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- My View For Awhile: first Pete and now repeat – surreally updated
- WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo): Mercy and Justice are not opposed
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- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- Daily Rome Shot 1672
- Diane Montagna has all of her scalpels out, dear readers. The object of the autopsy is….
- Daily Rome Shot 1671
- THE FIFTH CONJURATION – A Scene in Blank Verse after the Manner of Christopher Marlowe
- A priest’s prayers for before and after hearing confessions
- ASK FATHER: What’s your preferred English translation of the Bible?
- Keep in mind the phrase: quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
- Does it feel to you as if something is building to an explosive point?
- “We will evaluate the implementation, then implement the evaluation, then evaluate the implementation of the evaluation.”
- An important topic revisited: Moral Injury
- Daily Rome Shot 1670 – a note to a Mass stream viewer in Canada and a limerick in Latin
- A JESUIT SAYS: “If you are able to go to confession once a month and choose not to, I would not want to be responsible for your soul.”
- Daily Rome Shot 1669 – important notes!
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 17th Ordinary)
- WDTPRS – 17th Sunday Ordinary Time (Novus Ordo): Sin Teflon, Demon Kevlar
- Daily Rome Shot 1668
- Daily Rome Shot 1667
- Daily Rome Shot 1665
- Remember… the TLM has to be suppressed because… you know… reasons.
- Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”
- 22 July: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene – A rocky history. Like the saint herself?
- Daily Rome Shot 1664 – quick
- VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 05
- 20 July – St. Elijah, Prophet of the Old Testament
- Would a marriage impediment apply in this case
- Daily Rome Shot 1663 – Happy International Chess Day!
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- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
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Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
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Category Archives: Si vis pacem para bellum!
More from the Religion of Peace
In the meantime, as I contemplate my problems and the challenges I face these days, I read this at Gateway Pundit: “Adulteress” Begs ISIS to See Her Children Before Her Execution – ISIS Shoots Her in Head Instead This video … Read More
The more jihadists attack West, the more frightened leaders cower.
In American Spectator there is a piece by George Neumayr caught my eye: THE DIVIDED WEST Its “values” are too confused to eliminate jihadism. The White House’s decision to avoid the Paris rally against last week’s jihadist killings conforms to its relaxed … Read More
Is blasphemy a right?
This is troubling. On the site of 20 Minutes, in French. My sender wrote: Reporters without border’s president, Christophe Deloire, on a national TV show sunday evening, said that his organization is working toward a declaration to be agreed … Read More
“In the last 35 years, those lives destroyed could have included…”
From Fr. George Rutler’s “pastor’s page” for 11 January. There was a theologian who, when discouraged, would keep repeating to himself, “I have been baptized.” Since the Prince of Lies has discouragement as his chief strategy and purpose, the Rite … Read More
Card Burke interview on “hot button” topics. Fr. Z rants.
At my old stomping ground The Wanderer (I had a weekly column for 11 years) there is an interview with His Eminence Raymond Leo Card. Burke. Read the whole thing there, but here is a sample of Part One of the interview, … Read More
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“lingua latina bene calleant”
Many are the times that I have lamented the nearly complete disobedience to the Code of Canon Law and the expressed will of modern Roman Pontiffs about the Latin language. For example, the 1983 Code of Canon Law, can. 249, … Read More
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Card. De Paolis on communion for divorced, remarried: “If approved, the consequences would be of unprecedented gravity.”
The outline of features for the next Synod of Bishops in October 2015, or Lineamenta, has been released. The Lineamenta is based on the last Synod’s final document, the Relatio Synodi. For the Relatio, the members of the Synod voted on each paragraph. According to the … Read More
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FEEDBACK: “This morning at seminary we were discussing….”
I am glad when I get feedback about how this blog has been useful for someone, especially in important matters having to do with the life of faith. Today I received a note about something that happened in a seminary … Read More
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Five Cardinals Book™ will defend marriage in several more languages!
Friends, the controversy isn’t over yet. It is only beginning. So, I am happy to report that The Five Cardinals Book™, Remaining in the Truth of Christ: Marriage and Communion in the Catholic Church, which helped to turn the tide during … Read More
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST
In your goodness, will you stop and, right now, say a prayer for a cleric who is going through some ecclesiastical … there’s no other way to put this… persecution of the liberal sort. It’s as nasty as I have … Read More




















