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Tag Archives: mercy
Fr. Murray’s Open Letter to ex-Card. McCarrick. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
My good friend Fr. Gerald Murray of the Archdiocese of New York posted an Open Letter to ex-Cardinal McCarrick, also originally a priest of the same Archdiocese. Fr. Murray really lays it on the line, in spiritual terms. It’s strong … Continue reading
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Mail from priests
Tagged Fr. Gerald Murray, L'Affaire McCarrick, mercy
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Know the truth and the truth will make you … an idolator?
My friend Fr Gerald Murray has a very good essay at The Catholic Thing. He posted it a couple days ago, so you may already have seen it. It deserves some attention because it touches on something fundamental even to our … Continue reading
Beautiful video about the Traditional Latin Mass. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I was given a link to a video about Holy Mass in the traditional Roman Rite made at the oratory of the Institute of Christ the King in San Jose, CA. It is interesting to view this video immediately after … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost: Mercy and Justice are not opposed
The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to live in the post-Conciliar, reformed Missale Romanum! You can find it, somewhat wounded, for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form Missale … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 18th Sunday after Pentecost: Who says mercy has to be gentle? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
The Collect for Sunday Mass this week in the Extraordinary Form wound up in the Ordinary Form Missale Romanum as the Collect for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent. Go figure. It had an ancient source in the Gelasian … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged correction, mercy
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WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost: Mercy does not mean turning a blind eye to Justice
The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to live in the post-Conciliar, reformed Missale Romanum! You can find it, somewhat wounded, for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form Missale … Continue reading
For Francis, the Church’s doctrine is subordinated to the primary value of mercy
If you, like I do, suffer from Amoris defetiscenia, you might be clicking past pieces you see about the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation. I confess that I have to fight the temptation to tune out and just ignore the document and its coverage. Alas, … Continue reading
Posted in Francis, Synod, The Drill
Tagged Amoris Laetitia, mercy, Monica Migliorino Miller, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation
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Mercy requires Truth and the move away from sin. “Mercy is not moral peek-a-boo.”
Some folks are blabbing about mercy mercy mercy while shoving truth under the rug. They suggest that mercy trumps truth, dogma, law conversion, etc. Wrong. We have to call people on that. There is a good article at Crisis Magazine … Continue reading
Posted in The Drill
Tagged Divine Mercy, Doctor of Mercy, Doctor of the Church, mercy, St. John Paul II
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WDTPRS – 21st Sunday after Pentecost (1962): I am horrified when I hear the modernists say…
Let’s have a look at the Collect for the upcoming Sunday in the TLM – 1962 Missale Romanum. This a portion from my article for The Wanderer. This Collect has been in use at least since the time of the … Continue reading
Wherein Fr. Blake hits a century
No, he’s not 100 years old. My friend Fr. Ray Blake, PP of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton, has a great post on his blog. HERE A friend of mine reports this conversation: “Father, my boyfriend is depressed; I want … Continue reading
Posted in HONORED GUESTS, Mail from priests, New Evangelization, One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Fr. Blake, males, masculinity, men, mercy
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JUBILEE YEAR ANNOUNCED – OF MERCY!
On the 2nd anniversary of his election to the See of Peter, Pope Francis announced a Jubilee Year “of Mercy”. The Jubilee will begin with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on the 8 December 2015, … Continue reading
Posted in Francis, GO TO CONFESSION, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Jubilee, Jubilee Year, mercy, sacrament of penance
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ASK FATHER: Hope for heaven for non-Catholic relatives
From a reader… QUAERITUR: When I converted at Easter 2001 from an Baptist background it seemed that the Catechism of the Catholic Church implied that there was hope for Protestant salvation. Now that I have been drawn to the Traditional Latin … Continue reading
St. John Paul: “the Church does not agree to call good evil and evil good”
From St. John Paul’s 1984 Post-Synodal Exhortation Reconciliatio et paenitentia: 34. I consider it my duty to mention at this point, if very briefly, a pastoral case that the synod dealt with-insofar as it was able to do so-and which … Continue reading
When “NO!” is PASTORAL! Wherein Fr. Z rants.
“Pastoral charity”… note the phrase! His Eminence, Raymond Card. Burke, gave an interview to Polonia Christiana magazine. Lifesite rendered it into English HERE. In one of his responses, the Cardinal said: In the case of a politician or other public figure who … Continue reading
