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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: My View
A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.
The Bishop of Knoxville is on the job, addressing serious problems in the local church entrusted to his pastoral care. If for nothing else he would be notable for the pogrom he conducted last October – he must have a … Read More
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 19th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 27th Ordinary)
My Sunday Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there … Read More
ROME 26/10– Day 01: A rocky beginning
Today in Rome, the sun rose at 06:39 and it set at 18:54. The Ave Maria Bell was to ring at 19:15. It is/was in the Novus Ordo calendar the Feast of St. Terese, patroness of the mission and Doctor. … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 18th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 26th Ordinary)
My Sunday Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there … Read More
ASK FATHER: How do priests who dislike Communion on the hand cope with the obligation to do it? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have taken your advice from almost a decade ago in a previous «Quæritur» to heart; I want to help the church where I live and be a diocesan priest. The issue I am struggling with … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 16th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 24th Ordinary)
My Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a … Read More
“People reject the Church because she speaks against the sins they love” – St. Augustine…. NOT! Wherein Fr. Z corrects and then rants.
I ran across this quotation which the writer attributed to St. Augustine of Hippo (+430): “People reject the Church because she speaks against the sins they love” While this is true, Augustine did not say or write that in any … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 13th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 21st Ordinary)
My Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a … Read More
The trip so far… Chicago… conference… etc.
UPDATED 10 Aug – way down at the bottom Originally Published on: Aug 8, 2026 UPDATE HERE about laptop FIRST post with travel woes – include TWO mis-landings and hours of delays and missed flight HERE After the horrible beginning, here … Read More
My View For Awhile: first Pete and now repeat – surreally updated and now terminated
3 August UPDATED: See below for the final episode. Originally Published on: Aug 1, 2026 Theoretically I’m heading to Chicago, but there are lightning storms keeping us on the ground… in the plane … at the gate … with minimal … Read More
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