Your support is important. Thanks in advance.
To donate monthly via Continue To Give use your phone's camera to activate the Q code or text 4827563 to 715-803-4772 (US) for a link.
For Zelle and Chase, etc., use
frz AT wdtprs DOT com.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
ABORTION PILL RESCUE NETWORK
Everyone, work to get this into your parish bulletins and diocesan papers.
Polls
Loading ...
Donate using VENMO
GREAT BEER from Traditional Benedictine Monks in Italy
CLICK and say your daily offerings!
A Daily Prayer for Priests
Do you have a faithful Catholic website that needs competent and reliable tech support?
NEW OPPORTUNITY – 10% off with code: FATHERZ10
Fr. Z’s VOICEMAIL
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265YOUR RECENT COMMENTS
Ariseyedead on Response of the Bishop of Black Duck to Rome: “Very clever, but I’m afraid the Vatican is going to rename Black Duck the Diocese of Perpetual Visitation.”
on Thoughts about home altars and the future and you: “We have a buffet that we use as a home altar. It hasn’t been fortunate to be used for the…”
on There’s a bad moon on the rise: “There is a way to obey Rome and still have much of what those who love the ancient mass want.…”
on Wherein Fr. Z makes suggestions to young men thinking about seminary, seminarians, younger priests and the lay people who love them.: “Fathers, especially those who are pastors in suburban parishes, might I point out that many of your parish campuses have…”
on There’s a bad moon on the rise: “@Geoffrey: Try St. Mary’s parish in Washington, DC. It offers a sung Novus Ordo Mass in Latin on major feast…”
on Thoughts about home altars and the future and you: “I have seen some lists for what is needed to have a proper home altar, but they have always been…”
on There’s a bad moon on the rise: “Since the promulgation of “Traditiones Custodes”, I have yet to hear of a single diocese or parish that is working…”
on Thoughts about home altars and the future and you: “Reading this is really wanting me to take a trip to Home Depot.”
on There’s a bad moon on the rise: “-Divorced and remarried? “We will accompany you and assist you in discernment of your diminished culpability and this will help…”
on There’s a bad moon on the rise: “Your Eminence, I trust this finds you well. I am forwarding to Your Eminence a letter received recently in my…”
on Thoughts about home altars and the future and you: “Anything with a fold down door would work well. A liquor cabinet, those secretary desks.”
on Thoughts about home altars and the future and you: “Could someone comment on what constitutes the “wine suitable for Mass” that Father refers to. I live in Pa. What…”
This REALLY helps! And it’s great coffee (and tea)
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.
This blog has to earn its keep!
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful.
That way I have steady income I can plan on, and you wind up regularly on my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I periodically 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...
Be a “Zed-Head”!
CHALLENGE COINS!
My "challenge coin" for my 25th anniversary of ordination in 2016.
Want one? I do exchanges with military and LEOs, etc.
PLEASE RESPOND. Pretty pleeeease?
Loading ...This is really useful when travelling… and also when you aren’t and you need backup internet NOW! I use this for my DMR “Zednet” hotspot when I’m mobile. It’s a ham radio thing.
If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
WDTPRS POLL
Loading ...Fr. Z’s stuff is everywhere
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!
They find you a pro-life agent in your area who commits to giving a portion of the fee to a pro-life group!
GREAT causes to support
Help Monks in Wyoming (coffee – UPDATED LINK) and Norcia (beer) and the wonderful "Soap Sisters" of Summit, NJ!
Please follow me on Twitter!
