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Category Archives: My View
CQ CQ CQ #HamRadio Sunday – Field Day
Actually I am in a cemetery at the top of the hill by the parish. As I write! That’s the vertical. I also managed to string up a 40m center-fed wire dipole. It’s 2045 UTC and I’m on 20 and 40. … Read More
Posted in Ham Radio, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged CQ, dipole, Ham radio, Ham Radio Saturday
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Fr. Z’s Kitchen: Variation on Suprêmes de Volaille aux Champignons
Sometimes I get tired of sandwiches and cans of soup and I have to make something adult for supper. Last night I decided I wanted Julia Child’s Suprêmes de Volaille aux Champignons as in Mastering the Art of French Cooking. … Read More
VIDEO Thanks from Swiss Guard for the Armor Project
At the end of this post I have a question for you. I was in Rome in October and I finally was able to meet the Swiss Guard for whom we – I and you donor/readers here – had the fitted armor made. … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Just Too Cool, Linking Back, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged armor, Swiss Guard
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The historical view – the “long view” – Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Pope Francis is confusing. Reasonable people won’t deny that. He is confusing to both the Left and the Right, as well as the tepid, but for different reasons. Some people are really upset by him. I spend quite a bit of energy in … Read More
CQ CQ CQ #HamRadio Saturday: Calls, clubs and cables
Now for another edition of Ham Radio Saturday. I created a page for the List of YOUR callsigns. HERE Chime in or drop me a note if your call doesn’t appear in the list. The first Ham Radio news of global … Read More
Posted in Ham Radio, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged antenna, call sign, Ham radio, Ham Radio Saturday
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Thompson on Bad Church Music (BCM). Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Sacred liturgical music is NOT an add-on in worship. It is – and must therefore be treated as – an integrating part (pars integrans) of liturgical worship, since it is prayer, liturgical music must be both sacred and also art. The texts … Read More
Photos of Requiem Masses for All Souls
Photos are starting to come in from the Pontifical Requiem at the Throne offered by His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, The Extraordinary Ordinary Bishop of Madison. I think it may have been the only Requiem at the Throne…anywhere. The … Read More
ASK FATHER: There’s too much confusion. Are sedevacantists right?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I have read much, maybe too much, on the sedevacantists and the SSPX, and previously considered them schismatic. Given the state of the Church hierarchy and problems with the various translations of the 1994 Catechism, one edition … Read More
Rome – Last Day: Candles and Apostolic Tombs
Yesterday I met a friend who is beginning a new business for vestments and clerical garb. This is the sort of thing he is able to produce at a fraction of the cost of Roman shops. Interesting no? Wouldn’t it … Read More
Posted in On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
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Rome – Days 4 & 5: Jesuits and snakes – GOFUNDME for Pontifical Vestments
The other day I mentioned that I was upset enough by what I had heard about the Synod shenanigans that I walked for a few hours. One of the places I wound up was P.za di Spagna and the great … Read More
Posted in On the road, SESSIUNCULA, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Gammarelli, GoFundMe, Pontifical Mass Vestments
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