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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Daily Rome Shot 426, etc.
Daily Fervorino HERE (tech problems today). WORDLE
YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Registered here or not, will you in your charity please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Let’s remember all who … Read More
More fresh hell from Chicago
Sometimes, when I get a text, I have shivery feeling that it will be more bad news. “What fresh hell is this?”, I quote to myself. “Sheesh, Fr. Z, try to catch up!”, some of you are chuckling. Sometimes, I … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 425, etc.
Daily Fervorino from live Mass HERE WORDLE 11 Latin… happened to be one of my guess words. That calls for some….
REMINDER: Super new book from Anthony Esolen: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John
I’m reposting this because… wow. What a book. This book just keep rewarding and rewarding. In the Beginning Was the Word: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John US HERE – UK When Anthony Esolen and Angelico Press team … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 424, etc., and a memory
I shot this photo on the Feast of the Cathedra of Peter in 2006 from my window. Today’s Fervorino from daily Mass. HERE WORDLE 10
Daily Rome Shot 422, etc., and an homage to a great priest
I learned that my friend, the amazing Luigi Card. De Magistris died recently, days short of his 96th birthday. He was a legend. My office window in the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio was open to the interior courtyard of the building. … Read More
At Crisis…. Screwtape to Wormwood on “A Certain Diocese”
At Crisis, the piece in question begins thusly. My emphases… My dear Wormwood, I want to applaud you with regard to the work you have undertaken in one of the Enemy’s foremost dioceses in the Americas. For far too long, … Read More
Official communiqué of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
As we wait for the next shoe to drop – something from the Congregation for Religious – there is this official news from the FSSP Official communiqué of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Exceptionally cringeworthy Fr. Jackass and his final “rock on” guitar blessing. (NB: CHICAGO…. CUPICH….) – UPDATE
UPDATE: 22 Feb 2022 It’s a good thing some of those videos were downloaded first. And I imagine that some folks in Chicagoland will drop in from time to time, with their phone cameras, just to enjoy the show. Originally … Read More
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
