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- TheCavalierHatherly on Daily Rome Shot 1016: nap time: “In a course on the Nichomachean Ethics I once took, it occurred to me that if pleasure were the telos…”
- on Omnium gatherum: “Regarding the wedding, isn’t the priest in question excommunicated automatically for simulating a sacrament? What about the poor souls who…”
- on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “I’ve been surprised at just how hard I’ve taken the news of his death. We only met once, and that…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1015: Quaeritur and “blind mind”: “Father, Nice breakfast! Is that a deep bowl? ;-)”
- on Omnium gatherum: “Father Anderson’s discussion of the royal passion bearers is here: https://instituteofcatholicculture.org/events/st-nicholas-the-passion-bearers”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1015: Quaeritur and “blind mind”: “Kimchi is simple to make at home. And lasts a long time in the refrigerator.”
- on Omnium gatherum: “Thanks for pointing us to the very interesting article at NOR, Father. Among many interesting features is simply the turn…”
- on The shift toward “the old ways” is really a step forward into the future.: “No children = no future.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1014 – My View For Awhile – The last leg: “My son is married to a Chinese woman, whose parents invited us to visit. We spent 4 days in Foshan…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 10112 – Brooklyn 24/4– Day 3 – A visit to the seminary: “I once had the privilege of serving in “The Largest Sacristy in the Diocese” which featured a framed prayer for…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1014 – My View For Awhile – The last leg: “I grew up loving Chinese food, but gradually learned that this unique California cuisine bore little resemblance to what Chinese…”
- on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “I’ve been away and only catching up now, and I had no idea he had died, although as a very…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1014 – My View For Awhile – The last leg: “1. Qg8+ Kg8 2. Be6+ Kh8 (f8 can’t bi-locate) 3. Rg8#”
- on Fr John Hunwicke – R.I.P.: “Building on what @iamlucky13 mentioned, it looks like Archive.org does have most of the site indexed – over 10k urls…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: 5th Sunday after Easter (N.O. 6th of Easter) 2024: “NO Mass. Love is not a feeling, it is an action towards others, as Jesus act of dying on the…”
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Category Archives: Fr. Z KUDOS
The “Gay” (I hate that word) Priest Problem
I’ll batten the hatches for another round of hate mail and “block parties” and alert the readership of a good piece at The Catholic Thing by Fr. Jerry Pokorsky. He tackles the “gay” (I hate that word) priest problem. Confronting the Gay … Read More
“The world needs proud warriors, animated by their faith” – OORAH!
There was a meeting in Chicago this week of Catholic young people. Something called SLS18. As it happens, the actor Jim Caviezel made a surprise appearance and gave a heck of a short speech about courage. He talks about “happy … Read More
Card. Burke pontificates in Fr. Z’s native place
For various reasons I had to demur, but at one point I was to be deacon for this. This is how they do it in Minneapolis, friends. Not too bad, all in all. A worthy observance of Gaudete Sunday. I … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Card. Burke
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6 Comments
INTERNET PRAYER UPDATE: LUXEMBOURGISH! and BAVARIAN! and HILIGAYNON!
UPDATE: Okay… this is quite the day. Since my original posting I have received BAVARIAN (in the comments, below) and by email HILIGAYNON, a Philippine language spoken in much of the island of Panay and the western half of the … Read More
MUST READ: Carl Olsen on the #USCCB17 Pro-Life committee vote!
Today’s must fulfill assignment is to go to Catholic World Report and to read thoroughly Carl Olsen’s piece about lib aspirations for the USCCB election of the Pro-Life committee chair and their subsequent spittle-flecked nutty. Olsen brings in the analysis of several other … Read More
Posted in Emanations from Penumbras, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liberals, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Naumann, Card. Cupich, Carl Olsen, USCCB
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The Steamroller of Ambiguity and the Long Term. Wherein @FatherZ rants.
Many these days feel a little helpless as the lib Steamroller of Ambiguity squishes sickeningly forward, reducing clarity to an amorphous goo of permissive self-justification. What can we do? Feel helpless no longer. You have at your disposal – 24/7 – powerful arms … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, Seminarians and Seminaries, Si vis pacem para bellum!, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Leonine Prayers, prayer for vocations
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An avant-garde Bishop raises an English church to new life
The Bishop of Lancaster, England, Most Rev. Michael Campbell, OSA, posted on his blog about celebrating a Pontifical Mass at the Throne. The church was recently entrusted to the Institute of Christ the King, which is raising it to new … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Bp. Michael Campbell, D. Lancaster
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The revitalization of a parish in ultra-lib land
Do you remember when Fr. Illo at a parish in San Francisco decided to stop the service at the altar by females (YAY!) and the world came down on his head. In the Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly, there … Read More
BRICK BY BRICK in Montana! Priests making the TLM HAPPEN!
This is for your Brick By Brick file. Had I known about this, I might have attended! I spent a lot of time during my young summers between Billings and Greybull in N. Wyoming. From a reader… Have you heard … Read More
Some Good News: His Hermeneuticalness is back in the saddle again
Sometimes I post “good news” posts. We all need good news for a change, right? One piece of good news gets special notice today. My good friend Fr. Tim Finigan, PP of Margate, is posting more often again at his exceptional … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Mail from priests
Tagged Fr. Tim Finigan, hermeneutic of continuity, homily, sacramental, sermon
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Brick by Brick in San Francisco
The newly ordained are celebrating their First Masses. I had a note about the First Mass of a new young priest in San Francisco. Congratulations to Fr. Alvin Yu. Here he is at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, where he … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Archd. San Francisco, Brick by Brick, first Mass
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8 Comments
A beautiful Catholic school
This is wonderful. Atonement Academy, is a classical, college preparatory school for grades pre-K through 12th. It is the parish school of Our Lady of the Atonement Parish and is located in San Antonio, TX. Yes, friends, it is still … Read More
Clarity from Vancouver about Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried
It’s great to have some clarity for a change. Of course each dose of clarity makes the general confusion which some are fomenting more exasperating. Nevertheless, it’s great to have some clarity for a change. At the page of the … Read More
Brick By Brick: a great East and West, “both lungs” development
Here’s some good news. A reader alerted me to a great East and West “both lungs” development. From The Sudbury Star in Ontario: Church revives Latin mass For a group of worshippers who gather at St. Michael’s Church in Coniston, … Read More
Posted in Both Lungs, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged D. Sault Ste. Marie
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16 Comments
Make Church Great Again! “Free Our Churches From the Ugly and Stupid”
So I’m reading my email. A reader sent the text of a Wall Street Journal piece (they have an evil paywall) entitled “Free Our Churches From the Ugly and Stupid“. “This hath potential”, quoth I, and in did I delve. … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, Be The Maquis, Cri de Coeur, Decorum, Fr. Z KUDOS, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Just Too Cool, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices, Turn Towards The Lord
Tagged Anthony Esolen, restoration, wreckovation
9 Comments
9 Comments
TheCavalierHatherly on Daily Rome Shot 1016: nap time: “In a course on the Nichomachean Ethics I once took, it occurred to me that if pleasure were the telos…”
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