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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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- TheCavalierHatherly on ROME 26/3– Day 00: Brooklyn and blog: “Corrigendum: …cum elephantis rosis. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Serpent_killing_an_elephant.jpg Dracones et elephanti semper pugnant, ut Plinius dicit.”
- kkarwowski on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “Our small independent chapel had all statues and most of the crucifixes covered with violet.”
- haydn seeker on Article at The Catholic Thing about the two forms of the Roman Rite: “I am so sick of internet blah blah blah pitting the old and new masses against each other. I love…”
- jflare29 on Article at The Catholic Thing about the two forms of the Roman Rite: “I suspect that my impressions and thoughts are doomed to sound like one very skeptical of anything past 1950. Or…”
- VForr on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils: “I am happy to report that the statues, the crucifixes, and the tabernacle were veiled in violet. In all the…”
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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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- “The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.”
- C.S. Lewis
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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
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 35: Tuesday in Passiontide – Christ’s suffering, popular piety
- Test of app and MY VIEW FOR AWHILE: Rome bound
- Article at The Catholic Thing about the two forms of the Roman Rite
- ROME 26/3– Day 00: Brooklyn and blog
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 34: Monday in Passiontide – Ancient v. Modern Views
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Passion Sunday, 5th in/of Lent 2026 – POLL about veils
- ASK FATHER: John 8:55
- I love this story and it makes me sad
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 33: 1st Passion Sunday (5th Lent) – “Christ entered once into the Holies…”
- WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Lent: The Church, liturgically dying
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 32: Saturday 4th Week in Lent – Approaching Passiontide
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 31: Friday 4th Week in Lent – The 3rd Station
- Ite ad Ioseph… Go to Joseph!
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 30: Thursday 4th Week in Lent – St. Joseph
- Daily Rome Shot 1569
- In the ancient Roman Church today, Wednesday “in mediana” was a big day for catechumens.
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- LENTCAzT 2026 – 29: Wednesday 4th Week in Lent – Purity and Mud
- SSPX in Italy sent a book all Italian Bishops about the upcoming consecrations
- Daily Rome Shot 1568
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 28: Tuesday 4th Week in Lent – Mass and Cross
- Daily Rome Shot 1567 – It was worse than we thought
- Such wealth and depth we have in the traditional Roman Rite
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 27: Monday 4th Week in Lent – The truth and you
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Laetare Sunday, 4th in/of Lent 2026
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 26: Laetare Sunday, 4th in Lent – The goal
- Daily Rome Shot 1566
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 25: Saturday 3rd Week in Lent – The spirit of prayer
- LENTCAzT 2026 – 24: Friday 3rd Week in Lent – Evangelize with our lives
- “Days in Rome” Project – Easter 2026 and beyond
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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The "sign of peace" during Mass in the Ordinary Form...
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- I hate it so much I won't go to Mass where it is done. (12%, 3,205 Votes)
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- I don't care one way or another. (6%, 1,696 Votes)
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Should the Bishops of the USA have us return to obligatory meatless Fridays during the whole year and not just during Lent?
- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
- No, I hesitate about such a move. (5%, 900 Votes)
- No, this would be a really bad idea. (3%, 511 Votes)
- I don't care. (2%, 431 Votes)
- What's penance? (1%, 152 Votes)
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Tag Archives: Twitter
USAToday’s coverage of the #WhatSistersMeanToMe tag on Twitter (We are mentioned.)
I noticed this in USAToday: Twisting tweets make hash of hashtag support for nuns [Nooo… it brought clarity to support for nuns.] By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY Hesitate before you launch a hashtag. The experiences of President Obama and Catholic … Read More
Tweeting for the Magisterium of Nuns
The acolytes of the Magisterium of Nuns, such as Fr. James Martin, SJ, of America Magazine, are pretending that the Holy See’s effort to reform the the LCWR is about Republicans and politics, or about their “social justice” work. Fr. … Read More
My thanks to tweeps!
I am very grateful to my tweeps who consistently re-tweet my tweets and blog posts on Twitter. I started a new link category on my side-bar and have added the Twitter names of people helping me out. Hint: Do as … Read More
SMS et Pipationes … LATINE! MVR!
Picked up via rogueclassicism and a Google+ page: +Lauren Stein suggested coming up with a list of Latin abbreviations for texting. I’m pasting in here some ideas for that which already surfaced at the eClassics Ning a couple of years … Read More
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Benedictus qui pipiavit in nomine Domini
It isn’t very often that you see a Pope send a tweet. Latin for “tweet” is pipio, -are. A “tweet” is a pipiatio. [wp_youtube]tty87WDBukk[/wp_youtube] And this… [wp_youtube]tC8s44MRGVA[/wp_youtube]
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Latin for “tweet” and “Twitter” – WDTPRS POLL
Fewer questions in this twittering world burn at hot as the proper Latin terminology for Twitter. In a couple places, for example on the entry about the Z-Cam and Radio Sabina, I have suggested that Latin for “tweet” as in … Read More
The Feeder Feed: unhappy edition (with a REQUEST… and some useful Latin)
This is not my shot. I found it on the Twitter feed of Glacier National Park via Disputations. Behold, Sialia pissedofftica, aka the Bluebird of Unhappiness. It is the winter that will not end. With that… if you use Twitter … Read More
On Twitter we have “#followfriday”; why not “#anathemasiturday”
From His Hermeuenticalness. I think we should consider this. Having just worked out what #followfriday is on Twitter (and indeed having posted my first #FF tweet) I thought it would be good to have an hashtag for an "Anathema Saturday" … Read More
A reason to follow the major catholic bloggers on Twitter
From time to time as ask for more followers on Twitter. I’ll ask again… follow me on Twitter: @father Today I was glad I had followed a couple of major Catholic Tweeters, in this case the young Papist and on … Read More
Request to readers: good hashtags for Twitter about recent controversies
To readers who use Twitter: If some of you are paying attention to Twitter feeds about the topic of how the media is handling the recent round of controversies, or the topic of the controversies themselves, could you post some … Read More





















