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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
ACTION ITEM: A reader needs your help! Book recommendations.
From a reader: I run a gift/book shop in our parish. Our town (here in the south) doesn’t have any catholic stores so we provide that service for four parishes in a two city area. Our new priest will not let our … Read More
NUNS ON THE MALL! Fr. Z offers a suggestion to Pres. Obama
I was thinking about the pain-effect the Obama Administration is inflicting through the government shutdown. If POTUS really wants to keep vets out of the World War II Memorial (and he does), he should enlist the help of his faithful followers … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Lighter fare
Tagged Nuns On The Bus, Pres. Obama, Veterans, WWII Memorial
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22 Comments
Do our work habits interfere with important aspects of our vocations?
One of the genres of books I read – thank God they are still fiction – has to with TEOTWAWKI when the SHTF, etc. The scenarios vary. However, a consistent topos of the genre is that, at a certain point, … Read More
WDTPRS: What Did The Pope Really Say? 1 – UPDATES
I finally got the glacial site of the vile Italian daily La Repubblica to cough up the latest Franciscan interview… in Italian. When I read in the English version that Pope allegedly said, “The Son of God became incarnate in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Francis
Tagged GS 16, interview, La Repubblica, Pope Francis, What Did The Pope Really Say?
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78 Comments
Pope Francis interview in La Repubblica, or, “Is This Now My Fate?”
My email is filled with notes from people who need to be talked off the ledge. The reason – this time – is Pope Francis’ interview with Eugenio Scalfari, the atheist editor of the vile Italian daily La Repubblica. BTW… … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Francis, The Drill
Tagged CCC 1782, CCC 1790, CCC 1800, conscience, DH 3, Eugenio Scalfari, interview, La Repubblica, Pope Francis, proselytize
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115 Comments
Fr. Z kudos to Archbp. Vigneron
When I hear about the “New Evangelization”, I often wonder when the “Old Evangelization” concluded. For your Just Too Cool File. Archbp. Vigneron of Detroit did some sidewalk evangelization! The group that organizes this is St. Paul Street Evangelization. “This … Read More
QUAERITUR: My daughter wants to be an altar boy… girl… server.
From a reader: On the way home from Mass this evening, my daughter, who is a leader in our parish’s CYM and very active in the Church, mentioned that she was going to an Altar server meeting this week. So, … Read More
QUAERITUR: An Eastern Subdeacon for a Roman Solemn Mass? A Clerical Bedtime Story.
From a reader: I have a friend who is a Eastern Catholic subdeacon, officially installed in his own rite. [installed?] Would it be possible for him to serve a subdeacon during a Latin Extraordinary Form Solemn high Mass? And if … Read More
