Category Archives: The Drill

Bp. Barron did a video recap about his interview with Shia LaBeouf and ignored the huge gorilla in the room

Yesterday evening I browsed through a few videos on Youtube.  YT proposed, sua sponte of course, a video with Bp. Robert Barron, himself being interviewed, in a “recap” about his own highly viewed interviews with Lex Fridman (of which I … Continue reading

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Concerning the “bipolar pontificate”

For some years now, Andrea Gagliarducci has issued a weekly news/analysis column called Monday Vatican.   This week is a must read.  HERE Excerpts… Pope Francis and the paradox of the Council […] Pope Francis wants to be the Pope who … Continue reading

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1 Sept: On the anniversary of a very creepy thing, two very creepy things happened

Sometimes coincidences are just coincidences. Sometimes they aren’t. Yesterday, 1 September, on the anniversary of a very creepy thing, two very creepy things happened. 1- Francis gave a speech to the world’s bishops, more an more reduced to “branch managers” … Continue reading

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The agony of their “ecstasy”

You will want to watch this before it is expunged from on orders from high atop the thing.  Tucker Carlson’s opening monologue on 31 August 2022.  He goes over the many ways in which the left, fully in charge, is … Continue reading

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“Crazy” rumor about what Francis might do during the August consistory

Church news, especially having to do with the papacy, has lately become a hybrid between a long-delayed forensic autopsy and Fawlty Towers, sickeningly hilarious. Yesterday, I saw this tweet from Damian Thompson. Crazy rumour in Rome that at his August … Continue reading

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Attacks on the Rosary. Dopiness from ‘Left church’. Spiritual warfare is real. Wherein Fr. Z rants.

I am sure that you have by now seen the moronic, sick, anti-Catholic dreck at The Atlantic about the Rosary written by … who?  The writer feverishly connected the use of the Rosary, as a matter of spiritual warfare – … Continue reading

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Coincidences? I think not.

I recently wrote: I am convinced that one of the reasons certain bishops and priests seem determined to suppress the TLM and isolate, marginalize the people who want it is because the TLM unsettles, disturbs, annoys, irritates, needles, vexes clerics … Continue reading

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Liturgical Question: Which of these is NOT like the other?

Which one of these things is not like the others? A) Cross-hatched loaf.   Get a a little cheese, some slices of sausage, some wine… what’s not to like? B)  Hot Cross Buns.  Hot from the oven!  Yum. C)  The “bread” … Continue reading

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Hilarious statement from the Archdiocese of Chicago about the suppression of the Institute of Christ the King

ABC7 Chicago has a blurb about the Institute of Christ the King’s Shrine on the South side.  This is hilarious. “On July 31, the Shrine of Christ the King communicated to the archdiocese that they would stop offering Mass and … Continue reading

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“Si vis pacem para bellum!” Traditional Catholic Activism? Possible? Necessary? Unavoidable? A mind exercise.

I am mindful of what I posted here: 3.5% of a group can bring the group down, turn it around, or take it over. A friend, who sees and sends the most interesting things, saw and sent this, from The European … Continue reading

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