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Monthly Archives: July 2026
Archbp. of Milwaukee reacts to the SSPX consecrations. Fr Z comments.
One bishop after another are issuing letters to their flocks in the wake of the SSPX episcopal consecrations. Uniformly, they repeat a factual error in the “Explanatory Note” about the faculties of the SSPX to receive sacramental confessions and validly … Read More
WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: God can neither deceive nor be deceived
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1657 – new life
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, and now also my late mother’s place. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1656 – different stuff
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WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark
This week, the 15th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo calendar, we have a good example of the dramatic difference between the old, Obsolete ICEL version we suffered with for decades, and the Latin with the Current ICEL version. The … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can I be godparent of the child of a Lutheran couple?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My 2nd cousin who was raised catholic and is now a lutheran (along with his wife) are having a child in a few months. They have asked me to be a godparent of the child. As … Read More
Day 3 & 4 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
The conference has been great. It is so pleasant to meet up with friends and also to meet young and older priests who have bene reading this blog, some for a very long time. Mike Aquilina has written some 70 … Read More
FOR PRIESTS: Wherein, prompted by this conference, Fr. Z posts something for CONFESSION
I’m at the annual conference for priests held by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. They have these three times a year. I’ve been going for year and wouldn’t miss it. There is great fraternity and the presentations, on … Read More
Day 1 & 2 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
215 priests from 85 dioceses and 4 countries. Pretty good turn out. Lots of familiar faces and old acquaintences. It’s great to be here an catch up. John Bergsma is giving us the structure of the Book of Psalms … Read More
19th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end.
Today is the 19th anniversary of the release of Summorum Pontificum, the saintly Pope Benedict XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for those who desired what they ought to have had all along: freedom to use the Church’s traditional Roman Rite. That endured – … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 05: “I’m glad that the phone is getting so much attention!”
