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- Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville
- How did we get HERE?
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- ROME 26/5– Day 62 & 63: NEWS
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
- 26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: Feast of the Lacrimation of Paul VI.
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
- ROME 26/5– Day 59 & 60: A lovely view
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?
- WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Novus Ordo: Weaving the warp and the weft
- ROME 26/5– Day 57 & 58: doubled up
- ASK FATHER: “Ghost” or “Spirit”, which is it? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.
- ASK FATHER: If a bishop and also priests confirm at the same time, who is the minister of confirmation?
- ASK FATHER: Is it a sin to take a 15 minute leave during a terrible homily?
- ROME 26/5– Day 56: All that Jasmine… no, not the…
- ROME 26/5– Day 54 & 55: double
- Pagliarani and Leo at Tanagra
- ROME 26/5– Day 53: Persevere!
- ROME 26/5– Day 52: lace imitates God’s beauty enlaced in flowers
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- ROME 26/5– Day 51: munch
- Thoughts about the collision of the Holy See and the SSPX. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- ASK FATHER: Question about the impacts of Excommunication
- ROME 26/5– Day 50: It’s THURSDAY not Sunday
- “Declaration of Catholic Faith addressed to Pope Leo XIV by the Superior General of the SSPX
- The Devil makes pots, but not lids.
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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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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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Category Archives: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Waltham, MA council votes to seize Church property by eminent domain
From HERE: Waltham City Council Votes To Take Stigmatine Property For HS It was a 10 to 4 vote after more than three hours in a closed-door session. WALTHAM, MA — Waltham City Council voted to take the Stigmatine property … Read More
Looking At Danger: Justice Kennedy, SCOTUS, and Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Today at Crisis there is a good summary piece about the complicity of catholic Justice Anthony Kennedy with the secularist Left and about the recent SCOTUS decision in the matter of Masterpiece Cakeshop, LTD v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which probably left … Read More
Anti-Catholic cartoon reveals the spirit of the recent anti-life Irish referendum
A lay reader today alerted me to an opinion cartoon in The Sunday Independent in Ireland. That sad, earthly-enslaved nation repealed by referendum the 8th amendment to their Constitution, which protected the right to life of the unborn. The Constitution, … Read More
Efforts to “queer” the Church and explaining @JamesMartinSJ
Tell me this isn’t coordinated. First, for a while now, some theologian friends and I have watched with a measure of distaste and concern a “queering of theology”. I see today via Corrispondenza Romana a story entitled: “Papa Francesco apre … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Petition against removal of historic Cross where Fr. Marquette died
I received this request from TFP. It is a good cause. Liberals and atheists are now trying to bring down another historical cross. This one is particularly important to our American heritage. The Father Marquette Memorial Cross in Ludington, Michigan, … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Help a true contributor to TLM causes after horrible vandalism
This HORRIBLE news just arrived. SPORCH needs you now. HERE Keep in mind that this nice lady, Mary, whom I’ve met, has through her efforts made it possible for many priests to have beautiful materials for Holy Mass in the … Read More
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Church Sign: “Welcome! We are heavily armed!
Since it’s Sunday… a friend forwarded this to me from Right Wing News: Tampa church warns: We are armed & ready to use deadly force if a shooter attacks us The churchgoers at River at Tampa Bay Church are taking their … Read More
Rereading “Lord Of The World” by Robert Hugh Benson – Brrrrr!
I am once again – after many years – into the dystopian and prophetic Lord Of The World by Robert Hugh Benson. A taste: “Briefly,” [Mr. Templeton] said, “there are three forces–Catholicism, Humanitarianism, and the Eastern religions. About the third I cannot prophesy, … Read More
MSNBC: NYC Attack ‘Not Islam,’ Could’ve Been ‘Radicalized Catholics’
It’s MSNBC: Terror Analyst Insists, NYC Attack ‘Not Islam,’ Could’ve Been ‘Radicalized Catholics’ The STUPID! It BURNS!
FRANCE: Court Orders Removal of Cross Above Statue of John Paul II
Mesdames et Messieurs… Breitbart reports: French High Court Orders Removal of Cross Above Statue of Pope John Paul II The French administrative court has ordered the removal of a cross from a monument to Saint John Paul II in a … Read More





















