Daily Archives: 26 July 2023

INTERVIEW: One of my profs in Rome Dr. John Rist with Ed Pentin: The Catholic Church Could Be Facing a Crisis Worse Than the Arian Controversy of the 4th Century

Ed Pentin, surely Rome’s best English language commentator on Church matters these days, has an interview with Dr. John Rist, a professor at Cambridge and also in Rome at my school, the Patristic Instititute Augustinianum.  I had several courses from … Read More

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The persecution of traditional Catholic faithful continues: TLM forbidden at St. John Vianney’s shrine in France

Remember: It’s not just the rites that they fear, because they make them uncomfortable, it’s the people who desire those rites whom they really distain. It’s the people. The TLM is effectively banned at the Shrine of Ars. How is … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 748

  Welcome registrant: jo_c White to move. Mate in 2. NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others. Your use of my Amazon affiliate link is a major part of my … Read More

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26 July: Fr. Jacques Hamel, martyred 7 years ago in France

Interrupted while saying Mass at his parish church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, the 85-year old priest struggled to repel his two 18-year old attackers with his feet. “Go away Satan!”, he repeated. Fr. Jacques Hamel was murdered, in odium fidei, a martyr to … Read More

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