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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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- 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.
St. John Eudes
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- Phil_NL2 on ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “All those who claim it can’t/shouldn’t/musn’t be done should be gently – or not so gently – referred to the…”
- WVC on ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “I don’t know who Ultrarunner is, but someone quickly send him a comforting felt banner before he hyperventilates. In other…”
- Ultrarunner on ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “The opening melody of Dies Irae, “The day of wrath, that day, will dissolve the world in ashes.” It’s eerily…”
- PostCatholic on ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “This was a very instructive rant! I have to admit that I mostly only know this prayer through its place…”
- amenamen on From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-03-28 – A bold statement for foot washing: “A subtle advertisement? Heh, heh, heh! He said “some blog or other.” https://share.google/7wh3ezMur0M33TRRz”
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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Recent Posts
- ROME 26/3– Day 15: foods and views and shoes
- ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: Grounding for the “harrowing of Hell”
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-03-28 – A bold statement for foot washing
- ROME 26/3– Day 12-13-14: whew (lots of photos)
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Easter Sunday
- PASCHALCAzT 2026 – 47: Easter Sunday – Joy
- “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity – UPDATED
- ROME 26/3– Day 11: Good Friday
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-01 – A scare
- 3 April: Feast of St. Richard of Chichester. A comment about science.
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 45: Good Friday – Christ and our moral suffering
- ROME 26/3– Day 10: Thursday in Holy Week
- ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 44: Holy Thursday – Why we eat the victim
- ROME 26/3– Day 09: Wednesday in Holy Week
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 43: Spy Wednesday of Holy Week
- Following years of abuse Knights of Malta to formally split with the Holy See
- ROME 26/3– Day 08: Tuesday in Holy Week
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 42: Tuesday of Holy Week – Peter’s Passion
- ASK FATHER: Judas and the 300 denarii v. the 30 pieces of silver
- WDTPRS – Tuesday in Holy Week: Our grasp on Christ, His grasp on us
- ROME 26/3– Day 07: Monday in Holy Week
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 41: Monday of Holy Week – All tenderness
- ROME 26/3– Day 06: Palm Sunday
- Tradition … “safeguard the faith and combat error”
- What the Bishop of Charlotte is doing – UPDATE
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 40: Palm Sunday – GO TO CONFESSION
- ROME 26/3– Day 05: staying in
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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
U of Minn-Duluth hosts Holocaust event including aggressively anti-Catholic elements
From the Catholic League about a matter of spectacularly crass anti-Catholicism at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. The U of M is a land-grant institution funded by taxes. Therefore, public money is being spent on this anti-Catholic display. Furthermore, an institution … Read More
CATHOLIC BLOGGERS! ACTION ITEM! POLL ALERT! Time Magazine on Card. Dolan
Bloggers! Please pick this up. You don’t have to link to me. Just DO IT. Solidarity! The dreadful TIME Magazine (dreadful when it comes to anything about the Catholic Church) is having a poll and you should participate. From their … Read More
John Allen’s outstanding talk on the world-wide war on Christians
I have been waiting for the video of the closing “liturgy” of the L.A. Three Days of Darkness … Religious Ed Congress. In looking for it, I found a video of a talk by my friend the nearly ubiquitous John … Read More
ACTION ITEM ALERT! Pres. Obama, through a minion, attacks Catholic chaplains once again.
Everyone should know what the Obama Administration is doing to Catholics this time. I received my most recent copy of the magazine/bulletin of the Archdiocese for Military Services called Salute (that link will bring up a pdf of the article I am … Read More
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Of SNAP, the Catholic League, Card. Dolan and fair treatment
I noticed on the blog of His Eminence Timothy Card. Dolan, who in his capacity as President of the USCCB has been called on to defend the rights of the Church in the midst of a deepening kulturkampf, a comment … Read More
Anti-Catholic NPR show host mocks Benedict XVI at tax-payers expense
I saw this on NewsBusters: NPR Game Show Host Unloads the Pope Jokes, Starting with He’s a ‘Gay Icon’ By Tim Graham NPR’s weekend game show “Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me!” usually saves most of its topical humor for supposed … Read More
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Anti-Catholic bias and attacks on Holy Church from without and from within.
This is from Media Report: The Usual Suspects: NY Times, Dissident Priest Support Anti-Catholic SNAP With Falsehoods, Attacks on Church Anti-Catholicism in Action: The New York Times, Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, and SNAP The New York Times is again shilling … Read More
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The stupidest question ever asked a bishop by a newsie?
If this isn’t the stupidest question I have ever heard a newsie ask a bishop, it is near the top of the lift. CNN’s Kyra Phillips asks: Phillips: So, Bishop, times are changing. Views are changing. You’re changing your tactics even. … Read More
Pro-abortion bigot group attacks Catholics in Hell’s Bible paid ad. Catholic League explains.
From the Catholic League: FRONTAL ASSAULT ON CATHOLICISM MARCH 9, 2012 BY ADMIN Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows: Never has there been a more vicious anti-Catholic advertisement in a prominent American newspaper than the one in today’s … Read More
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Prof. Peters examines development in the case of denial of Communion to aggressive lesbian
The Canonical Defender, Prof. Ed Peters, who does not have an open combox on his fine blog In The Light of the Law, has opined about the case in the Archdiocese of Washington DC, now infamous, wherein a lesbian Buddhist … Read More





















