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Monthly Archives: April 2018
ASK FATHER: Confession time frustration
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Hoping you can help me approach this situation correctly in future. Confession at parish is daily from 11:30 to 12 and mass starts at 12:10. Many times I arrive early and there is already a line so I … Read More
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Some views from the journey: licorice and vistas
Some of you have been asking for photos of the pilgrimage. Here are some photos. Of course others blame me for posting photos from trips. Sigh. Anyway, trips don’t always have to include the “standards”. Yawn. For example, we visited … Read More
25 April – St. Mark and Major Rogation Day
Years ago I heard an old Italian bishop, tired of the yakking inside the meeting of their conference, react to my description of a Corpus Christi procession in the Vatican Gardens and say: “Meno chiacchiere – più processioni. … Less … Read More
A way to undo the knot of Pope Francis’ words about “truth idols”?
The other day – yesterday? the days are a blur as I am on this voyage in S. Italy – I posted on the seriously confusing remarks of the Pope about making “truth idols” along with Fr. Murray’s observations. … Read More
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 … Read More
Your Good News
I haven’t posted one of these for some time. Do you have good news to share with the readership? We could all use good, edifying news. For my part, our pilgrimage is going well. I am exhausted with jet lag … Read More
“the worthy deeds and prayers of thy blessed martyr George”
Here is a piece I wrote for the UK’s best Catholic weekly’s print edition of the Catholic Herald: Last week in Los Angeles I visited the great Getty Museum. My attention was arrested by a 16th century Italian oil on panel … Read More
WDTPRS 3rd Sunday after Easter (TLM): Be distinguished by your profession of Christ!
In the midst of chaos, we need to bring our minds to work at hand, our work of sacred liturgy, the renewal of which is our only hope for true revitalization of the Church. This Sunday’s Collect survived the knives … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of Sunday Obligation? Let us know. I’m with a pilgrimage group in S. Italy and we are having the TLM all through. Today, very briefly indeed, … Read More
Felix Natalis Dies Roma!
Today is the 2771 Birthday of Rome. Happy birthday! The Great Roman Fabrizio™ shared his quintessential, virtuous Roman repast: fave, pecorino, vino bianco. It doesn’t get more Roman than that. On the other hand, I arrived at Roma today to … Read More
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