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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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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
NOTE TO READERS about email and contact
Dear readers, I get a huge amount of email. If you want to write to me, use my CONTACT form. A link is on the top menu. If you don’t use that contact form, I may just delete your email … Read More
VARIA: Concrete parish project of reparation (PDF); Fighting back in Chicago; Disasters, death and YOU!; a little Latin (AUDIO); some super Catholic trivia.
Some various notes. Today I received the PDF of a booklet made for Sacred Heart parish in Grand Rapids, MI (the city in which you find the HQ of ACTON INSTITUTE). This is what one parish is doing to … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, SESSIUNCULA
Tagged A subitanea et improvisa morte, Acton Institute, Angelus, Latin
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We’ll be right back after this message…
Today – the 8th day of the month – is one of this blog’s very lean days. There are three people signed up to make monthly donations. That means when 8 September, 8 October, 8 November, etc., rolls around there … Read More
ASK FATHER: Convert -“Should I do as my fellow Romans do?”
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am a recent convert to the Church from a Continuing Anglican Church. I was a 45 year Anglo-Catholic. I make what I consider to be the appropriate Signing and obeisances during the Gloria, Creed, Sanctus, … Read More
The answer to the chaos in the Church is…
I received a note today from a friend in London – how I need a visit there! – who made one of the wisest comments I’ve read about The Present Crisis. “The answer to the chaos in the Church is … Read More
@JamesMartinSJ close association with “comedian” whose writer is “glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh’s life”
Homosexualist activist and Jesuit Fr. James Martin, LGBTSJ, calls himself the “Show Chaplain” for the execrable and only occasionally amusing Stephen Colbert. HERE and HERE Here’s something for the “Show Chaplain” to Colbert Report, Colbert’s former show before taking over a … Read More
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Brett Kavanaugh, Fr. James Martin SJ, SCOTUS, Stephen Colbert
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VIDEO: Card. Müller and Bp. Morlino address The Present Crisis
Last night, 4 October, both His Eminence Gerhard Ludwig Card. Müller and then His Excellency Robert C. Morlino were on The World Over with Raymond Arroyo. Here is the whole show.
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Bp. Robert Morlino, EWTN, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Raymond Arroyo
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ZUHLIO RETURNS! On the Synod and “Send In The Saints”
Recently, in the pages of First Things, Archbp. Chaput of Philadelphia published a theologian’s views of the Instrumentum Laboris for the upcoming Synod of Bishops about “young people”. A couple points leap out. First, I note in a piece at LifeSite … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard during your Mass to fulfill your Sunday Obligation? Let us know.
Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
