George Weigel against Christopher Lamb of CNN. Fascinating read
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the American Church is the liveliest, most vital local Church in the developed world. Period. It is the local Church that has taken most seriously the …
He really has his rose colored glasses on when he evaluates the Church in America. Just because it is a little further away from being pronounced dead …More
He really has his rose colored glasses on when he evaluates the Church in America. Just because it is a little further away from being pronounced dead than in Western Europe, it is not any sort of exemplar for what a successful Vatican II Church could look like. Still, it’s good to see that Weigel recognizes that things aren’t great, even if he represents hardly anyone, besides neo-con seminary faculty members, if there are any left at this late date.
What a splendid Magazine the "Friends of the Ordinariate" produce! Accessible and literate articles appear about Ordinariate matters, and often about what I think of as "the …
Pathetic ... but I discerned a suggestion of a tear as I looked through the Winter Number of Mass of Ages, the free magazine of my country's Latin Mass Society. There were …
It is such a natural and universal thing that we do not notice it; although Catherine Pickstock wrote a fine book on it. I mean: the essentially oral rather than literary nature of …
There is are features in the Votive Office of the Miraculous Medal which I find intriguing. The rubrics indicated that, unless otherwise ordered, the Office should be the same …
I wonder, annually, about the Mass proper for S Josaphat, whom we 'kept' quite recently. The Collect begins "Excita ..." The Introit began "Gaudeamus ...". These are both first millennium…
The Pope does not owe any explanation for his decision not to read a speech. But by offering an implausible explanation, when no explanation was necessary, the Vatican press office created a problem.
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When Vatican PR makes the Pope look bad
By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Nov 13, 2023 To avoid any misunderstanding let me begin by saying that what follows is not a criticism of Pope …
Today's Sunday Collect in the Old Roman Rite and in the Ordinariate Rite is a beautiful and ancient prayer asking God to guard (custodi) his Household (familia) with "continua …
Saint John Henry, with the English Martyrs presumably in mind, refers to those "whose pictures are above our altars or soon shall be, the surest proof that the Lord's …
As I said Mass yesterday for All the Souls, a distraction struck me at the Offertory. I was just about to bless the cruet labelled Aqua when Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of …
Have you ever meditated upon what a chancy business the awarding of the Victoria Cross ... our most significant award for military gallantry ... is? Where a conflict …
TOPIC The 'Preface' the opening section of the Eucharistic Prayer (Canon). QUESTION In the Roman Rite, should the Preface be allowed to contain Petitions, or should it …
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