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“This blog is like a fusion of the Baroque ‘salon’ with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West “saloon” with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to be Catholic in this increasingly difficult age, to love God, and how to get to heaven.” – Fr. Z
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Recent Posts
- Daily Rome Shot 1667
- Daily Rome Shot 1665
- Remember… the TLM has to be suppressed because… you know… reasons.
- Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”
- 22 July: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene – A rocky history. Like the saint herself?
- Daily Rome Shot 1664 – quick
- VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 05
- 20 July – St. Elijah, Prophet of the Old Testament
- Would a marriage impediment apply in this case
- Daily Rome Shot 1663 – Happy International Chess Day!
- ASK FATHER: public veneration of relics
- Daily Rome Shot 1662
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 16th Ordinary) 2026
- ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.
- A Cardinal accidently gets it right!
- Daily Rome Shot 1661
- WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost – living right
- Daily Rome Shot 1660 – A day that will live in INFAMY
- Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit)
- ALERT: The SSPX appeals against the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Mass this afternoon – Unity of the Church… differently
- Daily Rome Shot 1658
- My View For Awhile: homeward – CONCLUSION
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-23 – Toupee or not toupee
- Archbp. of Milwaukee reacts to the SSPX consecrations. Fr Z comments.
- WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: God can neither deceive nor be deceived
- Daily Rome Shot 1657 – new life
- Daily Rome Shot 1656 – different stuff
- WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Category Archives: PODCAzT
PODCAzT 40: Eusebius of Vercelli in exile; my column in The Wanderer about detractors of Summorum Pontificum
In today’s PODCAzT you will hear excerpts of a tender letter (ep. 2) from an exiled St. Eusebius of Vercelli to his flock. I have a rather longer selection of the Latin original this time. Also, I read my latest … Read More
PODCAzT 39: St. Augustine on Christ the Mediator; “for all” or “for many”?
In today’s PODCAzT, we hear from St. Augustine of Hippo (+430) who contributes to the second reading in today’s Office of Readings. The selection is from Bk 10 of the Confessions. I use that as a spring board into … Read More
PODCAzT 38: Ratzinger on “active participation”; The Sabine Farm; Merry del Val’s music
https://zuhlsdorf.computer/podcazt/07_07_25.mp3 Our PODCAzT today comes after a long break. I has some technical problems. In today’s PODCAzT I continue the project I started last time of looking at some fundamental characteristic of Holy Mass, especially in light of the older, … Read More
It’s a conspiracy, tell you!
After solving a few of my techincal problems, which made getting the last couple PODCAzTs made and promulgated so arduuous, today I am having environmental problems! It seems like everytime I settle into get something done, the phone squawks or … Read More
PODCAzT 37: The position of the altar and the priest’s “back to the people”
Our PODCAzT today comes after a long break. I had some technical problems. This is the first PODCAzT since Pope Benedict XVI issued the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. On 14 September the use of the older form of Mass will … Read More
PODCAzT 36: St. Augustine on John the Baptist; Ut queant laxis
https://wdtprs.com/podcazt/07_06_24.mp3 Our PODCAzT for this Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist presents a selection from sermon (s. 288) preached by St. Augustine of Hippo (+430) in Carthage in 401. This is not the same selection as you … Read More
PODCAzT 35: Cyprian on the Our Father; MP Rules of Engagement
https://zuhlsdorf.computer/podcazt/07_06_17.mp3 In the PODCAzT we examine a selection from St. Cyprian of Carthage’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer, De oratione dominica. Afterward, I make some comments about liturgical prayer. Then I gloss my 5 Rules of Engagement for When and … Read More
PODCAzT 34: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist; Mass in heaven? No!
Today’s PODCAzT brings a reading from St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist. This is a selection used in the Office of Readings and also in the pre-Conciliar Breviarium Romanum. It is from the Angelic Doctor’s Opusculum 57, on the … Read More
PODCAzT 33: Augustine on loving “too late”; the Trinity; leaving Roma
In today’s PODCAzT I retrace my steps a few days to a powerful selection in the Office of Readings from Book 10 of Augustine’s Confessions. Since it is Trinity Sunday I speak about our Catholic faith in a Triune God. … Read More
PODCAzT 32: Gregory the Great on Job; rubrics; sacred music
In this somewhat longer PODCAzT we hear from St. Pope Gregory the Great (+604) who gives us a commentary on Job’s suffering. These days in the Office of Readings, now that it is "Ordinary Time" again… sigh… we are hearing … Read More




















