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Category Archives: Priests and Priesthood
CLERGY and CLERGY ON CALL Car Magnets
Sometimes when priests respond to a call for help they run into parking problems. It can help to have a plate or sign in the car to put in the windshield when parking at the hospital. It occurred to me … Read More
Posted in Priests and Priesthood, The Campus Telephone Pole
Tagged car magnets, clergy, hospital calls
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12 Comments
Want a TLM in your parish? Here is how it was done in one place!
I have written a few times (since the election of Francis – for example HERE) that it is time to push forward in the implementation of Summorum Pontificum. People who have been wringing their hands or resting on the laurels … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Benedict XVI, Bp. Jugis, D. Charlotte NC, Fr. Reid, Holy Innocents, La Voz del Pueblo, Pope Francis, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
29 Comments
29 Comments
Of Star Wars and Immanentism and Birdcages and Elite Snobbery. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
In my talks I sometimes address the steady slide of many Catholics into Immanentism Lite. They don’t exactly deny that God is transcendent, it’s just that they never give transcendence the slightest thought. They have never had too, have they? … Read More
QUAERITUR: Distance of a priest’s valid consecration
From a reader: Dear Father – Like yourself I am not a fan of concelebration, but I would like to ask two questions. These questions came about in one of those after dinner discussions which come under the heading of … Read More
“NO! You may NOT do that!”
One of the main functions of the Church is to say “no”. In saying “no” by the Ten Commandments, God the Father was not simply trying to ruin what would have otherwise been a good time in life. He said … Read More
Posted in Mail from priests, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged Bp. Yves Boivineau, D. Annecy, Freemasonry, Masons
51 Comments
51 Comments
VERY COOL PRIEST with a SUPER COOL IDEA for HARD IDENTITY Catholicism
Yes, this one got me a little excited. In the past I have posted about a very cool priest, Fr. Richard Heilman, pastor of glorious Pine Bluff, WI. You may recall that he founded a group called the Knights of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, GO TO CONFESSION, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The future and our choices
Tagged apps, confession, confessions, D. Madison, Fr. Heilman, Knights of Divine Mercy, MyConfessor
61 Comments
61 Comments
QUAERITUR: Indulgences for 1st Blessings by priests… again
From a reader about to be ordained: About a month ago you blogged that new priest blessings don’t specifically have indulgences attached to them and recommended future ordinands ask their bishop to send a letter to the apostolic penitentiary so … Read More
CRI DE COEUR: “If there were no more priests hardly anyone would be crying about it.”
At Rorate I saw something (translated there from Italian) from the blog Radicati nella fede, for the Catholic community of Domodossola and Vocogno in the Diocese of Novara. This is a cri de coeur, if there ever was one. My … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Cri de Coeur, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, Seminarians and Seminaries, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Vatican II, Vocations, Year of Faith
Tagged Cri de Coeur, priesthood, Priests, Vatican II, vocations
112 Comments
112 Comments
ATTENTION PRIESTS
I belong to a group of priests who get together for a few days each summer. Because I have mentioned this on the blog for the last couple years, several priests from different areas of North America have been able … Read More
Ass. of Catholic Priests formed to push passé liberal agenda
The National Schismatic Reporter has an online piece about a new group for ultra-liberal priests called the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests. The group is comprised of self-described “Vatican II priests”. In 2012, 240 people showed up for a meeting and … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, Priests and Priesthood
Tagged Association of Catholic Priests, Biological Solution
66 Comments
66 Comments
Archlaic on Over at Substack… I’m taking baby steps there… I posted about Jesuit Thomas Reese’s latest idiocy at RNS: ““What a maroon”, as that noted philosopher Bugs Bunny might say… Perhaps he is hoping for a red hat… or…”
