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ASK FATHER: Considering the chaos surrounding ‘Traditionis custodes” could we say that, in effect, it is no law at all?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Some years ago I studied for graduate theology with several distinguished theologians, one of whom was chancellor for Card. Burke in Lacrosse. In those Canon Law classes, he made the point over and again that the … Read More

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ASK FATHER: I failed to do my confession penance. Now what?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: I went to confession the other day to get back into the state of grace with the plan to get my spiritual life back in order after slacking and falling into habitual mortal sin during the … Read More

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ASK FATHER: Should displaced Catholics attend the Novus Ordo? Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I begin with his peroration… Perhaps the bishops are not thinking about the liturgy at all, but about the people – whose devotion they envy, and whose moral conservatism they detest. Is that it? Are they more to be punished … Read More

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ASK FATHER: It is mortal sin for parents to send their children to public schools?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: With the recent dustups involving education curriculum in the United States I feel this is an important question to ask. Some on social media have suggested that, with what’s going on public schools these days, it … Read More

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ASK FATHER: Quo vadis, Novus Ordo?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: I pose my question about the Novus Ordo Missae in homage to the now famous question, “What is a woman?” It seems to me that the Consilium took a rib from the 1962 Missal and instead … Read More

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ASK FATHER: The words of absolution during confession in Latin?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Given that Traditionis has prevented the faithful in some areas from continuing to experience the old ritual forms for the Sacraments, the question arose; what is the approved Latin for the Ordinary Form prayer of absolution … Read More

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ASK FATHER: Selling freely obtained tickets to Francis’ Mass in Canada

From a reader… QUAERITUR: Pope Francis is coming to my city in Canada and having a large Papal Mass at the football stadium. Tickets to attend are being given away free, but now on our Archdiocese’s Facebook page people are … Read More

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ASK FATHER: How can we help priests who are in “hot water” because they are traditional?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am close with a couple priests who are in “hot water” because of all of this nonsense going around. One a Jesuit and the other a diocesan priest. Both are amazing and holy priests who … Read More

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ASK FATHER: Pork butt for the Sacred Heart

From a reader… QUAERITUR: So .  . . I have to smoke some pork butt today for a get together tomorrow. It will send sweet odors heavenward, low and slow and very very tempting for us mortals still stuck on … Read More

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ASK FATHER: Does the humeral veil contradict in the use of Eucharistic ministers?

From a reader… QUAERITUR: When the humeral veil is used does it not show a contradiction in the use of Eucharistic ministers? I’m really interested in trying to form an argument against Eucharistic ministers, by way of something everyone seemingly … Read More

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