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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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“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
- REVIEW: New biography of the late and truly great Michael Davies
- WHEREIN FR. Z offers a new project: rescue, restore a spectacular set of vestments
- ROME 26/5– Day 43: Res clamat Domino
- If “full communion” with Rome requires full acceptance of ALL of Vatican II, then, by that standard, many Catholics are lacking “full communion”
- “The law speaks of brotherhood and fatherhood. Many priests experience managerialism and abandonment.”
- Be sure to take in Diana Montagna’s “Substack” today
- ROME 26/5– Day 42: Keeping up my end
- ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy
- St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!
- Three Precious “Moments of Sharing” in Fr. Z’s Neighborhood
- I must post this. And then I have a mind experiment for you.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 5th Sunday OF Easter)
- ROME 26/5– Day 39 & 40: A True Scoundrel
- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo): The prayer’s very word order reveals God’s love – UPDATED/CORRECTED
- WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): “The smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God”
- ROME 26/5– Day 39: Evviva San Giuseppe!
- ROME 26/4– Day 38: Jasmine news (not the Jesuit)
- Bishop wants to ordained married men because “pastoral emergency”. Could you repeat that?
- Report from the ground: Charlotte
- “I am the good shepherd”
- ROME 26/4– Day 37: trading places
- Fr. McTeigue asks for a novena of reparation for the Anglican … thing… in Rome
- ASK FATHER: Is religious liberty in “Dignitatis humanae” the same as before the Vatican II? Of SSPX relevance. Wherein Fr. Z also makes an impassioned plea to Leo.
- ROME 26/4– Day 36: Seeing red
- ROME 26/4– Day 35: Theatre of the Absurd
- ROME 26/4– Day 34: A good example
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th Sunday OF Easter)
- ASK FATHER: If the Canon is inaudible, would it be invalid?
- ROME 26/4– Day 33: Here’s a little Latin for you
- ROME 26/4– Day 32: What a day
Let us pray…
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: Creation and Environment Stuff
The Federalist’s reaction to the “Hell’s Bible” hit piece against TLM-going Catholics
A couple weeks back Hell’s Bible (aka NYT) published an airy yet vicious attack piece about Catholics who attended the Traditional Latin Mass. Apparently, if you go to the Vetus Ordo, you might be a white right-wing extremist of some … Read More
Amazonian and Pachamama skúbala in annual Vatican CHRISTMAS CONCERT -VIDEO
More Vatican lunacy. There was a concert in the Paul VI Audience Hall for Christmas. On YouTube. It was broadcast on Mondovisione. In fact, it was a fundraiser for something earth saving. The broadcast was punctuated with pictures of deforestation, … Read More
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Card. Müller: “the real danger to today’s humanity is the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief”
Was was alerted to an item in German. It seems that Gerhard Ludwig Card. Müller gave quite the sermon last Saturday in Rome for the ordination of Michael Sulzenbacher, SJM. The whole text in German is on kath.net Here are … Read More
URGENT: Romanian Greek Catholic Doctor’s speech to Synod! Members (all) get a serious talking to!
I saw this at Voice of the Family. You can find it other places too. The entire Synod of Bishops (and the fancy people running it) received a marvelously cold slap in the face with the wet towel of real … Read More
Implore “pardon for the sins committed against the world”? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
The Church will observe a “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation” on 1 September, as has been the custom in the Orthodox Church for some time. Pope Francis, in his letter about this event to Card. Turkson (President … Read More





















