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- george on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “@hayden I have the feeling that you are fine demanding obedience when it’s to something you either prefer or don’t…”
- on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “Really? That’s all you see? I have no particular brief for the SSPX, but I can not understand why so…”
- on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “@haydn seeker Wow. Glad to know charity is no longer the highest of the virtues. Actually, it seems to no…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates: “Ad orientem eliminates many problems for the priest, especially the need to do performance art.”
- on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “It’s beautiful, but without obedience it turns to ash in my mouth. All I see is ego, superbia and pride.…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates: “My “solution” overlooked White’s option to interpose its Knight or Bishop after 2. . .Q-d2+.”
- on 23 June – Vigil of St. John – solstices and snails, bonfires and witch burnings: “It is delightful to see people who know the Guidonian Hand at work! Why am I so lazy about learning…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1648: contradictions: “About sacred spaces, our current bishop and our last bishop began having the ordination Masses (priests and deacons) at some…”
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Category Archives: Hard-Identity Catholicism
ASK FATHER: Could Latin be suppressed? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
In a post yesterday, I wrote about the possibility that, before too long, the TLM might wind up being the “last Mass standing”. Why? Demographics are burning quickly and the present day hierarchy has only thrown more accelerant on the … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants
More and more I’ve been musing, under the shadow of shifting demographics and the Church’s self-devastation wrought by those in the stratosphere of power, about the short and long term of the Novus Ordo and TLM. I’ve been wondering if, … Read More
ASK FATHER: “I am doubting that the current Catholic Church is the Church it has always claimed to be”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, Please pray for me as I go through some deep doubts. Additionally, I would appreciate it if you can shed some light on them: I have complete confidence in the veracity of the claims that the Church used … Read More
Strange Signs, the End Times and YOU
What times we are seeing. Benedict abdicated and lightning struck the dome of St. Peter’s. A Jesuit is elected. A Jesuit, who trashes the symbols of office and sows confusion. Catholics vote for pro-abortion politicians. Total eclipses draw an X over … Read More
“I had the image of a bishop sinking head downward…. sinking… sinking… clawing at the heavy miter on his head”
Even as I stared at the title of the piece I am about to recommend, this passage from Luke about millstones came to mind. I had the image of a bishop sinking head downward…. sinking… sinking… clawing at the … Read More
VIDEO: A reaction to a first Traditional Latin Mass
This is pretty interesting. Here is a thoughtful young man with his observations about participating at a Traditional Latin Mass for the first time.
Saving a heritage church in Fall River
In the near future, we will face more church closures. Some won’t be that much of a loss. Some, however, are part of our patrimony, lovingly built by our forebears, irreplaceable. I bring to the readerships attention the plight of … Read More
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BOOK RECEIVED: “Nostalgia: Going Home in a Homeless World” by Anthony Esolen
This book has been terrific. The publisher, Regnery (really good) sent it and, at the last moment before I headed out the door to begin this trip, I slid it into the outside pocket of my suitcase. It isn’t released … Read More
Terrific Benedictine Monks of Norcia! Yes, great things are also going on and YOU can participate.
As we navigate The Present Crisis, let us not forget that there are wonderful things happening, too, by the grace of God and by fervent elbow grease. Isn’t that how we are meant to carry out our vocations? Grace and … Read More
#ViganoTestimony 3.0! Powerful response to accusations, points to crisis of homosexuality #sodoclericalism
Huge. Archbp. Carlo Maria Viganò has issued a third Testimony. It is a neutron bomb. First, at CNA we read that the present “Sostituo”, the 2nd in command in the Secretariat of State for matter within the Church, Archbishop Edgar Peña … Read More
george on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “@hayden I have the feeling that you are fine demanding obedience when it’s to something you either prefer or don’t…”
