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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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- Vir Qui Timet Dominum on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-06 – Chester And Bp. Dozer: “Plot twist: “observations about that thing” is referring to Chester taking the cathedra in the last entry.”
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Yearly Archives: 2018
ASK FATHER: I’m I obliged to give money for Peter’s Pence?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: To what extent are we as Catholics obligated to provide donations to Peter’s Pence? Can we abstain out of principle while still donating to our local parish/diocese and other charitable endeavors? You are not obliged to … Read More
ASK FATHER: annulment of a same-sex “marriage”?
From a reader, wondering about the veracity of the following… DICITUR: “Current Catholic canon law requires that if someone remarried in a heterosexual marriage seeks confirmation/baptism having previously been in a legally recognized same-sex marriage, they need an annulment of … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point or two made in the sermon you heard at the Holy Mass to fulfill your Sunday obligation? Let us know what it was. For my part, for this Feast of the Most Precious Blood, I … Read More
Splendid photos of a beautiful 1st Solemn Mass celebrated ‘coram episcopo’, in cappa magna
We of the Tridentine Mass Society of the Diocese of Madison have posted some splendid photos of the 1st Solemn Mass of the new Fr. Peter Lee, ordained by the Extraordinary Ordinary, Bp. Robert C. Morlino for the aforementioned diocese. … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Semper Paratus, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged 1st Mass, Bp. Robert Morlino, D. Madison, The Extraordinary Ordinary, TMSM, Tridentine Mass Society of Madison
9 Comments
9 Comments
30 years after the Ecône Consecrations: SSPX Bp. Fellay interviewed
29 June 1988. French Archbp. Marcel Lefebvre consecrated bishops without pontifical mandate. He, thus defied John Paul II who had personally appealed to him, create an ambiguous state for the SSPX which he founded, and incurred with the bishops who … Read More
Posted in SSPX, The future and our choices
Tagged 1988, Archbp. Lefebvre, Bp. Bernard Fellay, SSPX
28 Comments
28 Comments
PRESS RELEASE from Fr. Frank Phillips of @SJCantius
I’ve been following and posting about the horrid situation of Fr. Frank Phillips, CR, founder of the Canons of St. John Cantius and now-former pastor of the homonymous parish in Chicago. My previous post HERE Phillips accomplished astonishing things there … Read More
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Archd. Chicago, Canons of St. John Cantius, Fr. Frank Phillips
13 Comments
13 Comments
Please use my link when shopping online
I just ordered a pair of new daily wear Bates boots using my own Amazon search box, which you can see near the top of the side bar. I simply typed in the words Bates 5″ leather boot and I … Read More
Speaking of homosexuality and Jesuit homosexualist activists…
Speaking of homosexuality and Jesuit homosexualist activists… From The Catholic Thing we have: De-homosexualizing the American Church He makes a good argument about the urgent need to de-“gay” the American Church. His solution is dead wrong. From Crisis we have: … Read More
Posted in Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Drill
Tagged Fr. James Martin SJ, homosexualists, homosexuality
26 Comments
26 Comments
ASK FATHER: Priest tells woman not to wear veil at Mass
From a reader… A woman was told by her priest to NOT wear her veil to Mass. It was blessed and so she didn’t know if she was required by obedience to not wear it, or since because it was … Read More
Keep your eyes and ears open for “lived reality” language
At Fishwrap there are a couple things today which exemplify the starting point of the Left. First, I note a revealing comment by the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left. MSW wrote, inter alia, about the recent death of … Read More
Vir Qui Timet Dominum on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-06 – Chester And Bp. Dozer: “Plot twist: “observations about that thing” is referring to Chester taking the cathedra in the last entry.”
