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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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Monthly Archives: May 2026
ROME 26/5– Day 52: lace imitates God’s beauty enlaced in flowers
On this Feast of St. Ubaldus the sun came into view at 5:47. We will lose sight of it again at 20:27. Our ears will not hear in the Curia the un-rung Ave Maria Bell at 20:45. But it does … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 51: munch
The Eternal City became noticeably brighter with the rising of the sun at 5:48. The light will diminish significantly at 20:26. The Ave Maria Bell is in the 20:45 cycle right now. It is Feast of St. Jean Baptiste de … Read More
Thoughts about the collision of the Holy See and the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I have had emails asking about my thoughts and predictions for the SSPX and Holy See debacle. Firstly, I am deeply saddened. I worked in the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” from its early years. I saw the birth and growth … Read More
ASK FATHER: Question about the impacts of Excommunication
From a reader… QUAERITUR: If Father Joe Schmoe were validly ordained a bishop, and then immediately excommunicated for having been illicitly so ordained, does he actually have any of the abilities/authorities that bishops are supposed to have? If Deacon John … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 50: It’s THURSDAY not Sunday
On this Ascension Thursday and the Feast of St Michele Garicoïts, the Sun rose at 05:49 and it will set at 20:25. Pushed by the ever later sunset, the Ave Maria Bell, which you know know all about (more than … Read More
“Declaration of Catholic Faith addressed to Pope Leo XIV by the Superior General of the SSPX
On the website of the SSPX we find a “Declaration of Catholic Faith addressed to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV by Fr. Davide Pagliarani Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X” It was posted today, 14 May … Read More
WDTPRS: Ascension Thursday – Hope informs our trials
Let’s have a look at the Collect for the Mass of the Lord’s Ascension… on this THURSDAY. COLLECT – (1962MR): Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut, qui hodierna die Unigenitum tuum Redemptorem nostrum ad caelos ascendisse credimus; ipsi quoque mente in … Read More
Ascension Thursday and Lordly Feet
There are many images of the Lord’s Ascension to heaven through history, and rightly so. This is probably the greatest of all the Feasts of the Lord and for our own humanity. Imagine! Our humanity is seated – RIGHT NOW … Read More
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