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Category Archives: What are they REALLY saying?
VIDEO: WARNING! This is going to be painful, but it is instructive.
That is one of the most painful videos I have ever seen. This is the Pentecost Mass from a parish in the Diocese of Kansas City – St. Joseph, Holy Family. Mind you, the parish leadership wants people to see this. … Read More →
Francis talks about globalization of education, “new humanism”, attacks “guardians of tradition”, gets Aeneas wrong.
Above… Aeneas rescuing his family (not so much his wife) and household gods from the sack of Troy. Leonello Spada Who was Vincent of Lérins? He was a Gaul and writer who died about 445. His work Commonitorium is a … Read More →
Posted in Francis, Pò sì jiù, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Aeneas, Aeneid, education, St. Vincent of Lérins, Vincent o
19 Comments
19 Comments
Archd. Washington DC, can. 915, Pelosi, transparency
This is how they roll. But remember, it is important to crush the people who want the Vetus Ordo. Not just the Vetus Ordo… the people who want it. Meanwhile… Nancy… The Washington Examiner asked the Archdiocese of Washington for comment on … Read More →
Posted in Liberals, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Archd. Washington DC, can. 915, Nancy Pelosi
7 Comments
7 Comments
More bad Latin from the new-fangled DDW (olim CDW)
At Fr. Hunwicke’s, there is an exposition of the Latin version of a new prayer for the Good Friday. Apparently now every passing cause has to be in the Good Friday prayers. This time it is, wait for it… victims … Read More →
Posted in Latin, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged CDW, DDW, Latin
3 Comments
3 Comments
A picture is worth a thousand words. – UPDATED
A picture is worth a thousand words. This on 12 March 2022, the 400th anniversary of the canonization of Sts. Teresa of Avila, Phlip Neri, Isidore, Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola. At the altar of the great Jesuit church in … Read More →
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Pò sì jiù, What are they REALLY saying?
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Tagged Francis, Jesuits
25 Comments
25 Comments
Thoughts on Francis’ claim that non-vernacular readings are “laughing at the Word of God”
Fr. John Hunwicke’s blog is a constant source of fascinating details, amusing invective, and inverting insight. Those first two may be obvious, but what do I mean by “inverting insight”? I mean that Fr. H has a keen ability to … Read More →
What is at the heart of the progressivist attacks on the Traditional Latin Mass and the accusations that people who want it are “against Vatican II”? Here’s what it is.
A little over a year ago, I read something from one of the foremost of the “self-promoting through papalotry” voices of the ecclesiologically progressive gang. It was alarming in its implications. What I had read was a claim that Vatican … Read More →
Posted in Benedict XVI, Classic Posts, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Jesuits, Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Save The Liturgy - Save The World, The Drill, Vatican II, What are they REALLY saying?, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
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Tagged beans, Benedict XVI, hermeneutic of continuity, Karl Rahner
21 Comments
21 Comments
Compare what Archbp. Roche said in 2015 to what he is saying now.
It is very hard to respect clerics who are just weathervanes, waving around, changing directions under the pressure of whomever is at the moment in power. Archbp. Roche, now in present role as Prefect of the CDW, now one of … Read More →
Posted in Liberals, Pò sì jiù, What are they REALLY saying?, You must be joking!
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Tagged Archbp. Roche
14 Comments
14 Comments
Unpleasant but useful reading ALERT!
Today at Rorate I see two very useful pieces. First, Joseph Shaw, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society (join even if you are not in the UK) in which he eviscerates one of the most embarrassing of the papalatrous left, … Read More →
Wherein at the tail-end of 2021 Fr. Z reflects on the phrase “In cauda venenum”
There’s a pattern in papal and curial and chancery documents. In general, after the salutations and other blah blah, there follow status quaesitionis points which stand as the justification for the correspondence or decree. However, the business is nearly always … Read More →
Gregg the Obscure on ASK FATHER: “Ghost” or “Spirit”, which is it? Wherein Fr. Z Rants.: “one of the most lovely churches in my hometown is Holy Ghost. shortly after i came into the Church i…”