Tag Archives: Archbp. Nichols
The Tablet and the Elephant: the “Soho Masses”
As you know, the Archbishop of Westminster put an end to the infamous homosexual “Soho Masses”. There is little question that Rome was involved in the decision. But don’t be distracted by that and miss the more important point. The … Read More
London: Soho homosexual Masses to end, parish entrusted to Ordinariate
In the UK’s best Catholic Weekly, The Catholic Herald, we read some doubly-good news. Archbishop Nichols ends ‘Soho Masses’ after six years By MARK GREAVES Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has announced that Masses in Soho organised for gay people … Read More
2006 comments by Card. Kasper about Anglicans, women bishops, and ecumenical dialogue
Fr. Finigan at his fine blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, has a piece today about something Card. Kasper told Anglicans at Lambeth in 2006 as the then-President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Here is an excerpt: It [viz. … Read More
The Archbisop of Westminster on “civil unions”
From my friend Fr. Blake’s blog: The Archbisop of Westminster said at a recent press following the Bishop bi-annual meeting: We would want to emphasise that civil partnerships actually provide a structure in which people of the same sex who … Read More
Comments Off on The Archbisop of Westminster on “civil unions”
Sermon of Archbp. Nichols at consecration of Bp. Sherrington in Westminster Cathedral
Today in Westminster Cathedral in London, His Grace Archbishop Vicent Nichols consecrated a new auxiliary bishop, Most Rev. John Sherrington. Archbp. Nichols sermon is online. Pretty good. Give it a listen. You can got to the website of the Diocese … Read More
Comments Off on Sermon of Archbp. Nichols at consecration of Bp. Sherrington in Westminster Cathedral
The Sensible Bond asks questions about a conference in London
A friend over a the excellent The Sensible Bond has been asking some questions about a conference to take place at Colney All Saints Pastoral Centre in London. Here is his latest lament: At least according to the publicity, London … Read More
Comments Off on The Sensible Bond asks questions about a conference in London
Archbp. Nichols (Westminster) on the priest’s role at Mass
From Zenit with my emphases and comments. Archbishop Nichols on Priests and the Mass “We Don Vestments to Minimize Our Personal Preferences” LONDON, JUNE 25, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Here is the text of a homily given by Archbishop Vincent Nichols at … Read More
Archbp. Nichols (Westminster) on Universae Ecclesiae and seminarians
I have been watching Twitter about Universae Ecclesiae. Anna Arco, the persistent feature writer of the UK’s best Catholic Weekly (full disclosure – they print my stuff each week), quotes the reaction of His Excellency Most Rev. Vincent Nichols, Archbishop … Read More
Comments Off on Archbp. Nichols (Westminster) on Universae Ecclesiae and seminarians
Archbp. Nichols about the upcoming ordination of former Anglican bishops
I found this on the site of The Catholic Herald: A Statement from Archbishop Vincent Nichols President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales THE ORDINATION TO THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD OF THREE FORMER ANGLICAN BISHOPS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT … Read More
Remarks of prelates concerning marriage.
Biretta tip o{]:¬) to my friend the great Fr. Blake, parish priest of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton. He picked up something from the site of John Smeaton, director of Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), which Fr. … Read More
6 Comments
The UK’s Catholic Herald on present attacks against Arcbhp. Nichols of Westminster
I made a correction to the top of this entry about what the Times wrote concerning Archbishop Nichols. A couple readers pointed out an error I made in respect the Times story. Thanks! ___ In the current number of the … Read More
Archbp. Nichols slaps down The Tablet’s coverage of the new translation
From the "Hoist On His Own Petard" file: Here is something from the blog of Damian Thompson which I missed the other day… as I was traveling and my iPhone was on vacation. It seems that the Rome correspondent of … Read More
16 Comments
“We are not amused.”
Damian Thompson has an interesting piece about the reaction of Her Majesty the Queen of England, who is the head of the Church, and her reaction to Pope Benedict’s Anglicanorum coetibus. My emphases and comments: ‘Unhappy’ Queen sends Lord Chamberlain … Read More
Joint Statement of Archbps. Nichols (Catholic) and Williams (Anglican)
The doors to the Church are always open to those wishing to enter. Now there is not only a door open to Anglicans, but also a house full of furniture. The Holy Father will establish ordinariates for Anglicans who wish … Read More
31 Comments
London Colney TLM training conference for priests: reports coming in
You might remember that in England there was to be a conference/workshop for priests to learn the TLM at a center run by the Archdiocese of Westminster. The editors of RU-486 (aka The Bitter Pill aka The Tablet) in a … Read More
7 Comments
