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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Football Player: “Maybe the coolest thing I’ve ever been a part of was a Latin Mass in London.”
Since I am a displaced Minnesotan, a reader thought that this bit of news might be of interest. NCReg has an interview a player on Minnesota Vikings, Kevin McDermott, both a mackeral-snapper and a long-snapper. Here is the bit that caught … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Extraordinary Form
15 Comments
15 Comments
A Pontificate Of War
The Nazi Reich feared and hated the Catholic Church and its chief pastor, Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII. The Reich had a special unit of ex-priests which worked to undermine the Church and do intelligence analysis. One of this unit, Albert … Read More
Fr. Z’s Kitchen – Illness Edition
I’ve been fighting off a nasty bug – including bronchitis – for a few days now. Oatmeal in the morning, clementines and chicken broth and antibiotics in the evening. Yum. I haven’t had much of an appetite or energy. … Read More
Offensive ASPCA commercial
There are a lot of offensive TV commercials. Most of them are intellectually offensive and offenses against good taste. The ASPCA has one right now that is offensive intellectually, from the point of view of taste, and also on religious … Read More
WDTPRS Baptism of the Lord – He must increase, we must decrease
On the SIXTH of January, Epiphany, we prayed liturgically with the three mysteries of the Lord’s life revealing Him as divine: the adoration of Jesus by the Magi, the changing water to wine at Cana, and His baptism by John in the … Read More
TLM: Evangelize or else close and die.
Some of you are writing to me today about a piece at the National Catholic Register by my friend Msgr. Charles Pope in Washington DC about the future of the TLM or Traditional Latin Mass. Pope contends that a ceiling … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization
Tagged attendance, evangelization, Msgr. Charles Pope, TLM
110 Comments
110 Comments
Synod’s Final Report: “Deceptive in a very serious way… Something here is not right.”
At my old stomping ground The Wanderer (I was a columnist for 11 years) there is an interview with His Eminence Raymond Leo Card. Burke. They discuss the Synod of Bishops and its “Final Report”. Here is a bit of … Read More
Posted in One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Synod
Tagged Card. Burke, Familiaris consortio, Synod of Bishops
14 Comments
14 Comments
Z-Swag In The Wild: DESTRUCTION!
Every once in a while I get photos of Z-Swag “in the wild”. This came in today with the message: Someone ripped it off the car, while parked at […]. It went down fighting! (Note the tough shards.) The sticker … Read More
Is Christianity becoming a religion filled with cowards?
Go read the piece at Crisis: Has Christianity Become a Coward’s Religion? Sample: In such times it is right to wonder whether Christianity really has become a religion filled with cowards. Christianity is not a coward’s religion, for its truth … Read More
LEPANTO INSTITUTE: National Catholic Reporter MUST be Banned by US Bishops
At Lepanto Institute there is a call to the US bishops to “ban” the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap). In the post there a good summary of the sort of dreck that flows from that open pipe. They make a … Read More
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