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Category Archives: Wherein Fr. Z Rants
A short rant on sacred art and architecture
I was at a conference on sacred music in Rome some years back where something occurred that was both irritating and amusing. A liberal leaning choir director was going on and on about the sort of music we need for … Read More
QUAERITUR: concelebration and seeing the elements – and Fr. Z rants
From a priest reader: I’ll get right to the point: is it not required that a concelebrant be able to see the matter he is consecrating? I am certain that it is, but I am not able to defend this … Read More
Posted in ASK FATHER Question Box, Mail from priests, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged concelebration
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Is there a campaign to block Card. Pell’s appointment as Prefect for Bishops?
You can bet even the hint that Australia’s Cardinal Pell might be the next Prefect for the Congregation for Bishops made liberal blood run cold. Lately we have read rumors that Cardinal Pell is ill, that Cardinal Pell did this, … Read More
“Opportune and necessary.”
I use the following good news as a stepping stone into a little rant of my own. A reader with the Latin Mass Society in the UK sent me a copy of a letter they received from the Pontifical Commission … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z drills into “And with your spirit” and makes a proposal
I have seen some posts on various blogs about a particular controversial – and major – change to the English translation of Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form: "And with your spirit … et cum spiritu tuo" as the response … Read More
PODCAzT 103: The new translation of the 2nd Eucharistic Prayer; Fr. Z digresses and rants
Today we will compare the lame-duck ICEL version of the 2nd Eucharistic Prayer now still in use with the new, approved and improved translation which we will soon be able to hear in our Churches. The new translation of the … Read More
Is Benedict XVI a “better Pope” than John Paul II? A couple views and then Fr. Z really rants.
The Holy Spirit probably does not choose Popes. As Joseph Ratzinger explained before his own election, the Holy Spirit guides the choice of a Pope, or a Council for that matter, so that we don’t inflict irreparable damage on ourselves. … Read More
Posted in Biased Media Coverage, Clerical Sexual Abuse, SESSIUNCULA, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Rod Dreher, Ross Douthat
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Weigel’s piece in First Things… then Fr. Z rants
Preface: I urge priests and bishops reading this to at the very least skip to the last part if you think you don’t have time to read the whole. _____ George Weigel has a piece in First Things which merits … Read More
Is it time simply to cancel your NCR subscriptions?
If any of you have a subscription to the ultra-liberal dissenting – dying – National Catholic Reporter I suggest that you cancel it now. Urge your parish’s pastor to cancel as well. Get it out of our churches. Take a … Read More
