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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
Video: Pope Benedict with his brother on vacation
There is some nice video from Stefano Maria Paci and SKY TG24 of the Holy Father on vacation in Bressanone, Italy with his brother Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, later joined by the other Msgr. Georg, the private secretary. The three of … Read More
RORATE: on Summorum Pontificum, SSPX, unity – enlightening
Our friends at Rorate have posted a very interesting interview with Prof. Luc Perrin at the Univ. of Strasbourg about the state of the question of the SSPX, Summorum Pontificum, unity, a year after the Motu Proprio and twenty years … Read More
QUAERITUR: Before the Council we had the TLM, so why did things go wrong?
I received this from a reader. Good questions are raised in the wake of Summorum Pontificum and "Save the Liturgy Save the World", as well as "Say the Black Do the Red" and many other of the points I raise … Read More
Card. Kasper at Lambeth calls for a New Oxford Movement
You should definitely go over and visit the site of the gentlemanly Sandro Magister. Today he has provided us with an English version of the speech Walter Card. Kasper delivered at the Anglican Lambeth meeting in his capacity as President … Read More
Card. Kasper speaks to Lambeth: “dialogue has taken a step backwards”
UPDATE: 31 July 15:28 GMT:I closed the combox here. Go to this entry for the full text and discussion of Card. Kasper’s talk at Lambeth. _________________________ This just in: Vatican cardinal: Catholic-Anglican dialog has ‘taken a step backwards’ Anglican Archbishop … Read More
More wymynpriest pretend ordination B.S.
Annoying, but sadly true. Here is a story from Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader. My emphases and comments. Oh… btw… there is a poll at that newpaper site… if you get my drift. Be patient… Jessamine woman to be ordained a priestBy … Read More
What WDTPRS is aiming at
I just wrote this for my weekly column, WDTPRS, for The Wanderer. After an explanation of the theological difference between aeterne and sempiterne Deus, which involved Augustine and Boethius, I paused for a moment and said… Indulge me, dear readers. … Read More
PCED response about TLMs for children
One of the WDTPRSers sent me a copy of an interesting response to a question put to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. I don’t have the original letter of the sender containing the question(s), but we can perhaps discern what … Read More
PODCAzT 67: St. Augustine on Martha, active v. contemplative lives; don Camillo (part II)
Today we are joined by the mighty Doctor of Grace, St. Augustine of Hippo (+430). He preaches to us from sermo 103 about the tension of the contemplative life and the active life, about being attentive to the needs of … Read More
Benedict XVI: What I did on my summer vacation.
His Holiness will be able to relax for his August break in a place well-known to him. Hopefully he will be able to finish the second volume of Jesus of Nazareth and get something done on the "social" encyclical. This … Read More
B on Daily Rome Shot 1116: “It just gets worse and worse. The Pope needs to publicly and very clearly put a halt to these shenanigans.…”
