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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
Charlottesville VA: Dominican Rite Missa Cantata scheduled
From a reader: DOMINICAN RITE MASS IN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA By an initiative of the pastor, Fr. Luke Clark, O.P., in response to requests by parishioners, St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville VA, will host a Dominican Rite Missa Cantata … Read More
Kmiec on Holy See’s Pelosi visit statement, Justice Scalia, duties of jurists
This is in from TIME. You might go back and review this entry before reading ahead. My emphases and comments. Friday, Feb. 20, 2009Catholic Judges and Abortion: Did the Pope Set New Rules?By Douglas W. Kmiec Much has been made … Read More
Archbp. of Brisbane: bomb threat for removing Fr. Kennedy from St. Mary’s
You know about the flap in Brisbane, Australia. The Archbishop of Brisbane has finally… finally acted to check the renegade priest Fr. Peter Kennedy, heretic and perhaps soon to be schismatic, who has been warping the parish of St. Mary … Read More
Interesting “Declaration” from the Holy See’s Press Office
This is pretty interesting, from the Holy See Press Office Bolletino today: My translation from the Italian original: DECLARATION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE HOLY SEE, REV. FR. FEDERICO LOMBARDI, SJ In the late morning the … Read More
WDTPRS: Quinquagesima
An excerpt from the column for this Sunday: In our traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. Today is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which prepare us for the discipline of Lent. … Read More
“Ein Proooosit!” the Black/Red way!
A kind reader sent the following: Fr. Z – We were impressed with how nicely a 12 oz beer fit in your large mug! Thanks guys, and PROSIT!
Help! Getting some Chinese characters back from remaining code
Upon upon a time when some changes were made to the server hosting this blog, I lost the ability to display certain characters, including Chinese characters. Hundreds of entries had words that were turned into gobbledygook. I can’t tell you … Read More
Parsing an article in a diocesan paper: some problems
I don’t want to pick on the writer. That is not my purpose. But more than one person sent me this article with some questions. In The Message Online, for SW Indiana, which is the internet presence of the Diocese … Read More
QUAERITUR: incomplete vestment sets for TLM
From a priest reader (edited): With Lent about to begin I have a question regarding Laetare Sunday and what vestments I should wear for the TLM that day. I will be celebrating a Sung Mass in the EF for Laetare … Read More
Some recent posts and other stuff
Some recent entries: A fictional dialogue Fr. Kennedy of Brisbane: See ya! BBC: SSPX Bp. Williamson expelled from Argentina Exercises in intimidation: The Tablet attacks Fr. Finigan Attack on the Pope by a group of European “rupture” theologians TIME: Catholics … Read More
ProfessorCover on Daily Rome Shot 1116: “This reminds me of something Thomas Pink said in a response to a question fromAndrew Cusak: Many European Bishops are…”
