Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA

Please do me a favor when sending photos. Please don’t embed them in the body of your e-mail. Attach them as files. Embedding them creates more work for me.  When I see more work staring me in the face, I … Read More →

Does anyone have photos of His Excellency Most Reverend R. Walter Nickless of Sioux City, Iowa celebrating in black vestments last weekend?

My friend Fr. Jeff Moore is in Switzerland, at the Collegio Papio in Ascona. The place was established by St. Charles Borromeo. He celebrated the Feast of Holy Relics in a way the saint would have easily recognized.

Here is an alarming note from a reader: I just came across the following information regarding the group Call to Action and their national conference to be held Nov 7-9, 2008 in Milwaukee, WI. I did not know the  nature  … Read More →

"Give us back our black!" Let this be the cry of the Catholic in the age of reclaiming continuity. This is from a reader: Photos from the first Tridentine Requiem in 43 years in the cavernous Upper Church of the … Read More →

As I flipped around some channels during a commercial I happened on an old war horse Rocky and paused for a moment.  A few seconds later, I saw this. Synchronicity. This is pretty funny… the Papist found it. You know … Read More →

"But Father! But Father!" some of you are writing to me.  "Why don’t you permit ‘anonymous’ comments?  After all, this is the internet.  You can’t really know who is posting.  What difference does it make?" I think Aaron Sorkin put … Read More →

A prayer, please.  I am going to have a dreadful day.

Prediction: With the election of President Elect Obama, I think we will now see a progressivist spill over in the Catholic sphere.  The progressivists will be emboldened now.   They will, with their characteristic clarity of thought, connect the political shift … Read More →

I hear that the count is very close, but it seems that Sen. Coleman won in MN. Thanks be to God. UPDATE: Well… I guess not.