Monthly Archives: August 2022

19 August – Sixtus III (Pelagian heretic?), other Sixti, and correspondence with Augustine

It is nice to make connections which show us how the Church was always alive throughout the centuries before our own time.  This is what the ideologues of the “spirit” of the Council want to disconnect and rupture. There are … Read More

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19 August – St. John Eudes: “Bad priests are a sign of God’s anger”

Today is the Feast of St. John Eudes, a great saint of the 17th c.  A great missionary. He was a promoter of devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and spiritual writer. Canonized in 1920’s, he has a gigantic … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 538, etc. “Fifty years ago…”

Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance.  US HERE – UK HERE Priestly chess players, drop me a line. HERE Black to move. Fifty years ago in Reykjavík, the controversy raged behind the scenes about the venue, the Laugardalshöll arena. Fischer … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 537, etc.

Your use of my Amazon affiliate link is a major part of my income. It helps to pay for insurance, groceries, everything. Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance.  US HERE – UK HERE  And if you use Amazon quite … Read More

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The Vetus Ordo shall not go away and for good reasons. VIDEO. Wherein Fr. Z rants about the Vetus and the Novus.

The Vetus Ordo is not going away.  No matter how much pressure and repression, no matter how much persecution of priests and marginalization of lay people certain “shepherds” apply, it will remain and grow stronger in ways they fear more … Read More

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ASK FATHER: For a wake, Sister did a “prayer service”.

From a reader… QUAERITUR: At the visitation at a funeral home for an elderly male relative of mine, instead of a family rosary being said, the local parish sent a nondescript religious Sister, who said she’d conduct a prayer service.  … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 536, etc.

A couple of you readers have been asking for cooking pics.  I don’t have anything truly interesting right now.  However, I did get a rotisserie chicken the other day.  That produced a supper, four sandwiches and, now, soup, which is … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 535, etc.

Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance.US HERE – UK HERE Today, no news from Iceland in 1972. Let’s try an experiment. My opponent went for a Bird and I countered with From.  I hoped it would go into a King’s … Read More

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Powerful people think that they can suppress the Traditional Latin Mass. They will not succeed. This is one reason why. VIDEO

There are powerful people in the Church who think that they can suppress the Traditional Latin Mass. They will not succeed. This is one reason why. The video is a couple years old, but … that doesn’t make any difference. … Read More

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Daily Rome Shot 534, etc.

Please support the Summit Dominicans! Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance.  US HERE – UK HERE Fifty years ago today, the “Match of the Century” between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the … Read More

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