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Category Archives: New Evangelization
Men! We need you watching on the wall.
The Collect for the 16th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo) has strikingly military imagery. Propitiare, Domine, famulis tuis, et clementer gratiae tuae super eos dona multiplica, ut, spe, fide et caritate ferventes, semper in mandatis tuis vigili custodia perseverent. Famulus and … Read More
About Latin and how hard Mass ought to be.
At Crisis there is an entry by Anne Maloney, a Philosophy prof at – or all places – the College of St. Catherine in St Paul, Minnesota. Let’s just say that Saint Kate’s has been really weird for a really long time, … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged Latin, timor mortis
41 Comments
41 Comments
It’s time to scare the hell out of kids – POLL
Here’s an idea… require all students at Catholic schools to attend a course taught by an exorcist. In Spain…. Students at Spanish college forced to take exorcism class A publically funded college [!] in Spain has told students that it is … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Four Last Things, Hard-Identity Catholicism, New Evangelization, POLLS
Tagged exorcism
37 Comments
37 Comments
ASK FATHER: Using Latin in the Ordinary Form
From a reader… QUAERITUR: For about a year now, we have been using Latin for the “Our Father” (sung, BTW) and “Agnus Dei” (also the Kyrie) but the rest is said in the vernacular. When I asked about it, my priest … Read More
Super Good News!
I just had some super news – truly – about a great development for the New Evangelization. I can’t say what it is yet because the right people have to make this public. Still it is exciting enough that I … Read More
Fr. H to Fr. L with Fr. Z – “Latin Mass”
My friend Fr. Richard Heilman has a good post at his place, Roman Catholic Man. Fr. Heilman responded to something asserted by Fr. Dwight Longenecker at Pathet… at Patheos. HERE Fr. Longenecker writes: Is the Latin Mass the Magic Bullet? … Read More
Card. Onaiyekan on the proper disposition to receive Holy Communion
I have had my eye on John Card. Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja in Nigeria, for some time. There was recently a Eucharistic Congress in the Philippines. Since Archbp. Piero Marini (former MC to JP2) is in charge of these conferences … Read More
TLM: Evangelize or else close and die.
Some of you are writing to me today about a piece at the National Catholic Register by my friend Msgr. Charles Pope in Washington DC about the future of the TLM or Traditional Latin Mass. Pope contends that a ceiling … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization
Tagged attendance, evangelization, Msgr. Charles Pope, TLM
110 Comments
110 Comments
VIDEO: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) talks frankly about belief in Christ and his Catholic Faith
Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) talks frankly about his Catholic Faith and his relationship to other Christians. Moderation queue is ON. I don’t want this to turn into a merely political debate about various candidates, as in, “I don’t … Read More
Papal airplane presser. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Once again, I am getting a stream of emails from people about the state of the Church and about Pope Francis. I redirect the readership back to my Long View Approach™ and say “breathe deeply… in.. out… in… out….” Remember, every … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, New Evangelization, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged parenthesis, Pope Francis
53 Comments
53 Comments
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