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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 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.
St. John Eudes
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- Imrahil on ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?: “Well, the First Fridays devotion consists in Communicating worthily on them. Also, it is customary to pray the Litany of…”
- Elizium23 on ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?: “Sadly I am quite unfamiliar with First Friday devotions, but I did a little research: it seems, in its purest…”
- Boniface on ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?: “Unless the question was from a priest who wanted to do a private devotion of offering nine consecutive votive masses…”
- Elizium23 on What the Bishop of Charlotte is doing – UPDATE: “The practice that’s really in vogue here is to procure a set of nice prie-dieux and then have ushers or…”
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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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"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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Recent Posts
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-01 – A scare
- 3 April: Feast of St. Richard of Chichester. A comment about science.
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 45: Good Friday – Christ and our moral suffering
- ROME 26/3– Day 10: Thursday in Holy Week
- ASK FATHER: 9 1st Fridays but how do Good Friday (April 3) and St. Joseph (May 1) impact that?
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 44: Holy Thursday – Why we eat the victim
- ROME 26/3– Day 09: Wednesday in Holy Week
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 43: Spy Wednesday of Holy Week
- Following years of abuse Knights of Malta to formally split with the Holy See
- ROME 26/3– Day 08: Tuesday in Holy Week
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 42: Tuesday of Holy Week – Peter’s Passion
- ASK FATHER: Judas and the 300 denarii v. the 30 pieces of silver
- WDTPRS – Tuesday in Holy Week: Our grasp on Christ, His grasp on us
- ROME 26/3– Day 07: Monday in Holy Week
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 41: Monday of Holy Week – All tenderness
- ROME 26/3– Day 06: Palm Sunday
- Tradition … “safeguard the faith and combat error”
- What the Bishop of Charlotte is doing – UPDATE
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 40: Palm Sunday – GO TO CONFESSION
- ROME 26/3– Day 05: staying in
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 39: Saturday in Passiontide – POISON
- ROME 26/3– Day 04: cold and windy
- Update: working on the Mass Intention Request Form
- Pope Leo’s admonition to French bishops about the TLM and Vatican II
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 38: Friday in Passiontide – Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows
- ROME 26/3– Day 03: the color purple
- Pope Leo asks for generosity from bishops towards people who seek the TLM. I’ve seen this movie before.
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 37: Thursday in Passiontide – Babylon and Nard
- The Annunciation – The 1st Joyful Mystery (Patristic Rosary Project) Ave Gratiarum Mediatrix Omnium!
- ROME 26/3– Day 02: Annunciation
Let us pray…
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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VIDEO Rescue mission to Mount Sinjar
From CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm9vsXFQElY&feature=player_embedded
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USB sticks can carry a serious security threat
This, via the Beeb. Go there for more and video: USB ‘critically flawed’ after bug discovery, researchers say Cyber-security experts have dramatically called into question the safety and security of using USB to connect devices to computers. Berlin-based researchers Karsten … Read More
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Number of American Nuns plunging
I saw this at the Pew Research Center: U.S. nuns face shrinking numbers and tensions with the Vatican The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), which includes representation from more than 80% of American nuns, [The key is “from”. The … Read More
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FRANCE: Churches desecrated
From CWN: Two churches in Thonon-les-Bains, a city of 30,000 in eastern France, were desecrated on August 5, according to Le Messager, a newspaper based in Chablais. A man in his thirties entered St. Hippolytus Church and the Basilica of … Read More
IRS has a “Political Activities Referral Committee” which spies on preaching
While I was at the recent Napa Institute gathering, I got to know Kristina Arriaga, Executive Director of The Becket Fund, which defends religious freedom. They guided the Hobby Lobby decision to a good conclusion and for that we owe … Read More
Wm. Oddie on the upcoming Synod: no change in doctrine
At the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, William Oddie has his say about Card. Kasper, his odd notions about Communion for the divorced and remarried, the upcoming Synod and Pope Francis. Read the whole thing HERE, but I … Read More
Dublin’s Archbp. Martin criticizes young traditional priests
Across the pond at RU-486 (aka The Pill aka The Tablet), we find this: ‘Conformist’ younger clergy wary of Francis – Dublin archbishop Pope Francis’ courage is causing disquiet among those with “a very conformist and closed Catholicism” the Archbishop … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Must read piece about how wrong Rahner was.
Over at Rorate there is something, dear readers, that I want all of you to read and know like your catechism, for this is part of the battle we are all fighting right now… and for many years. At Rorate there is an … Read More
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Meltdown Countdown: Fishwrap on the Synod
The Synod on the Family will start in October. Already the dissidents at the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) are whining. They have twigged to the fact that they are not going to get what they want. Today … Read More
Card. Müller’s book-length interview: refutes Communion for divorced and civilly remarried
You will want to look at what Sandro Magister posted today. HERE Müller: “These Theories Are Radically Mistaken” The prefect of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith refutes the ideas of those who want to permit second marriages … Read More





















