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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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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy: “punishment…. yes Tratti di corda. It’s the Roman way. Now, live on TV and YouTube.”
- GHP on Three Precious “Moments of Sharing” in Fr. Z’s Neighborhood: “The parish I attend is a very holy and traditional NO. But with that said, whenever the song “Canticle of…”
- GHP on ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy: “Fr. Z. sez …Thank you God, for these beautiful proofs of your love for us…. Add coffee to that list!…”
- Gregg the Obscure on ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy: “vandalism is one offense that cries out for the lex talionis. two varieties come to mind: (1) place the offender…”
- Imrahil on ROME 26/4– Day 35: Theatre of the Absurd: “(For those who have a feeling that in the “some people who apparently treat primitiveness as a virtue”, I might…”
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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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Recent Posts
- ROME 26/5– Day 42: Keeping up my end
- ROME 26/5– Day 41: Groovy
- St. Monica, her incipient alcoholism, the intervention that saved her. WORLD HISTORY CHANGING in an INSTANT!
- Three Precious “Moments of Sharing” in Fr. Z’s Neighborhood
- I must post this. And then I have a mind experiment for you.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 5th Sunday OF Easter)
- ROME 26/5– Day 39 & 40: A True Scoundrel
- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Easter (Novus Ordo): The prayer’s very word order reveals God’s love – UPDATED/CORRECTED
- WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): “The smoke of Satan has entered into the temple of God”
- ROME 26/5– Day 39: Evviva San Giuseppe!
- ROME 26/4– Day 38: Jasmine news (not the Jesuit)
- Bishop wants to ordained married men because “pastoral emergency”. Could you repeat that?
- Report from the ground: Charlotte
- “I am the good shepherd”
- ROME 26/4– Day 37: trading places
- Fr. McTeigue asks for a novena of reparation for the Anglican … thing… in Rome
- ASK FATHER: Is religious liberty in “Dignitatis humanae” the same as before the Vatican II? Of SSPX relevance. Wherein Fr. Z also makes an impassioned plea to Leo.
- ROME 26/4– Day 36: Seeing red
- ROME 26/4– Day 35: Theatre of the Absurd
- ROME 26/4– Day 34: A good example
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th Sunday OF Easter)
- ASK FATHER: If the Canon is inaudible, would it be invalid?
- ROME 26/4– Day 33: Here’s a little Latin for you
- ROME 26/4– Day 32: What a day
- ROME 26/4– Day 31: tired
- ROME 26/4– Days 30: R.I.P.
- “Masses scheduled at impossible times”… Where have I heard that before?
- ROME 26/4– Days 29: Happy Birthday Rome!
- Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z
- ROME 26/4– Days 27 & 28: Pope SAINT Leo IX lead an army
Let us pray…
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: Religious Liberty
Obama Administration asks SCOTUS not to exempt Catholic groups
The Obama Administration continues its jihad against the 1st Amendment, religious freedom, especially Catholic religious freedom. From FNC: Administration to high court: Don’t exempt Catholic groups from contraception mandate The Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court not to exempt … Read More
D. Superior rejects Common Core
For your Brick by Brick file… The Diocese of Superior (WI) has opted out of Common Core! Here is a statement from the Diocese (their diocesan website is fancy enough that, right now, it isn’t working. You get stuck in a … Read More
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The day virtue was outlawed
Liberal catholics want us all to weenie out and avoid engaging in “culture wars”. Meanwhile, I saw this commentary piece at CNSNews: Free Exercise of Virtue Prohibited as of Today in USA As of today–Jan. 1, 2014–a Democratic administration led … Read More
Obama’s V.A. hospital forbids Christmas cards made by children for wounded vets
More BAH! HUMBUG! from Pres. Obama’s Veteran’s Administration. First, they ban Christmas carols. Now, they ban cards made by children. From FNC (where there is also video): Boys and girls at Grace Academy in Prosper, Tex., spent most of last Friday … Read More
VA Hospital bans religious Christmas carols
I think this is despicable. It also shows what is happening under the godless Obama Administration… who did not go to Church on Christmas, even though last week he (hypocritically?) said we should remember the religious dimension of Christmas. BAH! … Read More
Mark Steyn on his editors at NRO and Phil Robertson
I appreciate both how Mark Steyn writes and what he has written about the Duck Dynasty controversy and Phil Robertson’s persecution. Remember: I am a free market guy. If A&E wants to bend over for bullies, fine. They can do … Read More
Judge gives relief to Archd. NY against the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act
Good news to be read at Newsmax: NY Archdiocese: Ruling Against Contraception Mandate Gives All ‘Religious Freedom’ The Archdiocese of New York applauded a judge’s decision Monday that so-called non-exempt religious groups are not bound by the Affordable Care Act’s requirement … Read More
Obamacare, your taxes, and “gender reassignment” surgery. Fr. Z rants a little.
How is Obamacare, the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act, working for you so far? I saw this on LifeSite: Obama administration may add taxpayer-funded sex-change operations to ObamaCare, Medicare, Medicaid DES MOINES, IA, December 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Affordable Care Act … Read More
Effects of the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act
There has been some heated discussion about how the USCCB did or could have been more or less supportive of Obamacare… which we should really all be calling the “AFFORDABLE” Care Act, perhaps with a quizzical twist of “uptalk”. Over … Read More
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Another evil attack on the Church and religious freedom in these USA
One can understand that a person might be slightly deranged because of sorrow and grief, but this is an evil act. This is the sort of thing that will occur more and more often. Michigan woman sues U.S. Catholic bishops … Read More





















