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I love surprises. Over the past month I have read just about any article I could find about the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum while supporting this website and my other blog dedicated to the subject www.SummorumPontificum.net. What has been remarkable… Continue Reading →
A few days ago we wrote about the wonderful and remarkable response of a Virginia pastor to the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. His response was open, supportive, and educational. Now I present another response from a pastor in the Midwest… Continue Reading →
Good News from the Washington Times. Priests are turning up “in droves” to learn the Latin Mass. One priest calls it a “nationwide phenomenon.” The media has done a good job of ignoring the positive side of this story. All… Continue Reading →
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini is tilting at windmills. What is this act of futility you ask? In response to the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, the famously liberal Cardinal has vocally refused to celebrate the ‘Latin Mass’? In his dramatic refusal,… Continue Reading →
Below is a great example of the Pope’s genius! Allowing individual priests and pastors to make a difference. I have not come across a better example than the Letter from the bulletin of St. John the Beloved in McLean Va…. Continue Reading →
Sacred Heart University in a press release to the media has made their own “expert” on the Latin Mass available to the press. Oh good. The expert is, of course, a rabbi who criticizes the Church for the Pope’s liberalization… Continue Reading →
Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini is tilting at windmills. What is this act of futility you ask? Well, the famously liberal Cardinal has vocally refused to celebrate the ‘Latin Mass’? In his dramatic refusal, the Cardinal sets up the usual straw… Continue Reading →
I have been studiously checking the diocesan reactions to Pope Benedict’s motu proprio on the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The statements that have been issued have been interesting, to say the least. However, one cannot help but notice… Continue Reading →
It should come as no surprise that the statement issued by Bishop Trautman of Erie, PA on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum is as weasily as the politically-correct translations he would have us suffer. The bishop issued a statement that… Continue Reading →
Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League is screaming and yelling about the offensiveness of Catholics praying for the Jews in the Tridentine Mass. Is this really that bad? Isn’t it actually nice? You know when there’s an entire religion/culture bent… Continue Reading →