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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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Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “Usus: Il Fiorentino, Campo de’ Fiori”
grateful on ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy: “Now we know why the streets are so clean, the pink flamingo street sweeper dog. She must be hot (or…”
Gregg the Obscure on ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy: “oh that dear little pup at the campo di fiori looks like my late Leon.”
Venerator Sti Lot on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “BW, Presumably not “Frodo cecidit”… But can anyone suggest one or another good historical overview of Supreme Pontifical attendances at…”
Kathleen10 on ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy: “Dogs are one of the sweetest parts of life. Love the wagging tail, and hes begging someone to try to…”
tzabiega on ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy: “The fragoline are known in English as Alpine Strawberries. They are the best strawberries and actually taste different and better…”
Boniface on ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy: “That’s one happy, Roman dog. Now, if only that vile nearby statue of Bruno was a chew-toy she could reduce…”
ususantiquior on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “I am admiring the steak and wondering where you found it. Piazza del Paradiso by any chance?”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy: “White to move and mate in 4. [NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t…”
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat: “hfspur: It’s not that difficult. The key is clarified butter in a frying pan over high heat. Clarified butter has…”
Bosco on Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.: “All the monkeys aren’t in the zoo, i.e.”Pope Lío!¡Vaya lío! If Ali-Foreman was the “Thrilla in Manila”, then Pope Francis…”
Angelo Tan on ROME 25/5– Day 36: Caponata: “This is my take: O God, through the unwavering sacramental silence of your holy Martyr, Saint John, you have adorned…”
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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
- ROME 25/5– Day 40: Pure joy
- 20 May – St. Aurea, “Golden Girl” of Ostia, and a link to St. Augustine’s mother, Monnica
- ROME 25/5– Day 39: meat
- Circi mei omnes omnesque simiae.
- ROME 25/5– Day 38: light and emotion
- “Shut up, pray for the man, keep doing your thing and stay out of sight. Winter is not over. The wolves are not dead yet.”
- Peter.. keys.. net… coat of arms… regnal name. Yeah.
- 4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): St. James, anger, and your
- ROME 25/5– Day 37: hard choices
- ROME 25/5– Day 36: Caponata
- Concerning the Pope’s… Popes’… pectoral Cross
- ROME 25/5– Day 35: The papal “We”?!?
- ROME 25/5– Day 34: Heat death of the universe
- ROME 25/5– Day 33: languid
- ROME 13 May 609 – Exorcism, screaming demons, terrified people fainting – Dedication of the Pantheon as a church
- ROME 25/5– Day 32: The Ave Maria Bell Explained and “If you are a woke Catholic, you aren’t Catholic anymore.”
- ASK FATHER: Did Leo XIV use an older, traditional form of the “Urbi et Orbi” Blessing?
- ASK FATHER: If Father must say Mass AFTER the new Pope’s election is announced but BEFORE we know his name…?
- ROME 25/5– Day 30-31:
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 3rd Sunday after Easter 2025 (N.O. 4th Sunday of Easter)
- Leo XIV – relax
- Some Notes about Leo XIV.. maybe more to follow
- ASK FATHER: Celebrating Our Lady of Fatima’s Mass (TLM) on 13 May
- ASK FATHER: Father just said “I absolve you in the name of….”
- ASK FATHER: Priest cut me off while confessing my sins
- ASK FATHER: Priest went “off script” when giving absolution
- ASK FATHER: Security video camera inside a confessional
- Wherein cooking and conclaves how the cardinals ate in conclaves come together in a fun video
- ROME 25/4– Day 28-29: New Pope – What Do The Romans Really Say?
- Here’s an idea to bring about healing and peace: Let the “Dubia Cardinals” re-submit the 2016 Dubia (Amoris) and 2023 Dubia (Synodality)
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: NCR
Fishwrap is openly pro-abortion – ACTION ITEM!
