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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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- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 05 – St. Jerome’s wide open spaces
- Kudos to the Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston
- Daily Rome Shot 1691: When Augustine and his mother Monica were reunited after 1617 years
- Roundup of books on St. Augustine of Hippo
- ASK FATHER: Priests tells me to say Act of Contrition outside the confessional, afterward
- ASK FATHER: Is the Collect from Leo’s “Mass for Creation” heretical?
- 27 August – St. Joseph Calasanz
- Over at Substack… I’m taking baby steps there… I posted about Jesuit Thomas Reese’s latest idiocy at RNS
- Daily Rome Shot 1690: without shame
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 04 – The Pilgrimage of Egeria
- “People reject the Church because she speaks against the sins they love” – St. Augustine…. NOT! Wherein Fr. Z corrects and then rants.
- A four letter word
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 03 – Should Christians Go To The Public Games?
- Daily Rome Shot 1689: Oaf For A Year!
- Daily Rome Shot 1688: Let’s use the word for these people… evil
- PODCAST – Voices of the Fathers 02 – The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian
- “These, Reverend Father, are no mere words, nor lifeless thoughts, but they are arrows shot from the strong bow of God Himself…”.
- PODCAzT – Voices of the Fathers 01 – The Scillitan Martyrs
- Daily Rome Shot 1687: Space jellyfish alert!
- Rediscovering Listening and Service: Toward a Definition of “Synodality” (aka “walking together”)
- ASK FATHER: “I have been looking for a retirement community close by a stable TLM. Do you have any clues on that?” Fr. Z asks help from the readership.
- Fathers! Pay attention. Video of an attack on the Eucharist during Communion at Sunday Mass. Nasty and planned.
- Wherein Fr. Z and St. Augustine reflect on the Samaritans of the 12th and 13th Sundays after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo) and the danger of false teaching in the Church today
- Daily Rome Shot 1686
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 13th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 21st Ordinary)
- A work in progress…
- 22 August: Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Vetus Ordo), Queenship of Mary (Novus Ordo)
- Daily Rome Shot 1685 – items wonderful and appalling
- 20 August – St. Bernard of Clairvaux the “Doctor Mellifluus”
- “They can always hurt you more.”
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“Until the Lord be pleased to settle, through the instrumentality of the princes of the Church and the lawful ministers of His justice, the trouble aroused by the pride of a few and the ignorance of some others, let us with the help of God endeavor with calm and humble patience to render love for hatred, to avoid disputes with the silly, to keep to the truth and not fight with the weapons of falsehood, and to beg of God at all times that in all our thoughts and desires, in all our words and actions, He may hold the first place who calls Himself the origin of all things.”
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
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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: The Campus Telephone Pole
17 Sept 2022 – Washington DC – Pilgrimage for the Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass for all Catholics
In Washington DC, on Saturday, 17 September 2022, the faithful will mark the 15th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, the motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI, which went into effect on 14 September 2007, liberating the Traditional Latin Mass for all … Read More
With so much that is British in the news right now, I have in mind my dearly missed priest friends in England. VIDEO suggestion.
With so much that is British in the news right now, I have in mind my dearly missed priest friends in England. I haven’t been able to visit them for a long time. That being the case, here is a … Read More
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Catholic Military Assoc of Our Lady of Victories app called “Military Connect”
I received this email… By way of a quick update (and perhaps you would be good enough to mention this on the blog), The Catholic Military Assoc of Our Lady of Victories has now gone live with an app called … Read More
Online Conference with a good theme: Be Strong And Courageous – 18-22 July 2022
I warmly recommend considering signing up for the virtual participation in the St. Paul Center’s July Virtual Conference – HERE I’ve been to St. Paul Center conferences before, for priests, once “virtually”, and they had a big impact on me. … Read More
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FLORIDA OPPORTUNITY ALERT: Treasures of the Church
An FYI for you readers in FLORIDA. Fr. Carlos Martins, who had the apostolate with relics of saints called “Treasures of the Church” is presently in Florida, making a circuit of the states, pretty much a different city and parish … Read More
SPECTACULAR! New Gregorian Chant from the nuns of Gower Abbey: TENEBRAE
I am really happy to inform you that the wonderful nuns of Gower Abbey, the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, have a new disc and digital download: Tenebrae at Ephesus US HERE – UK HERE These are the RESPONSORIES … Read More
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Fr. Z asks the readers: Is there a sommelier among you?
Is there a sommelier among you? Contact me. There could be an interesting opportunity. HERE In the subject line put “I’m a sommelier.”
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Of Benedictines, Easter Cards and YOU. Or… If you send cards for Christmas, how much more for Easter?
I often mention that the Benedictines of Norcia make great beer and that when you but, you help them. (That beer is really good.) So, too, I mention the Benedictines of Le Barroux who make wine (and they now have … Read More
Online classes, courses opportunities – UPDATED
I had mentioned the good opportunity for priests to work on Latin in an online course with Joseph Shaw, at Oxford, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society. HERE He is offering discounts for clergy. Also, the esteemed Dr. Robert Royal has … Read More




















