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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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- jhogan on They are moving fast.: “There is no need for all this gobbledygook and their conferences. There are already the ministries of Courage and Encourage…”
- on They are moving fast.: “I refer back to the question you answered the other day about Fulton Sheen and Galatians 1:8-9: https://wdtprs.com/2026/09/ask-father-how-can-we-as-lay-catholics-pass-on-the-faith-given-heterodoxy-coming-from-high-places/”
- on ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?: “God bless Archbishop Athanasius Schneider, he’s been one of the few voices in the Church hierarchy that have kept me…”
- on ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?: “Vatican II documents, recent encyclicals, witings, papal homilies, etc, all leave me with the same feeling as when I wake…”
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Category Archives: Mail from priests
Archbp. Cordileone establishes “Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship”
For your Brick by Brick file, I was sent a link to an entry at Catholic San Francisco about a new liturgical institute established by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. Archbishop explains goal of new liturgical institute On the eve of the … Read More
VIDEO: A bishop publicly dumps Pope Benedict
I was sent a link to a video with some of an interview by Bishop Enrico dal Covolo, who is presently rector of my old school, the Pontifical Lateran University. dal Covolo, an SDB (aka Socio di Bertone aka Salesian) … Read More
Plenary Indulgences for particular days by Fr. F
I highly recommend a blog post on indulgences by my good friend, His Hermeneuticalness, the great Dean of Bexley and p.p. of Blackfen, the unabashedly Unreconstructed Ossified Manualist, Fr. Tim Finigan. HERE A sample with my emphases and comments: […] [T]there are many … Read More
JUST TOO COOL – UK: Priest buys lost Van Dyck for £400
You just never know what you might have in your attic or find in a shop. From Express: Antiques Roadshow discovery: Van Dyck masterpiece bought for just £400 is worth £400,000 A PORTRAIT bought for £400 has been revealed as … Read More
Proper “clericalism” defined and defended
It is time to fight back. Over at The Liturgy Guy there is a good post about clericalism. First, let me say that there is a good clericalism and a bad. The worst clericalism that we see is of pandemic … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Self-absorbed Promethean Neopelagians, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged America Magazine, clericalism, Daniel P. Horan OFM, priesthood, priestly identity
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Fr. Z on Fr. Hunwicke on the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.
I can say with great pleasure that Fr. John Hunwicke, a Catholic priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, is blogging again. He had a blog which was for a while repressed by the “powers that be”. He … Read More
Fr. Z on Fr. Finigan on the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate
His Hermeneuticalness, the mighty P.P of Blackfen, the Dean of Bexley, the indominable Fr. Timothy Finigan opines on the situation the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate are faced with. The Commissar appointed by the Prefect of the Congregation for Religious, João … Read More
Posted in Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Francis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Reading Francis Through Benedict, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Fr. Finigan, Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, João Card. Braz de Aviz, Pope Francis, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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On fear of the priest
Over at Vultus Christi, which I check every day, dom Mark posted a disturbing quote from St. John Chrysostom’s On the priesthood: All men are ready to pass judgment on the priest as if he was not a being clothed … Read More
A prayer for vocations
In light of my post about the 20 year high in vocations to the priesthood in these USA, I received this: Thank you for your Blog. I saw the article you posted on the increase of Priestly Vocations. Thanks be … Read More
jhogan on They are moving fast.: “There is no need for all this gobbledygook and their conferences. There are already the ministries of Courage and Encourage…”
