23 Oct
2021
23 Oct
2021
UPDATE: It is reported that the Masses for this pilgrimage have been confirmed. However, the Mass in St Peter’s will not be celebrated by Archbishop Cordileone as had been scheduled. A priest will be celebrating this liturgy: in prior years it had been a Cardinal or bishop. These are the celebrants for the liturgies of […]
22 Oct
2021
21 Oct
2021
Address from Archbishop Blair dated October 21, 2021 https://archdioceseofhartford.org/announcement-from-archbishop-blair-regarding-new-haven-churches/ To the Catholic Faithful of New Haven, “To those who love God all things work together unto good” (Romans 8:28). These words of St. Paul have given strength and encouragement to the Church through the centuries. Today we are confronted with a number of challenges, as are […]
20 Oct
2021
Lately we’ve read a series of appreciations of the past great men of the “Conservative Movement” in Chronicles magazine and elsewhere. These remembrances come at a time when the establishment of the United States is deploying its power in unprecedented ways in the courts, in academia, in the media, in the government, in the economy, in […]
14 Oct
2021
On Saturday, October 16th the 16th successive demonstration “for the defense of the Traditional Mass” will be held before the Vatican’s embassy in Paris. Other demonstrations are multiplying in France – both in Paris and elsewhere. But we would of course expect, given their long history, that French traditionalists would be in the forefront of […]
13 Oct
2021
In the diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Bishop Mark L. Bartchak 1) has reportedly limited the celebration of the Traditional Mass to Sundays and limited or prohibited the celebration of other sacraments in the traditional form. (NB: I cannot find on the diocesan website the letter, referred to in the press, that sets forth these rules.) In […]
13 Oct
2021
…in “traditional classical albums“: FSSP Seminarians from Wigratzbad, Germany! Title of the album is Sancta Nox: Christmas Matins from Bavaria. You can get it HERE among other sources. Is a clarification appended, for the benefit of listeners, that Pope Francis and his bishops are taking restrictive actions against the FSSP and the other Ecclesia Dei […]
12 Oct
2021
Nantes, where last year the Gothic cathedral was burned out by a “refugee” employee of the church (who went on to kill a priest this year), has issued restrictive guidelines on TC – with hints of more to come. But it’s one of the few cases – al least in France – where a bishop […]
11 Oct
2021
His Excellency Bishop Athanasium Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, celebrated a Pontifical Mass from the Faldstool on Sunday at St. Joseph Church, Lancaster, Pa. The Faithful filled the church and vestibule. The Mass setting was Mass of Our Lady of Perpetual Help by Leopold J. Syre (1887-1968)