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- A few things I found today that I think are interesting
- Wherein Fr. Z rants. Benediction using the humeral veil BUT… blessings at Communion time? Fathers! THINK!
- ASK FATHER: For Benediction why the humeral veil?
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 2: CHINESE
- ASK FATHER: After Benediction why were the “Divine Praises” not in Latin?
- Brooklyn 26/6 – Day 1: catching up
- ROME 26/6 – Day 76: Brooklyn Bound
- ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Corpus Christi (transferred)
- ASK FATHER: Why did dioceses stop using the word, “the” before words like “priesthood”, “Eucharist, or “Church?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 72: hot (Novena Day 3)
- ROME 26/6 – Day 71: Real Corpus Christi (Novena Day 2)
- “…the young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”
- I am not making this up. Could it explain about clerics from a certain country?
- ROME 26/6 – Day 69-70: Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus – DAY 1
- ROME 26/6 – Day 68: hot and humid
- ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Trinity Sunday
- ROME 26/5– Day 65 & 66: better late than the other thing
- ASKING FOR A FRIEND: Faithful Catholic Medical Doctors in South and East Ontario, CANADA
- WDTPRS – Trinity Sunday: Are you beautiful at Mass?
- REPOST ASK FATHER: How to make a “Trinitini” Martini for Trinity Sunday and avoid committing heresy?
- ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.
- OLDIE PODCAzT 59: St Leo the Great on Pentecost fasting; Benedict XVI’s Pentecost sermon
- Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville
- How did we get HERE?
- YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS
- ROME 26/5– Day 62 & 63: NEWS
- OLDIE PODCAzT: Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost
- OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
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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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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: Marco Tosatti
Antonio Socci on the recent Corriere piece with and about Benedict XVI
Marco Tosatti has posted on his site an English translation of Antonio Socci’s latest, which was in Libero. It’s all about the recent Benedict XVI “interview” posted by Corriere della Sera. Tosatti points out that Corriere turned non-news into the headline … Read More
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Italian article by Marco Tosatti: Homoheresy and homopraxis. Why doesn’t the Pope call the problems by their name? Possible answers.
I know some of you out there read Italian. Even clerics who went to the NAC can probably read a little! o{];¬) At Marco Tossati’s site there is a longish but deeply informative article: OMOERESIA E OMOPRAXIA. PERCHÈ IL PAPA NON … Read More
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War, described.
You might want to pause in your busy busy day to visit First Things and read a piece by Italian vaticanista Marco Tosatti. THE WAR AGAINST CARDINAL SARAH Do you want to know the sort of man Card. Sarah really is? … Read More
Tosatti about Burke about Müller and Peters about Humanae vitae
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.” The case of the former Prefect of the CDF, Gerhard Ludwig … Read More
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Magister: Comments on the state of the Curia
Some time ago I issued a serious rant. HERE I think you should take it to heart. From Sandro Magister: A Firing, a Demolition: Behold the New Curia The reform of the Vatican curia that Pope Francis is carrying out … Read More
Synodality? Collegiality? Not so much.
This morning early I received an SMS: “Parolin announces ‘clarification’ of CIC by which no diocesan institute of religious can be erected validly without Vatican OK.” “Gosh!”, or words to that effect, “So much for the collegiality and decentralization that … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z muses on a growing trend
Let me put some facts together for you. At La Stampa Marco Tosatti is reporting that, before the upcoming Synod on the Family in October, things are already heating up. It seems that Cantagalli, the Italian publisher of Permanere nella verità … Read More
Where’s the Prefect? Woman “priest” at altar of Benedictine monastery in Austria for 10 years?
I saw a piece by the intrepid Marco Tosatti of La Stampa about a “wedding” in Austria that was witnessed at a Benedictine monastery in Kremsmunster, by a woman “priest” (wymyn pryst). The wymyn was excommunicated 11 years ago, but she … Read More
Catholic Identity and You
I turn to my email and find a link to a piece by the Vaticanista Marco Tosatti who writes for La Stampa. He drills into the travails of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. HERE (My translation) In sum, in … Read More





















