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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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- Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 36: Ultimate
- WDTPRS – 5 November: Feast of the Holy Relics. These bones shall live again. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 35: Penultimate
- Germans… “for many” in the Consecration formula, rather than “for all”
- WDTPRS: A charming translation for the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo – 4 November
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 34: Requiem for deceased benefactors
- CQ CQ CQ – EWTN shut down its shortwave radio service on 31 October. Understandable, but I have some reservations.
- ASK FATHER: “Is it proper to pray for the repose of souls who died before the Resurrection and the harrowing of Hell?”
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 33: All Souls
- ASK FATHER: “Why isn’t the Male Only Holy Orders a Dogma?”
- ROME 26/10-11 – Day 32: All Saints
- ACTION ITEM! 1-8 November PLENARY INDULGENCE for the Poor Souls
- What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? “Placáre, Christe, sérvulis”
- If you are a priest or seminarian, this is your immediate homework. A judicial decision from the Roman Rota roundly condemned publishing lists of “credibly accused” clerics.
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – All Saints (Vetus Ordo and Novus Ordo)
- MAIL CALL: A note about St. Expeditus and an online shrine
- ROME 26/10 – Day 31: Blast from the … present!
- Is the needle moving?
- ASK FATHER: If a priest explains away a mortal sin, and the penitent believes him, is the absolution valid?
- ROME 26/10 – Day 30: With apologies to the Bard
- RIP Patrick Stewart … my competitor!
- ROME 26/10 – Day 29: hard to read inscription
- ASK FATHER: Definition and the duties of a pastoral associate.
- ROME 26/10 – Day 28: Natalis Dies
- You knew this had to happen
- ROME 26/10– Day 27: Vigil
- Rush: on …what’s going on now
- ROME 26/10– Day 26: Rube Goldberg
- My Annual St Crispin’s Day roundup with Henry V speech!
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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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COMING SOON! The Eleven Cardinals Book and The Ten Africans Book!
The other day I wrote about two upcoming books. The “sequel” to the Five Cardinals Book™ is coming. HERE The Eleven Cardinals Book™ is on its way. Eleven Cardinals Speak On Marriage and the Family Edited by Winfried Aymans the Eleven … Read More
The Flag, Pope Francis, Cuba and Religious Freedom
Look… Pope’s meet with all sorts of people. That said, I direct your attention to a piece at USA Today by Nichols Hahn of Real Clear Religion. My emphases. Havana’s U.S. flag no victory for pope: Column Secretary of State John Kerry’s … Read More
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Vatican Radio joins Corriere della Sera to shill for the Kasper Proposal
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Bp. Kagan (D. Bismarck): Statement on Boy Scouts decision on homosexuals
Fr. Z kudos to His Excellency Most Rev. David D. Kagan, Bishop of Bismarck. From the diocesan website of Bismarck: Letter from Bishop: Decision on Boy Scouts of America August 3, 2015 Dear Faithful Catholics of the Diocese of Bismarck, … Read More
Prep Wednesday: All Bleeding Stops – Spiritual and Physical “Blow Out Kits”
The analogy of the Church Militant as a spiritual field hospital is pretty good, provided that we remember that in field hospitals lots of people don’t make it. We are like pilgrim soldiers in the Church Militant, on the march to our … Read More
ROME: “Shadow Synod” II September 10-12
I received word of a conference coming up in Rome. The conference is clearly part of an organized effort to influence the proceedings of the upcoming Synod of Bishop on the family… and not in a good way. This … Read More
Catholic League on the publicly funded hate speech in Milwaukee
From the Catholic League: Milwaukee Hate Speech Publicly Funded August 3, 2015 Bill Donohue comments on the Milwaukee Art Museum’s anti-Catholic exhibition and its reliance on public funding: Anti-Catholic art is always objectionable, but it is doubly so when it … Read More
Las Cruces, NM: Bombs set off at Catholic and Baptist churches
From WSPA.com: LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Officials say there have been reports of explosions at two Las Cruces churches. Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office say they have bomb squads at the scenes of the two churches. At the time of Sunday … Read More
MUNICH: “Married” lesbian remains head of day care center
This is interesting… From LifeSite: ‘Married’ lesbian approved as head of Catholic day care in Cardinal Marx’s diocese July 31, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The website of the German Bishops’ Conference, katholisch.de, reported yesterday on the first case of a practicing homosexual … Read More
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