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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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- WVC on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “It’s hard not to conclude the Synodal Church is the Ape of the Church.”
- on A JESUIT SAYS: “If you are able to go to confession once a month and choose not to, I would not want to be responsible for your soul.”: “As a Dad I go every two weeks, Mom also. We make sure kids go every month or if needed.…”
- on An important topic revisited: Moral Injury: “Father Z, on this topic, thank you for ascribing a name to something very hard to define outside injustice. Outside…”
- on A JESUIT SAYS: “If you are able to go to confession once a month and choose not to, I would not want to be responsible for your soul.”: “In order to make a good confession, a good examination of conscience is important as Fr. McTeigue notes. And yet…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1670 – a note to a Mass stream viewer in Canada and a limerick in Latin: “From F 451, to Celsius -273.15. Progress.”
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Category Archives: HONORED GUESTS
WDTPRS EXCLUSIVE! ZUHLIO RETURNS!
Some of you may recall waaay back when I posted a song by the famous rapper “Zuhlio”. I hadn’t had any previous acquaintance with Zuhlio before that, but since then I have stayed in touch. He had retired and was … Read More
Reader challenge: craft a response
From a readerette (as is): I am a lady of an age group that never was allowed on the alter. I always love to see the little server girls and so wish it had been allowed in my day. I … Read More
“Some more, some more Summorum Pontificum!”
My friend Fr. Blake in Brighton reported on this before. Here is the report from His Hermeneuticalness Fr. Finigan: Online busking trad blogger and friend of the homeless in Brighton, Laurence England of That The Bones You Have Crushed May … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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QUAERITUR: Is gambling a sin?
From a reader: I have recently started dating a woman who is a devout Catholic. I was baptized, but have fallen away from the church since I was young. Since I have love her so much I decided to start … Read More
“What advice would you give to a newly appointed bishop?” Phil Lawler opines.
All of us have, from time to time, thought that we would do a better job at role “X” in the Church. “If I were Pope… if I were bishop… if I were pastor… if I were sacristan… youth group … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, HONORED GUESTS, Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, The Drill
Tagged Phil Lawler
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27 Comments
GUEST POST: Christ’s love isn’t just warm feelings: it’s His death on the Cross.
Over at Bonfire of the Vanities Fr. Martin Fox has posted the text of his Sunday sermon (18th Sunday of Ordinary Time). It was about Holy Mass, sacrifice, participation… why we have Mass. For a long time I have been … Read More
Fr. Sirico in NRO: The Church as the Bride of Caesar
National Review Online a couple days ago had a great piece by Fr. Robert Sirico of Acton Institute. My emphases and comments. The Church as the Bride of Caesar July 27, 2011 4:15 P.M. By Fr. Robert A. Sirico It … Read More
GUEST POST: “They get the Ratzinger Marshall Plan better than many Catholics.”
My friend the great Fabricius Romanus, paterfamilias, sent me a reaction to the story I shared here about a priest in Italy who was physically assaulted by someone invoking Satan, because the priest was reintroducing traditional elements of Catholic worship. … Read More
“we do NOT come down from the cross”
I enjoy the musings of The Sensible Bond. He has a thoughtful entry which, in the lead up the Universae Ecclesiae seemed apposite to post… in part. We jump into this in medias res. He has been talking about the … Read More
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Our Catholic Identity, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged obedience, The Sensible Bond
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35 Comments
PODCAzT 116: Bp. Athanasius Schneider’s proposal for a “Syllabus” on the correct interpretation of Vatican II
His Excellency Most Rev. Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, has made quite a splash over the last few years. He first caught people’s eyes at the Synod on the Eucharist in 205 in Rome where he gave an … Read More
WVC on “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”: “It’s hard not to conclude the Synodal Church is the Ape of the Church.”