It will not surprise you that Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) has come down firmly in the pro-abortion camp. One of its most important, show-cased writers, the disciple of Sr. Margaret Farley, the open lesbian Jamie Manson. This could be next … Read More
Fishwrap’s @MichaelSWinters wants action from the US bishops. So does @FatherZ
Michael Sean Winters (aka the Wile E. Coyote of the catholic Left, aka Madame Defarge the Tricoteuse) is worried. He has called to the US Bishops to stop the schism! In his latest panic attack at Fishwrap, Winters identifies several groups … Read More
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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Fishwrap’s latest tacky move
Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) tested new depths of tacky today. They published, on the 20th anniversary of St. John Paul II’s Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, a piece by the excommunicated “lady tambourine ‘priest‘” (perhaps you recall the Bob Dylan parody … Read More
More about the organization of ‘c’atholic dissidents (hint: Fishwrap)
In the last few days I electronically printed a couple posts (HERE and HERE) in which I talked about how the highly-organized, spiderweb-like Left, uses networks of small front groups to mask the activity of larger initiatives. I applied that … Read More
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The Philippines: vast super typhoon, devastation, death
A massive storm has devastated the Philippines. Thousands are dead. Some 10,000 are dead. Who knows how many are injured and displaced. I will say Mass for the dead from the storm tomorrow, Monday. I am sure you will join … Read More
Let’s play Global Thermonuclear War!
Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) has yet another attack piece against the important collection to be taken up this weekend for the Archdiocese for Military Services. In other words they are attacking Catholic chaplains. In the latest divisive hate piece Fishwrap has … Read More
Sr. Maureen Fiedler may have some anger issues
I have mentioned a couple times that liberals and (this is just a subgroup) feminists (meaning LCWR types) will eventually turn on Pope Francis. HERE and HERE You may recall that on 3 April, last, I wrote: “Feminists and proponents … Read More
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Fishwrap’s Call for Papal Yes-Men
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap), Michael Sean Winters attacked Bp. Tobin for saying that he (Tobin) is disappointed that Pope Francis hasn’t spoken enough about abortion. Winters wrote: Lastly, a note to the nuncio. Unless you want … Read More
How the Catholic Left will support Pres. Obama’s attack on Syria.
I was going to write it, but over at CatholicVote (keep praying for Thom Peters’ complete recovery!), Matt Bowman beat me to it with a great look into the wacky world of the Fishwrap‘s (aka National Schismatic Reporter) support of … Read More
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Hasta la vista, baby! One step closer to ‘Romanorum coetibus’!
Those of you who have been reading here for a while may remember my urgent pleas that the Anglican communion issue provisions in some form of document that could be called Romanorum coetibus (as a response to Benedict XVI’s Anglicanorum … Read More
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Nuns in Arms! Sr. Fiedler runs down Archbp. Sartain as the LCWR Games begin.
The inimitable Sr. Maureen Fiedler has taken it upon her broad shoulder to be spokesone for the LCWR. We know that a past mentor of the LCWR is annoyed that Archbp. Sartain (appointed by the CDF to keep his eyes … Read More
Wherein Fr. Z offers kudos to Jamie Manson and shares her pain
It isn’t often that I can give “Fr Z Kudos” to the Fishwrap’s Jamie Manson (openly lesbian activist, mentored by Sr. Margaret Farley, and darling of the LCWR). In the wake of Pope Francis’ comments on the airplane about homosexuals … Read More
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Fishwrap gives Archbp. Weakland a pass on clerical sexual abuse of children
As I was slumming through the site of the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) I stepped in their piece about retired Archbishop Rembert Weakland’s role in the clerical sexual abuse scandals in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. I got to the end … Read More
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Just how tone deaf is the National Schismatic Reporter?
Just how tone deaf is the National Schismatic Reporter (aka Fishwrap)? Classly as ever, on the eve the conclave they suggest: […] No matter from what part of the world he hails, no matter what his theological or ecclesiastical pedigree, … Read More
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Dr. Peters v. National Schismatic Reporter – MAKE POPCORN!
At the National Schismatic Reporter, editor Tom Fox had a grand-nutty. This time, however, I offer black and red treatment by none other than Prof. Ed Peters (who has no open combox – be sure to visit him and boost … Read More
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NSR: Making Church history up as they go!
Over at the National Schismatic Reporter, the journal of record for heretics and schismatics everywhere (aka Fishwrap), there is an article by one Richard Gaillardetz, the “Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College”, ostensibly about women, ordination and … Read More
Bp. Finn calls out the National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter (aka Fishwrap) conspired with others who are openly hostile to the Catholic Church to intimidate His Excellency Most Rev. Robert Finn into silence. The fact is, the NCR is not a “Catholic” paper or news source. … Read More
The Ghost of Lib-Mass Yet To Come
Someone sent me a link to an article in Hell’s Bible (aka The New York Times) about “experimental worship” and moving beyond institutional church… sort of like what the National catholic Reporter praises. There is some pretty crazy stuff in … Read More
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