I get into the darndest conversations with the most interesting people. The story about Cardinal George Pell suddenly having a heart attack in the recovery room while chatting with the anesthesiologist is a lie. ++Pell was alone in a room after surgery when “the electricity went out.” When the “electricity came back on” and the […]
“John the Baptist accusing Herod and Herodias”, Jacob Backer, ARSH 1633 The following is an EXTREMELY prescient and timely sermon of St. Peter Chrysologous who was a Fifth Century bishop of Ravenna in Italy. For anyone who is following events surrounding the Bergoglian antipapacy, it is impossible to read this without seeing the stunning contemporary […]
So much here. Fr. Z’s post has the translation of the Italian reportage. First, people are trying to spin this as Antipope Bergoglio not knowing what he was saying in using the Italian word “frociaggine”. (FROH-chee-ah-gene-eh) because Spanish is his mother tongue blah blah blah. ABJECT LYING NONSENSE. In Italian, there are two pejoratives for […]
Every year during Holy Week, a theme usually pops out in my mind whilst attending the Sacred Mysteries. This year, the theme is Pontius Pilate, and judging by current events, specifically these insane “anti-semitism laws” that are cropping up, this essay might be a felony by next year, so I had better get it written […]
March 25th is the fixed date of the great Feast of the Annunciation… BUT since March 25th falls inside Holy Week this year, Holy Mother Church defers the Great Feast to the first day outside of Eastertide, which is Monday, April 8th this year. Why? Well, to be frank, so that we are not deprived […]
(Please address all whining, protestations and “toxic masculinity triggering” to The Angelic Doctor, Heaven, late of New Ditch, Italy. Expect a reply in Neapolitan dialect.) “He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice […]
Gian Lorenzo Bernini completed this marble sculpture of The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in ARSH 1614 when Bernini was FIFTEEN YEARS OLD. Since ARSH 1998 it has been one of the relatively few sculptures housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. St. Lawrence is one of the most influential and widely-beloved saints of the […]
This story and pull quote from Our Sunday Visitor News is making the rounds, and it is flatly untrue: https://www.osvnews.com/2023/01/10/interview-cardinal-pell/ This is the penultimate paragraph: Cardinal Pell told OSV News he was himself “completely devoted” to Tridentine Mass, which he said he “celebrated each day.” I don’t know if this is a case of people […]
Over the transom from priests over in Italy. I’m assured that this is not a mere photography issue. It’s clearly visible in Rome in person, and people are noticing. The Petrine Basilica in ARSH 2015: Screen cap of the video of the bells tolling yesterday morning:
What a very sad post to write. I delayed quite a bit – as many noticed – because one simply doesn’t “heckle at a funeral”. And this funeral plus the “official mourning period” lasted for weeks. How exactly does one go about writing about the catastrophic life-failure of an admittedly well-dressed nonagenarian woman who hasn’t […]