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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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Ohmie on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “I think the stupidest part is the underlying assumption that the Holy Spirit is guiding the participants’ emotions. Couldn’t possibly…”
rdb on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “What do Oreo Cookies have to do with synodality? Honestly, if they did server Oreos, we could see participation go…”
JMody on “Let us run with this thought experiment for a moment.”: “Folk songs? I swear our arrangement for the last few years came straight from Rankin-Bass TV productions, where the Gloria…”
GHP on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Loquitur: …“a snake in the grass!”… —> GHP frantically looking for the missing “Like” button and “Thumbs Up” emoji…… to…”
cpt-tom on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Ouch, dumber indeed Ben. That was painful. This is a Marxist style struggle session not a thing a church founded…”
Saint110676 on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “No doubt their discernment will lead to recommendations for very high minimum wages, rent controls, very high taxes on investment…”
Loquitur on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Many years ago, on a diocesan youth retreat, a very creepy group discussion facitator (yes, it was that sort of…”
A.S. Haley on Daily Rome Shot 1527: “As a further twist on your problem above, Fr. Z, I would put this question: Assuming castling was NOT an…”
Ben on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Wait, I’ve had another think… the question is not clear, but the answer is definitely women bishops. If we can’t…”
maternalView on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “Too new age-y for me (Typical program to make everyone feel relevant to a process that is garbage)”
Prayerful on “Let us run with this thought experiment for a moment.”: “Obviously not, but for Catholics Traditiones custodes was an exercise of raw power by the late Pope Francis to impress…”
IaninEngland on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “@ Dan: Agreed. Did Our Lord say in Matthew 28:19 “Go and listen” or “Go and teach”?”
Honeybee on We’re saved! At LAST we will learn how to do “walking together” together: “I think the sharing will be so subjective that it will be just as likely to be influenced by whatever…”
Chris Garton-Zavesky on “Let us run with this thought experiment for a moment.”: “This sounds like the philosopher’s conundrum I encountered in high school. It had to do with a typewriter. How many…”
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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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- The Roche Report, ‘Traditionis custodes’, and Permanent Revolution
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- Daily Rome Shot 1523
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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: Throwing a Nutty
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That tragic Portland parish, the mistreatment of the priest. Fr. Z’s solution: “Let’s make a deal!”
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Wile. E. Defarge goes to the zoo.
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The hurly burly of Medieval Studies!
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Access to #FilialCorrection Crimethink webpage blocked in the Vatican
UPDATE: See comments, below, for possible alternative explanations involving filters. As reported by Corriere, the Vatican spokesman said: “nessun blocco, la notizia e falsa”… “ma figuratevi se facciano questo per una lettera di sessanta persone”. Also the head of the … Read More
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Hate-filled lib liturgist attacks Benedict XVI for his praise of Card. Sarah
Recently Pope Benedict penned a short piece for a future re-printing of Card. Sarah’s splendid book on silence. Predictably, the liberal hate machine has lashed out at Benedict, just as they lashed out at Card. Sarah last year when he … Read More
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How the Left organizes and operates
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