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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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- 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”
- Insult to the Mother of God in Spain (video). But remember! The TLM is the problem!
- This is spot on… awful but spot on.
- VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 06
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 12th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 20th Ordinary)
- Daily Rome Shot 1683
- WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): snatched up into invisible love
- Daily Rome Shot 1682
- QUAERITUR: Have we brought Jesus Christ closer to the people entrusted to us?
- Patristic Rosary Project – 4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption
- Daily Rome Shot 1681 – cartoons old and less old
- 15 August – Assumption – Blessing of herbs, flowers and fruit
- This reminds me of something.
- Some good news in Canada
- A message from Card. Burke to readers of Fr. Z’s Blog – August 2026
- Daily Rome Shot 1680
- The Big Lie of Mr. Cricket
- My View For Awhile: The City of Big Shoulders
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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.
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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: February 2018
ASK FATHER: Are “butt baptisms” valid?
From a priest… QUAERTUR: Are partial immersion baptisms valid? Where the baby is dipped up to the waist 3x, with valid words of baptism spoken. Here’s the deal. The “proximate matter” of baptism is ablution. This means physical contact of the … Read More
TIVERTON, RI – 28 Feb – SOLEMN TLM with @fatherz and @iPadre
For those of you near Tiverton, RI (and anywhere in Rhode Island is near Tiverton by default) tonight there will be a Solemn TLM at 7 PM (with deacon and subdeacon) for the close of the parish mission which I have … Read More
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28 February 2013
Five years ago today we watched the helicopter take off. Posts HERE Say a pray for Benedict XVI. He gave inestimable gifts to the Church in his too short pontificate.
Card. Sarah has frightened the libs… again. The vicious attacks begin.
Summoning the nastiness of which liberals are duly known, Rita Ferrone demonstrates how mean-spirited a lib can be in piece penned for Commonsqueal. She attacked Robert Card. Sarah because he has called for a rethinking of Communion in the hand. … Read More
PARODY SONG ALERT: A Pirate Looks at … Solemn Masses
I received a note from one of you readers, who was channelling his inner Zuhlio. Frequent reader, occasional poster. I’m stationed up at ___ Air Base waaaaay up in ___, and we’ve been stuck in doors due to a winter storm. While … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made during the sermon you heard for this 2nd Sunday of Lent? Let us know. Right now I have a mission at the legendary Fr. Finelli’s parish.
ASK FATHER: USCCB urges Catholics to call officials about DACA. If I don’t, do I sin?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: As you are probably aware, the USCCB has declared this Monday, February 26 to be a call-in day for DACA, and is urging Catholics to call their congressmen in support of the DREAMERs. On some other Catholic sites people … Read More
ASK FATHER: Priest forbids a deacon to wear a dalmatic
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Can the priest celebrant of Mass tell a deacon tell a deacon to not wear a dalmatic at Mass? Some people think it best that a deacon wear a dalmatic for a higher degree of solemnity but not … Read More
Wisconsin High School student invents classroom door stop
From Gateway Pundit: A Wisconsin high school senior and Army recruit Justin Rivard invented a door stop that prevents killers from entering classrooms. Justin created the “JustinKase” two years ago when he was just 15. The device does not allow … Read More
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Card. Sarah: return to Communion directly on the tongue while kneeling
A combination of factors has lead to erosion of understanding of the Eucharist and reverence for the Eucharist. Included in these factors is a near universal insistence that everyone go to Communion at every Mass and, of course, lay ministers … Read More




















