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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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- Season After Pentecost on ROME 26/3– Day 23: Pure hate: “Why the hatred for rain in Rome? It does look awfully puddley, haha.”
- Phil_NL2 on Of computing time, a comma, and the invalidity of Benedict XVI’s abdication: “For the consequences of commas, I refer to the trail of Roger Casement, where the problem lay in the absence…”
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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
- ROME 26/3– Day 23: Pure hate
- Of computing time, a comma, and the invalidity of Benedict XVI’s abdication
- ROME 26/3– Day 22: thanks
- Nope. People know how doctors dress.
- ROME 26/3– Day 21: More on the Six Hour Clock app
- ROME 26/3– Day 20: WOW! JUST TOO COOL!
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Quasimodo Sunday (and “Low” and “Thomas” and “Divine Mercy”)
- ASK FATHER: We can eat meat on Easter Friday, but do we have to do some other penance?
- ROME 26/3– Day 19: Claming up
- Nuns of Gower Abbey have a NEW music disc/download!
- St. Augustine on military service and prayer in time of war
- ROME 26/3– Day 18: Flowers!
- ASK FATHER: Can we eat meat on Friday in the Octave of Easter? (Hint: YES!)
- ROME 26/3– Day 17: Itadakimasu
- ROME 26/3– Day 16: chores
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-04-03 – Aftermath of foot washing
- ROME 26/3– Day 15: foods and views and shoes
- ASK FATHER: Can the “Dies Irae” be used in the Novus Ordo Requiem Mass? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: Grounding for the “harrowing of Hell”
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-03-28 – A bold statement for foot washing
- ROME 26/3– Day 12-13-14: whew (lots of photos)
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Easter Sunday
- PASCHALCAzT 2026 – 47: Easter Sunday – Joy
- “He descended into Hell” – Notes on “The Harrowing of Hell”
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 46: Holy Saturday – The last indignity – UPDATED
- ROME 26/3– Day 11: Good Friday
- 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
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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PENTIN on “Trump’s Early Decisions Expose Damage Caused by Vatican Complicity With Democrat-Run Globalism”
Ed Pentin has an important post at his blog: HERE Trump’s Early Decisions Expose Damage Caused by Vatican Complicity With Democrat-Run Globalism, Says Italian Scholar A taste… In sum, Fontana said the Church’s alignment with these policies of globalism has … Read More
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Fr. Charron on Mr. Lofton
My good friend (and a good chess player) Fr. Jason Charron has issued a video response to Michael Lofton. These days I pay zero attention to Michael Lofton. I’ve seen a few clips and minutes here and there, and those … Read More
“I asked the new Chinese AI “DEEPSEEK”, about the priest’s posture during the consecration in the Traditional Latin Mass. It’s Reply….”
Some think that AI is here to stay. If that is so, then I am not convinced that we are (cf. Skynet). In the meantime, AI is bringing us bread and circuses: great memes and videos, etc. That’s what the interwebs did, … Read More
What is Catholic teaching about “deportation”? Maybe not what some higher-ups think.
At Catholic Vote there is an article (seemingly assembled from tweets/x) which you should look at about Catholic teaching on “deportation”. PROBLEM: Official Church documents on faith and morals have perennially been written in LATIN. That fact is not the … Read More
Daily Rome Shot 1217 – “Why”, you may be asking? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I have a comparatively short trip to Rome coming up. First, a couple days with a priest friend in Brooklyn, which breaks up the journey and puts a buffer into the flights. A couple weeks in Rome. The same coming … Read More
UPDATED AND SOLVED – Mystery Puzzle Challenge from something in Fulton Sheen’s book On The Demonic
UPDATE 8 Jan 25 15:55: Big news! FIRST… this is an important topic. I WARMLY recommend the book. Every priest should be made to read it. Get a copy for your priests. The author/complier of the of book about Fulton … Read More
IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?
At the National Catholic Register there is a story about how the Bishop of Lincoln has told priests, “NO PHONES in the Confessional”. HERE Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, formalized a new policy this year banning … Read More
Upcoming sacrilege in Atlanta and Communion in the hand. Musings.
LifeSite reports that some foolish group in Atlanta will hold a “black Mass” during which a sacred Host will be desecrated. The Archbishop of Atlanta has called for acts of penance, adoration and reparation. “Some” Catholic churches will have Mass … Read More
THIS JUST IN: “Groundbreaking Survey of U.S. Catholics Reveals Path to Restoring Eucharistic Belief” …. ummm
I got an email from something called the Real Presence Coalition. I tried the website, but the link didn’t work. I have sympathy, but I don’t have more knowledge from their site. The email, however, said that, using Pew surveys … Read More
Adoremus: 12 points of “anti-liturgical heresy” and their counters
With a biretta tip to Peter K for the link… o{]:¬) At the liturgical review Adoremus, this… The Voice of Tradition: Prosper Guéranger’s “Anti-Liturgical Heresy” Never mind that an odd character appears every once in a while. Odd characters always appear once … Read More





















