Today’s Wordle 5
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Rome’s most famous elephant gets some needed care after vandals attacked the statue last week: pic.twitter.com/a1vRxuG8Oc
— Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP (@PatrickMaryOP) February 24, 2026
Yesterday, I celebrated a Pontifical High Mass on the First Sunday of Lent at St. Francis of Assisi Oratory in Lincoln.
In the Gospel, Our Lord confronts temptation not with force, but with truth. This is prudence: knowing the good and choosing it firmly and calmly.
As we walk… pic.twitter.com/RnzmnNmOwj
— James D Conley (@bishop_conley) February 23, 2026
Black to move and mate in 4. HERE
Hey Fathers! How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?
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Black to move and mate in 4.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
I showed the post by +Bp Conley to my mother, who self-admittedly knows absolutely nothing about the Latin Mass or the reasons behind the division surrounding it. Her comments:
“Okay, please help me understand this. Some bishops hate it, others praise it and the good fruits coming from it. Some bishops do everything they can to stamp it out, or anything that even kinda looks like it, while others celebrate it publicly like it’s the most normal thing in the world. I thought the Church is all about unity, so what’s the big deal? I don’t really get the appeal of it, but if it’s getting butts in pews isn’t that what matters?”
The blatant, enormous divide growing between traditional/trad-friendly prelates and those hell-bent on crushing anything that comes from 1962 or earlier is becoming increasingly noticeable, even to people who’ve been ignorant of this issue their entire lives. Hell, most of the publicity the Latin Mass has gotten in the last 5 years has been entirely due to the suppression of it. I only found out about it when +Cdl Roche forced its suppression in Austin. If liturgical peace via liberation of tradition isn’t achieved soon, I fear the divides will only be dug deeper. Here’s to hoping the next consistory bears fruit…
Pope Pius V, ora pro nobis!
St Vincent Ferrer, ora pro nobis!