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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Grabbed by the neck. Famous poem by Yeats and a vision of heretic Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A talk by Michael Hitchborn at the Coalition for Canceled Priests Conference
Longtime readers here know of my love of poetry. Hence, from the beginning this talk by Michael Hitchborn at the Coalition FOR Canceled Priests grabbed my attention, for he began with William Butler Yeats and his most famous work. He … Read More
Synodality (“walking together-ity”): It is the thought world of rotary phones, eight-track tape players, and Hans Küng. It is “Muskrat Love” and Charlie Curran all over again.
There is a terrific read at Catholic World Report today by Larry Chapp. It is a retrospective which is actually a contemporary diagnostic. What is going on today, we’ve seen before in germ. Today, however, the germ has hatched out into something … Read More
WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Be all that you can be!
Today’s Collect – for Mass and the Office on this 8th Sunday after Pentecost – is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors and thread to … Read More
WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time:
We have been cheated of the beauty of our Catholic worship in Latin, which is our common patrimony. In fact, the swindle is far deeper. People have been denied the opportunity to learn Latin, which pretty much every more or … Read More
22 July – St. Mary Magdalene
In 2016, the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by the great Robert Card. Sarah, issued a decree making – for the Novus Ordo, mind you – what was the Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene into … Read More
VIDEO: Dr. Janet Smith at the Coalition For Canceled Priests conference
I debated within myself attending this conference held near Chicago by the Coalition For Canceled Priests. This talk makes me wish that I had. NB: Coalition FOR Canceled Priests not Coalition OF Canceled Priests. That means YOU.
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From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 23-07-17 – Ministries meeting & Fr. Tommy
July 17th, 2023 Dear Diary, Ministries meeting. Not my favorite thing except for the nice catered lunch – today strogenough. Delicious. The first two hours was just droning by the various departments including all the ones with the furniture and … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 744
If anyone has one of these (photo below, not above), and it’s just sitting around unused, please give it to me. Thanks in advance. 1959 Cadillac Coupe deVille 800 horsepower 502ci A little less dire would be… with only 500 … Read More
FEAST DAY! 21 July 1773 – Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuits! – UPDATE!
22 July ’23 Pace naysayers… it was a day to celebrate. It is a great anniversary today. Today, 21 July, in the year of grace 1773, Pope Clement XIV of happy memory, issued his Bull by which he suppressed the Jesuits. … Read More
VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 03
This isn’t a photo post but it is highly instructive. A reader sent a link to a page with 24 images of post-war, 1949 catalogue of bathroom fixtures and decorations. Yes, there is such a thing. What I found most … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/10-11 – Day 33: All Souls: “Bruised: appliances tied to the Internet I recall something I read a few years ago, that someone hacked a guy’s…”
