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- dep on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 4th Sunday of Easter): “Not directly from the sermon, exactly, but Fr. Kiely’s piece in The Catholic Thing caused me, at 2 a.m. to…”
- on Some Notes about Leo XIV.. maybe more to follow: “The emphasis that our new Pope believes and prays, while reassuring, causes me to wonder: have we been led, then,…”
- on Leo XIV – relax: “Is anyone else struck by how easy, almost natural, it would have been for Cdl Prevost to take the name,…”
- on ROME 25/5– Day 30-31:: “Exquisite day…photos cause yearning- I used to stay nearby, with the sisters at Santa Birgitta. Checking in to read back…”
- on Leo XIV – relax: “@APX: Sorry, I did not mean to sound uncharitable towards the Holy Father. A Ponti-fex is literally a bridge builder,…”
- on Some Notes about Leo XIV.. maybe more to follow: “Not that we have to have a Race To The Bottom!”
- on Some Notes about Leo XIV.. maybe more to follow: “Chicago Theological Union the worst possible school? I can’t believe it to be any worse than Union Theological Seminary in…”
- on ASK FATHER: Security video camera inside a confessional: “In case anyone was wondering how Washington State proposes to enforce its new “law” that attacks the sacramental seal…”
- on Leo XIV – relax: “Everyone is focused on his choice of name Leo. Everyone is focused on Leo XIII. I also think and hope…”
- on Leo XIV – relax: “I get the sense that Leo XIV is what the cardinals thought they were getting when they elected Francis. Humble,…”
- on Leo XIV – relax: “Is it me, or has Chicago decided that the Pope is their new Archbishop too? I just get that feeling.…”
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- on Leo XIV – relax: “Folks, the combox form, I urge you to preview and THINK before posting. I want to renew that here. I…”
- on Leo XIV – relax: “The way in which things might have turned out much worse was brought home to me when I saw a…”
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Tag Archives: Bux Protocol
ASK FATHER: How to pray the “Cursing Psalms” against our enemies?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Can you once again address the maledictory Psalms and how to use them? I think you last did so over 3 years ago. Thank you! Wow. Another third rail question today. This is what I wrote … Read More
ASK FATHER: “How do you keep your energy up for the fight?”
From a priest… Someone forwarded me your article responding to Fr. Gerald J. Bednar’s article. First of all: thank you! :) But second: how do you keep your energy up for the fight? Many who believe the 1 true Faith, … Read More
ASK FATHER: Bishops who forbid priests from saying Traditional Latin Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I recently received a question concerning the Traditional Latin Mass. I was asked what can a priest do if his bishop stops him from celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass because he dislikes the TLM or disagrees … Read More
Shared Communion with Protestants? Sacrilege and Blasphemy
UPDATE: From a friend in email: It would seem to make little difference in pastoral practice at this point, I think, to admit Lutherans to Communion: most of our own Catholic people don’t believe in the Real Presence and … Read More
ASK FATHER: Father took away our kneelers! What can we do?
From a reader: Our very new parish pastor removed our Communion kneelers this past Sunday. They had been in standard use for at least the last 10 years if not longer. Many parishioners are quite upset, but he certainly isn’t … Read More
QUAERITUR: Can a rector or bishop forbid seminarians or priests use of the cassock?
From a reader: In my diocese there are a small number of seminarians who wish to wear their cassock after their first year of study at the seminary. They have approached the bishop and rector about doing so, but both have refused to … Read More
QUAERITUR: How to obtain more celebrations of the TLM in the diocese? Holy “lío”!
From a reader: As you know on 30 April 2011 the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei issued the instruction Universae Ecclesiae of 30 April 2011, to clarify some aspects of Summorum Pontificum. The two sections of this document that are of … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, O'Brian Tags, Preserved Killick, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged Bux Protocol, lío, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, UE 21, UE 22, Universae Ecclesiae
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21 Comments
QUAERITUR: Tired of outdated liberal liturgy, bad doctrine, no TLM. What do we do?
From a reader: I’m a 28 year old, white, married, male with 3 children, a decent job, two degrees in Theology and an ever-growing chip on my shoulder. I know enough to know that there is always a “storm period” … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box
Tagged Biological Solution, Bux Protocol, TLM, vocations
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41 Comments
Msgr. Bux to SSPX: “Come take part in this blessed future in which we can already foresee dawn, despite the persistent darkness. “
Monsignor Nicola Bux, a consultor to the CDF and to the Office of Pontifical Ceremonies, etc., (originator of what I call the Bux Protocol – which every priest and bishop should remember that people may invoke!) has written a letter to … Read More
Posted in Brick by Brick, Ecclesiae unitatem, Four Last Things, Fr. Z KUDOS, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Pope of Christian Unity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The future and our choices, Universae Ecclesiae
Tagged Benedict XVI, Bp. Felly, Bux Protocol, Dominus Iesus, Msgr. Nicola Bux, Pope of Christian Unity, schism, SSPX, St. Catherine of Siena, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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50 Comments
QUAERITUR: What is a “stable group”? How big? How small?
From a reader: Saw your most recent quaeriter [“quaeritur” is a verb, btw.] and noted the use of “stable group.” We are struggling with our diocese over the definition of that term, as they [“they”? Diocesan officials?] want to say a stable … Read More
D. Shrewsbury, England and the New Evangelization.
For your Brick by Brick File. From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald comes this, with my emphases and comments. A major centre for Eucharistic Adoration and the Old Mass? It’s the latest episcopal surge forward Bishop Davies … Read More
The Bux Protocol
Some people have reacted to my whimsical labeling of advice from the great Fr. Nicola Bux as the “Bux Protocol”. Fr. Bux, a consultor to the CDF and more recently also to the office of Pontifical Ceremonies, spoke at the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
Tagged Bux Protocol, Nicola Bux
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15 Comments
dep on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 4th Sunday of Easter): “Not directly from the sermon, exactly, but Fr. Kiely’s piece in The Catholic Thing caused me, at 2 a.m. to…”
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