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 …
Albania’s heroic Cardinal Ernest Simoni is 95 today
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Rev. Ernest Simoni, presbyter of the Archdiocese of Shkodrë-Pult (Albania), was born on October 18th, 1928 in Troshani, a village a few kilometres from Shkodrë, to a deeply religious …
The king of France now abandoned the Avignon pope and declared himself neutral. The University of Paris did the same, and besought the two sets of cardinals to come together and …
In the first half of the seventeenth century, a dramatic art form became important among the English elite and its intelligentsia. It was known as the 'Court Masque'; these …
EWTN-Norge: Elisabeth Hesselblad (1870-1957) was canonized in 2016, as the first Swedish saint since the late middle ages. She immigrated to the United States in 1888, where she converted to the Catholic …More
EWTN-Norge: Elisabeth Hesselblad (1870-1957) was canonized in 2016, as the first Swedish saint since the late middle ages. She immigrated to the United States in 1888, where she converted to the Catholic Church. Her life mission became to bring the Bridgettine order back to Rome, to the house of Saint Bridget, and to Sweden. She founded a new branch of Bridgettines that now has many convents worldwide, particularly in India. This film focuses especially on her early life as she describes it in her memoirs.
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