it was perfect symmetry for two people. One cup handle facing one way and the other the other way.”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “From a reader: “What are in the frames between the vestments?” Those are the priest’s vesting prayers. I’ll show more…”
- on WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo) – Mighty humble Shepherd, humble mighty flock: “Fr Z you are an inspiration in your knowledge about and love for the things of God and the church.…”
- on ROME 24/4– Day 32 (-9): Happy Birthday Rome!: “Holy cow that pasta. I wish we had smell-o-vision and taste-o-vision.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “The German grind continues. It is in their nature.”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Scary about the women. What I mean is this: it would be disheartening enough just to find out that a…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “I wonder what’s going on with these women. Don’t they know that the greatest example of womanhood is Our Blessed…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Fr.Z sez: It is really sad that some people still push this rock up the hill. Reminds one of Sisyphus,…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Alas, those men pushing for ordaining women. STILL trying to get women to do all the work. My mother warned…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Dear Dcn PB, I don’t see how the reality can be described differently than by saying that the one sacrament…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Most people, whether pro or con, misunderstand the history and practice of the female diaconate. The deaconess was a separate…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th of Easter) 2024: “I remember only the joke at the beginning of the homily: Priests get four weeks of vacation per year. Some…”
- on “you must not remember your forefathers…” Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “My children at one of the solid Chesterton Academies have been taught science and theology by an amazing young Catholic…”
- on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “What is it that changed about the Catholic Herald? Interesting interview by George Farmer. (If only the faithful could be…”
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Monthly Archives: December 2012
NYC 22 Dec – Solemn Mass 11 am Cabrini Shrine – Manhattan
A quick reminder about the Pilgrimage and Solemn Mass are sponsored by the Traditional Knights of Columbus Councils in New York City (Agnus Dei Council (#12361) and Regina Coeli Council (#423). The Mass will be at the Cabrini Shrine in Manhattan … Read More
A reader on going to confession
From a reader: I know you love to hear good things about Confession. I just wanted to share that I went to Confession today with a most humble, wise, and kind priest. I was on the verge of a panic … Read More
Medieval churches with stained glass were photocatalytic air purifiers with nanostructured gold catalyst. Yep. They were.
For your Just Too Cool file… a reader alerted me to a post at Daniel Mitsui’s blog. This, if true, really is just too cool: SOLAR-POWERED NANOTECH-PURIFIED AIR in MEDIAEVAL CHURCHES Information Week: The glaziers who created gold-painted stained glass … Read More
ACTION ITEM! HELP THE NcR (FISHWRAP) WITH THEIR OWN POLL!
The Fishwrap is having a dreadful time with their poll about their Person of the Year (even though they have already decided the outcome. I’ve been following it closely. First, their poll was going one way. Then, all the results … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liberals, Lighter fare, Linking Back
Tagged Fishwrap. poll, Person of the Year
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27 Comments
ACTION ITEM POLL ALERT: Fishwrap’s Person of the Year – UPDATED
Why won’t NCR make “The Unborn” their ‘Person of the Year’? UPDATE 21 Dec 20:19 GMT: The Fishwrap’s webpage says at the top: “Update: Our poll was so popular our account with SurveyMonkey, which hosted our poll, topped off the … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Lighter fare, Magisterium of Nuns
Tagged Fishwrap, magisterium of nuns, Person of the Year
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70 Comments
Collecting a Spiritual Bouquet for Bp. Morlino’s birthday – 1 day left
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! UPDATE 21 Dec 20:09 GMT: Right now: 146 contributors have prayed 435 rosaries, 217 chaplets of Divine Mercy, 99.41 hours of adoration, stations of the cross 99 times, and have had 134 Masses offered for … Read More
Diocese of Greensburg – Usus Antiquior implemented
For your Brick by Brick file. Someone sent me news about a development in the Diocese of Greenburg. Bishop Brandt implements Mass in extraordinary form in Latrobe GREENSBURG — Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt announced that he is implementing the celebration … Read More
Catholic Herald’s choices for People of the Year for 2012
I saw in the online, full digital version of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald‘s choices for People of the Year for 2012. They also explained why they were chosen. Timothy Card. Dolan tops the list, followed by… … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged 2012, Catholic Herald
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Benedict XVI on the destructive evil of “gender” confusion
The Holy Father today provided insight into how evil and destructive the homosexual agenda is. Each year shortly before Christmas the Roman Pontiff exchanges greetings with and addresses the members of Roman Curia. He gives them what some call a … Read More
Lifeboat anyone? Green Bay’s Mayor says too many homeless are staying at Catholic shelter
From Fox 11 in Green Bay, WI: Homeless shelter could face city fines GREEN BAY – One of Green Bay’s homeless shelters could soon be putting itself in trouble with the city. City officials say St. John the Evangelist Homeless … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity
Tagged D. Green Bay, homeless, homeless shelter, lifeboat, Mayor Jim Schmitt
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19 Comments
NCR, hardly pro-life, hijacks pro-life language
The poll-challenged Fishwrap‘s editor has piped up with this: “The pro-life challenge of gun control” I respond with what I wrote about the dopey piece by their same site’s Sr. Maureen Fiedler HERE. NCR doesn’t defend the unborn. People who … Read More
Decree on “heroic virtues” of Ven. Paul VI promulgated
This just in: (Vatican Radio) On Thursday 20th December Pope Benedict XVI received in private audience the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B. In the course of the audience the Pope authorised … Read More
John Rist: ‘You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching’
From CNS, something from an old prof of mine. I have written about Prof. Rist before. ‘You can’t pick and choose in Catholic moral teaching’ Posted on December 19, 2012 by Carol Glatz By Greg Watry VATICAN CITY (CNS) — … Read More
Posted in Liberals, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged Catholic identity, John Rist
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10 Comments
Fr. Z asks a favor for the priests in Newtown, CT – ACTION ITEM
Please, in your charity, read this. HERE
A priest on what really freaks out liberals
At the blog Southern Orders, Fr. Allan McDonald had a few things to say about liberals and Vatican II and what freaks them out. Here is a taste with my emphases and comments: […] The progressive, liberal element of the … Read More
Christmas vandalism
From The Catholic League: Christmas Vandals Never Quit December 19, 2012 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Christmas vandals: Every year at Christmastime, incidents of vandalism are rampant, and while this year was not as bad as last year, … Read More
“I’m spiritual, but not religious.”
The amusing Eye of the Tiber (go visit!) hits it on the head with this one. Funny… but not! Lapsed Catholic Confirms She Is Still Spiritual Sherman Oaks, CA–27-year-old Sara Matson confirmed to friends yesterday that she was indeed still very … Read More
Federal Appeals Court sides with Belmont Abbey against Obama Administration
From the Catholic News Herald of the Diocese of Charlotte: Government must rewrite HHS mandate by March 31, court orders WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has sided with Belmont Abbey College in its lawsuit challenging the … Read More
Prefect of CDF on Anglican Ordinariate and SSPX
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald with my emphases: Head of the CDF urges Catholics to welcome ordinariate converts Catholics in England and Wales should welcome members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, the new … Read More
Archbp. Chaput on St. Thomas More in light of Obamacare
In the light of the Obama Administration’s attack on our religious freedom, this piece deserves wide circulation: A Man for This Season, and All Seasons by Charles J. Chaput within Religion and the Public Square December 19th, 2012 There is … Read More
Elizium23 on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “My baptismal anniversary. I’m mostly Scottish/Irish Catholic, birthed and educated by the Mercy Sisters during the height of the Troubles.…”
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