SHOPPING ONLINE? Please, come here first!
About this blog…
“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
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
Recent Comments
PiusVDevotee on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “No one is mentioning the elephant in the room. Rome wants the SSPX to explicitly state that the Novus Ordo…”
VForr on Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul: “Thanks to the Archconfraternity for all their efforts and hello to The World’s Best Sacristan(TM)! It was fun to spot…”
Venerator Sti Lot on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “In his very interesting 25 June One Peter Five article, “When Pope Leo Allowed Illicit Episcopal Consecrations”, Father Matthew Dimock,…”
tgarcia2 on ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins: “I remember being told Venial sins are forgiven during the penitential rite of Mass.”
PaulK on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Honestly, the number of olive branches both publically and privately that have been offered to the SSPX since JPII has…”
R Morrison on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “Regarding the accusation that the SSPX is guilty of “neo-Feeneyism,” it is worth considering that the recent SSPX Profession of…”
Lurker 59 on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D The SSPX doesn’t wholesale reject NA. That is why they could and were going to sign the 2011 Doctrinal…”
Lurker 59 on Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”: “@R2D Ratzinger’s “Dominus Iesus” reframes Nostra Aetate. I’d argue that it is more than a course correction. NA is also…”
-
Recent Posts
- Leo wrote to the SSPX. The SSPX wrote back. Fr. Pagliarani’s response.
- Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul
- Prayer for the SSPX and Leo
- ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins
- Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”
- Daily Rome Shot 1652: tiara
- ASK FATHER: If God love us infinitely why does He not speak to us directly?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026
- Daily Rome Shot 1651: MAMBO!
- WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love
- Daily Rome Shot 1650: shocked but not surprised
- I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.
- Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates
- “Perdonamose!” St. John’s Birthday Feast and Midsummer Snails
- 23 June – Vigil of St. John – solstices and snails, bonfires and witch burnings
- 22 June in the VETUS AND NOVUS Ordo: St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More
- Daily Rome Shot 1648: contradictions
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary)
- Daily Rome Shot 1648: Mass today is for my benefactors.
- Bad news and good news. The Bishop of Camden crushes the TLM. The FSSP will start up in the Diocese of Arlington
- Bishop of Owensboro crushes people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass, but it’s not his fault! It’s someone else’s fault!
- WDTPRS – The Collect for the 12th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): His Name and Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
- Daily Rome Shot 1647: New sermons by Augustine!
- Daily Rome Shot 1646: We have to move on.
- Detroit’s Archbishop attends mosque opening, says: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness”
- Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations
- Daily Rome Shot 1646: Restoration and BOGO SALE
- ASK FATHER: Priest says the consecration of the chalice over the host
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-15 – Ordination?
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
Fr. Z’s Podcasts RSS Feed
Federated Computer… your safe and private alternative to big biz corporations that hate us while taking our money and mining our data. Have an online presence large or small? Catholic DIOCESE? Cottage industry? See what Federated has to offer. Save money and gain peace of mind.
“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
Do you want to show some appreciation?
Polls
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
Your support is important. Thanks in advance.
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT comDonate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
Good coffee and tea. Help monks.
I use this when I travel both in these USA and abroad. Very useful. Fast enough for Zoom. I connect my DMR (ham radio) through it. If you use my link, they give me more data. A GREAT back up.
Help support Fr. Z’s Gospel of Life work at no cost to you. Do you need a Real Estate Agent? Calling these people is the FIRST thing you should do!
Don’t rely on popes, bishops and priests.
“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”- Fulton Sheen
Therefore, ACTIVATE YOUR CONFIRMATION and get to work!
Send Snail Mail to Fr. Z
Fr John Zuhlsdorf
Tridentine Mass Society of Madison
733 Struck St.
PO BOX 44603
Madison, WI 53744-4603
For email HERE
- “The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
To donate monthly I prefer Zelle because it doesn't extract fees. Use
frz AT wdtprs DOT comAs for Latin…
"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
Let us pray…
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.
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
WDTPRS POLL
Tag Archives: ACTION ITEM
ACTION ITEM! Help the distribution of a beautiful TLM book at the exorbitantly expensive Eucharistic Congress ¡Hagan lío!
You may know the STUNNING book from St. Augustine Academy Press, Treasure and Tradition: The Ultimate Guide to the Latin Mass. HERE The creators of this book had it translated into several language and were distributing it outside of the … Read More
1 Comment
ACTION ITEM! Prayers for Fr. John Hunwicke, scriptor admirabilis
I received a note from a family member of Fr. John Hunwicke who posts on his splendid site Mutual Enrichment. “Father Hunwicke has been told that his suspicious heart requires a “procedure”, which is due to happen this Wednesday. He would … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Help 13 and 11 year olds raise money for a pregnancy center. – UPDATE
UPDATE: From Xavier and Ronan. We would like to thank you and your readers again for your support for The Pregnancy Care Center. We raised $12,197 with 102 donations, and we broke the record again for most money raised! This … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Novena for the preservation of Summorum Pontificum. Save The Liturgy – Save The World
Today I saw at the French site Notre-Dame de Chrétienté a proposal for a Novena to St. Joseph to maintain the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. If there is a threat to Summorum, this is a good thing to do. If there … Read More
ASK FATHER: A one-page info sheet to help get the TLM started in a parish. ACTION ITEM!
From a reader… QUAERITUR: We’ve communicated a few times in the past concerning efforts to get the TLM going our parish. Thanks for your advice and input along the way. We are making progress. Can you suggest a simple one-pager … Read More
WISCONSIN: Churches specifically targeted with restrictions as other buildings open. ACTION ITEM!
This. Where I am, after the county said that churches could open up to 25% capacity, like many businesses such as gyms and movie theaters, they then reversed their rule and will now force churches to have only 50 people, … Read More
16 Comments
MAIL FROM A PRIEST: “We have more time to do PRIESTLY things!” ACTION ITEM!
I want to pass along to my brother priests and bishops this great email. Dear readers, would you consider printing it out and giving it to your local priests or sending them an email with a link to this post? … Read More
ACTION ITEM: Help for a traditional Catholic seminarian continues! – UPDATED… for EASTER!
UPDATE 23 April: Check down at the bottom for more recent updates! Also, this seminarian posted a video about wartime Vatican City, 1941, narrated by Fulton Sheen. At this time, there are only 3 views. That will increase. And, when you’ve … Read More
8 Comments
URGENT PRAYER ALERT! The Four Cardinals of the Five Dubia ask an AUDIENCE
From Edward Pentin at the faithful National Catholic Register (not to be confused with faithless Fishwrap): Full Text of Dubia Cardinals’ [The Four Cardinals who submitted the Five Dubia] Letter Asking Pope for an Audience The April 25 missive was hand-delivered to … Read More





















