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“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
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Saint Rocco the Trubador on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “I must also state that I was in high school when JPII first came to Philadelphia in 1979, and I…”
Saint Rocco the Trubador on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “My dad (who lived to the sharp old age of 87) passed away on the day BXVI officially stepped down…”
TonyO on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “I don’t begrudge the retirement of an aged worker who has done his work. Let him rest in peace. But…”
maternalView on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “Twelve years ago today (the 11th was a Monday that year) as we checked into Domus Australia we glanced at…”
BW on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “My wife and I have our Papal Blessing certificate for our Marriage on our bedroom wall; given by Pope Benedict…”
carndt on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 5th Sunday after Epiphany (N.O. 5th Ordinary) 2025: “I attend the FSSP Corpus Christi Chapel in Naples, FL. On 2/9/25, while visiting my daughter’s home in Rockford, MI…”
Geoffrey on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “A very sad day, indeed. J.D. Flynn over at The Pillar offered this: “But we should know, at least from…”
summorumpontificum777 on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “Truly one of the darkest and most consequential days in the history of the Church. Benedict XVI was a saintly…”
Ave Maria on 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.: “The wolves must have been ferocious but now they are in charge. Scandals continue with the financial malfeasance and what…”
Imrahil on Of football, changes, and the booing of Taylor Swift. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “In the meantime, where is the positive value of booing people that happen to be well-known because their political opinion…”
Imrahil on Of football, changes, and the booing of Taylor Swift. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: ““in the real”: “in the realm”. Sorry.”
Imrahil on Of football, changes, and the booing of Taylor Swift. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Generally, but also starting from a statement by the dear TonyO, what is the real economic value in having grown…”
Sandy on 10 February – José de Jesús Sánchez del Río, Martyr: “Tell Christ the King I shall be with him soon.”: “The movie is so inspiring! I wish it could be shown to older school kids, at least in Catholic schools.…”
Imrahil on Of football, changes, and the booing of Taylor Swift. Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “Dear TonyO, maybe some real comment later, but in the meantime: professional boxing, which has been condemned by the Church…”
Charivari Rob on Daily … Catania Shot 1242 – Christmas cards!: “re: Ardee & ICKSP I think that building (if I have matched correctly) was at one time the Parochial House.…”
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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
"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
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- 11 Feb: Our Lady of Lourdes
- 11 February 2013: One of the saddest days in the history of the Catholic Church and larger modern society.
- 10 February – José de Jesús Sánchez del Río, Martyr: “Tell Christ the King I shall be with him soon.”
- Daily Rome Shot 1243
- Of football, changes, and the booing of Taylor Swift. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- Daily … Catania Shot 1242 – Christmas cards!
- “An enemy has done this.”
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 5th Sunday after Epiphany (N.O. 5th Ordinary) 2025
- Look at these poor backwardists
- Daily Rome Shot 1241 – a lucky man
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- VIDEO: Can a bishop forbid Communion at a Communion rail? A canonist responds.
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- PENTIN on “Trump’s Early Decisions Expose Damage Caused by Vatican Complicity With Democrat-Run Globalism”
- ROME DAY 25/01 11: Time to go. My View For A While
- Hey Fathers! How about a clerical Guayabera shirt? (Tariff
- ROME DAY 25/01 10: Last meal out (and a tintinabular explication)
- ROME DAY 25/01 09: 1st meal out
- Notes about the Candlemas procession: the link between the Nativity and the Passion
- A Poetry ‘Encounter’ for Candlemas: “A Song For Simeon” by T.S. Eliot
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Candlemas / Purification (N.O. Presentation) 2025
- ROME DAY 25/01 08: Fractal
- St. Ignatius, martyr, and Bl. Ludovica, widow – Beauty, differently manifested
- ROME DAY 25/01 07: A martyr
- Fr. Charron on Mr. Lofton
- ACTION ITEM! 2-10 February – NOVENA to Immaculate Heart for FSSP for their Vatican “Visitation”
- ROME DAY 25/01 06: INTERNET
- “GO TO CONFESSION!” I always say. Another thing I say is that it is CRUEL to leave penitents in doubt.
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.
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Tag Archives: COVID-1984
Idolatry as the cause of present woes? Think biblically.
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently in the Old Testament, seeing how again and again and again the People whom God chose broke covenant after covenant after covenant. God punished them with afflictions to bring them back and … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Does an Apostolic Administrator of a diocese have the authority to force priests to receive the “jab”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Fr Z, does the Apostolic Administrator of a diocese have authority to require all priests in the diocese (including religious priests) to receive the covid jab, as well as to require the priests to tell him … Read More
Vatican City State now demands COVID-1984 “Green Pass” or you can’t enter. Meanwhile, in Canada….
