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		<title>WDTPRS: A charming translation for the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo &#8211; 4 November</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, 4 November, Holy Church honors St. Charles Borromeo (+1584), the great Archbishop of Milan and champion of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.  His heart is &#8220;warded&#8221; not far from where I write, in the great church San Carlo al Corso. The &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/wdtprs-a-charming-translation-for-the-feast-of-st-charles-borromeo-4-november/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10-11 – Day 34:  Requiem for deceased benefactors</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For this 307th day of 2026, the sun rose at 06:43 over the Eternal City. The days here are not eternal, however, and the sun set at 17:04. The &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221; Bell for the Curia remained in the 17:30 cycle, &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/rome-26-10-11-day-34-requiem-for-deceased-benefactors/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>CQ CQ CQ &#8211; EWTN shut down its shortwave radio service on 31 October.  Understandable, but I have some reservations.</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/cq-cq-cq-ewtn-shut-down-its-shortwave-radio-service-on-31-october-understandable-but-i-have-some-reservations/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is something splendid about the thought that, somewhere in the dark of night a person with a simple radio could turn a dial and hear a voice crackling across the layers of atmosphere from Rome or Alabama and discover &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/cq-cq-cq-ewtn-shut-down-its-shortwave-radio-service-on-31-october-understandable-but-i-have-some-reservations/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ASK FATHER: &#8220;Is it proper to pray for the repose of souls who died before the Resurrection and the harrowing of Hell?&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/ask-father-is-it-proper-to-pray-for-the-repose-of-souls-who-died-before-the-resurrection-and-the-harrowing-of-hell/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Four Last Things]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[From a reader&#8230; QUAERITUR: Given it is near All Souls Day, is it proper to pray for the repose of souls who died before the Resurrection and the harrowing of Hell? The short answer is, yes, it is permissible to &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/ask-father-is-it-proper-to-pray-for-the-repose-of-souls-who-died-before-the-resurrection-and-the-harrowing-of-hell/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10-11 – Day 33: All Souls</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/rome-26-10-11-day-33-all-souls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Rome the sun rose at 06:42 19:05 is when it set. Curial &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221; Bell, still 17:30 Commemoration of All Saints.  What a roller coaster from yesterday.  But logical. And therapeutic. Interesting. Asymmetrical tactic. BREAKING: This morning’s cyberattack against &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/rome-26-10-11-day-33-all-souls/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ASK FATHER: &#8220;Why isn’t the Male Only Holy Orders a Dogma?&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From a reader&#8230; QUAERITUR: There’s something I’ve been wondering about for years. Why isn’t the Male Only Holy Orders a Dogma? It seems like since 1994 it’s been declared that all Catholics must accept this. Could a Pope come along &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/ask-father-why-isnt-the-male-only-holy-orders-a-dogma/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10-11 – Day 32: All Saints</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/rome-26-10-11-day-32-all-saints/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For this 305th day of the calendar year, the Feast of All Saints &#8211; which bumps the Sunday though in the Vetus Ordo it gets a commemoration (something the Novus Ordo does not have) the sun rose over Rome at &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/rome-26-10-11-day-32-all-saints/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ACTION ITEM!  1-8 November PLENARY INDULGENCE for the Poor Souls</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/action-item-1-8-november-plenary-indulgence-for-the-poor-souls/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[November is the month dedicated especially to the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Holy Mother Church, who never forgets her suffering children, gives us an opportunity during the first eight days of November to come to their aid by obtaining plenary &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/action-item-1-8-november-plenary-indulgence-for-the-poor-souls/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Does The Prayer (Hymn) Really Say? “Placáre, Christe, sérvulis”</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/what-does-the-prayer-hymn-really-say-placare-christe-servulis/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[PRAYERCAzT: What Does The (Latin) Prayer Really Sound L]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tonight at Solemn Vespers for the Feast of All Saints, we were treated with a vision of the heavenly court as we sang the hymn after the psalms (the traditional location unlike the post-Conciliar Liturgy of the Hours). The hymn &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/what-does-the-prayer-hymn-really-say-placare-christe-servulis/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>If you are a priest or seminarian, this is your immediate homework.  A judicial decision from the Roman Rota roundly condemned publishing lists of “credibly accused” clerics.