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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
“Oaf For A Day!”
It might be time to revive the old label “Oaf For A Day!” It hasn’t been used for a while. The increasingly useful Ad Vaticanum has it. Latest: Bishop Peter Kohlgraf of Mainz has criticised the Vatican’s June 17th Ruling … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1679
Welcome Registrant: Catherine Larker I can’t not post this: Among all the clips that have gone around on X, this one remains a favorite that simply refuses to get old ? pic.twitter.com/oREg2PDEKd — Enezator (@Enezator) August 10, 2026 White to … Read More
This has me concerned because personnel is policy.
This has me concerned. Now we read this. SCANDAL: Pope Leo appoints pro-female ordination and pro-LGBT consultors to the Vatican’s religious life dicastery. Appointees include Sister Patricia Murray, who has pushed women’s priesthood and addressed the “pain” and “woundedness” of … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1678 – scorn
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
Look! Up in the sky!
Not only is 12 August the height of the Tears of St. Lawrence… Put August 12 in your phone now. Genuinely. Before sunrise, six planets spread across the sky. Afternoon, the eclipse. After dark, the Perseids Meteor shower. Four events … Read More
The trip so far… Chicago… conference… etc.
UPDATED 10 Aug – way down at the bottom Originally Published on: Aug 8, 2026 UPDATE HERE about laptop FIRST post with travel woes – include TWO mis-landings and hours of delays and missed flight HERE After the horrible beginning, here … Read More
Daily NOT-Rome Shot 1677
From The World’s Best Sacristan™. Welcome Registrant: Neto White to move and mate in 4. NEW: Vatican CDF (Now DDF) consultation in 2016 rejected Medjugorje as supernatural — yet Pope Francis later green-lit devotion anyway. Italian journalist @DavidMurgia has published … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 11th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 19th Ordinary)
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
A bishop starts a new TLM, another takes one well-settled one away
Leo signaled to the French bishops that he wants them to be good to people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. The Bishop of San Angelo, Texas, starts a new TLM “motivated by the salvation of souls”. And now we … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1676 – good news
HELP! 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 … Read More
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