Continue the Rome shot posts?  I dunno.

Continue the Rome shot posts?  I dunno.

However, seeing that there are a couple of interesting items.

First, from the Archbishop of the Military Services in these USA.

It’s basically just because crazy Andrea Grillo hated us so much he found a vessel through Roche and Francis.

Summorum Pontificum was the perfect solution, and no wonder, since it was the fruit of decades of reflection of the brightest man to occupy the throne of Peter in the past couple of centuries, Joseph Ratzinger.

— Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) November 11, 2026

Rorate got it right, too. It’s not just that they fear and hate the traditional Rite, they don’t like the people who want it.t>

If you have some time… please make the time… these items are very much worth the effort.

Leave aside the cat videos for while and watch or listen to this interview of Prof. Thomas Pink – very smart – with someone from the UK’s Catholic Herald. Pink makes distinctions about what “official theology” is in the Church in contrast to “dogmatic theology” and what theology today’s Curia might have and what theology the… SSPX might have.

Fr. McTeigue on US politics as “blood sport”.

Also, Andrea Gagliarducci’s Monday offering is important to review because, as we know, “personnel is policy” HERE

Not just St. Martin of Tours today. Each day has multiple saints, some virtually forgotten.

Blessed Evgeni of the Sacred Heart, also known as Eugene Bossilkov or Vikentij Bosilkov, was a Bulgarian Passionist priest, bishop, and martyr. Born Vincent Bossilkov on 16 November 1900 in Belene, Bulgaria, into a Latin-rite Catholic family in a predominantly Orthodox country, he entered the Passionist Congregation as a youth and took the religious name Eugene of the Sacred Heart. He studied in Passionist houses in Belgium and the Netherlands, made his profession of vows in 1920, and was ordained a priest in 1926. He later earned a doctorate from the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome with a thesis on the thirteenth-century union of Bulgaria with the Holy See, then returned to Bulgaria to serve as a pastor. On 26 July 1947 Pope Pius XII appointed him Bishop of Nicopolis. Under the communist regime that took power after the Second World War he refused demands to establish a national church independent of the Holy See. Arrested, he endured physical and psychological torture and was subjected to a show trial. On 11 November 1952 he was shot to death in Sofia. Before his execution he stated that he died willingly for the faith and remained faithful to God, the Church, and the Pope. Pope John Paul II recognized his martyrdom in 1994 and beatified him on 15 March 1998. His feast day is 11 November.

— Father V (@father_rmv) November 11, 2026

White to move and mate in 4. Too easy, really.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

Seeing that it is Veteran’s Day…

David Sonnier’s book

Rites and Wrongs: One Man’s Struggle for the Latin Mass in the U.S. Army

Today in Budapest, a city I would very much like to visit, there is starting the Total Chess World Championship Tour.  This is a new thing, chess’s answer to the triathlon. Created by Norway Chess and approved by FIDE, it combines Fast Classic, Rapid, and Blitz to crown a single FIDE World Combined Champion. The Budapest pilot’s group stage begins today, November 11, after Magnus Carlsen won yesterday’s opening blitz event, which established the tiebreak rankings. The first official title will be awarded during the full tour, which launches in March 2027.  Budapest’s 24 players are divided into four groups of six. Each plays ten Fast Classic games, with 45 minutes per player plus 30 seconds per move. A win earns three points and a draw earns one. In the two-day knockout matches, each day brings four Blitz games, two Rapid games, and one Fast Classic game. The longer games carry more weight, so the quickest player still has to hold his own when there’s time to think.

My guy Wesley So is in the mix.  Go Wesley!   And have paprikas csirke and uborkasaláta while you are there!

Maybe I should make something Hungarian while the tournament is on. I haven’t done that for a while.  Hmmm….

And now…

Because it is the month when we pray for the dead….

Are students even doing the readings?? https://t.co/YsffYmi8ro

— MedievalistMatt (@medievalistmatt) November 7, 2026