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- KerryH on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Adoramus te Christi, et benedicimus tibi, quia per Sanctam Crucem tuam, redemisti mundum.”
- on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “You could even call it Spinal Tap Synodality: “I don’t think the end can be assessed, as of itself, as…”
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- on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Surely it has been said before, but how can such clerics of any rank articulate such views which eradicate the…”
- on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “I’ll go along to our geographic parish if they have synodling meetings and put my tuppence worth in for the…”
- on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “I was in the Czech Republic a couple weeks ago. So the TLM doesn’t meet today’s needs? Well then neither…”
- on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Taken to its logical conclusion, I have a few questions for this bishop: 1. Is there any point to having…”
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Category Archives: GO TO CONFESSION
ASK FATHER: I’ve been such a sinner. Is striving for holiness a waste of time?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: d’ve lived a pretty sinful life and reverted back to the faith. Since then I have been striving to become a saint, but I’m starting to get the impression I’m wasting my time. I’m a member of a … Read More
ASK FATHER: Frequent confession to overcome pornography
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, I am a new Catholic and I’m struggling mightily to overcome a past life filled with pornography. Sometimes I fail the day after a confession. Some Priests have told me not to go more than … Read More
SSPX reacts to Pope Francis concession for the Year of Mercy
For the Year of Mercy Pope Francis has (in an indirect way) granted to the priests of the SSPX the faculty validly to absolve penitents in routine sacramental confession. HERE Under normal circumstances, the priests of the SSPX do … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SSPX
Tagged Bp. Fellay, confessions, faculties, SSPX, Year of Mercy
21 Comments
21 Comments
After Paris… How do you feel these days? Safe? Less safe?
I don’t know about you, but over the last year or so I have become increasingly disciplined regarding my situation awareness. When I get out of my car, I look around to see where everyone is. When I walk out … Read More
In other news…
There was a big earthquake. From Japan Times: Magnitude-7 quake sends tsunami toward Kyushu; Sendai atomic plant checking for damage A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake off Kyushu early Saturday produced small tsunami but no major damage, authorities said. The U.S. Geological … Read More
Prayers for the dead and wounded and – God help them – hostages in Paris
Prayers for the dead and wounded and God help them – hostages in Paris and friends and families of the same. Ce soir nous sommes tous Français. Coordinated attacks by terrorists at multiple locations in Paris may be something along the … Read More
Posted in Four Last Things, GO TO CONFESSION, Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices
Tagged Paris, terrorists
55 Comments
55 Comments
On The Road To Salvation… a mobile confessional!
This is very cool. Fr. Z kudos to the one who came up with this. From KATC TV in the Diocese of Lafayette. Someone converted an ambulance into a mobile confessional. Be sure to watch the video. TEXT: LAFAYETTE … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, GO TO CONFESSION, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged ambulance, confession, sacrament of penance
14 Comments
14 Comments
Hard views of Pope Francis from Spectators
I bring to your attention a couple hard-hitting pieces not for the purposes of depressing you, but informing you. I’ve advised elsewhere that if this pontificate, or perhaps “parenthesis”, is getting you down, then stop paying so much attention to … Read More
Posted in Francis, GO TO CONFESSION, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Damian Thompson, George Neumayr, parenthesis, Pope Francis
70 Comments
70 Comments
Rome – Day 3: Synod Free Zone, Abbatial Mass and – Fr. Z rants
I have been – mostly on purpose – in a Synod Free Zone in the last few days, even though I am at Ground Zero. Yes, I am hearing a lot. No, I am trying not to let it … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Be The Maquis, Cri de Coeur, GO TO CONFESSION, Hard-Identity Catholicism, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Olympian Middle, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
34 Comments
34 Comments
KerryH on Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point? : “Adoramus te Christi, et benedicimus tibi, quia per Sanctam Crucem tuam, redemisti mundum.”
