Welcome to the 13th edition of News of the Church.
It’s 2 June 2025 and it is the Monday after Ascension Thursday and we commemorate Sts Marcellinus and Peter. Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which years after the Civil War a former confederate officer scratches out a living as a gazetteer. He travels from town to and town and reads aloud stories from different newspapers. People pay a dime .10c a head to listen, which is about $2.50 today. The idea caught my imagination and here I am, a gazetteer.
An audio “gazette” of Catholic things.
00:14 – Init
01:00 – June and the Sacred Heart
10:25 – News from Outer Space
16:10 – Connecting Pentecost and Cheesecake
21:26 – News from Gower Abbey
26:14 – Frequency of Confession
28:46 – SSPX opines about Pope Leo XIV
35:00 – Exit
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Is this your voice fr? After many years of reading this blog somehow I imagined a different voice.
It is the same voice as on his other casts.
I really enjoyed this one. Thank you.
I very much enjoyed News of the Church, especially the last piece on the SSPX perspective which was insightful and honest. Thank you Fr. Z!
Just goes to show how many of my podcasts Fr. Reader has heard!
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The “best” Fr. Z voice was when he read, recorded and explained the sonnets of Shakespeare during the attempt to shut down the world…otherwise know as the pandemic. ;-)
Thanks for that! That was a fun project. Those videos should still be floating around in the interwebs.
When I read your blog, I can sometimes hear your voice reading it in my mind.