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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
In praise of the cassock from an unexpected source
The cassock is the proper garb of the Roman priest. It is true that conferences to bishops can determine other forms of garb for priests, such as the black suit and Roman or military collar (or in Italy also dark … Read More
The most important thing I will ever write on this blog
This is the most important thing I will ever write on this blog. If I get nothing else through to any reader here, long-time visitor or new, I would want it to be this. There is no sin that we … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, 1983 CIC can. 915, Emanations from Penumbras, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged abortion, can. 1398, confession, excommunication, reconciliation, sacrament of penance, Seal of confession
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Request to readers: an award, vote for a great charity – TEAM RUBICON
As you know the Catholic New Media Awards for this year have opened voting. Even though you have to register, I hope you will give WDTPRS your support in these categories: Best Blog by a Cleric Best Blog by a … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Just Too Cool, The Campus Telephone Pole
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QUAERITUR: Can a deaf priest say Mass in the Extraordinary Form?
From a reader: I recently came across this article about a deaf priest recently ordained for ___. I’m curious – could a deaf priest ever say an EF Mass? It seems to me that the rubrics would either (1) require … Read More
WDTPRS POLL: Should the US Bishops have Catholics return to meatless Fridays for the whole year?
In another entry, I offered and reacted to Archbishop Dolan’s (Archd. NY) comments about our Catholic identity, external markers seen by others and ourselves which reinforce that identity and communicate it to others and the former practice of meatless Fridays … Read More
Archbp. Dolan on meatless Fridays and external signs of our Catholic identity
His Excellency Most Rev. Timothy Dolan of New York City has an interesting post on his blog The Gospel in the Digital Age. I would like to support something important he raised. Keep in mind that Archbishop Dolan has a … Read More
QUAERITUR: Why don’t liberals just leave the Church?
From a reader: Why do these liberals and people like in the LCWR stay in the Church? Wouldn’t it make sense for them to go to the Anglicans? They could be wymynpriests there and do all the crazy stuff they … Read More
QUAERITUR: Doing the Roman salute/blessing gesture
From a reader: The recent post about the LCWR has got me wondering. Is there ever a time in the liturgy (in the rubrics, anyway) when the laity are encouraged to raise their hands in blessing? I am under the … Read More
Remember: Father isn’t talking to you.
I was once accosted in St. Peter’s Basilica after my daily Mass by an angry modernist visiting American pants-suit, hair-do and lapel-pin sister … I guess angry was redundant, wasn’t it… who griped at me that she couldn’t hear the … Read More
How to treat sinners
A quote via Good Jesuit Bad Jesuit from St. Ignatius of Loyola which reminds me of how imperfect I am in charity. “Treat sinners as a good mother treats her child when sick; she bestows on him many more caresses … Read More
excalibur on The trip so far… Chicago… conference… etc.: “Superdawg, a hot dog bun with vegetables and a piece of meat.”
