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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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- The most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world are manifested when He permits His people to fall into the hands of clerics who are priests more in name than in deed, priests who practice the cruelty of ravening wolves rather than the charity and affection of devoted shepherds.
St. John Eudes
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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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Recent Posts
- Bishop wants to ordained married men because “pastoral emergency”. Could you repeat that?
- Report from the ground: Charlotte
- “I am the good shepherd”
- ROME 26/4– Day 37: trading places
- Fr. McTeigue asks for a novena of reparation for the Anglican … thing… in Rome
- ASK FATHER: Is religious liberty in “Dignitatis humanae” the same as before the Vatican II? Of SSPX relevance. Wherein Fr. Z also makes an impassioned plea to Leo.
- ROME 26/4– Day 36: Seeing red
- ROME 26/4– Day 35: Theatre of the Absurd
- ROME 26/4– Day 34: A good example
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 4th Sunday OF Easter)
- ASK FATHER: If the Canon is inaudible, would it be invalid?
- ROME 26/4– Day 33: Here’s a little Latin for you
- ROME 26/4– Day 32: What a day
- ROME 26/4– Day 31: tired
- ROME 26/4– Days 30: R.I.P.
- “Masses scheduled at impossible times”… Where have I heard that before?
- ROME 26/4– Days 29: Happy Birthday Rome!
- Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z
- ROME 26/4– Days 27 & 28: Pope SAINT Leo IX lead an army
- Feast of St. Expeditus… belated
- ASK FATHER: Was the feeding of the 5000 just a moment of “sharing” or was it a true miracle?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 3rd Sunday OF Easter)
- ROME 26/4– Day 26:
- Wherein Fr Z is “shocked, shocked!”
- ROME 26/4– Day 25: steak and a peek
- ROME 26/4– Day 24: two beautiful saints
- ROME 26/3– Day 23: Pure hate
- Of computing time, a comma, and the invalidity of Benedict XVI’s abdication
- ROME 26/3– Day 22: thanks
- Nope. People know how doctors dress.
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: Fishwrap
Fishwrap again energetically promotes ordination of women
The National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) is once again stumping for one of its favorite topics. No, not sodomitic marriage this time. Women’s ordination. Imagine the amazing insights Sr. Maureen Fiedler can offer. HERE Note the energy and fervor edition Fishwrap publisher Tom … Read More
The View From The Fainting Couch: Pentin’s book provokes the vapors
Burke Derangement Syndrome™ has struck again! Michael Sean Winters of the Fishwrap has swooned upon his fainting couch at the news of Edward Pentin’s new book about what happened at the Synod of Bishops last October. More about Pentin’s new Smoking Gun Book™ … Read More
Even For Fishwrap a new low
From The Fishwrap (aka National Sodomitic Reporter)… The Church should work with Big Business Abortion – Planned Parenthood. To them, I’m sure, this is reasonable. Sample: The Catholic church should partner with Planned Parenthood to reduce abortions After 40 years … Read More
The View From The Fascist Fainting Couch
Over at the Fishwrap (aka National Sodomitic Reporter – organ of record for the promotion of heresy and same-sex impurity for liberal catholics) MS Winters has had still another case of the vapors. From his view athwart the NSR fainting couch, Winters penned a long, mostly … Read More
The upcoming “environment” encyclical, “human ecology”, and the everlasting pains of Hell
Some say that the Pope’s next encyclical – on the “environment” – will be called “Laudato sii“. Some say that that’s Latin. No. It isn’t. It’s the 13th Umbrian which St. Francis of Assisi would have known and in which … Read More
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A thought about Card. Burke and the Fishwrap
I had a thought about what Card. Burke said. In his interview with a French TV station, His Eminence said, in answer to a question about the possibility that the Pope might persist (quite an assumption) in driving forward Communion … Read More
“The Wile E. Coyote of contemporary liberal Catholicism”
You all must go to First Things and read Robbie George’s response to the loony tunes attack made on him by Fishwrap’s (aka National Schismatic Reporter) Michael Sean Winters (hereafter aka the Wile E. Coyote of contemporary liberal Catholicism). The piece is replete with descriptions … Read More
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The “Francis Effect” and remembering to talk about God
Be sure to check out Andrea Galiarducci’s latest Monday Vatican analysis. “A must today as ever: Talking about God in light of Pope Francis’ missionary push” Galiarducci opines that Pope Francis has had some success in polishing the Church’s image. … Read More
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A breakthrough!
I think I am finally beginning to understand the LCWR and the Fishwrap. I want you to understand them too. Here’s a helpful video.





















