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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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YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “hfspur: It’s not that difficult. The key is clarified butter in a frying pan over high heat. Clarified butter has…”
- on ROME 25/5– Day 36: Caponata: “This is my take: O God, through the unwavering sacramental silence of your holy Martyr, Saint John, you have adorned…”
- on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “It would be a challenge to not eat that entire ribeye in one meal. White pepper and oregano. – I…”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “This apparently is traditional, see Greg Dipippo’s discussion on New Liturgical Movement. https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2025/05/palestrinas-motet-for-papal-coronations.html”
- on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “That steak looks delicious. How do you cook a ribeye to look like that in a small Rome apartment?”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “i’ve been following Fr. Dismas on twitter for a long time. very worthwhile follow.”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “Voces in aurem sui multae susurrant. Orate ut Una tantum attenderet.”
- on Peter.. keys.. net… coat of arms… regnal name. Yeah.: “I would enjoy larger or if it had an emerald this size of a Roman strawberry…It needs to be really…”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “Humour is of course cultural. Where I come from, such a statement does not conform with the respect which should…”
- on 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): St. James, anger, and your: “In our Mass for last Sunday Father preached on how we are all ambassadors for God. Just as an ambassador…”
- on ROME 25/5– Day 38: light and emotion: “Angolotti alla norcina looks interesting, once I found out what it was (the picture looks a bit like creamed chipped…”
- on Peter.. keys.. net… coat of arms… regnal name. Yeah.: “That ring had to be designed, approved, and made in less than ten days, it is not an off the…”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “The photo where His Holiness is looking at the ring is worthy of a caption competition. “It’s smaller than I…”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “First heard “Not my circus, not my monkey” from Fr. Chad Ripperger. “That’s not your monkey.” Apropos “Fr. Z swag,”…”
- on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: ““Circus meus totus simul et simiae.” “Vidi cuncta quæ fiunt sub sole, et ecce universa vanitas et afflictio spiritus. Perversi…”
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Monthly Archives: November 2015
SSPX reacts to Pope Francis concession for the Year of Mercy
For the Year of Mercy Pope Francis has (in an indirect way) granted to the priests of the SSPX the faculty validly to absolve penitents in routine sacramental confession. HERE Under normal circumstances, the priests of the SSPX do … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SSPX
Tagged Bp. Fellay, confessions, faculties, SSPX, Year of Mercy
21 Comments
21 Comments
Cyber Monday Online Shopping?
It’s the legendary “Cyber Monday”. I like to get my Christmas shopping done early, so I don’t have to think about it when things get really busy. May I ask you, please, if you are going to shop online with Amazon, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Father denies Communion to girl who was “rebaptized”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My daughter attended a Christian Youth Camp this summer with her girl friends. She asked me if she could renew her baptism vows in Lake [removed]. [Renew “vows” or “promises”? We do that at Easter. But… in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Hard-Identity Catholicism
Tagged baptism, schism
2 Comments
2 Comments
Fr. Z’s Voice Mail: A wish for a dying seminarian – ACTION ITEM! #wookies4wes
It has been a while since I have posted about my voice mail. I enjoy your voice mail messages! FIRST, about the seminarian who is dying from cancer. [UPDATE: Okay, now she doesn’t want her voice mail here. Go figure.] What an … Read More
Posted in ACTION ITEM!, Four Last Things, HONORED GUESTS, Pray For A Miracle, Seminarians and Seminaries, Urgent Prayer Requests, Voice Mail
Tagged seminarian
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ASK FATHER: Use of the Advent Preface in the TLM, Extraordinary Form
