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- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in Quinquagesima (N.O.: 6th Ordinary) 2026: “Today Father drew on the Gospel insights of Fr Pius Parsch in the Vetus Ordo. He likens it to a…”
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- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in Quinquagesima (N.O.: 6th Ordinary) 2026: “The readings were Novus Ordo. Father discussed getting to the root of systemic sins and constantly working to eliminate them.…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Sunday in Quinquagesima (N.O.: 6th Ordinary) 2026: “We also had the OF readings, and Father preached on how the Gospel readings (the “but I say to you”…”
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Tag Archives: Catechism of the Catholic Church
CCC 2499
2499 Moral judgment must condemn the plague of totalitarian states which systematically falsify the truth, exercise political control of opinion through the media, manipulate defendants and witnesses at public trials, and imagine that they secure their tyranny by strangling and repressing … Read More
ASK FATHER: As a youth minister, I don’t think clergy have my back.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father have you seen this recent Pew poll on how we as Catholics view the Eucharist? I’m a Youth Minister @ my Church. I can do talks till I’m blue in the face, but feel I … Read More
ASK FATHER: “I now have doubt about sorting the doctrinal from the papal opinion.” Wherein Fr. Z rants.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: All this confusion with the death penalty has caused me to doubt the authority of what I assumed were books of bedrock Catholic Doctrine. Of course there was the first JPII Catechism, then his revision, both … Read More
The Mysterious Case of CCC 2358 on objectively disordered homosexual inclinations
This is an unusual post. First, I must preface this that some one sent me information about this recently, but I can’t remember who it was, I’ve looked for the email. So, someone found this before I did. I would like … Read More
Pope Francis changed the Catechism about the death penalty. What next? Wherein Fr. Z opines.
I wonder if the recent move of the Holy Father to change the text – the teaching of the Church – of the paragraph in the Catechism of the Catholic Church about the death penalty will generate enough buzz to … Read More
Posted in The Coming Storm, The Drill, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, capital punishment, Catechism of the Catholic Church, death penalty, development of doctrine, John Henry Newman, Juan Manuel de Rosas, lived experience, Pope Francis, Realities are more important than ideas
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ASK FATHER: Sorting out confusing, contradictory messages from priests
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to ask you a question since I know you are knowledgable and do not lead souls astray. My question is not meant to vent about the state of the … Read More
Cri de Coeur: What recourse do we laypeople have?
This cri de coeur comes from a comment under another entry. And what recourse do we laypeople have? Do we just have to sit around and remain silent because we do not have proper authority to speak up? Priests and … Read More
25th Anniversary of the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Today is the 25th anniversary of the release of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. St. John Paul II approved the provisional text in June 1992 and it was promulgated on 11 October 1992, which is also the anniversary of the … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Catechism of the Catholic Church, CCC, Gaudet Mater Ecclesia
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16 Comments
A “cri de coeur”: Fr Z responds with a strong suggestion.
I had a note, really a cri de coeur, from a reader who said that she feels as if she and other good and innocent people in the Church today are undergoing one terror attack after another against our Catholic … Read More
Are you anxious, upset, confused about the Church today? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
In this time of confusion over doctrine and praxis, many people ask me in email what they can do either to maintain equilibrium, or else to “be the maquis”, as it were, and join the resistance against the liberal undermining of … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, "How To..." - Practical Notes, ACTION ITEM!, Be The Maquis, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liberals, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The future and our choices, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged Baltimore Catechism, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Roman Catechism
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35 Comments
Imrahil on NYC – 26 February – Solemn Requiem Mass – Mozart’s Requiem: “Excuse me, but my immediate reaction to that stuff by the dear donato2, whom I’m probably not doing justice, would…”
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