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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
“Judas made a huge blunder when he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when…”
I often refer to Pope John Paul I as the Pope people forget to remember. Today the intrepid Andrea Tornielli has a post about John Paul I, Papa Luciani. He talks about an initiative to recall the Pope’s life and … Read More
QUAERITUR: Baptism outside one’s parish
From a priest: After 17 years as a priest I’m surprised I can’t track down an answer to this, but even our diocesan faculties booklet is unclear. A priest of our diocese baptized an infant whose parents are registered in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged baptism, can. 530, domicile, parish, parish priest
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33 Comments
QUAERITUR: Celiac, Communion and the Extraordinary Form
From a reader: I have just been diagnosed with Celiac Disease-gluten/wheat intolerance. What does a person do at Holy Communion in the EF? I normally attend the reverent NO Masses in my area, but when I attend my Third Order … Read More
Catholic Herald: The Church should make life harder for Catholics
Here is something for us all to think about as we approach the Year of Faith. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, comes this good reflection. It is on their regular site, but can be found in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, GO TO CONFESSION, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged confession, Eucharistic fast, Holy Days of Obligation, Latin, liturgy, Michael Jennings, sacrament of penance, standing, vernacular
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63 Comments
Rep. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand
Lefty-catholics and Fishwrap readers are having a spittle-flecked nutty over Rep. Paul Ryan. Fishwrap today compared Ryan to Dr. Kevorkian. You will no doubt be hearing from some of them that Ryan is a “Randian” and “Objectivist”, that is, an adherent to … Read More
REMINDER of Seasonal Blessing: Assumption – Blessing of Herbs (and HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION)
Just a quick note to remind you that in the Rituale Romanum there is for the feast of the Assumption a special blessing of herbs and flowers. Click HERE for more. And the Assumption is, this year at least, a Holy … Read More
A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
For your Brick by Brick file. In another entry I answered a question from a lay person who desired to pray for a priest as he learns the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass at the request of his bishop. It … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants, Year of Faith
Tagged Bp. Morlino, D. Madison, Extraordinary Form, Marshall Plan, seminarians, seminaries, TLM, Universae Ecclesiae
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37 Comments
Reading this blog on iPad
Are people having a hard time reading the blog on their iPads? What is happening? UPDATE 14 Augs 2130 GMT: I switched off the iPad theme. I hope that helps. Keep the feedback coming if there are still problems on … Read More
Card. Burke on Summorum Pontificum and worship as the key to reform. Fr. Z rants and agrees.
His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke, in this video interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN, in commenting on Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum speaks to something that I have been harping on incessantly for years. I have been saying that we must … Read More
Check out one blog’s vivisection of Fr. James Martin’s (SJ) claims about LCWR’s vocations v CMSWR’s vocations.
Over at Amerika, our old friend, Fr. James Martin, SJ, wrote a piece in which he manipulated statistics so that it appeared that LCWR orders of nuns were getting as many vocations as the CMSWR nuns (the more traditional groups). That … Read More
