Get updates in your inbox
About this blog…
“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
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Recent Comments
- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on 11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…: “My brain tells me that it probably wouldn’t do them any good, given that people tend to die as they…”
- on ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?: “Please pray for my family on this front. We’re prayerfully striving to form our consciences in accordance with the Church’s…”
- on 11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…: “Is it right and a good thing, too, to pray for the perpetrators?”
- on ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?: “The Second Vatican Council did not define anything new which we Catholics are obligated to believe. The use of words…”
- on 11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…: “I came to this just having read Egeria (c. AD 384) to her friends for whom she was writing her…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1700: “Bishop Mutsaers (his car accident doesn’t seem to keep him from writing, thankfully) and Cardinal Müller are spot on. Both…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1700: “Those of us who came of age during or just after The Council™ remember well the mania – not necessarily…”
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Federated Computer… your safe and private alternative to big biz corporations that hate us while taking our money and mining our data. Have an online presence large or small? Catholic DIOCESE? Cottage industry? See what Federated has to offer. Save money and gain peace of mind.
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
Donate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
Good coffee and tea. Help monks.
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT com
Category Archives: Mail from priests
URGENT ACTION ITEM! UPDATE on Fr. Dana Christensen: final earthly journey. Renew a petition to Ven. @FultonSheen for him.
Update on Fr. Dana Christensen:. He is the young priest who has been struggling heroically with ALS. More than ever now, pray for him. Dear friends and family of Fr. Dana: This is Annie, his sister. Our family wanted to … Read More
How is what Paul VI did to the Mass entirely unlike what Pius V did?
From the great Fr. John Hunwicke at his elevating blog Mutual Enrichment [emphases and comments mine]: Popes, Liturgy, and Authority (3): S PIUS V compared with S PAUL VI and PF We are sometimes told that the imposition of a new … Read More
But remember… the problem is the Traditional Latin Mass!
But remember… the problem is the Traditional Latin Mass! If only we could shut it down, the seminaries would fill up again. Right? The average age of a priest in the United States is 67. The large ordination classes of … Read More
ACTION ITEM & BOOK NOTICE: A “how to” manual of ceremonies for the PRE-1955 TRIDUUM and PENTECOST! Wherein Fr. Z rants on the times we are in, books you should buy, and why you should buy them.
I have an action item for you. Below, I am pushing a couple of books, one old and one new. Here on my treasure chest, this blog, I am channeling my inner Matthew 13:52. But first, a rant from your … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, Be The Maquis, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Priests and Priesthood, REVIEWS, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, The future and our choices, Traditionis custodes, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Alcuin Reid, Fr. Adrian Fortescu, Holy Week, O'Connell, Pentecost, pre-1955, Traditionis custodes, Triduum
9 Comments
9 Comments
VIDEO: Priest calls out Francis, Roche for their actions against traditional Catholics
I saw quite a piece at The Remnant about a priest – Father James Mawdsley – who, in unmistakable terms, called out Francis and Roche and those others who have been trying to oppress the faithful who desire traditional Catholic liturgical … Read More
The ‘buck’ starts here.
Consider a few points, in no particular order. Traditionis custodes and the Dubious Dubia (TC&DD) are an incoherent mess. TC&DD are founded on faulty theological grounds: that Vatican II is the lens through which all doctrine and discipline of the … Read More
Qui distinguit bene docet. Fr. Hunwicke opines.
It is a day of contrasts. I had posted about “A Tale of Two Archbishops”. Now I see Fr. Hunwicke making distinctions about contrasting pairings. Qui distinguit bene docet. My emphases. Ecclesial disorders CLERICALISM versus SACERDOTALISM “If the word had not … Read More
Vetus Ordo – Viganò – VIDEO
At Rumble – HERE – there is a longish and passionate video from 2 Jan ’22 in English with transcript by Archbp Carlo Maria Viganò, once Nuncio in these USA, then targeted for cancelation by the powers-that-be for knowing too … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z recommends a new blog
I direct the readership to the blog of a good friend Fr. Cliff Ermatinger, a priest in Milwaukee. HERE He will be putting his reflections and other good items… which I assure you will be worthwhile. You might bookmark it … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on 11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…: “My brain tells me that it probably wouldn’t do them any good, given that people tend to die as they…”