</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/if-you-are-a-priest-or-seminarian-this-is-your-immediate-homework-a-judicial-decision-from-the-roman-rota-roundly-condemned-publishing-lists-of-credibly-accused-clerics/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Canon Law]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My good friend Michael Mazza, a hero canonist and also civil lawyer who defends priests, posted at Catholic World Report about a judicial decision from the Roman Rota which roundly condemned the practice of publishing lists of “credibly accused” clerics.  The &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/if-you-are-a-priest-or-seminarian-this-is-your-immediate-homework-a-judicial-decision-from-the-roman-rota-roundly-condemned-publishing-lists-of-credibly-accused-clerics/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Your Sunday Sermon Notes – All Saints (Vetus Ordo and Novus Ordo)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My Sunday Mass intention today is for my benefactors, those of you who donate regularly, ad hoc, or send things. Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/your-sunday-sermon-notes-all-saints-vetus-ordo-and-novus-ordo/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>MAIL CALL: A note about St. Expeditus and an online shrine</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/mail-call-a-note-about-st-expeditus-and-an-online-shrine/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From a reader&#8230; Hello Father — your St. Expeditus piece delighted me: the saint hidden inside the Collect&#8217;s own word, &#8216;expediti&#8217; — unencumbered, freed for God&#8217;s work — with his HODIE cross raised over the crow still croaking &#8216;cras.&#8217; Few &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/11/mail-call-a-note-about-st-expeditus-and-an-online-shrine/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10 – Day 31: Blast from the &#8230; present!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a new Substack post about the Feast of All Saints. 06:13 was the Sunrise in Rome and sunset was at 19:08 The Curia&#8217;s Ave Mari Bell is still in the 1730 cycle. It is the vigil of All &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/rome-26-10-day-31-blast-from-the-present/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is the needle moving?</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/is-the-needle-moving/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting seesaw going on between an Algerian Cardinal and an American Bishop. First, you may have noted that Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, the archbishop of Algiers, Algeria, said: “We are the Church of this people. Not a proselytizing &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/is-the-needle-moving/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ASK FATHER: If a priest explains away a mortal sin, and the penitent believes him, is the absolution valid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From a reader&#8230; QUAERITUR: If a priest explains away a mortal sin in confession in such away that neither the priest nor the penitent believes any more than the mortal sin is even a sin, is the confession still valid &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/ask-father-if-a-priest-explains-away-a-mortal-sin-and-the-penitent-believes-him-is-the-absolution-valid/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10 – Day 30: With apologies to the Bard</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[ROMAE, die XXX Octobris, A.D. MMXXVI. Sol hodie in Urbe Aeterna oritur hora sexta et minutis triginta octo, occidit hora septima decima et minutis novem. Campana &#8220;Ave Maria&#8221;, secundum horarium Curiae Romanae, pulsabitur hora septima decima et minutis triginta.  In &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/rome-26-10-day-30-with-apologies-to-the-bard/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>RIP Patrick Stewart &#8230; my competitor!</title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/rip-patrick-stewart-my-competitor/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linking Back]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[During toxic theatre COVID one of you readers challenged me to record myself reading all the of the Sonnets of Shakespeare&#8230; because that is what Sir Patrick Stewart was doing. I took up the challenge.  Results varied but I think &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/rip-patrick-stewart-my-competitor/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10 – Day 29: hard to read inscription</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[06:37 17:11 17:30 I think that by now you know what is going on with those times.  If you are new, check earlier posts&#8230; which you should do anyway, right?  And&#8230; come to think of it&#8230; how is it possible &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/rome-26-10-day-29/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ASK FATHER: Definition and the duties of a pastoral associate. </title>
		<link>https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/ask-father-definition-and-the-duties-of-a-pastoral-associate/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From a reader&#8230; QUAERITUR: Please send me the definition and the duties of a pastoral associate. A pastoral associate is an ordained minister, assigned by the bishop, as distinguished from a lay person with some parish job, paid or volunteer, &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/ask-father-definition-and-the-duties-of-a-pastoral-associate/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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		<title>ROME 26/10 – Day 28: Natalis Dies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fr. John Zuhlsdorf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you, Lord, for this day.  This is the 301st day of this calendar year. Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday. On this my natal day, the sun rose at 7:35 in Rome and it set at 17:12. &#8230; <span class="read-more"><a href="https://wdtprs.com/2026/10/rome-26-10-day-28-natalis-dies/">Read More <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a></span>]]></description>
		
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