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Author Archives: Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Daily Rome Shot 1498 – URGENT VIDEO WHICH FIGHTS AGAINST BOTH *STUPID* AND *HERESY*
Photo from The World’s Best Sacristan™. I’ll just put this here. White 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. BONUS SHOT
ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 05– Thursday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today, we hear that the Church is perhaps bigger and smaller than we think. Fr. T explains how we will be judged by Christ in his humanity. Published … Read More
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Final Considerations of the 2nd Study Commission on the Female Diaconate
The issue of female diaconate has been effectively deep-sixed by the second commission set up by Francis. The first commission was historical and this one was more theological. The first said, there isn’t conclusive evidence of female diaconate (so… no!). … Read More
ASK FATHER: Does a communicant have the right to receive communion from a cleric?
Under another post there is a question in a comment: QUAERITUR: Does a communicant have the right to receive communion from a cleric? Yes, and no. The 1997 Instruction On Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in … Read More
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ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 04 – Wednesday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation Today Fr. Parsch explains the structure of Advent. Fr. Troadec explains why the world will be destroyed by fire.
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Daily Rome Shot 1497 – Kneeling in Charlotte….
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, etc.. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am grateful. Development in Charlotte… kneelers will … Read More
ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 03 – Tuesday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation St. Bibiana is an example for us today How to be “perfect”
Daily Rome Shot 1496
This used to be my barber in Rome. Many American seminarians and priests go there. QUAERITUR: On the right, above the number 26 for the street address, there is a small plaque with “2299”. Can anyone explain what that is … Read More
“It was in these cataclysmic days that the people chose a certain Roman Deacon Gregory to be their new Bishop.”
In 589 Deacon Aigulf trekked home to Tours with relics he had collected in Rome. St. Gregory of Tours relates in his Historia Francorum that Aigulf saw with his own eyes the disasters that struck Rome that year. The Tiber rose to … Read More
ADVENTCAzT 2025 – 02 – Monday 1st Week of Advent
A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent 2025 preparation. Today Fr. Troadec has thoughts about Advent. Card. Bacci talks about purity of heart. Fulton Sheen turns us inside out.
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