Daily Archives: 23 April 2025

Internet jury rigged… for awhile… but food photos and a rant

As I write, I have returned home from supper with a priest who just arrived in Rome for the canonization of Carlo Acutis… which has been cancelled. Other things are going on. Returning home I find no internet. I’m using … Read More

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ROME 25/4– Day 15: Easter Wednesday

Over Rome at 06:15 the sun emerged and it will remerge (?) submerge at 20:02. The Ave Maria Bell ought to ring for the Curia at 2-:15 (but it won’t). It’s the feast of St. George and St. Adalbert. It … Read More

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PASCHALCAzT 2025 – 50: Easter Wednesday – Wherein (also) Fr. Z rants

The Roman Station today is St. Lawrence outside-the-walls.  We started Septuagesima here! Scott Hahn drives home how liturgy, our worship, our participation in the Church’s liturgy affects the course of history. Sound familiar?  I have a few thoughts about that. … Read More

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“Quo nomine vis vocari?” What name will the next Pope take? – POLL

The Sede Vacante period isn’t just a time of dour mourning and anxious worry about what sort of Pope we are going to get next.  There is a lighter aspect. What regnal name with the next Pope take? When a … Read More

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Francis and the post-mortem smear job

Back in the day of earlier cinema, to create a special glowing effect, for example to pretty-up an actress, vaseline or some other substance was smeared on the lens or on a piece of glass in front of the lens. … Read More

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