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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “Bruised: You might be limiting your vision of the Church, which extends beyond where you live. There are places in…”
- on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “Yay. Sounds like another way to be “nice” and “include” the priest in Confirmation. IMHO most of these situations will…”
- on ASK FATHER: Question about the impacts of Excommunication: “I’m pretty sure the state of the priest’s soul does not change the fact that the Eucharist is being conferred…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “I’ve had my fair share of some rough homilies, from some retired priest talking about his “chick magnet” from back…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “I did walk out of a daily Mass once when the priest was going on and on and on about…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “My church- and liturgy-history readings are unsystematic and the opposite of rigorous to put it mildly, but how is the…”
- on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “A wonderful and dearly departed Priest was given the faculties to Confirm when he was a Military Chaplain. Those Faculties…”
- on ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?: “If a homily is bad or terrible (in terms of content, up to and even including outright heresy) isn’t there…”
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Category Archives: PODCAzT
PODCAzT 165: Liturgical battles lost and won… and lost; don Camillo (Part X)
In today’s PODCAzT I read just a bit of a fairly recent book by Peter Kwasniewski: Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages US HERE – UK HERE It has a foreward by the great Martin Mosebach, author … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT
Tagged don Camillo, Peter Kwasniewski, podcast, PODCAzT
2 Comments
2 Comments
PODCAzT 164: Open Letter From A Young Priest To Bishops
At Crisis there is posted an open letter from an anonymous young priest to bishops. It is a cri de coeur. Where Are the Bishops Who Will Defend Faithful Priests? I read this letter today, so that it will have … Read More
PODCAzT 163: 25 July 2018 – 50th anniversary of promulgation of ‘Humanae vitae’
Here is an audio offering in which I read the post, here-under. Hopefully this will allow more people to absorb a few of my poor thoughts on this important anniversary. Let’s start with a taste of the text… there’s some … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, PODCAzT, The future and our choices
Tagged contraception, Humanae vitae, Paul VI
3 Comments
3 Comments
WDTPRS – Monday in Holy Week: “Are we there yet?”
COLLECT Da, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui ex nostra infirmitate deficimus, intercedente Unigeniti Filii tui passione, respiremus. Today’s prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and its predecessors. It was in the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary in both the Hadrianum and Paduense manuscripts … Read More
Posted in LENT, LENTCAzT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT, WDTPRS
Tagged in finem citius, Time
4 Comments
4 Comments
PODCAzT 161: CDF Instruction on The Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian, “Donum veritatis”
In this podcast we hear the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 1990 Instruction Donum veritatis, “On the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian”. I post this now because of the present claims of some who clearly want to turn … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, PODCAzT, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged 1990, Donum veritatis, Massimo Faggioli
2 Comments
2 Comments
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made during the sermon you heard for this 1st Sunday of Lent? Let us know. Mine… If the audio didn’t play immediately, refresh. I had the wrong link for the audio file for a few … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, PODCAzT, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged LENT, sermon
16 Comments
16 Comments
OLDIE PODCAzT 127: The Eve of St. Agnes and a Bleak Midwinter
It is a little late in the day, but today is the Eve of the Feast of St. Agnes. This reminds us all, of course, of the famous poem by Keats. This is the Eve of St. Agnes and, therefore, time … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Linking Back, PODCAzT, Poetry
Tagged Eve of St Agnes, Keats, podcast, PODCAzT
1 Comment
1 Comment
Yet another German moral mudslide: bishop proposes blessing homosexual relationships
Yesterday I took time away – mostly – from the blog and email. I checked in only long enough to approve comments in the queue, etc. Of course today lots of things are going “DING”, whimpering for my attention. Most of … Read More
PODCAzT 160: Bishops of Kazakhstan issue “Profession of the immutable truths about sacramental marriage” AUDIO
As the controversy erupted at the irruption of Amoris laetitia, I opined that, even though the document could be read in a properly orthodox way, those who were inclined not to support the Church’s teaching would say it meant something innovative … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?: “Bruised: You might be limiting your vision of the Church, which extends beyond where you live. There are places in…”
