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- Yes, and I think this is very important. (81%, 15,546 Votes)
- Yes, I guess so. (9%, 1,716 Votes)
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Category Archives: Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
ACTION ITEM! “Church Madness” Championship 2017 – FINAL!
Your attention is urgently needed. Last year, St. John Cantius in Chicago ascended the brackets to be Numero Uno in the Church Madness tourney. This year we see that the last surviving churches are the Institute of Christ the King’s … Read More
Attacks on the magisterium and liturgical translation – Wherein Fr. Z rants
The Magisterium is under attack. There are strong, highly placed forces in the Church today who are undermining, firstly, the magisterium of John Paul II. Of course it won’t stop there. It can’t. Each pontificate’s magisterial teachings ought to be … Read More
Fishwrap’s nutty over Card. Sarah’s address in Germany
Over at the Fishwrap (aka National Schismatic Reporter) the “Wile E. Coyote of contemporary liberal catholicism”, Michael Sean Winters, had a nutty about Card. Sarah’s message to the Summorum Pontificum colloquium in Germany. HERE He picked on the new ICEL translation a bit, blah … Read More
Question to readers: churchy hardware
Do any of you know of a source for a decorative cross with a threaded bolt, the sort that could be screwed onto the top of a procession banner? Let me know. I need something concrete, rather than “Have you tried…?” … Read More
ACTION ITEM! Woven Palm Crosses
Thinking ahead to Palm Sunday, which is upon us, I would like a contact who could execute and deliver in time, three substantial decoratively woven palm crosses for the procession on Palm Sunday. Anyone? Contact me. HERE Put PALM CROSSES … Read More
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Fr. Z’s prayers for before and after making confessions
A while back I posted prayers in Latin and English which a priest confessor might use before and after hearing sacramental confessions. These prayers are from an old prayerbook for priests which I’ve had since before my ordination. They are … Read More
AUDIO and VIDEO: @ArchbishpSample – outstanding address in Germany
¡Hagan lío! His Excellency Most Reverend (and I sincerely mean both of those honorifics), Alexander K. Sample, Archbishop of Portland, gave an outstanding address to liturgy conference in Germany. He includes some personal reflections and analysis of the situation we … Read More
ASK FATHER: Family member baptized children without parents knowledge
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I recently learned that one of my family members took the initiative to illicitly baptize two “infants” (one under the age of one and the other almost 4 years old) herself because my brother refused to … Read More
PODCAzT 153: Card. Sarah’s 2017 ‘Summorum Pontificum’ Address – URGENT
His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of the CDW, gave an fantastic talk in Germany on the occasion of a colloquium held for the 10th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, Benedict’s XVI’s “emancipation proclamation” for the older, traditional form of the Roman … Read More
Before the ravages of liturgical chaos, before the degradation of our Catholic identity, there was…
I recently had a wonderful meal with two Good Friends close to the cusp of Midtown and Murray Hill. We enjoyed superb Chinese and had a very Catholic reading during meal. Rather than post a photo of the food, which I … Read More
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