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Category Archives: Our Catholic Identity
QUAERITUR: Wives of deacons aren’t deacons too, are they?
From a reader: Over Mother’s Day weekend I attended mass at a church I do not usually attend. I noticed their bulletin listed a “Deaconite Couple.” Is that allowed? Women aren’t allowed to be deacons are they? This church is … Read More
Guest Post: Use of Latin in the Ordinary Form
From a reader: I thought you may be interested to know that our priest, for certain Daily Masses in the Ordinary Form, is using Latin for the majority of the Mass. We use English for the readings, the collect, postcommunion, … Read More
GUEST POST: “No more terrible Latin.”
From a priest: I regularly use a limited amount of Latin in the OF at weekend Masses. Most parishioners really appreciate it, but after catechesis and so on a few just won’t give up their protest. Last Sunday I preached … Read More
QUAERITUR: Getting married on a Friday. Must I abstain from meat? Fr. Z includes a brief rant.
From a reader: im getting married on friday may 31st the day after Corpus Christi. can i eat meat at the reception or do i need a dispensation? All Fridays, except for liturgical Solemnities, are days of penance even if … Read More
Again about validity of absolutions by SSPX priests
A priest reader sent me a link to an article on the site of The Remnant, which is I believe a bi-monthly newspaper staunchly on the traditional side of our Catholic spectrum. The article in question concerns the validity of … Read More
Ramifications of the new normal
With the rise of the homosexualist agenda I am seeing more news reports, on both sides of the pond, about state sponsored “anti-bullying” campaigns for children in schools. I really dislike bullies, which is one reason why I go after … Read More
How the LCWR, Magisterium of Nuns, get around the Church’s teaching and hierarchy
I missed this the other day. On review, it is important enough to post about. Over at Fishwrap, the National Schismatic Reporter, there is an interview with the head of the LCWR, Sr. Florence Deacon, from 7 May, while she … Read More
QUAERITUR: I found a Host at my mother’s house. Wherein Fr. Z rants a little.
From a reader: While visiting my parents’ home (they are not Catholic; I am a convert), I was invited up to look at something on Mom’s prayer table. I forget what it was … but out of the corner of … Read More
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Tagged can. 1367, Communion in the hand, graviora delicta, host, latae sententiae excommunication, sacrarium
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Rail by rail!
One for the Brick by Brick file. I had a note from a friend in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, where the great Bishop Robert Finn presides. At St. Andrew the Apostle on the north side of KC, Fr. … Read More
WVC on Daily Rome Shot 1681 – cartoons old and less old: “Something that bothers me about statements being made about those “against” Traditionis Custodes is the consistent idea that “we now…”
