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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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- 15 September: Seven Sorrows of Mary – The “Our Lady of Sorrows Project”
- WDTPRS- Exaltation of the Cross
- Sunday Sermon Notes… ON STEROIDS. Wherein Fr. Z posts a must listen sermon from his old friend Fr. A
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 16th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 24th Ordinary)
- They are moving fast.
- Daily Rome Shot 1071 – 343 years ago today
- 11 September – The years which have passed do not lessen the need of the victims for our prayers…
- ASK FATHER: How can we, as lay Catholics, pass on the Faith given heterodoxy coming from high places?
- WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: Grace before us, grace behind us
- Daily Rome Shot 1700
- One Year Ago: In one of Charlie Kirk’s last videos he honored the Blessed Virgin Mary and invited Protestants, Evangelicals to honor her more
- Daily Rome Shot 1699
- Remember, it’s not just that they don’t like the rites, they don’t like the people who like the rites.
- ACTION ITEM! 9 September – International Buy A Priest A Beer Day!
- Daily Rome Shot 1698: a great book
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Ave Maris Stella (Feasts of the B.V.M.)
- 8 September – Feast of the Nativity of Mary and a “flash of anamnesis”
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 15th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 23rd Ordinary)
- “We therefore are the bowels of the Church…”. We’re…. WHAT, again?
- Daily Rome Shot 1697
- WDTPRS – 15th Sunday after Pentecost: The Church is taking on water. Is she sinking?
- Daily Rome Shot 1696
- 4 Sept: St. Moses, Old Testament prophet, lawgiver, forerunner of Christ
- 3 Sept – Anniversary of the Death of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ. – Rest peace Mankus Chrysokalamus!
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Aeterna caeli gloria (Lauds on Fridays after Pentecost)
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? Iesu Redemptor Omnium
- Daily Rome Shot 1695
- St. Teresa of Avila’s “Prayer to Redeem Lost Time” and the Purification of Memory
- Daily Rome Shot 1694
- ASK FATHER: My territorial parish is awful. I’ve tried. But I have my family to think of. Should I say or should I go?
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Category Archives: Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Priests and Latin. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Since I posted on the issue of the Latin text of Benedict’s resignation and brought up, again, the issue of poor to zero Latin preparation of seminarians and priests, I have to make a few observations. Fathers. If you belong … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants
More and more I’ve been musing, under the shadow of shifting demographics and the Church’s self-devastation wrought by those in the stratosphere of power, about the short and long term of the Novus Ordo and TLM. I’ve been wondering if, … Read More
#Synod2018 – Wherein Fr. Z rants
“For God so loved the world that He did not send a committee.” “If I ought to write the truth, I am of the mind that I ought to flee all meetings of bishops, because I have never seen any … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants: the tyrannies of #sodoclerical euroweenies with their self-centered, condescending effeminate blather
The old phrase is: Piscis primum a capite foetet. Over the many years I have been either going to or living in Rome, it has been interesting to see how the styles and modes change in the ecclesiastical shops. These … Read More
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Read and weep: Soviet style “psych” tactics used against priests by bishops.
What I am about to post, read carefully. Over the last few months I have been contacted by diocesan priests (and a religious) who were being sent by their bishops (superior) to be “evaluated” at one of these psych clinics … Read More
THIS IS WAR! Wherein Fr. Z calls on bishops and priests to FIGHT BACK as priests and bishops!
Preliminary note: For the last two nights, I have had nightmares. Last night was as bad as anything I have ever had and it was incredibly real. As I wrote this post, I had the dreaded BSOD. Hasn’t happened for … Read More
Lay Rage in Chicago, Mary Eberstadt takes names, and Fr. Z rants
I find myself once again in The City of Big Shoulders, Chicago. The last couple of days have been fascinating, as I have met an interesting priest with an interesting story and had the chance to hear about what some … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z rants: A baptized person in the state of grace is terrifying to demons.
I’m a bit shell-shocked from the blast of information that is pouring forth. It took me 3 hours to triage my email. Thank you to everyone who have sent kind notes. Thank you to everyone who has sent links. Thank … Read More
ASK FATHER: “I now have doubt about sorting the doctrinal from the papal opinion.” Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: All this confusion with the death penalty has caused me to doubt the authority of what I assumed were books of bedrock Catholic Doctrine. Of course there was the first JPII Catechism, then his revision, both … Read More




















