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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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DianeK on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “For those who do attend SSPX Masses, what about Holy Communion?”
WVC on The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.: “Obedience is quickly become the new “synodality.” One cannot simply throw that word around as if it explains and justifies…”
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Recent Posts
- The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX
- Daily Rome Shot 1653: Pius X’s caption call
- What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.
- 2nd Joyful Mystery: The Visitation (Traditional observance 2 July)
- The 6 SSPX Bishops excommunicated. Priests are in schism. Marriages invalid. Absolutions invalid. Lay faithful warned against schism and excommunication.
- SSPX Superior Fr. Pagliarani’s homily for the 1 July 2026 consecration of bishops
- A study in contrasts
- Leo wrote to the SSPX. The SSPX wrote back. Fr. Pagliarani’s response.
- Daily Rome Shot 1653: Procession with the chains of St. Paul
- Prayer for the SSPX and Leo
- ASK FATHER: Frequency of confession and confession of venial sins
- Leo XIV has written to the SSPX: “I plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!”
- Daily Rome Shot 1652: tiara
- ASK FATHER: If God love us infinitely why does He not speak to us directly?
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary) 2026
- Daily Rome Shot 1651: MAMBO!
- WDTPRS – Collect of the 13th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): the sticky goo of error and the freeing splendor of the truth. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love
- Daily Rome Shot 1650: shocked but not surprised
- I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.
- Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates
- “Perdonamose!” St. John’s Birthday Feast and Midsummer Snails
- 23 June – Vigil of St. John – solstices and snails, bonfires and witch burnings
- 22 June in the VETUS AND NOVUS Ordo: St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More
- Daily Rome Shot 1648: contradictions
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 12th Ordinary)
- Daily Rome Shot 1648: Mass today is for my benefactors.
- Bad news and good news. The Bishop of Camden crushes the TLM. The FSSP will start up in the Diocese of Arlington
- Bishop of Owensboro crushes people who desire the Traditional Latin Mass, but it’s not his fault! It’s someone else’s fault!
- WDTPRS – The Collect for the 12th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): His Name and Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
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- 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
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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: MSW
Omnium Gatherum: Egypt’s River and a predictably “gay” attack on a forthright bishope
I am still partially unplugged, but, having reengaged a little. Enough to have read a few headlines, my blood-pressure to spike, and then to chuckle at something unintentionally hilarious in its entirely intended malice. First, compare and contrast. At … Read More
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Madame Defarge (@MichaelSWinters) is upset that people don’t find the Terror – applied to real people today – very funny.
At Fishwrap, the Madame Defarge of the catholic Left, and their official Tricoteuse, has temporarily left his knitting spot near the guillotine and returned to the Fainting Couch to swoon in the wake of negative reactions to his thought-revealing imagery. I … Read More
Tricoteuse of the New catholic Red Guard: @MichaelSWinters (aka Madame Defarge)
Look at this piece from from Politico: Hey Democrats, Fighting Fair Is for Suckers […] The list of those changes is dizzying. Grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, and break California in seven, with the goal of adding 16 … Read More
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Keep your eyes and ears open for “lived reality” language
At Fishwrap there are a couple things today which exemplify the starting point of the Left. First, I note a revealing comment by the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left. MSW wrote, inter alia, about the recent death of … Read More
Wile E. to Fr. Z.
At Fishwrap today (aka National Schismatic Reporter – a prayer for it HERE), the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left, has a round up of stories which interested him. He usually adds some commentary. He picked up on my new … Read More
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More dreck at Fishwrap
At Fishwrap (aka the National Schismatic Reporter) there are a couple of dreadful reads. Shocking, right? First, Jesuit Thomas Reese wrote (at the horrid RNS), about how more conservative Catholics are now “cafeteria Catholics” because they disagree with Pope Francis. … Read More
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This from a guy at a site that perpetually calls for dialogue and bashed Popes
The Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left, Michael Sean Winters, recently wrote: Cardinal Gerhard Müller thinks the pope should appoint a group of cardinals to debate the “dubia” submitted by four cardinals regarding Amoris Laetitia. Bad idea. The church is not a debating … Read More
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DANGER! COYOTE ACTIVITY! Winters v. Summorum Pontificum
Recently, Fishwrap‘s Michael Sean Winters, the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left, wrote an angry piece about the 10th anniversary of Benedict XVI’s great Motu Proprio, which was a kind of Emancipation Proclamation for all the priests of the Latin Church … Read More
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View From The Venomous Fainting Couch
When liberals run out of ideas, they resort to personal attacks. Such is the case of Michael Sean Winters of the Fishwrap. We’ve seen his venom before. HERE and, especially, HERE Winters doesn’t like the K of C’s politics, and so he … Read More
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What are we Catholic Americans to do?
You might trot over to Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) and read the epitome of a spittle-flecked nutty. Michael Sean Winters (aka Wile E. Coyote of contemporary liberal Catholicism) is unhinged on this first full day on which we called Donald Trump “President-Elect” … Read More
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