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Category Archives: What Fr. Z is up to
REVIEW: New editions of the Roman Missal SIDE BY SIDE
Yesterday I was at Leaflet Missal Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Church goods section there, run by John, can provide priests with the best traditional stuff. John of Church Goods put out all the US editions of the new, … Read More
CatholiCon Continues in Houston
The new media conference CatholiCon continues today in Houston under the guidance of Catholic Underground and Almighty God. Fittingly, the conference began with sung Vespers on Friday and resolves with Holy Mass on Sunday. Today there will be more workshops. … Read More
QR Code and You
Lots of these today at Catholicon. Let’s have a WDTPRS poll.
Posted in Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged code, QR
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26 Comments
Catholicon continues in Houston
Catholicon in Houston continues today. There was an EF Mass this morning. Now there are “Clare Camps”, breakout sessions, on use of tech and on content. Fr Chris Decker is teaching now. Jeff Blackwell on audio production. The Catholic Underground … Read More
How a perfectly good Saturday can be eaten up
This is one of the things I dealt with this weekend.
Waiting for Zagano
For some time now I have been getting emails and phone calls from friends with reports that someone who writes for the National Catholic Reporter aka Fishwrap, Phyllis Zagano, has been sniffing around looking for dirt about me. Zagano hasn’t … Read More
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", Brick by Brick, Lighter fare, Non Nobis and Te Deum, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice, Throwing a Nutty, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged Bp. Finn, Bp. Morlino, Bp. Olmsted, can. 764, can. 903, can. 969, Catholic Exchange, Catholic League, Catholic News Agency, celebret, Fr. Corapi, NCFishwrap, NCR, Phyllis Zagano, Wm. Donohue
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147 Comments
A visit to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles (D. KC)
I have written before about the wonderful Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. They were invited to the diocese by His Excellency Robert Finn, the ordinary of the region. The sisters are building … Read More
Pentecost: some music and a sermon
I was at Assumption Grotto in Detroit for Mass for Pentecost Sunday. The Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form was intended to be dovetailed into the Call To Holiness Conference, held this weekend… with the blessing of Archbishop Vigneron. Armed … Read More
Hello Detroit! ACC UNDERWAY!
See who’s speaking! http://americancatholiccouncil.org/files/2009/05/ACC_convention_brochure_3-2011.pdf UPDATE: A priest friend just asked if the was a special cargo plane for the big puppets. UPDATE: Do the airlines charge extra for all the extra baggage the speakers are hauling around? UPDATE: Here’s Joan … Read More
mickeyfitz on ASK FATHER: Definition and the duties of a pastoral associate. : “Spot on. My understanding is that the standard term per Canon Law 545 is “parochial vicar” and that the other…”
