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Category Archives: My View
Special message, prayer from Card. Burke for @fatherz readers and others
On 8 August 2018, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe near La Crosse, WI, I asked Card. Burke to say a prayer for the Church and for the clergy. Perhaps you, too, would say a Memorare for the … Read More
My View For Awhile: Annual Canon Law Conference
Off I went to La Crosse and the beautiful Shrine of our Lady. If you haven’t been… The morning fog drifting in the clefts of the hills. A dear friend, Fr. Ferguson, the official Paradohymnodist of the Blog. I bought … Read More
Fr. Z’s Kitchen: Pollo alla Marengo
I’ve been “taking a course” about the French Revolution and Napoleon. I went through the Battle of Marengo, and found that there is a dish associated. Well, I knew it, but I remembered it. I have never made it, so … Read More
Pope Francis changed the Catechism about the death penalty. What next? Wherein Fr. Z opines.
I wonder if the recent move of the Holy Father to change the text – the teaching of the Church – of the paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about the death penalty will generate enough buzz to … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, capital punishment, Catechism of the Catholic Church, death penalty, development of doctrine, John Henry Newman, Juan Manuel de Rosas, lived experience, Pope Francis, Realities are more important than ideas
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McCarrick resigned from the College of Cardinals. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Before anything else… Lots of people are really angry, indeed enraged. Horrid situations such as those caused by men like McCarrick are painful. We can make choices about how to view them. Anger is appropriate, but not to the point … Read More
Cri de Coeur: calls for punishing action against bishops complicit in L’Affaire McCarrick
Today I read at Crisis a smart piece by Eric Sammons which argued that, because of the unaddressed, indeed covered up scandal of McCarrick … and others, just wait!… Catholics should address the problem of feckless bishops by withholding money: … Read More
Fr. Z’s Kitchen and Remembrance of Things Past
Each year when the Feast of St Mary Magdalene comes around, I remember certain people, and not just those named Magdalene. I remember, for example, a certain priest and his mother. On a hot Roman summer evening in 1989, on … Read More
R.I.P. Msgr. Camille Perl, once Secretary of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
I beg the readership today for prayers for the repose of the soul of my dear old friend Msgr. Camille Perl, who died recently. He had been from the beginning the Secretary of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei“. He was … Read More
Lovely, drippy, syrupy TLM and vocation video. Then Fr. Z rants about crying.
Pope Francis said something along the lines that certain realities can be seen only through eyes that have been cleansed by tears. At the Italian site Messa in Latino, I saw a little video, beautifully produced, focused very much on … Read More
