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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/10– Day 26: Rube Goldberg: “Did no one see the DATE? Really?”
Sue in soCal on ROME 26/10– Day 27: Vigil: “I got the suspenders joke. I don’t get chess in the least little bit. Ever.”
JabbaPapa on You knew this had to happen: “This is to actively and purposely seek towards a Major Schism.”
maternalView on You knew this had to happen: “I see this playing out like girl altar boys, blessings for homosexuals, communion in the hand, etc. They won’t change…”
jhogan on You knew this had to happen: “I think the fable, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen, applies here. Also, they are desperate so they…”
The Bruised Optimist on You knew this had to happen: “What about my “demand” that the hierarchy tell these deep thinkers to go spit?”
Ave Maria on You knew this had to happen: “There are those in high places who openly admit they want and are striving for some different (protestant form) of…”
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- ROME 26/10 – Day 28: Natalis Dies
- You knew this had to happen
- ROME 26/10– Day 27: Vigil
- Rush: on …what’s going on now
- ROME 26/10– Day 26: Rube Goldberg
- My Annual St Crispin’s Day roundup with Henry V speech!
- ROME 26/10– Day 25: King things
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Feast of Christ the King (N.O.: 30th Ordinary)
- Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2026… *sigh*… Vatican Bars Annual TLM Pilgrimage from ENTERING St. Peter’s Basilica
- ROMAE, die XXIII Octobris, A.D. MMXXVI
- 23 October – St. Severinus Boethius: “A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”
- ROME 26/10– Day 22: Colors and courses and Coco
- ROME 26/10– Day 21: fountain
- 21 Oct – St Gaspar del Bufalo – “Hammer of Freemasons”
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-10-12 – Brainstorming!
- Not a huge fan, but the question is dead on right…
- ROME 26/10– Day 19-20:
- Are things as bad as the seem? Auctores scinduntur.
- ROME 26/10– Day 17-18: How very sad
- WDTPRS – 21st Sunday after Pentecost: My strengths support yours. My sins weaken us all.
- A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.
- ROME 26/10– Day 16: Baronius… and traitors
- ROME 26/10– Day 15: munch
- ASK FATHER: “Are the faithful who go to the SSPX being sacramentally forgiven in confession, or not?”
- 15 October (4 Oct 1582) St. Teresa of Avila, Calendars, Chess, and You
- ASK FATHER: “Is it possible for the structure of the Church to be the ‘wrong’ church, while the ‘true’ Church is elsewhere?”
- ROME 26/10– Day 14: Great scissors
- ROMAE, die XIII commorationis, A.D. MMXXVI: Campana nos admonet aeternitatis.
- ROME 26/10– Day 12: “A church that cannot worship must be entertained, and …”
- This is what I get when I procrastinate… UPDATED
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Category Archives: Biased Media Coverage
UPDATE on the dust up in the Diocese of Madison and YOUR signs of support
Some time ago I wrote here about the sad situation in Platteville, WI, in the Diocese of Madison where His Excellency Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino is bishop. As you may remember, some liberals got their knickers in a knot … Read More
How to skew a story with images
On the site of The Guardian there is a ridiculous piece the clueless Victoria Bekiempis about the CDF’s reforming efforts regarding the Leadership Conference of Women’s Religious (LCWR – a subsidiary of the Magisterium of Nuns, indeed, the Nuns gone WILD!). … Read More
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Liberal Media Bias: Networks refuse to report on Catholic suits against the Obama Administration
From Newsbusters by Brent Bozell with my emphases: The evening news broadcasts all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom. The May 21 editions of ABC’s World News and NBC’s Nightly News refused … Read More
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Mary Ann Glendon explains why Bishops and Catholic institutions are suing the Federal Government
I’ve been watching the coverage of several news outlets about the Catholic lawsuits filed against the Obama Administration. The coverage demonstrates that a lot of people misunderstand what is going on. For example, we must NOT argue for the freedom … Read More
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Dissecting a Hell’s Bible op-ed defense of the Magisterium of Nuns
From Hell’s Bible comes this op-ed: Nuns on the Frontier By ANNE M. BUTLER [professor emerita of history at Utah State University] Fernandina Beach, Fla. THE recent Vatican edict that reproached American nuns [Incorrect in point of facts: It was … Read More
Michael Novak on “A Different Priestly Scandal”
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! From the site of Michael Novak: A Different Priestly Scandal By Michael Novak — Sunday, 13 May 2012 Burning injustices rest on our consciences, and will continue to burn us until we correct them. … Read More
The most recent rubbish from the WaPo’s E.J. Dionne. Fr. Z responds.
From WaPo: I’m not quitting the church By E.J. Dionne Jr. Published: May 13 [Mother’s Day] Recently, a group called the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) [Coincidentally based in ultra-liberal Madison, WI, where the great Bp. Morlino has been placed … Read More
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MediaReport.com on the National Catholic Fishwrap’s “baseless and sordid swipe at the Catholic Church”
From MediaReport.com: National Catholic Reporter Smears Arch. of Los Angeles in Bogus Abuse Story MAY 11, 2012 BY THEMEDIAREPORT.COM The left-wing National Catholic Reporter newspaper [aka The Fishwrap] is suggesting that a newly discovered 27-year-old letter somehow may be evidence … Read More
ABNORMAL: the new “normal”
From the Catholic League: THE NEW ABNORMAL May 10, 2012 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: The new normal is yesterday’s abnormal: what was seen as bizarre, if not literally crazy, is now seen as normal. The converse … Read More




















