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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day: “Eugene: I suppose that it has been the custom in Italy going way back. In fact, in older rites books…”
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- on ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical: “And, I still have not attempted to read it, but Joseph Pearce’s article, “Why Pope Leo Quoted Tolkien’s Gandalf” -…”
- on ROME 26/6 – Day 76: Brooklyn Bound: “Father, as you head back to the U.S. — I won’t say “home” because listening to you lately, somehow I…”
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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
ASK FATHER: Must Holy Water fonts be flowing all the time?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Quick question. In our diocesan review today for a new church I’ve designed, our progressive director of liturgy said that we are REQUIRED to have flowing water in our font according to the authority of the … Read More
Decades of liturgical abuses and sacrilegious Communions and, suddenly…
…. ironic, much? The background image is that of a “pest doctor” or “plague doctor”. Pest, refers especially to Bubonic Plague. The mask with the long beak-like nose contained herbs that cut down the smell of mortality and also were … Read More
Wherein buttinski @austeni publicly insults @latinmassuk over his suggestion of Spiritual Communion in time of contagion. @fatherz subsequently rants.
An unavoidable periergos of the extreme papalotry gang, Austen Iveriegh today sticks his nose in where it has no business in Tweet intended to denigrate Joseph Shaw of the UK’s long-established Latin Mass Society. I am a dues paying member of … Read More
Coronavirus, Redemptionis Sacramentum 92, Communion on the Tongue and You
From Redemptionis Sacramentum. This 2004 Instruction of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments is in force now. [91.] In distributing Holy Communion it is to be remembered that “sacred ministers may not deny the sacraments to … Read More
12-14 June 2020, Guadalajara, Summorum Pontificum, liturgy conference with Card. Burke
In Guadalajara, Mexico, there will be a conference about Sacred Liturgy, called Summorum Pontificum. 11-14 June. It will be held by the FSSP in Mexico. Card. Burke will be there. This will be their third annual conference. There will also be … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Help the tornado ravaged TLM church in Nashville!
UPDATE: Also, https://assumptionchurchnashville.org/on-line-giving ____ I had intended to post about this earlier, but – grrr – I lost the other email. Here we go! I received this note, however, just now from a reader whom I’ve met a few times … Read More
ASK FATHER: Can we have a more synodal church and married priests like the Eastern Orthodox?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: While many pushing for “synodality” and married clergy have nefarious intentions, is it possible that moving in this direction might open the door for reunification with the Eastern Orthodox churches? Is it possible to have a … Read More
Posted in Both Lungs, Synod
Tagged married priests, orthodoxy, St. Gregory Nazianzen, Synods
14 Comments
14 Comments
In the wake of my Holy Land Pilgrimage: in come the slippery Jesuit and aging hippies
Here’s an interesting note in the wake of my entirely TLM pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On the very early morning when we departed our residence in Jerusalem we had Mass at Midnight, using a proper for pilgrims leaving the … Read More
The slipperiness of Jesuit homosexualist activist @JamesMartinSJ
At Complict Clergy there is a recording of Jesuit homosexualist activist James Martin speaking almost candidly at the perennially insane, infamous, renegade parish St. Joan of Arc in my native Minneapolis. That place is crazy weird. Just the venue for … Read More
Posted in Jesuits, Pò sì jiù, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Drill
Tagged Fr. James Martin SJ, homosexualist agenda, slavery
21 Comments
21 Comments
REMINDER: Pre-order the new book by Card. Sarah and Benedict XVI: From The Depths Of Our Hearts
Before the official 12 March release, today I received from the publisher a hardcover of the new book by Card. Sarah and Pope Benedict XVI. US – pre-Order with a discount HERE FRENCH HERE There is AT LAST a UK link … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day: “Eugene: I suppose that it has been the custom in Italy going way back. In fact, in older rites books…”
