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Category Archives: Pò sì jiù
The ongoing application of Traditionis custodes – D. San Diego and D. Motherwell
Firstly, be a CUSTOS! Join NOW! HERE Two pieces of news come to my box today, along with the news that Card. Burke is off the ventilator and moving out of the ICU – Laus Deo! On 8 August in the … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, Traditionis custodes
Tagged D. Motherwell, D. San Diego, Traditionis custodes
17 Comments
17 Comments
Baseball’s Cleveland Indians change name to… guess what….
Farewell Chief Wahoo. Today baseball’s Cleveland Indians changed their name. From 2022 they will be the … Guardians. Custodes. There’s that word again. Synchronicity. Clevelandensis custodes. It’s as if the Devil was telling us what he is up to.
First reactions to “Traditionis custodes”
Today, 16 July, is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. During the Amazonian Synod (“walking together”), it was at her church in Rome, near the Vatican, that the shrine to to the demon Pachamama was set up. Today, … Read More
Parents who turn their daughters into quasi-prostitutes
This morning I had a debate with myself. Ought I or not to cancel my subscription to Claremont Review of Books? This same morning I serendipitously solved the debate through a fortunate click over to Ann Barhardt’s page. Ann posted … Read More
“If great big bishops will not guard the noble deposit, then it may be time to depose them.
At Crisis today there is a well-written, well-argued piece by Regis Martin which merits wide attention. Share it. Does the Church No Longer Defend the Deposit of Faith? The writer laments that we are living in strange times: “Times in … Read More
No vaccination? No confession! NJ parish now exercises the “power of the syringes” – UPDATE
UPDATE 29 March: It seems that an option for confessions for the non-jabbed has been added to the schedule. I note with fascination that, although the priest there seems to be extremely worried about infectious penitents, he will have “face … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liberals, Pò sì jiù, You must be joking!
Tagged COVID-1984, D. Trenton
35 Comments
35 Comments
OUTRAGE! Monopoly get WOKED!
This is just one bridge too far. From NEWSMAX: Classic Board Game Monopoly Alters Community Chest Cards for ‘Woke’ Times Toy maker Hasbro is changing the time-honored classic board game Monopoly by altering the Community Chest cards, saying they ”are … Read More
Card. Burke reacts to the St. Peter’s Mass Suppression: rescind it immediately
UPDATE: Card. Burke’s statement can be read at his page: HERE At the National Catholic Register (which is a Catholic paper and not to be confused with the Fishwrap), there is a piece by Ed Pentin about Raymond Leo Card. … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Pò sì jiù, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, Si vis pacem para bellum!, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged can.902, concelebration, Raymond Card. Burke, San Pietro Suppression, SC 57, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
17 Comments
17 Comments
St. Peter’s Basilica – Individual morning Masses SUPPRESSED
UPDATE: A couple curious things. There is no full signature. There is no protocol number. And, as an email correspondent pointed out, Vatican II’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, 57, §2 reads, “Nevertheless, each priest shall always retain … Read More
ASK FATHER: Blessing ashes at home
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Peace and good times, Father Z. [Right now, I’d settle for okay times.] May the blessing and distribution of ashes be done at home in this time of pandemic? Our Archdiocese (in the Philippines) and the … Read More
ProfessorCover on ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical: “Michael Pakaluk has an interesting and devastating critic of the encyclical written with the help of an AI called Claude.…”
