at direction of our media, other statues are rising: After months of discussions, Trier (in Germany -SC)city council voted on Monday in favor of accepting a 6.3-meter (21-foot) bronze representation of the revolutionary socialist thinker Karl Marx. Council members in the southern western German town voted by a majority of 42 to 11. The debate over the gift […]

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The Traditional Mass: History, Form and Theology of the Classical Roman Rite  By Michael Fiedrowicz. Translated by Rose Pfeiffer Angelico Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2020 A wonderful addition to any Roman Catholic’s library is the new translation of Fr. Michael Fiedrowicz’s The Traditional Mass. For the moment, it is the definitive handbook on the Traditional liturgy: […]

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Uprooted: Dialogues on the Liquid Church By Aldo Maria Valli and Aurelio Porfiri Translated by Giuseppe Pellegrino Chorabooks, Hong Kong, 2019 To comprehend the great events and trends of our time do we not turn first to the witnesses, even the direct participants,  for the most immediate and elemental insights? Didn’t Whittaker Chambers’s Witness and the works […]

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In the first half of 2020, life in the “ developed world” world came to a shuddering standstill. The pleasant cocoon surrounding the populations of Western Europe and the United States seemed to disintegrate and apocalyptic hysteria seized the upper hand. The media and forces of the establishment, for their own reasons and based on […]

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Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, told the press on 27 May that he thought many religious works of art currently in Italy’s museums and stores should be returned to the churches from which they came. He went on to suggest that one of the most famous early medieval works in […]

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Musings on Pentecost with no Sermon By Father Richard Cipolla I will celebrate Mass on this feast of Pentecost alone in my private chapel as I have been doing for many, too many, weeks now.  Even though I know I am not alone at Mass, for the whole Church is present at every Mass, it is […]

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Paix Liturgique, Letter 746 (May 19, 2020) (The decision by the highest French court of appeal in administrative law lifting restrictions on the celebration of Mass that had been imposed because of the coronavirus) prompts Paix Liturgique to make a few reflections: It is because the faithful of the “extraordinary form” liturgy have requested it that the […]

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by Aldo Maria Valli  from Radio Roma Libera Translated by Father Richard Gennaro Cipolla   The pandemic of the corona virus has brought us suffering and uneasiness, but has contributed to the ripping off of many masks.   One mask that has been ripped off is how the government has acted in the current crisis, […]

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…will be very much like the old one. From Amy Welborn: There is wisdom in tradition. Traditional practices grew out of human experience — human experiences of joy, sorrow, difficulty and challenge. Human experiences of trying to obey Christ, bring his presence into the world as it is — in peace, war, plenty, famine, health […]

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From the bishop’s guidelines:   Reception of Holy Communion on the tongue remains permissible, as required by the liturgical law of the Church, with the admonition that the faithful should be reminded of the unique risks posed by receiving the Eucharist in this manner. They should be strongly encouraged to receive Communion in the hand […]

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