ASK FATHER: RUMOR – Will the attack on Summorum Pontificum be on Friday, O.L. of Mt. Carmel? | Fr. Z’s Blog

QUAERITUR: I just read on Rorate that they expect Francis to issue his new motu proprio restricting the celebration of

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UPDATE: Wine from the traditional Benedictines of Le Barroux – sale extended! | Fr. Z’s Blog

If you missed it before, in honor of the Tour de France, which passed through their vineyards (from the time

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ASK FATHER: My mother in law put the “evil eye” on me and terrible things happened. | Fr. Z’s Blog

QUAERITUR: my Italian mother in law told me she could put the evil eye on people to harm them. then

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ASK FATHER: Do priests who celebrate only in the vernacular really know what they are saying? | Fr. Z’s Blog

I recently discovered the SCDF declaration Instauratio liturgica (Jan. 25, 1974), which says that the meaning of a translated sacramental

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ASK FATHER: Are those who must read the Liturgy of the Hours, obliged to read it aloud? Vocal recitation? | Fr. Z’s Blog

I was recently reading Quigley’s “The Divine Office: A Study of the Roman Breviary.” In it he mentions that vocal

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07/07/07 – 14th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum – Fr. Z rants. | Fr. Z’s Blog

Today is the 14th Anniversary of the release of the of Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.   The text was released

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WDTPRS – 6th Sunday after Pentecost: mercy and zeal | Fr. Z’s Blog

Please flip open your own trusty copy of the  edited by Leo Cunibert Mohlberg, OSB (in other words the Gelasian

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Looking into Francis’ hand-written letter to Martin | Fr. Z’s Blog

People have asked my about the hand-written letter from Francis to the Jesuit homosexualist activist Fr James Martin.  Austin Ruse

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The question of “two Popes” bothers a lot of people. Some thoughts. | Fr. Z’s Blog

Today, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, is also the 70th anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s ordination to the

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