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- Charivari Rob on Daily Rome Shot 1660 – A day that will live in INFAMY: “All 20, and some corollaries, though I would the image with #5 makes it a trick question. When did ANY…”
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- on Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit): “We tried permanent daylight savings time in the 1970s. It failed. https://washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1660 – A day that will live in INFAMY: “I hit all 20, and did so easily. All my family and neighbors would have had no problem. I would…”
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Category Archives: Hard-Identity Catholicism
Wherein Fr. Z rants at the beginning of a New Year of Salvation
I’ve noted with interest a number of reviews of the past year regarding the Church. Not a few saw the last year as a “year from hell” or an “annus horribilis”. Sure. That’s not unfair. It was a very difficult … Read More
More thoughts about upcoming Pont. Comm. “Ecclesia Dei” document or suppression
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the implications of a new Motu Proprio by which the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” might be suppressed because the “pastoral emergency” for which it was created is no long present. It’s brief would, … Read More
Priests and bishops who are probably going to Hell
There is a good piece at Crisis today about the Sacrament of Penance. It touches on many issues, including availability of confession times, some poorly formed confessors who don’t acknowledge certain sins as sins, and the lack of support some … Read More
TERRIFIC! School Choir accomplished, back to back, Solemn Roman and Eastern liturgy!
This is impressive by anyone’s standards. The wonderful Lyceum school in Cleveland, has a great choir. They sang for a Pontifical Mass with Card. Burke and then a Divine Liturgy with Bp.Milan Lach. Read about it HERE. I want to … Read More
ASK FATHER: Why should a Protestant convert and join the Catholic Church?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Why should a Protestant like me convert and join the Catholic church, given the current corruption that appears to reach all the way to the top? (This is not an idle question. I was ready to call a … Read More
The Oath: Every Bishops’ Aaron and Hur
Consider what is entrusted to a bishop. Consider how he, like everyone else, struggles with the world, the flesh and the Devil. Consider that, though fortified with the graces of the sacrament of orders and defended by the holy angels, … Read More
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ESOLEN: 50 Years of Effete and Infertile Liturgical Culture Is Enough
Anthony Esolen, author of the new book Nostalgia (BUY IT NOW! US HERE – UK HERE) has a column describing the dangerous roll of the dice it is to find a place to go to Sunday Mass when away from home … Read More
The effect of the Extraordinary Form on vocations to the priesthood
From a reader… In recent weeks I recall reading here and elsewhere some encouraging speculation and projections about the numbers of vocations produced by traditional vs. non-traditional types of communities. I’ve discovered that my parish seems to support those projections. … Read More
To Prelates: “Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining.”
I’ve just spent a few minutes in a hard-hitting piece about The Present Crisis at Crisis. Here are a couple of outstanding paragraphs. The apostle Paul certainly saw the redemptive side of scandal and division: “For there must be factions among … Read More
Charivari Rob on Daily Rome Shot 1660 – A day that will live in INFAMY: “All 20, and some corollaries, though I would the image with #5 makes it a trick question. When did ANY…”
