Category Archives: The future and our choices

Like the little pieces of a mosaic…

Sometimes pieces, tid-bits of news, fall together in such a way that they seem to reveal a larger picture or presaging something not yet seen on the horizon. For example, in an exchange of texts today with a notable Catholic … Read More

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Views on the upcoming Synod (“walking together”)

At Crux there is a piece about a new booklet published on 22 August by TFP concerning the upcoming Synod (“walking together”).  Card. Burke wrote the intro… Burke claims Pope’s synod will foster ‘confusion, error and division’ Keep this in … Read More

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Number of Priestly Ordinations in Free Fall

A recent piece at the SSPX site deals with the “vertiginous” drop in priestly vocations in France, in particular, Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe.    The figures they used are from the French bishops conference and other non-SSPX sources. The … Read More

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Bp. Strickland: Any attack on the Traditional Latin Mass is an attack on the Deposit of Faith

Fr. Z kudos to Bp. Strickland. Christ is the vine. The traditional Latin Mass is rooted in the vine, robust with truth & bears much fruit. Any attempt to sever the traditional Mass from the Church is an attack on … Read More

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How I feel right now… renewed.

I posted this four years ago and I have not changed my position. No. Way. The. Enemy. Wins.

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VIDEO: A message from Card. Burke to Fr. Z’s readers

I am grateful to His Eminence for his kindness, his faithful example, and steadfast faith.

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How to force a new ecclesiology on the Church. It takes time.

At Rorate today there is a useful piece by Roberto de Mattei. In spite of his strange jabberings about “the jab” It is useful in that it provides a few concise paragraphs that put into perspective where we have been … Read More

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Grabbed by the neck. Famous poem by Yeats and a vision of heretic Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A talk by Michael Hitchborn at the Coalition for Canceled Priests Conference

Longtime readers here know of my love of poetry. Hence, from the beginning this talk by Michael Hitchborn at the Coalition FOR Canceled Priests grabbed my attention, for he began with William Butler Yeats and his most famous work. He … Read More

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BELATED ANNIVERSARY! 2nd year of “Traditionis custodes”.

It occurs to me that we missed celebrating the 2nd anniversary of the stupidly unnecessary, falsely grounded and wickedly cruel attack on the people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass via the document Taurina cacata… er… um… Traditionis custodes. In … Read More

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16th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Thoughts on how this might end and a fitting song.

Sincerely, I think all this madness will pass one way or another. Today is the anniversary of the release of Summorum Pontificum, the saintly Pope Benedict XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for those who desired what they ought to have had all along: freedom … Read More

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Sending out an “SOS”! Message in a bungle!

Feel like a castaway these days?  Feel like those who should have the greatest care of you have sloughed you off for the sake of the ways of the world?  You are not alone. With that as a preamble, if … Read More

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Historic numbers of defections from the Church in Germany

At CNA I saw something that shocked but didn’t surprise. German exodus: Half a million Catholics abandon Church in historic departure The Catholic Church in Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis, with more than half a million baptized Catholics leaving … Read More

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Reminder: Moral injury of the clergy and laity

A couple years ago I posted about the psychological abuse of priests and the resulting Moral Injury.  It is good to review this concept occasionally, and consider it in light of what is going on in the Church today. Moral … Read More

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It takes real effort to make something like this happen

I was sent this news: France: Number of Ordinations at A Low Only 88 French candidates will be ordained priests this year, announced Eglise.Catholique.fr (June 22). 52 of them belong to dioceses. It is the lowest number of ordinations in … Read More

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It seems that, after Vatican II, nothing really changed. But now? Now’s our chance!

For the last couple months I was too happy to have had the desire for self-harming.  However, now that I am not in Rome anymore I ventured over to the Fishwrap and revisited the darkness of self-inflicted irritation. Sr. Joan … Read More

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Pope Benedict XVI on Corpus Christi processions and a rant from Fr. Z

In many places the Feast of Corpus Christi gets an “external celebration” on Sunday.  It is wonderful to see the multiplication of Eucharistic processions especially with the growth of the Traditional Latin Mass.  TLM began, processions generally followed. In 2008 … Read More

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s

This came to my email and I have to share it. Some of you have surely seen it already but repetita iuvant! I am reminded of what the ancient Roman Martial said: aestate pueri si valent, satis discunt. … if, … Read More

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WDTPRS: Mass Prayers “Pro seipso sacerdote – For the priest himself” (1962MR)

This time of year many new priests are being ordained and, consequently, many priests observe their own anniversaries. In the traditional, Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite a priest can add orations for himself, Pro seipso sacerdote, on the anniversary … Read More

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Two things: Part 3 of Bp. Huonder’s VIDEO and what Francis said to Jesuits in Hungary.

Two things. First, Swiss Bishop Vitus Huonder has released the third in a series of videos about the undeniable crisis in the Church. It is in German with subtitles. Put down or put aside other things. Click. Fold your hands and watch this … Read More

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New, grand SSPX church, Bishops, and Proof of Concept

At Crisis there is a piece by Eric Sammons entitled “Our Incurious Bishops“. The idea is this.  The SSPX just consecrated a huge and beautiful church in Kansas.  It was packed with precisely the sort of people bishops might like … Read More

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