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- Ratzinger in 1976 on the “old Missal” and “new Missal”
- 22 July: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene – A rocky history. Like the saint herself?
- Daily Rome Shot 1664 – quick
- VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 05
- 20 July – St. Elijah, Prophet of the Old Testament
- Would a marriage impediment apply in this case
- Daily Rome Shot 1663 – Happy International Chess Day!
- ASK FATHER: public veneration of relics
- Daily Rome Shot 1662
- Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 16th Ordinary) 2026
- ASK FATHER: Cut off from my beloved SSPX chapel, suffering.
- A Cardinal accidently gets it right!
- Daily Rome Shot 1661
- WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wherein Fr. Z rants.
- WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost – living right
- Daily Rome Shot 1660 – A day that will live in INFAMY
- Daily Rome Shot 1659 – GO TO CONFESSION (says the Jesuit)
- ALERT: The SSPX appeals against the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Mass this afternoon – Unity of the Church… differently
- Daily Rome Shot 1658
- My View For Awhile: homeward – CONCLUSION
- From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-23 – Toupee or not toupee
- Archbp. of Milwaukee reacts to the SSPX consecrations. Fr Z comments.
- WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: God can neither deceive nor be deceived
- Daily Rome Shot 1657 – new life
- Daily Rome Shot 1656 – different stuff
- WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark
- ASK FATHER: Can I be godparent of the child of a Lutheran couple?
- Day 3 & 4 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
- FOR PRIESTS: Wherein, prompted by this conference, Fr. Z posts something for CONFESSION
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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
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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: Year of Faith
POPE TO TABLET….
You will recall that The Tablet recently published a dopey editorial about Vatican II. They got just about everything wrong. I wrote about it HERE. It seems Pope Benedict agrees with me. In his homily for the opening of the … Read More
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Benedict XVI on Year of Faith: “a pilgrimage in the deserts of today’s world, taking with us only what is necessary”
“Reference to the documents saves us from extremes of anachronistic nostalgia and running too far ahead, and allows what is new to be welcomed in a context of continuity.” Thus, Benedict XVI during his homily for the Opening of the Year … Read More
PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE YEAR OF FAITH
PLENARY INDULGENCE FOR THE YEAR OF FAITH Vatican City, 5 October 2012 (VIS) – According to a decree made public today and signed by Cardinal Manuel Monteiro de Castro and Bishop Krzysztof Nykiel, respectively penitentiary major and regent of the … Read More
A new kind of discussion has begun about Vatican II and it cannot be stopped.
The other day I picked up at Ancora bookstore near St. Peter’s Basilica a copy of Serafino M. Lanzetta’s book Iuxta Modum: il Vaticano II riletto alla luce della tradizione della Chiesa. The author proposes a re-reading of the … Read More
14 Oct: WASHINGSTON DC – Pilgrimage to begin Rosary Novena for Life and Liberty
From the USCCB: Pilgrimage to begin Rosary Novena for Life and Liberty WASHINGTON—A Mass and Pilgrimage for Life and Liberty at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington is slated for Sunday, Oct. 14 at … Read More
A Prayer For Vocations
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! Here is a prayer that perhaps parish priests will pick up and use at all Sunday and Holy Day Masses, perhaps immediately after the Gospel: LEADER: Please kneel for our prayer for vocations. ALL: … Read More
Quinque Puncta … Five Points To Be Recited Usefully
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! If we don’t know who we are as Catholics, and if we don’t keep firmly in mind our common Christian vocation to holiness, we will not be able to fulfill our particular vocations and … Read More
Pope announces a “Year of Faith” for 2012-13
The other day the Holy Father celebrated a Mass a Mass for participants in an event hosted by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, during which he also used a raised platform to move from one end of the … Read More




















