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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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“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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- Daily Rome Shot 1406
- My View For Awhile: 2nd City Edition – ARRIVED!
- WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): True freedom
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- 17 July ’25: Dutch Card. Eijk of Utrecht warmly commended Card. Burke for how endured criticism from inside the Church (including some in particular) – VIDEO
- 2 August until midnight: “Portiuncula” Plenary (or Partial) Indulgence
- 1 August: Blessed M. Stella and her Ten Companions, the Martyrs of Nowogrodek
- Fr. McTeigue on “blik” and “walking together”
- Daily Rome Shot 1405 – 1st Friday
- “If Newman were on faculty at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, he’d be fired.”
- 31 July – St. Ignatius of Loyola – Please, Please, PLEASE, intercede for your spiritual sons!
- Daily Rome Shot 1404
- Daily Rome Shot 1403
- Father Carlos Martins Cleared of All Charges
- “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
- Card. Ratzinger called Marcel Lefebvre ‘the most important bishop of the 20th century’
- Daily Rome Shot 1402
- News of the Church 17 – 27 July 2025
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 7th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O. 17th Sunday)
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- Archb. of Detroit fired two distinguished seminary profs. Why? – UPDATED – Canonist Ed Peters also fired!
- Daily Rome Shot 1400
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- ASK FATHER: Can a Pope incur a “latae sententiae” excommunication which is reserved to the Apostolic See? What would happen then?
- Daily Rome Shot 1398
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 07-12-25 – Lunch with Fr. Tommy
Let us pray…
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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Daily Archives: 21 November 2018
“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”
Canonist Ed Peters has a good reminder about excommunication at his fine blog. HERE Bottom lines: It isn’t as easy to get excommunicated as one might think. Excommunication, it isn’t easy as thinking that someone ought to be excommunicated. “You … Read More























