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Category Archives: Si vis pacem para bellum!
Wherein Fr. Z rants at the beginning of a New Year of Salvation
I’ve noted with interest a number of reviews of the past year regarding the Church. Not a few saw the last year as a “year from hell” or an “annus horribilis”. Sure. That’s not unfair. It was a very difficult … Read More
RUMOR VOLAT: Buzzing about the suppression of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”
Reports are circulating into my phone, my mail box and onto the interwebs (Messa in Latino and Tossati) that the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” (PCED) could be suppressed soon and absorbed into the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z offers a cautionary tale to those who struggle with liturgical conundra.
The site of the CMAA, Musica Sacra Forum, published response to the 29 – yes, twenty-nine – dubia submitted to the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei”. The questioner is a Polish priest, I assume young, working on a doctorate. Folks, I get it. … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Si vis pacem para bellum!
Tagged dubia, PCED, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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ASK FATHER: Could Latin be suppressed? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
In a post yesterday, I wrote about the possibility that, before too long, the TLM might wind up being the “last Mass standing”. Why? Demographics are burning quickly and the present day hierarchy has only thrown more accelerant on the … Read More
GERMANY: Catastrophic! USA next? @USCCB bishops meeting and YOU. ACTION ITEM!
An image to consider. Two rays extending from the same point get farther and father apart the longer they extend. If the one ray is the trajectory of Christ’s true Church, then the other ray, that departs from it, … Read More
“It is just a building.” – UPDATE: Like Planned Parenthood selling off baby parts.
UPDATE 5 Nov 2018: Here’s the deal. I’ve been thinking about this demolition thing. It’s not just a matter of demolishing a church and then selling the property. What happens is that scavenger experts come in and inventory all the … Read More
More on #Synod2018 (“walking together”) document #146
Today the pithily perspicacious Fr H looks at the Synod’s (“walking together”) notion about developing ways to certify Catholic blogs to avoid “fake news”. He wrote along the lines of what I wrote HERE. He also wrote: We seem … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Si vis pacem para bellum!
Tagged censorship, Synod
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#ViganoTestimony 3.0! Powerful response to accusations, points to crisis of homosexuality #sodoclericalism
Huge. Archbp. Carlo Maria Viganò has issued a third Testimony. It is a neutron bomb. First, at CNA we read that the present “Sostituo”, the 2nd in command in the Secretariat of State for matter within the Church, Archbishop Edgar Peña … Read More
Certain sins bring infestation of demons: horrid #sodoclericalism “parties” close to the most important places in the Vatican
UPDATE: Just because a bishop sets a “policy”, that doesn’t mean that the rest of us in a diocese are obliged to follow that “policy” if that policy clearly contradicts the universal law of the Church. The failure of a … Read More
maternalView on ROME 26/10– Day 01: A rocky beginning: “Prayers for your well-being and feeling better, Father.”
