15 Nov
2022
15 Nov
2022
10 Nov
2022
9 Nov
2022
9 Nov
2022
9 Nov
2022
George Weigel actually providing support for the Traditionalist consensus on Pope Francis. Yet the present pontificate has diverged from the Council’s teaching in several ways. The Vatican’s current China policy contradicts the Council’s teaching that no rights or privileges are to be given governments in the appointment of bishops—a teaching now legally embodied in Canon […]
7 Nov
2022
Our series on the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage in Rome, 2022, starts here. On Friday, October 28 Pax Liturgica (Paix Liturgique) sponsored a short conference in connection with the pilgrimage. Famous paladins of Catholic Tradition spoke – as well as one or two faces new to me. I’d single out Aldo Maria Valli. who testified movingly […]
7 Nov
2022
The “official program” of the Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage of 2022 concluded with a splendid Solemn Mass at the church of S.S. Trinita dei Pellegrini. The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, which administers this parish, also directed the ceremonies. The celebrant was Mgr. Patrick Descourtieux, of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The church […]
7 Nov
2022
The Mass would be celebrated before Bernini’s Cathedra Petri. The celebrant was Msgr. Marco Agostini, a papal master of ceremonies. Msgr. Agostini wove a description of Bernini’s masterpiece into his sermon. The Mass was in honor of St Peter the Apostle. Vincenzo Di Betta and the ensemble “La Cantoria” also provided the music for this […]
7 Nov
2022
From Sts. Celso e Guiliano the procession of pilgrims set off for St Peter’s basilica. The flags represent the nations in which the Traditional Mass is celebrated. I have no statistics on the ethnicity of the pilgrims but I got the impression that Central Europe was well represented: Germany, Austria. Poland, etc. Despite their reputed […]