Vatican News says that beginning 1 October, anyone wishing to enter Vatican City State will have to have a Green Pass… to help stop the spread of COVID… because SCV has been a hot spot, having had only one case in … Read More
PRAYERS FOR CARD. BURKE – Updated
UPDATE 17 August 2021: Renew prayers and offer penances for Card. Burke, who is doing poorly. I have confirmation from two other sources of what someone who knows the family passed on: H.E. is at a critical point with pneumonia. … Read More
A small dose of dystopian situational awareness
Dip the tip of your finger into a small dose of dystopian situational awareness. Looking Backward at Stay Safe. I don’t even want to post a teasing excerpt. Just read it. 717 words. About 2 and a half minutes.
Seminarians to be required to get the COVID-1984 jab in order to return in Fall 2021
Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, is one of the most prestigious seminaries in these USA. It has enjoyed a good reputation for years. In the decades when many (most… virtually all) seminaries were cesspools, “The Mount” was comparatively … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Bishop reimposed Sunday Mass obligation but there are still attendance numbers restrictions.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Dear Father, Our bishop recently ended the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass, except in cases of old age or health. This means my young, healthy family is obligated to attend Mass once more. … Read More
No vaccination? No confession! NJ parish now exercises the “power of the syringes” – UPDATE
UPDATE 29 March: It seems that an option for confessions for the non-jabbed has been added to the schedule. I note with fascination that, although the priest there seems to be extremely worried about infectious penitents, he will have “face … Read More
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ASK FATHER: Must I go to a Novus Ordo Mass and receive on the hand to fulfill my “Easter Duty”?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Our churches in the Diocese of ___ have been allowed to have public Masses offered with 15% capacity of the fire code regulations, but with very strict restrictions from the bishop (more strict than the government’s … Read More
The pub that survived the Great Plague is shut down by Covid-1984
Okay… this is getting seriously ridiculous now. It’s time to put a stop to the Wuhan Devil. From the Daily Telegraph I learned that the Lamb and Flag in Oxford is to close. That’s just plain WRONG!
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Note of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines
Today in the daily Bollettino (summary of news) issued by the Vatican Press Office there is this from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith… my emphases. Bullet points. It is morally licit to receive a vaccination against the … Read More
Wherein Tucker cites Viganò about the Wuhan Devil
Tucker Carlson last night mentioned Archbp. Viganò. Perhaps he can be excused for mispronouncing his name. His point is good. A friend let me know about this. I stopped watching Fox after “Election” night.
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Prayer Request from Fr. Z – UPDATE!
Over the years I’ve posted some notes about a Navy Chaplain friend of mine, CDR Charles Johnson, how he spiffed up the altar in traditional ways and said the TLM on the “Big trick”, and how his plane crashed at … Read More
IRELAND: The longings and the lessons in the Mass Rocks
One of our frequent, fecund, and most flexible of commentators here alerted me to a piece at National Catholic Register. I find this simultaneously discouraging and encouraging. Ireland’s ‘Mass Rocks’ Are Becoming Popular Again Remote flat rocks in the hills … Read More
“The Lost Tools Of Learning” and Defunding Public Schools
The chaos and violence in our summer streets this year are the vile fruits of an increasingly leftist, ideological, politicized public education system. The idiots in the streets, embracing fantasies about Marxism imbibed in school room, are doing precisely what … Read More
Concerning COVID-1984 masks
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ASK FATHER: If Mass is being streamed to a hall for overflow attendance, are those people at Mass?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I’m an usher at my parish. Because of the scamdemic, the bishop wants spacing enforced. For Sunday Mass, I’m being asked to sit “overflow” in the parish hall, though in reality, there is plenty of space. … Read More
ACTION ITEM! COVID takes 13 Felician Sisters in one convent. Please pray for them.
There is an awful report about COVID and/or its complications striking a convent of Felician sisters in Livonia, Michigan. Beginning on Good Friday, 13 sisters have died. Many were infected and have recovered. It is hard to imagine what the … Read More
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A priest makes changes: Ritus Covidensis!
What are some of the consequences of COVID-1984? I really enjoyed this email. During lockdown,our pastor permitted 5 participants daily (he probably enjoyed the days when too many showed up). He offered the TLM exclusively. He refers to the “new … Read More
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