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ProfKwasniewski on Diocese of Charlotte: The community of the SSPX Chapel received a Papal Blessing: “I’d like to respond to a widespread reaction, which I had anticipated. Yes, we know that getting such a parchment…”
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“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
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"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
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- Daily Rome Shot 1499
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- Daily Rome Shot 1498 – URGENT VIDEO WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST BOTH *STUPID* AND *HERESY*
- ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 05– Thursday 1st Week of Advent
- Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate
- ASK FATHER: Does a communicant have the right to receive communion from a cleric?
- ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent
- Daily Rome Shot 1497 – Kneeling in Charlotte….
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- Daily Rome Shot 1496
- “It was in these cataclysmic days that the people chose a certain Roman Deacon Gregory to be their new Bishop.”
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- Daily Rome Shot 1494
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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.
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