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Category Archives: “How To…” – Practical Notes
@MilArchUSA Archbp. Broglio Responds to US Navy Decision to Cancel Catholic Priest Contracts
UPDATE 9 Sept 2020: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09-09-2020 Archbishop Timothy Broglio Expresses Gratitude for U.S. Navy Decision to Retain Contracts with Catholic Priests Navy reverses decision to cancel priest contracts at Naval Bases Coronado and Ventura County and Naval Support … Read More
ASK FATHER: When the SHTF, what should we have to help underground priests?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: The most recent podcast with Ann Barnhardt was on the topic of prepping — HERE — and since the Church in the US might be needing to go underground sooner than we think one of the … Read More
Facing down the worst of our storms and threats with prayer
Hurricane Laura was terribly destructive. It was, after all, a hurricane. However, it wasn’t as destructive as anticipated. That might be small relief to those who have directly suffered from it, but at least there are fewer of those who directly … Read More
Jackass priests who screw around with the forms (essential words) of sacraments. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
How many times over the years have I written on this blog about priests who fool around with the forms of sacrament, the necessary words to be pronounced? How many? A lot. Very few things disturb people more than not being … Read More
ASK FATHER: Hand sanitizer on Hosts
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father: In my diocese those who receive on the tongue must go to the end of the line. Then the priest/deacon/whatever uses hand sanitizer between each communicant, as if we are all “Unclean”! The Host tastes … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Tattoos and St. Jane de Chantal
UPDATE: See an important comment added below. From a reader… QUAERITUR: i always thought that tattoos were somehow sinful. but today’s third lesson from Matins about St. Jane of Chantal makes me question that. what is the Church’s teaching on … Read More
OPPORTUNITY ALERT! Aquinas Institute – Courses begin 14 September
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, a board member of the Aquinas Institute— the folks who are publishing, for the first time, the Opera Omnia of St. Thomas Aquinas in parallel Latin & English, in some 60 blue hardcover volumes — sent me … Read More
Concelebration and COVID-1984: a San Francisco strategy
This is interesting. His Excellency Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone arranged for multiple Masses to be celebrated simultaneously on the plaza in front of the Cathedral of San Francisco. Alas, these Masses were versus populum, but they were Masses in what … Read More
The Catholic Signal Corps is READY
Catholic Signal Corps. I posted that it was finally up and running last April. It is time to remind everyone. What do I mean? Consider… Big social media outlets are filtering, censoring, shadow banning content and users, “deplatforming” those whose … Read More
PODCAzT 184: St. Augustine preaches to the mob who lynched a cop who killed a guy
Today is the Feast of St. Lawrence. In 400, or thereabouts, in St. Augustine’s see of Hippo, a miles, a soldiers, probably a kind of police officer, did something very bad. He probably killed someone. The town went nuts and rioted … Read More
