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- Fr Jackson on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “People in 1054 did not realize that a definitive rupture had taken place. They assumed the excommunications were simply another…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “It’s interesting how I’m being accused of detraction today (by anonymous moralizing posters) when I simply state what were proudly…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Lurker59 The details I mentioned were not detraction both because the events were quite public at the time (Fr Pagliarani…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@Fr. Kelly Just to clarify – I was responding to others saying the FSSP refused a bishop which was offered…”
- on SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops: “A big AMEN ! What he says about Bishops is beautiful and humble. I see none of this in some…”
- on ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins: “I have the same question as Cornelius. Somebody, please discuss.”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@WVC I too have just reread the May 5th Protocol and, even to the FSSPX, there is no promise of…”
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Category Archives: ASK FATHER Question Box
QUAERITUR: Chapel veils revisited – What color?
From a priest: A quick question: a woman approached me wondering if there was anything inappropriate in wearing a white veil as an older, married woman. She was told by another parishioner that white is only proper for young women … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Lighter fare
Tagged chapel veils, head coverings, women
63 Comments
63 Comments
Card. Burke on women covering their heads in church
The great Canonical Defender, Dr. Ed Peters has an interesting note on the use… here we go again… about women wearing head coverings in church. He has something from Cardinal Burke in the topic. But first, in a nutshell here … Read More
Question about Pope Benedict’s Holy Thursday adoration at Altar of Repose
If any of you watched the Holy Father’s Mass at the Lateran, and perhaps recorded it, could you do me a favor? I noticed that the Pope’s time of silent prayer before the Altar of Repose after Mass was especially … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged altar of repose, holy thursday, Pope Benedict XVI
10 Comments
10 Comments
QUAERITUR: Can we attend non-Catholic weddings?
From a reader: Is it wrong if not in fact sinful to attend the weddings and funerals of non-Catholics? For as Pope Pius XI stated in his encyclical treating on Christian unity, Catholics are never to participate in schismatic or … Read More
QUAERUNTUR: Of several issues, personal and other, with a few rants
I have far too many emails in my box about several points. I hope with this I can put them to rest. The resignation of Amb. Kmiec. What do I think? I think what I wrote before about the poor … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged abortion, beatification, CDF, Doug Kmiec, John Allen, LENTCAzT, podcasts, Spain
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QUAERITUR: Using the new, corrected translation before Advent in private concelebration.
From a priest: Dear Fr. Z, I’d be interested in your thoughts on this: The new translation of the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal (Ordinary Form) becomes the official text for Mass in the United States on the first … Read More
QUAERITUR: Eucharistic Prayer for Masses with Kiddies
From a reader: Masses at our local Catholic grade school use Eucharistic Prayer II for Masses with Children, in which many congregational responses are added, even during the Institution Narrative! Please tell us these are going away with the new … Read More
QUAERITUR: Inserting a ditty into the reading of the Passion
UPDATE: A reader in a comment below shows that I was wrong about my answer. But I am going to claim that I am also right, depending on which country you are in. It was inconceivable to me as I … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Gospel, Palm Sunday, Passion
45 Comments
45 Comments
QUAERITUR: Holy Thursday altar of repose in the basement where coffee is usually taken
From a reader: Is there any guidance about where the Altar of Repose on Holy Thursday should be located? For many years at my parish, it was located at one of the side altars in the Church (we have five … Read More
QUAERITUR: I haven’t been to confession for 10 years! I don’t know what to do!
Here is a question from a reader I answered some time ago. But it is now Saturday of Passiontide. Sure there are parishes this evening where you can find a priest hearing confessions. Go. To. Confession. From a reader: I … Read More
Fr Jackson on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “People in 1054 did not realize that a definitive rupture had taken place. They assumed the excommunications were simply another…”
