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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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PatS on 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.: “Don’t rule #6 out too quickly, but what is triggered to happen has been arming for the past 12000 years……”
Vir Qui Timet Dominum on 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.: “If and when Summorum 2.0 drops, I hope that the pope will also take a serious look at the Novus…”
Lurker 59 on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “@OKC Catholic Dad —>I’d imagine that if we experienced the liturgical abuses of the Latin Mass pre-VII (which were happening…”
Rob83 on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “Reading comprehension is a problem across the board in many areas. I take issue with the way the SSPX has…”
WVC on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “@OKC Catholic Dad You seriously think there were dancing priests and inflatable flappy men and dancing clown Masses prior to…”
roma247 on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “I read the entire article that is referenced here, and was deeply troubled by it. As with so many things…”
Kevinbell on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “With respect Father, there is no ambiguity or miscommunication here. The SSPX quote literally says “the New Mass is evil…”
Ben on Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies: “And don’t forget the ridiculousness of the Cardinal Radcliffe’s statement on blessing/not blessing recently. Can’t wait for a censure from…”
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Recent Posts
- 19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.
- Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies
- My View For Awhile: Westward
- SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 6th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 14th Ordinary) 2026
- Daily Rome Shot 1654: another jackass
- IMPORTANT expert canonical exam of the DDF SSPX Decree: It does NOT excommunicate SSPX priests or faithful who attend Masses, or change the practical canonical position of faithful seeking SSPX sacraments.
- WDTPRS – 14th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): from dust to freedom
- Card. Koch, Prefect for Christian Unity, makes observations about the SSPX
- WDTPRS – 6th Sunday after Pentecost: Collect – FIND THE CHIASM!
- My View For Awhile: Philly on the 4th
- ASK FATHER: Lay people, SSPX and excommunication
- Daily Rome Shot 1654: facade
- The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons
- The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX
- Daily Rome Shot 1653: Pius X’s caption call
- What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.
- 2nd Joyful Mystery: The Visitation (Traditional observance 2 July)
- The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.
- SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops
- A study in contrasts
- ASK FATHER: Female heads of dicasteries
- Leo wrote to the SSPX. The SSPX wrote back. Fr. Pagliarani’s response.
- Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul
- Prayer for the SSPX and Leo
- ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins
- Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”
- Daily Rome Shot 1652: tiara
- ASK FATHER: If God love us infinitely why does He not speak to us directly?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026
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- 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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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: August 2024
Daily (not this time) Rome Shots 1092
The tomb of St. Matthew in Salerno. Welcome new registrant: AgapeLove I have been on the road, travelling to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Wisconsin. Card. Burke says hi! Meanwhile, in chessy news, I regret the the … Read More
VIDEO: A message of encouragement from Card. Burke to Fr. Z’s readers with an invitation
Card. Burke was kind enough to record a message to you, my readers. He also extends an invitation which I hope you will take both to heart and to action. HERE
5 August: Our Lady of the Snows
In Rome on 5 August 358, there was a miraculous snow fall to indicate the location of the Basilica to be built in honor of the mother of God. On the anniversary, white rose petals fall from the ceiling of … Read More
Daily Rome Shots 1092
Welcome registrant: ICH Churchy news: I just read that there is ONE seminarian for the Archdiocese of DUBLIN. One seminarian. Chessy news: In the team tournament in Astana, there was a strange moment in a game between the highly unlikable … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 11th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 18th) 2024
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 11th Sunday after Pentecost, … Read More
This is the Vatican reaction…
Here it is. Le Saint-Siège a été attristé par certaines scènes de la cérémonie d’ouverture des Jeux Olympiques de Paris et ne peut que se joindre aux voix qui se sont élevées ces derniers jours pour déplorer l’offense faite à … Read More
My View For Awhile: Anti-antinomianism
I bring to you attention a new book published by Emmaus Press, a branch of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. On The Demonic by Archbp. Fulton J. Sheen. US HERE – UK HERE (not yet) I brought it … Read More
Daily Rome Shots 1091
This is completely crazy! Take in Nepo’s expression as he watches Magnus have his … hat handed to him. Rapport stuns Carlsen (and Nepomniachtchi)! ?? Richard Rapport beats ?? Magnus Carlsen in a crucial win, helping ‘Chessy’ defeat ‘WR Chess … Read More
Replacing the stained-glass window of Notre-Dame de Paris
At The Catholic Thing there is a thoughtful piece about the project and mindset to replace the windows of Note Dame in Paris with some 21st century … efforts. The idea fills me with horror, as it does the writer, … Read More
(A few) bishops want an apology for the Parisian Blasphemy
Not enough. It’s a start. Please, more bishops? BREAKING: 27 prelates (including Cardinal Burke, @ArchCordileone, Bp. Schneider & Cozzens & Paprocki @diospringfield) issue letter to #Olympics committee re the opening ceremony, demanding they “repudiate this blasphemous action and apologize to … Read More





















