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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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- ASK FATHER: My territorial parish is awful. I’ve tried. But I have my family to think of. Should I say or should I go?
- Daily Rome Shot 1693 – MASSIVE COOLNESS
- Are we caught in a culture of pervasive lies? VIDEO
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-07-22 – Fr Kevin caught embezzling
- KaBOOM – Fr. Joseph Gelineau: “The Roman rite as we knew it no longer exists. It is destroyed.”
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 14th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 22nd Ordinary)
- Daily Rome Shot 1692: Farsighted Roman
- ASK FATHER: Is the priesthood dominated by men who are varsity-level players or 3rd and 4th stringers?
- 29 August – The Beheading of John the Baptist: Corruption exposed and the “brass ring” revealed
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome’s wide open spaces
- Kudos to the Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
- Daily Rome Shot 1691: When Augustine and his mother Monica were reunited after 1617 years
- Roundup of books on St. Augustine of Hippo
- ASK FATHER: Priests tells me to say Act of Contrition outside the confessional, afterward
- ASK FATHER: Is the Collect from Leo’s “Mass for Creation” heretical?
- 27 August – St. Joseph Calasanz
- Over at Substack… I’m taking baby steps there… I posted about Jesuit Thomas Reese’s latest idiocy at RNS
- Daily Rome Shot 1690: without shame
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria
- “People reject the Church because she speaks against the sins they love” – St. Augustine…. NOT! Wherein Fr. Z corrects and then rants.
- A four letter word
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?
- Daily Rome Shot 1689: Oaf For A Year!
- Daily Rome Shot 1688: Let’s use the word for these people… evil
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
- “These, Reverend Father, are no mere words, nor lifeless thoughts, but they are arrows shot from the strong bow of God Himself…”.
- PODCAzT – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs
- Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!
- Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”)
- ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.
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- 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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Monthly Archives: April 2020
Nutty stuff that happens around Easter, right on schedule.
The nutty stuff comes out with the full moon and with Easter. It’s like clockwork each year. This year we have a deeply wrong offering from the loony National Sodomitic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) by lesbian Mary Hunt, student of the heretic … Read More
ASK FATHER: How do we fulfill our Easter Duty in this time of pandemic lockdown?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hi Father – my question is about how to fulfill the Easter duty during this time of quarantine. Does a spiritual communion during a “parking lot mass” on Easter Sunday count? Also, our pastor has insisted … Read More
LIVE STREAM – Holy Saturday Tenebrae – 0930 CDT
We will sing Tenebrae for Holy Saturday at 0930 CDT. Live stream HERE. Also check out LatinMass.live
ASK FATHER: Change the shape of Hosts to make them easier to administer in COVID-19 time
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Would changing the shape of a host be allowed in order to decrease the chance of the priest touching a communicant’s tongue? Would an oval shaped host, for example, make it easier for the priest when … Read More
LIVE STREAM – Good Friday Tenebrae – 0930 CDT
We will sing Tenebrae for Good Friday at 0930 CDT. Live stream HERE. Also check out LatinMass.live
Archbp. Viganò asks all priests and bishops to recite the Exorcism on Holy Saturday, 1500h Rome time #exorcismus2020
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has asked that all the bishops and priests in the world to recite from the Ritule Romanum Title XI, chapter 3, the “Exorcism against Satan and the Apostate Angels” (the long for of the prayer to St. Michael … Read More
Your Holy Thursday Sermon Notes 2020
I am sure that many of you watched a live stream of a Holy Thursday Mass. Was there a good point made in the sermon? Let us know what it was! Let’s build each other up and feed each other … Read More
Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) on the YACOD (aka YET ANOTHER Commission on Deaconettes)
The Fishwrap has an article replete with wailing and hand ringing. In a nut shell (a pretty good description of what’s inside the wrap that is that publication) they lament that there are members of YET ANOTHER Commission on women … Read More
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Brick By Brick: UK bishops back live-streaming of Extraordinary Form during Holy Week
I found this very encouraging at the Catholic Herald. If only more bishops remembered not to forget the Extraordinary Form. Bishops back live-streaming of Extraordinary Form Holy Week The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) in Warrington will provide a … Read More
Holy Thursday – Tenebrae and Mass
Alas, we cannot do the pre-55 rites this year, but we will sing Tenebrae, not in the evenings but in the morning because of our evening schedule. We want to live stream in the mornings and evenings. HERE




















