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- Christopher M on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “We held a Twitter space this evening and prayed the rosary for the church, the Holy Father and the SSPX.…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “No one is mentioning the elephant in the room. Rome wants the SSPX to explicitly state that the Novus Ordo…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul: “Thanks to the Archconfraternity for all their efforts and hello to The World’s Best Sacristan(TM)! It was fun to spot…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “In his very interesting 25 June One Peter Five article, “When Pope Leo Allowed Illicit Episcopal Consecrations”, Father Matthew Dimock,…”
- on ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins: “I remember being told Venial sins are forgiven during the penitential rite of Mass.”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Honestly, the number of olive branches both publically and privately that have been offered to the SSPX since JPII has…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Regarding the accusation that the SSPX is guilty of “neo-Feeneyism,” it is worth considering that the recent SSPX Profession of…”
- on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D The SSPX doesn’t wholesale reject NA. That is why they could and were going to sign the 2011 Doctrinal…”
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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
ASK FATHER: Waxed linen altar cloths
In honor of the appointment of Card. Sarah to the Congregation for Divine Worship, we tackle an important liturgical issue. Traditionally our Roman altars should have three linen altar cloths. One of them should properly be infused with wax, to … Read More
MIAMI: TLMs bringing in young people
A reader alerted me to coverage of a TLM in Miami in which the local Juventutem chapter is involved. With Ancient Language, Catholic Mass Draws Young Parishioners Roman Catholic Mass was at one time universally celebrated in Latin, the ancient … Read More
Five Cardinals Book™ will defend marriage in several more languages!
Friends, the controversy isn’t over yet. It is only beginning. So, I am happy to report that The Five Cardinals Book™, Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, which helped to turn the tide during … Read More
Days after 2014 Synod closes, CDF responds to question on absolution for civilly remarried
UPDATED: 14 Nov: ORIGINAL Published on: Nov 13, 2014 At the French language site L’Homme Nouveau there is an interesting post about a question a priest posed to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He asked the Congregation: «Un confesseur … Read More
ASK FATHER: Tactical Clerics
Speaking of clerical garb, I am, oddly enough, fairly often asked about my black clerical shirts. I have adapted some 5.11 Tactical shirts, both ripstop and cotton, and both short and long sleeved, into 5.11 Tactical clerical shirts. Here’s the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Sick at home in bed movie list
From a reader: QUAERITUR: I am home sick with bronchitis and have been passing the day away sleeping and watching movies, which got me thinking when I visited your blog. If you had a top 10 movie list of your … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, The Coming Storm
Tagged movies
93 Comments
93 Comments
RNS smear of Card. Burke
Liberal Religion News Service is less and less careful to pretended objectivity when it comes to coverage of Catholic matters. Crux, by the way, took what follows lock and stock. Watch how they paint him, smear, with words and premises which … Read More
A 5-year old shows us how it’s done
For those snobby dopes out there who think Joe and Mary Bagofdoughnuts in the pews are too stoopid to handle Latin or that hearing some chant is toooo haaaard. Here is a 5 year old singing the common Christian table … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare
Tagged chant, ex ore infantium, Gregorian chant, Latin
27 Comments
27 Comments
For love of the Eucharist, civilly married couple abstained from sex
We are not brute beasts. It seems to me that much of the debate about Communion for the divorced and remarried, and about homosexuals, is founded on the false premise that people simply cannot not have sex, as much as … Read More
MANHATTAN: Holy Innocents SAVED! What happened? And: 40 HOURS DEVOTION
Holy Innocents in Manhattan, NYC, is about to begin, on Friday, their Forty Hours Devotion! More on that, below. First, some comments. During the last few days since the decision about the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan … Read More
Christopher M on Prayer for the SSPX and Leo: “We held a Twitter space this evening and prayed the rosary for the church, the Holy Father and the SSPX.…”
