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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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hwriggles4 on Daily Rome Shot 1658: “I attend a parish regularly that 23 years ago was staffed by Jesuits. I remember the pastor (a Jesuit who…”
HyacinthClare on Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit): “More light for reading or less? Depends if you read in the morning (I do) or in the evening. It…”
Fr. Reader on ALERT: The SSPX appeals against the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith: “Very smart move”
Greg Hlatky on Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit): “Daylight Saving is the Novus Ordo of time.”
Charivari Rob on Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit): “Sorry, I left out “… In their bare hands” .”
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Recent Posts
- Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit)
- ALERT: The SSPX appeals against the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Mass this afternoon – Unity of the Church… differently
- Daily Rome Shot 1658
- My View For Awhile: homeward – CONCLUSION
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-23 – Toupee or not toupee
- Archbp. of Milwaukee reacts to the SSPX consecrations. Fr Z comments.
- WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: God can neither deceive nor be deceived
- Daily Rome Shot 1657 – new life
- Daily Rome Shot 1656 – different stuff
- WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark
- ASK FATHER: Can I be godparent of the child of a Lutheran couple?
- Day 3 & 4 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
- FOR PRIESTS: Wherein, prompted by this conference, Fr. Z posts something for CONFESSION
- Day 1 & 2 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
- 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.
- Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies
- My View For Awhile: Westward
- SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 6th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 14th Ordinary) 2026
- Daily Rome Shot 1654: another jackass
- IMPORTANT expert canonical exam of the DDF SSPX Decree: It does NOT excommunicate SSPX priests or faithful who attend Masses, or change the practical canonical position of faithful seeking SSPX sacraments.
- WDTPRS – 14th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): from dust to freedom
- Card. Koch, Prefect for Christian Unity, makes observations about the SSPX
- WDTPRS – 6th Sunday after Pentecost: Collect – FIND THE CHIASM!
- My View For Awhile: Philly on the 4th
- ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication
- Daily Rome Shot 1654: facade
- The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons
- The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX
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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
"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: October 2013
28 Oct – Manhattan, NYC – Pontifical Mass, Conference on Bl. Karl of Austria
The last Pontifical Solemn Mass and Conference in the series on Blessed Karl of Austria is today. Kudos to the Traditional Knights of Columbus Councils for organizing this series of events. By the way, for your Brick by Brick file, … Read More
2014 Liturgical Ordo for the Extraordinary Form by the FSSP
The good people at the FSSP have sent me their Ordo for 2014. They are the first group to do so! Do you have your 2014 yet, Fathers? To order the FSSP’s Ordo, click HERE. This Ordo is especially useful … Read More
Getting All Hallows Eve right!
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QUAERITUR: Pilgrimages
From a reader: Do you lead regular pilgrimages each year? If so, do you post these on your blog so we could also go? My husband and I try to go on pilgrimage once a year. God bless you! I … Read More
IRAN: Christians sentenced with 80 lashes for drinking communion wine
In North Africa during the reign of Diocletian, at Abitina, a group of 49 Christians were convicted of celebrating Mass. The local bishop had caved in to Diocletian’s anti-Christian edicts, but some Christians went ahead and worshiped on Sunday with … Read More
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Georgetown U (Jesuits) should be Catholic or lose the title – PETITION
I direct the readership’s attention to an item in the RSS feed of the Cardinal Newman Society which is on the sidebar of this blog. CNSNews.com Covers Blatty’s Canon Law Petition on Georgetown’s Catholic Identity CNSNews.com’s managing editor Michael Chapman … Read More
Errare est humanum.
Here are object lessons to priests and servers who make mistakes. We go one. Don’t lose your cool, move on. Deal with it. Keep moving forward. I saw a video that most of you have seen by now of James … Read More
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QUAERITUR: Can a rector or bishop forbid seminarians or priests use of the cassock?
From a reader: In my diocese there are a small number of seminarians who wish to wear their cassock after their first year of study at the seminary. They have approached the bishop and rector about doing so, but both have refused to … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point in the sermon you heard for your Sunday Mass of precept? Let us know what it was. (Yes, I am indeed trying to get you to listen carefully and remember longer. I am also aware … Read More
Nice kitty!
The next time you see Felix your house cat line up on something and pounce, picture yourself in the forest with this kitty.





















