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- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 18th Ordinary)
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- THE FIFTH CONJURATION – A Scene in Blank Verse after the Manner of Christopher Marlowe
- A priest’s prayers for before and after hearing confessions
- ASK FATHER: What’s your preferred English translation of the Bible?
- Keep in mind the phrase: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
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- “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”
- An important topic revisited: Moral Injury
- Daily Rome Shot 1670 – a note to a Mass stream viewer in Canada and a limerick in Latin
- A JESUIT SAYS: “If you are able to go to confession once a month and choose not to, I would not want to be responsible for your soul.”
- Daily Rome Shot 1669 – important notes!
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- Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”
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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.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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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
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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: January 2013
Fishwrap’s Kennedy wrong about Flannery’s heresy.
Over at the Fishwrap, the National Schismatic Reporter (the paper of record for heretics which has hijacked the name “Catholic”), failed-priest Eugene Cullen Kennedy wrote a thought – not a very good thought – about the Irish heretic Fr. Flannery, … Read More
Changes in the Roman Curia affecting catechesis and seminaries
I was busy yesterday and missed this at News.va. The Holy Father changed the “competence” of some dicasteries of the Roman Curia. He moved responsibility for Catechesis from the Congregation for the Clergy to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization … Read More
My View For A While
The March For Life was a great experience. I will seriously consider doing it again next year. At the airport I was able to enjoy for the first time the fruits of TSA Pre-check, which made security seem almost like … Read More
One priest’s tips for a better celebration of Holy Mass
At the site of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, there is an interesting piece by a priest who gives tips for a better celebration of Holy Mass, am improved ars celebrandi. There are tips for the priest … Read More
“Zero Question” – NCReporter’s use of “Catholic” in title is canonically illicit.
“Finn was too kind to them.” That is Prof. Ed Peters, canonist over at his fine blog, In The Light Of The Law. Peters has written about the Bp. Robert Finn’s column about the National catholic Fishwrap… Reporter. Bp. Finn, … Read More
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FOLLOW UP -March for Life: Where was NCR? LCWR? Nuns on Bus? CHA?
I am looking for March for Life photos of the banners and contingents from the Fishwrap (National catholic Reporter), the Catholic Health Association, the Nuns on the Bus, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Anyone? Photos?
Washington DC Day 3 – The March for Life
Friday begins with Mass at Old St Mary’s in the Usus Antiquior in honor of Nellie Gray. Confessions are being heard during Mass, which is always nice to see. It is also great to see young people with March for … Read More
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Bp. Finn calls out the National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) conspired with others who are openly hostile to the Catholic Church to intimidate His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Finn into silence. The fact is, the NCR is not a “Catholic” paper or news source. … Read More
Washington DC Day 2
The day started with breakfast with a friend and then the National Gallery. Here is a lovely Christological Goldfinch! A closer look. I then met a congressional staffer for lunch and a tour of the Capitol. Since a while back … Read More
Hijacking the language of the pro-life movement
I have been saying for a while now that the liberal catholic left’s spittle-flecked interest in stricter control has little or nothing to do with a true pro-life agenda. Fishwrap (aka National catholic Reporter) and their ilk have hijacked the … Read More




















