With a tip of the biretta to Against The Grain    o{]:¬)  I alert you to this fascinating piece from Inside The Vatican edited by my friend Robert Moynighan, to which you should subscribe after you subscribe to The Wanderer.
(This newsflash … Continue reading →

Today in St. Peter’s Basilica, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass in suffrage of his predecessors.
Note the color of vestments: red.

Red is used for Masses and funerals for Popes in this manner.
Also, today was, nisi fallor, the first … Continue reading →

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has issued a statement about Summorum Pontificum.  It was probably penned by Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB.  This is one of the olympian reformers of the liturgy after Vatican II and a guru of inculturation.  … Continue reading →

Do you remember the story in Matthew 13 about how Jesus taught the crowds?
They were along the shore and a large crowds of people were pressing in.  So, the Lord sat in a little boat and the disciples let it … Continue reading →

It has been a while since I showed you readers some of the places whence your fellow internauts are surfing to WDTPRS.
Remember, these geopgraphical places are a little vague.  When you log on, you might actually be registered on the … Continue reading →