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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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Category Archives: You must be joking!
Fr. Z’s Kitchen: Beans in a bottle, and Beans in a bubble.
The other day I posted an image of Carracci’s painting of the “Mangiafagioli … The Bean Eater” and in another post I clarified a term used in a don Camillo story, “mangiapreti… priest eater” (a really anti-clerical person). I determined … Read More
Archd. BOSTON – @bostoncatholic – Seminary and Cathedral
Have you seen that there is now an investigation of St. John’s Seminary in Boston. Card. O’Malley announced that the rector is now on sabbatical now and he appointed a task group to examine “issues of sexual harassment or other forms … Read More
Posted in You must be joking!, Clerical Sexual Abuse, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Archd. Boston
13 Comments
13 Comments
The hurly burly of Medieval Studies!
You might think that this is a joke. It is a joke, but not the kind sane people think up. From Campus Reform (with my emphases and comments I’ll leave links in as texts): Activists demand more social justice in Medieval … Read More
Priest uses a Communion dispenser
So I conclude a brief pastoral nap and open my mail. BAMMO I’m instantly awake at the sight of “Priest uses a Communion dispenser” Clicking through I find…. What goes on inside the head of such a priest? I wrote … Read More
Posted in Liberals, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, You must be joking!
Tagged Host dispenser
55 Comments
55 Comments
AUSTRIA: Woman carried monstrance, read Gospel, blessed faithful on Corpus Christ
It is probable that widespread Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and many Masses coram Sanctissimo preserved Austria from the Protestant revolt, or so I have been told. Now, it seems as if every story about anything Catholic that comes out of … Read More
Fr. Tom “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!” Reese, SJ, shills for Big-Business Abortion
This is about par for the Jesuit course. From Breitbart: Jesuit Priest Tells Catholics to Fight Abortion by Electing ‘Pro-Choice Democrats’ Writing for Religion News Service (RNS)— Father Reese, the former editor-in-chief of [Jesuit] America Magazine—says that “pro-lifers must consider … Read More
Pastor Iuventus on the appalling Met “Gay-la”
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly the Catholic Herald comes a commentary on the Met “Gay-la”. Yes, we are still talking about that horrid blotch on the Church’s reputation, lest we forget. My emphases and comments: Pastor Iuventus: ?In today’s Church, … Read More
Posted in Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests, The Drill, You must be joking!
Tagged Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pastor Iuventus
20 Comments
20 Comments
Bp. Schneider on the Met “Gay-la”
Fallout from the sacrilegious Met “Gay-la” continues. Today a priest sent a link to an article by Marybeth Hagan at Crisis called “Catholicism and Celebrity Culture at the Met”. He quipped: “a clue to why the New York seminary is emptying”. … Read More
Posted in Cri de Coeur, Liberals, The Drill, You must be joking!
Tagged Bp. Athanasius Schneider, Metropolitan Museum of Art
9 Comments
9 Comments
The more I more read about the “Make the Church a Joke Again” Gay-la, the creepier it gets.
You’ve been reading about the “Gay-la”, the “Fellini Rip Off”. I wrote earlier that it was sure to have made all the Jesuits present swell with pride. I then learned that Jesuit homosexualist activist James Martin, LGBTSJ, was there. A … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/10-11 – Day 36: Ultimate: “I spoke with the sisters in Rome who do these corporals. I was told that they use a particular kind…”