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hello Father, Happy Advent! Today, our priest didn’t use the Preface for Advent which my hand missal says was promulgated (along with one for the Holy Eucharist, All Saints, and the Dedication of a Church) in … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday Obligation? Let us know. I said Masses in both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Form today, and wound up giving different sermons – as the spirit … Read More
Blue Vestments: wherein Fr. Z rants
The use of blue vestments during Advent is pretty much cliché now, so cliché that not even the aging hippies are clinging to it. Here’s my annual rant about the use of blue vestments in the Roman Rite. At this … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Parody Songs, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged ADVENT, antinomianism, blue vestments, cerulean
41 Comments
41 Comments
“Admonish the sinner” reappears
A while back I posted something about a curious lacuna in Misericordiae vultus which listed some of the spiritual works of mercy but which omitted “admonish the sinner”. HERE However, it now does in the online version in English HERE. 15. […] It … Read More
Giving thanks, with Mass, for benefactors and donors
This morning we had a Norman Rockwell like Mass at St. Mary’s. It would have been nice to have a couple photos. We used the texts for the day, of course. On civil holidays I also like to add Archbishop … Read More
Of scapulars, devotions and Russian jet fighters
Some people are quite disciplined in the matter of wearing a scapular. This comes from Latin scapulae, shoulder blades. Scapulars are garments, usually associated with religious habits, which fall down from the shoulders, mostly over the rest of the habit. … Read More
ASK FATHER: No Catholic Mass on Sunday. Are we obliged to attend Orthodox Divine Liturgy?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My question comes from what my professor said in class and it doesn’t seem correct. In class, we were told that if a Catholic was in Russia [and there being no Catholic Church; either Latin or … Read More
High praise for Card. Sarah from Archbp. Gänswein
Ed Pentin has a good note at the National Catholic Register: Archbishop Gänswein Praises Cardinal Sarah for His Prophetic Witness Cardinal Robert Sarah’s boldness in proclaiming the Gospel and resisting the Zeitgeist is a prophetic witness reminiscent of a 5th … Read More
UPDATE: Bishops of England, Wales v. SSPX? Request for review of Good Friday Prayer for Jews
UPDATE 24 Nov: Fr. H has updated his post about the attack on Pope Benedict’s prayer for the Jews on Good Friday waged by the bishops in England and Wales. Fr. H asked me to update you. The BC [bishops conference] … Read More
Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter!
Some news about your planet. From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Earth Might Have Hairy Dark Matter The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged dark matter, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
42 Comments
42 Comments
1st Bishop appointed for an Anglican Ordinariate
From a Press Release of the Anglican Ordinariate of St. Peter for these USA HERE POPE FRANCIS NAMES FIRST BISHOP TO LEAD CATHOLICS NURTURED IN THE ANGLICAN TRADITION Bishop-elect Steven Lopes to be introduced at press conference today in Houston … Read More
Sam Gregg on the rise of young, fearless, dynamically orthodox Catholicism… in FRANCE!
Here is another – stop what you are doing and read this – article. At Catholic World Report there is a piece by Sam Gregg about what’s going with a rise in France of … Catholicism. It is packed with interesting … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged field hospital, France, Sam Gregg
20 Comments
20 Comments
UK READERS: LONDON EVENTS
To my friends and readers in the UK, there will be an event at St. Patrick’s in London (Soho Square) where my friend Fr. Alexander Sherbrooke is the PP. I receive this from the parish’s director of evangelization In light of … Read More
Pope Francis’ letter to “the best hermeneutical interpreter of the Second Vatican Council.”
Here is something interesting. His Holiness Pope Francis has written a letter to Archbp. Agostino Marchetto… again. Marchetto has helped to break the monopoly of the “hermeneutic of discontinuity” types when it comes to the interpretation of Vatican II. the … Read More
Notre Dame U. v. Fr. Miscamble, NDCatholic.com
At the blog of my friend The Motley Monk there is a follow up about a priest at Notre Dame University, Fr. Wilson Miscamble, CSC, who attempted to help Catholic students remain Catholic while at Notre Dame. Fr. Miscamble was involved with a … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “hfspur: It’s not that difficult. The key is clarified butter in a frying pan over high heat. Clarified butter has…”
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