You can see here the difference between the regular violet and the Roman shade.
Just for a change of pace, I put it here…
Sunrise was slate in Rome for 06:01
Sunset for 18:31
The Ave Maria Bell remains in the 18:45 cycle. I wonder if the brain trust that makes the calendar each year will adjust appropriately when Europ goes to the “ora legale” (daylight savings).
A Monaco license plate… not too rare in Rome and not too common either.
If Ming the Merciless went about in a little white Ford, when Leo goes to Monaco, will he go in this?
In my neighborhood, a new nasone that … isn’t. Note: It’s Acqua Vergine.
Here’s a real nasone, which has the hole in the top so you can have a drink.
Jasmine (not the Jesuit) report.
Since I will be here for a while, I think I’ll get a jasmine for my tiny back outside area, along with some herbs.
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EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State to the Holy See , tells me that on the TLM issue he shares the wounds of division
Here is the full transcript:
“I think we all share this, this, let’s say, assessment that the Pope gives, right?”
“In the sense that… pic.twitter.com/ZY0kaBs9kL
— Niwa Limbu (@NiwaLimbu1988) March 26, 2026
Star Wars bar scene…
Everything wrong with the Church of England in one photograph. The Dean of Canterbury (a homosexual in a civil partnership with another man) installing the fake Archbishopess (1 Timothy 2:12) on St. Augustine’s chair as a gaggle of female clergy watch on. No wonder the CofE is… pic.twitter.com/ck66xEIrHT
— Rev’d Canon Brett Murphy ?? ? ???? (@RevBrettMurphy) March 26, 2026
When I see comments like the one from Cardinal Parolin, about how sad the division is and how important the liturgy not be turned into a battleground, I wish there was someone there to very loudly ask why he didn’t speak out against Pope Francis when he set about destroying the existing liturgical peace, fostering division by tyrannical decree, and turning the liturgy into the perceived battleground. We had peace. We had unity. It was Pope Francis and everyone who went along with his program who destroyed that peace and brought about division.
I would lament about how absurd and contradictory all these statements of “sadness” are, but then I see the Anglican Church and decide it could always be worse. Much, much worse. They make someone like Jorge Bergoglio look like the soul of conservative discretion.
(*polite cough*)
The correct term is “archbishopette”.
[aka “lay woman”]
Father Z :
“If Ming the Merciless went about in a little white Ford, when Leo goes to Monaco, will he go in this?”
He’ll be using the usual Papamobile …
Sadly, my state of health will prevent me from going down there tomorrow, but his visit is a true blessing for all of us in Monaco and environs.