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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
WE DID IT! This blog now has a new suit of armor and a new steed to ride.
We did it. We had a fairly narrow window to get the blog moved, but the CRACK EXPERT TIGER TEAM did it. The blog has a new home. Many many thanks go out to CB and JR (amazing) who were … Read More
First, FSSP presence and now @ChickfilA has opened its first UK restaurant
YES! I arrive home to England to the news that @ChickfilA has opened its first UK restaurant in Reading. Surely this is the third miracle of Saint John Henry Newman? — Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) October 16, 2019 Reading is … Read More
Detroit cop intervenes. Stoic Fr. Z tries not to tear up.
I grew up surrounded by cops. My mother was the FIRST woman on the Minneapolis Police Department. Imagine how they swarmed our house. These were incredible men, family men, engaged, dedicated. I bleed blue. When I read of attacks on … Read More
“Empires perish. Tradition endures” – VIDEO about the Traditional Latin Mass, Usus Antiquior
A short documentary has been posted about the Usus Antiquior, or the traditional expression of the Roman Rite. You may see a couple familiar people. The video was made by the son of the doctor who runs the Catholic clinic … Read More
TLM training available for priests
The Vetus Ordo, the Usus Antiquior, the Extraordinary Form, the Pian Rite, the Tridentine Mass, the Traditional Latin Mass… call it what you want, there are priests out there who want to learn how to celebrate it. There are so many … Read More
“He would have fled forever, into the hell of exile from God. But the sight of the vestments overcame him.”
I continue my re-reading, after many years, of Taylor Caldwell’s Grandmother and the Priests, savoring a chapter a day, or at least a chapter at a time with unwelcome days delays. Caldwell, not a practicing Catholic, grasped the Catholic worldview and … Read More
Your Good News
Do you have some good news to share with the readership? Yesterday, Sunday, we had the help of a newish deacon, so that we could have Solemn Mass. More and more young men are taking to the Traditional Roman Rite. … Read More
“My sons playing Mass ‘against pagans’.
Children at Mass. Ah… children at Mass. They are simultaneously the great consolation of priests and, hopefully, the seniors of a congregation, as they can also be the woe. Look at the average age of people at some suburban parishes, … Read More
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BOOK: Grandmother and the Priests
With delight I am making my way through a book I discovered many years ago, as we count the years, even before I entered Holy Church. I recall my own grandmother reading all the books of this writer. Taylor Caldwell … Read More
VIDEO: 1950 – Pius XII infallibly proclaims the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In 1950 my late pastor, Msgr. Schuler, was in Rome on a Fulbright working on the manuscripts of Giovanni Maria Nanino, the successor of Palestrina for the Sistine Chapel. He had great stories about being a priest in Rome in … Read More
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