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My View For Awhile: Philly on the 4th

I’m on my way to Philadelphia whence a priest friend and I will go to the annual conference for priests held by the St Paul Center for Biblical Theology. We are delayed due to a we...

Day 3 & 4 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

The conference has been great. It is so pleasant to meet up with friends and also to meet young and older priests who have bene reading this blog, some for a very long time. Mike A...

Daily Rome Shot 1653: Pius X’s caption call

Caption call. Welcome registrants: Brendan Doyle cburkhart09 mmromani@******.com Rujo43 SSPX bishops excommunicated.  Meanwhile… Novus Ordo bishop of Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahass...

My View For Awhile: Westward

A priest friend and I are now about to zip across the Commonwealth to West Virginia and the annual conference for priests held by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.  We hop...

Day 1 & 2 Conference for Priests: St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

215 priests from 85 dioceses and 4 countries. Pretty good turn out. Lots of familiar faces and old acquaintences. It’s great to be here an catch up.   John Bergsma is giving us the...

Wherein Fr. Z rants. Benediction using the humeral veil BUT… blessings at Communion time? Fathers! THINK!

At the table, the post about humeral veils came up.  Just to review, the humeral veil used at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is a sign that the priest himself is not impartin...

Pagliarani at Tanagra

FOR PRIESTS: Wherein, prompted by this conference, Fr. Z posts something for CONFESSION

I’m at the annual conference for priests held by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. They have these three times a year. I’ve been going for year and wouldn’t miss it. There...

Daily Rome Shot 1649: updates

Welcome registrant: eta2000 NB: I can take some MASS INTENTIONS right now. I have quite a few from two people, but I will work new ones in. If there is something URGENT, tell me. H...

ROME 26/5– Day 67: zzzzzzeeeeeeeeeiop

Ready or not, up came the sun at 5:36. Down went the sun at 20:41. Ave Maria? For the Curia – hah- at 21. It was the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin. It was the patro...

A few things I found today that I think are interesting

A few things I found today that I think are interesting In this week's Tablet, Fr Neil Xavier O'Donoghue, secretary of the Irish Bishops' Council for Liturgy, suggests trust has br...

How did we get HERE?

ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical

Liturgically busy day, just as it was in life.  I’m getting behind.  By the end of the day, I’m…. ugh. The Roman sun rose at 5:39. The Roman sun set at 20: 36. In the Curia the Ave...

Daily Rome Shot 1654: another jackass

There is an AP piece today which features my home parish in St. Paul.  HERE Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY?  This helps to pay f...

ROME 26/6 – Day 76: Brooklyn Bound

The sun rises in a little while as I write, at 5:33. It will set at 20:46 over Rome, far behind me as I wing across the Atlantic. I won’t hear the Ave Maria Bell in the Curia (and...

I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them.

I have to post these. I know you can find them on your own. But I must post them. I pray to God and the angels and any human agents out there that they be made known to Pope Leo …...

SSPX “Out The Door”… literally on Sunday, at their chapels

Each week when I post “Your Sunday Sermon Notes” I ask about news where you are and about developments, attendance. In the wake of the SSPX consecrations and the Holy See’s sloppy...

Bad news and good news. The Bishop of Camden crushes the TLM. The FSSP will start up in the Diocese of Arlington

First… Good News from Arlington: FSSP Entrusted with New Chaplaincy of Our Lady of Victory pic.twitter.com/oHJhaygeiW — Arlington Latin Mass Society (@tlmarlington) June 21, 2026 I...

Daily Rome Shot 1655: inconsistencies

Welcome registrants: frankrega karen****@protonmail.com At The Roman Post there is a piece about about Roman’s use some free time during the day.  This pretty accurately describes...

YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! In your charity would you please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Le...

YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS

PLEASE use the sharing buttons! Thanks! In your charity would you please take a moment look at the requests and to pray for the people about whom you read? Continued from THESE. Le...

Daily Rome Shot 1656 – different stuff

Welcome registrant: FrGabriel Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance, utilities, groceries, and...

ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.

Roman sunrise long ago at 0537. Roman sunset will be soon at 2038. The Ave Maria Bell: still 2100. I have had the stuffing kicked out of me today, probably by Old Scratch. Today wa...

From “The Private Diary of Bishop F. Atticus McButterpants” – 26-06-15 – Ordination?

June 15th, 2026 Dear Diary, Yesterday I accidentally ordained nobody. Or maybe two. Or maybe one. It’s apparently still being discussed by the canonical trolls at the end of the ha...