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Category Archives: Lighter fare
Response of the Bishop of Black Duck to Rome
How he obtained it, I can’t even guess at, but a biretta tip to Fr. Ferguson for the copy of this concise response: o{]:¬) Your Eminence, I trust this finds you well. I am forwarding to Your Eminence a letter … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Jude Noble, D. Black Duck, Traditionis custodes
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Just for fun…. and scorn.
Now we know why the Pentagon initially decided not to shoot the thing down. pic.twitter.com/gKzPP3uQBS — Brit Hume (@brithume) February 4, 2023 Breaking: China deploys new balloon design that the US will never be able to shoot down pic.twitter.com/OC2ImytFmd — … Read More
UPDATED – Send Fr. Z your snail-mail 2023 CHRISTMAS CARDS!
UPDATE: 13 Jan ’23: Another batch of cards has been forwarded. I’m grateful to those who check my old P.O. box. Livingston, MT (OL Rockies!) Okotoks, Alberta (amazing, kid art from each, and photos) Brooklyn, WI (thanks, friends… what a … Read More
Fr. Z’s Predictions for 2023
2023 Predictions 1) Cardinals Ladaria and Oullet will be replaced with manifest liberals 2) Biden will propose even more federal spending, tax hikes, and RINOs will support it 3) Harassment and marginalization of loyal clergy and normal Catholics will intensify … Read More
A new kind of “Motu Proprio”?
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Happy 17th Birthday to the Blog!
Happy 17th birthday to this blog. I cannot say adequately how grateful I am to you, especially long-time readers. It’s like a parish which has developed over the years. To my benefactors, those who have been sending ad hoc or … Read More
In honor of Traditionis custodes… not. “Lord, we ask on this dark day – Make this nuisance go away. Amen.”
And there’s this… ACTION ITEM! Be a “Custos Traditionis”! Join an association of prayer for the reversal of “Traditionis custodes”. HERE
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♬ “Let Church Bulletins Keep Silence” ♬
As you may remember “Rome”, in their micromangerial zeal for the faithful being mauled by their pastoral care, forbade that Mass times for TLMs be put in parish bulletins. Some priests started calling their TLM the “Youth Mass”, for obvious … Read More
1960: What the year 2000 will be like.
Legendary left-wing radical Walter Cronkite – redeemed a little by being a ham radio operator – gave us this in 1960. I couldn’t not post it: 1960 on what the year 2000 would be like pic.twitter.com/HaM72kYqCx — Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) … Read More
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