The Parisian Olympics promotional poster depicts the Dôme des Invalides without its gilded Christian cross. Instead of a cross, the poster shows a simple spike, like the one on top of the Chrysler …More
The Parisian Olympics promotional poster depicts the Dôme des Invalides without its gilded Christian cross. Instead of a cross, the poster shows a simple spike, like the one on top of the Chrysler Building.
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Erasing Christianity in France | Charlotte Allen
In early March, the organizing committee for the upcoming Paris Olympics released its official promotional poster, featuring familiar Parisian landmarks …
We do not presume to come to this thy table (o mercifull lord) trusting in our owne righteousnes, but in thy manifold and great mercies: we be not woorthie so much as to gather up the cromes …
I think that I ... and perhaps, you ... am so habituated by, and to, modern customs, that we might not always realise that Receiving the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar on …
I am going to reuse three pieces about Palm Sunday which I wrote some years ago. My reason is that they offer a radical alternative to the narrative we normally accept about the meaning …
Agreed, 100%. Sadly, the FSSPs indult for the pre-55 expired in 2021, and they did not think it opportune to ask for an extension. I would never …More
Agreed, 100%. Sadly, the FSSPs indult for the pre-55 expired in 2021, and they did not think it opportune to ask for an extension. I would never inconvenience myself to go to the Triduum done with the 62 Missal ever again. I actually know of one diocesan TLM parish that did the pre-55 last year. Not sure what they are doing this year. I’m fortunate that the nearest TLM to me now is a new ICKSP oratory.
Attentive readers of Scripture will have noticed that the Ioseph typikos, of whom our blessed Lady's chaste Spouse is the Antitypos, is described (Genesis 39) in the …
Dunno ... does the Sacred Congregation of whatever still allow the Irish to celebrate S Patrick in preference to a Sunday in Lent/Passiontide? Might you wish …
I believe that Ireland still preempts Lenten Sundays with St. Patrick’s feast. It is only transferred if during Holy Week, to the Monday following the …More
I believe that Ireland still preempts Lenten Sundays with St. Patrick’s feast. It is only transferred if during Holy Week, to the Monday following the Octave of Easter. This happened in 2008.
Soon he came in sight of a tall wooden Cross, which in better days, had been a religious emblem, but had served in latter times to mark the boundary between two contiguous parishes. The …
Julia Hamilton-Udny, daughter of Robert 11th Lord Belhaven, married Fitzroy Richard Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan. He was an atheist and a humanist and an anthropologist; he was a member …
I learned quite a time ago the importance of looking through the stuff at the beginning of liturgical books. I was fortunate enough to have come into possession of the (the …
"Wandregesilius was Abbot of Fontenelle, near Rouen, and how he came to be commemorated at Bixley [in Norfolk] is something of a puzzle." Well, I thought that was quite funny. Sorry …
Dr R F Littledale, the continuator of John Mason Neale's four-volume commentary on the (Coverdale) psalter, had a bit of a temptation to want to educate the (Anglican) clergy. So,…
I think a change has been made in the way documents of the Dicastery for the Doctine of the Faith are presented. And not a change for the better. In the old days, these documents …
It's a little while until March 1, so I'm sneaking in with a query seeking information in good time ... it concerns the liturgical observance ... or not ... of S David, in accordance …
In the first half of this piece, I demonstrated the shifty treatment which an old prayer received at the hands of the liturgists of 1943. I also wished to suggest to you …
Edward Myers, titular Bishop of Lamus and Vicar Capitular of Westminster, sat at his desk to deal with his correspondence on June 10 1943 ... the Thursday, Octave day, after the …
In the autumn of 1745, things may have looked good, especially in Scotland. Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales and our future King Charles III, bearing a Commission of …
Earlier today I posted a slight piece on Slavery. Now I reprint a slightly more substantial post from 2021. G K Chesterton reminded us of all the Christian Galley Slaves whose freedom followed …
Quite close to Mrs Fletcher in Dorchester Abbey under the stones of the Abbey, is the memorial tablet to Michel Desvalpons (ob March 1798). He was archdeacon and Vicar General of Dol …
Ja globalisten hebben tot doel om door massamigratie de nationale identiteit van de Nederlandse bevolking te vernietigen. Daarna kunnen zij een wereld …More
Ja globalisten hebben tot doel om door massamigratie de nationale identiteit van de Nederlandse bevolking te vernietigen. Daarna kunnen zij een wereld dictatuur oprichten. Het zijn de ideeën die overeenkomen met de Denkbeelden van het Nationaal socialisme van Adolf Hitler.