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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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- The Bruised Optimist on ASK FATHER: If God love us infinitely why does He not speak to us directly?: “Perhaps what the verse from Exodus means is this. If we were to see God, and then have that consummation…”
- on WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “I did happen to go to Confession yesterday. I was the only one there. The only one. Either many Catholics…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026: “The national Eucharistic pilgrimage and consecration of the Nation has been going through Massachusetts these past few days, with a…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026: “The first reading was from 2 Kings 4:8ff. Father continued the story beyond what was in the lectionary. In the…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026: “(Vetus ordo, diocesan) Preaching today was about prayers and understanding for the 1st July, for the situation of the SSPX,…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026: “At FSSP Low Mass this morning. My layman’s take home message: we must speak as one voice. Don’t complain or…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026: “N.O. Mass Priest did not shy away from loving Christ more than father and mother, son and daughter. Explicitly said…”
- on I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.: “Needless to say, the SSPX doesn’t make videos about the priests like myself whom they’ve mistreated. It’s an organization that…”
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Category Archives: The Coming Storm
USA no longer in the world’s top 10
We all want a certain level of economic prosperity, which also is the only bridge for the poor out of poverty. To have economic prosperity, we have to have a basic level of rule of law. There must be some … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged debt, economic freedom, free markets, government regulation, taxes
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12 Comments
REVIEW: Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel by Michael O’Brien
I recently finished reading Voyage to Alpha Centauri by Michael D. O’Brien. (UK LINK HERE) I hope he writes in this genre again! This novel deals with an expedition in the future aboard a massive, city-like ship the Kosmos to … Read More
Posted in Look! Up in the sky!, REVIEWS, The Coming Storm, The Drill
Tagged Michael P. O'Brien, Voyage to Alpha Centauri
18 Comments
18 Comments
¡Vaya lío! Flash ‘Mass Mobs’ help struggling parishes.
From the Buffalo News: ‘Mass Mob’ breathes life into Catholic church [Nice of them to demote the Church to ‘church’, no?] Sam Kolodziej Jr. had a few more people than normal in his pew on Sunday morning. In fact, there … Read More
Be glad you live where you live (most of you, that is)
I read at BBC, that my favorite Chinese film director, Zhang Yimou, has been fined for having too many children. China fines Zhang Yimou $1.2m over one-child policy breach China has fined popular film director Zhang Yimou more than one … Read More
Numbers down in England and Wales
A depressing bit of news from not-too-Catholic-friendly RNS: Roman Catholics decline in England, Wales CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The number of Roman Catholic adherents in England and Wales fell by more than 90,000 in 2012, despite a wave of immigrants from … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged England, Wales
14 Comments
14 Comments
Jamie Stiehm the anti-Catholic bigot columnist v. Justice Sotomayor, Little Sisters, Bishops… Catholics…
US News and Word Report went off the deep end long ago. But this is a new low. They picked up a syndicated Creators Syndicate column by anti-Catholic bigot Jamie Steihm. They posted a piece which is amazing in the sheer … Read More
D. Trenton: Guardians of the Altar
Watch the libs have a spittle-flecked nutty about this one! I see that at the Cathedral of the Diocese of Trenton, where Bp. David O’Connell reigns, there is a group called the “Guardians of the Altar”. This, according to the … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, Semper Paratus, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged altar boys, Bp. David O'Connell, D. Trenton, Guardians of the Altar, LEOs, vocations
43 Comments
43 Comments
Teacher trashes 1st graders Christmas gifts: “Jesus is not allowed in school”
More liberal tolerance. From The Blaze: TEACHER REPORTEDLY SEIZES FIRST-GRADER’S CHRISTMAS GIFT AND TRASHES AFFIXED RELIGIOUS STORY A first-grade teacher in California told a student that “Jesus is not allowed in school” before removing a religious story the child affixed … Read More
ND Univ submits to the HHS Mandate
While the Little Sisters of the Poor are fighting for our religious freedom, the University of Notre Dame (which gave to the most infamously pro-abortion President of these USA ever the honor of a Doctrate in Law – of all … Read More
The Bruised Optimist on ASK FATHER: If God love us infinitely why does He not speak to us directly?: “Perhaps what the verse from Exodus means is this. If we were to see God, and then have that consummation…”
