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Category Archives: My View
My View For Awhile: Windy City Edition
I’m on a road trip. Hmmmm… usually these vans are following me. Right now I am in Chicago, at St. John Cantius. Yesterday and today I gave some conferences on sacred liturgy. We have had two, count ’em two, Solemn Masses … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Chicago, St. John Cantius
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Fr. Benedict Groeschel – R.I.P.
I heard that Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR, died last night following recital of the Transitus on the Vigil of the Feast of St Francis. He who was of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal died on the Feast of St. Francis. … Read More
VIDEOS: Card. Burke & Card. Kasper – compare & contrast. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Catholic News Service issued excepts from a video interview with His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke. (655 views as I post) Card. Kasper also has one. (905 views as I post) Compare and contrast. (Watch the imagery.) My first impression? In … Read More
What Fr. Z is watching and reading
There is a movie to avoid Amen, which is – on the surface – about the Nazi Reich’s extermination of the Jews and of “unproductive” people. A military scientist (based on a real person) who realizes what is going on – … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants
First, the moderation queue is ON. Before you reach to my rant (below), there is a must read piece at the blog of Prof. Ed Peters, canoniste extraordinaire, about the two groups who are tugging on the annulment process issue. … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Cri de Coeur, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, Si vis pacem para bellum!, Sin That Cries To Heaven, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged annulments, Communion, divorce, divorce and remarriage, Humanae vitae, indissolubility, marriage, Paul VI, scandal
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95 Comments
Synods and Sausage: having a Church isn’t for the squeamish
The opening of the Synod on the Family draws closer. Books in various languages are to be released in which marriage and Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried are studied, with a special eye on the proposals of Card. … Read More
The possible demotion of Card. Burke. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, I’ll post this. I do not like the fact that Sandro Magister posted in this way, however. I’ve been biting the inside of my mouth for a while now. The optimist … Read More
Summorum Pontificum 7 years on. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Today is the anniversary of the implementation of Summorum Pontificum. The Motu Proprio will surely be recognized as one of the most important achievements of the too-brief pontificate of Benedict XVI. It has already created a huge knock-on effect in … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, Be The Maquis, Benedict XVI, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Olympian Middle, Universae Ecclesiae, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Benedict XVI, Blackfen, Exodus 1:8, Fr. Steven Fisher, Fr. Tim Finigan, Marshall Plan, Nehemiah 4:18, Romans 12:20, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, Veuve Clicquot
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52 Comments
Exaltation of the Cross, Summorum Pontificum, Basil Pesto
Tomorrow, 14 September, I think I shall make some fresh pesto tomorrow for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross… 7th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum. I found this on Vultus Christi: The aromatic herb, basil (Ocimum basilicum) has long … Read More
ASK FATHER: Will an annulment make a child into a bastard?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: If two Catholics marry, have children, divorce, and then successfully obtain a decree of nullity, are the children then considered illegitimate in the eyes of the Church? This is a concern regarding an acquaintance of mine … Read More
