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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
- 27 August – St. Joseph Calasanz
- Over at Substack… I’m taking baby steps there… I posted about Jesuit Thomas Reese’s latest idiocy at RNS
- Daily Rome Shot 1690: without shame
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria
- “People reject the Church because she speaks against the sins they love” – St. Augustine…. NOT! Wherein Fr. Z corrects and then rants.
- A four letter word
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?
- Daily Rome Shot 1689: Oaf For A Year!
- Daily Rome Shot 1688: Let’s use the word for these people… evil
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
- “These, Reverend Father, are no mere words, nor lifeless thoughts, but they are arrows shot from the strong bow of God Himself…”.
- PODCAzT – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs
- Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!
- Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”)
- ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.
- Fathers! Pay attention. Video of an attack on the Eucharist during Communion at Sunday Mass. Nasty and planned.
- Wherein Fr. Z and St. Augustine reflect on the Samaritans of the 12th and 13th Sundays after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo) and the danger of false teaching in the Church today
- Daily Rome Shot 1686
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 13th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 21st Ordinary)
- A work in progress…
- 22 August: Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Vetus Ordo), Queenship of Mary (Novus Ordo)
- Daily Rome Shot 1685 – items wonderful and appalling
- 20 August – St. Bernard of Clairvaux the “Doctor Mellifluus”
- “They can always hurt you more.”
- Daily Rome Shot 1684
- REMINDER – 19 August – St. John Eudes on BAD PRIESTS: “a most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world”
- Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru
- ASK FATHER: During Covid, the Bishop anointed my niece by means of a Q-tip. Valid?
- Tickets to attend the Beatification of Archbp. Fulton Sheen in St. Louis, 24 Sept
- REVIEW: Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick – “in danger of death”
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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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- 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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"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
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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: July 2013
Sr. Joan had better keep her eyes on the Prize!
Why hasn’t Sr. Joan Chittister returned to Tahir Square? I posted about her historic journey HERE. Remember how she pushed for the overthrowing of Hosni Mubarak? Does her absence from the Square mean that she is rooting for Muhammed Morsi? … Read More
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Fishwrap gives Archbp. Weakland a pass on clerical sexual abuse of children
As I was slumming through the site of the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) I stepped in their piece about retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland’s role in the clerical sexual abuse scandals in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. I got to the end … Read More
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Ass. of U.S. Catholic Priests meet, give an award, run down the new translation
The National Schismatic Reporter informs us that, just about the same time the wonderful conference Sacra Liturgia 2013 was going on in Rome, the Ass. of U.S. Catholic Priests met in Seattle. Sort of like bearded-Spock doing his thing in that strange parallel … Read More
Of civil wars and sesquicentennials and gazettes
One my daily internet stops is the Civil War Daily Gazette. Since we are in the sesquicentennial year of the American Civil War, some enterprising folks have created a day by day gazette like blog, covering the unfolding of the … Read More
Catholic priest beheaded by practitioners of the ‘religion of peace’? So it seems, yes.
Just in case you were tempted to FORGET… From The Blaze (not the only source… there are videos…: CATHOLIC PRIEST ALLEGEDLY BEHEADED IN SYRIA BY AL-QAEDA-LINKED REBELS AS MEN AND CHILDREN TAKE PICTURES AND CHEER Syrian Catholic priest Francois Murad … Read More
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Reconciled traditional Catholic groups has its first ordinations in union with Rome
Brick by brick! The group called the Transalpine Redemptorists, founded in 1987 and once associated with the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), were reconciled with the Church some time ago. They had a big step forward recently with their first … Read More
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Catholic priest killed by Islamist troops, possibly beheaded
On News.va I read that there is going to be some sort of Islamic-Catholic Liaison Committee meeting (HERE). I also read (HERE) that practitioners of the “religion of peace” murdered a Catholic priest, Fr Fran?ois Mourad, in Syria near the … Read More




















