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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Pange lingua gloriosi
Some people are freaking out a little in the wake of the news that the Holy Father decided to restrict the role of the Congregation for Divine Worship in the preparation of liturgical translations. Now the bishops conferences will be pretty much … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged digitus, finger, healths, propitiation
8 Comments
8 Comments
My View For Awhile: Anniversay Edition
I’m on my way to Rome for the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage. I’m taking happy thoughts of gratitude to Pope Benedict along with great hope for many more future benefits from this monumentally important gift to the Church. Meanwhile, spoke by … Read More
The Eye of Irma
Please continue prayers for those in the path of the hurricanes. The eye of Irma. Explanation via APOTD: Explanation: Why does a hurricane have an eye at its center? No one is yet sure. What happens in and around a … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, PRAYER REQUEST, Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm
Tagged hurricane
5 Comments
5 Comments
How Pope John Paul II once saved a fallen priest from despair, homelessness and alcoholism
I have come to dread interviews with Popes. I have from the beginning of the interviews decades ago. I generally read them anyway because, well, I have to, don’t I. The recent book interview / conversation with Dominique Wolton released … Read More
Catholics ARISE! Form base communities of resistance! Bring about permanent revolution!
Over at NLM there is a highly amusing, and in an odd way comforting, note to help us put the new Motu Proprio on translation (inter alia) into perspective. Greg DiPippo posted an excerpt from Shawn Tribe’s very first NLM post about … Read More
And now for something completely different…
… we turn to the blog of the OED. If you don’t know what the OED is… well… look it up. The lexicographers were asked about their favourite words. Some of them are humdingers… which is itself a good candidate for … Read More
ACTION ITEM! 9 September is #IBAPABD – International Buy A Priest A Beer Day!
You don’t want to miss this. It’s too important. Saturday 9 September is International Buy A Priest A Beer Day! You will want to obtain and deliver beer to your priests. I will share some Norcia Beer with the guys … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, ACTION ITEM!, Lighter fare
Tagged beer, IBAPABD, International Buy A Priest A Beer Day
13 Comments
13 Comments
New Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio changes law about preparation, approval of liturgical translations
Today a new Apostolic Letter Motu Proprio was issued under the Latin title “Magnum principium”. In various languages HERE (including the Latin text). There’s a lot to say. I can’t now be exhaustive. Also, I want to read slowly the … Read More
Posted in Francis, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill
Tagged liturgical translation, Magnum principium
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57 Comments
KANSAS 15-17 Sept: Conference – Introduction to the TLM
There is a promising conference in – I think – Kansas. The advertising is a little confusing, since they are talking about it on the site of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Littleton (Denver), CO where my friend Fr. … Read More
Speaking of storms on the horizon: Motu Proprio on approval of liturgical translations
My spies tell me that something is up in Rome and that, tomorrow, we may see some … sub-optimal news in the the form of a document. Pray that this is wrong. ___ UPDATE: I’m starting to get calls about this. … Read More
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